CULTURE
This Month in Milwaukee
13 THINGS TO DO IN OCTOBER BY HARRY CHERKINIAN, ALLEN HALAS, DAVID LUHRSSEN, TYLER NELSON, JAMIE LEE RAKE AND JOHN SCHNEIDER
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THROUGH OCTOBER 15 Hispanic Heritage Month Milwaukee Film’s “Cine Sin Frontera” is the festival’s programming track exploring Latinx culture. This fall, Cine Sin Frontera expands into a month-long celebration including virtual as well as film screenings at the Oriental Theater and events focused on food and music. For more information, visit mkefilm.org.
THROUGH OCTOBER 17 Three Viewings p Next Act Theatre Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings interweaves three stories taking place in a Pittsburgh funeral parlor: there’s Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker who will go to great lengths to win the love of a woman who attends all his funerals; Mac, a drifter who steals jewelry off corpses and returns home to reclaim a family heirloom; and Virginia, a recent widow, left to pick up the pieces of her late husband’s shady business dealings. OCTOBER 2
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Riverside Theater It might behoove Michael Carbonaro not to get too famous...at least in his current job. The self-described trickster—or what the rest of us might call a magician—leverages his relative anonymity on “The Carbonaro Effect.” The Tru TV/HBO Max reality series posits Carbonaro in social situations proffering prestidigitation to astonishing, hilarious effect. Imagine “Candid Camera's” conceit of catching everyday people unaware, but with stupefying illusions. He’s taking his talent on the “Carbonaro Lies On Stage tour.”