By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Sarah Vos, vocalist and guitarist for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Dead Horses, describes the folk band’s 2022 album Brady Street as a “coming-of-age” work. It’s a telling sentiment, encapsulating Dead...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After a lifetime of watching Western movies, there came a line in the 2015 independent film Bone Tomahawk (starring Kurt Russell) that altered my view not only of the...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There is one universal truth about Thanksgiving: what goes in, must come out. Poop is gross, but at least we live in an age of controlled bodily waste. During...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff After just more than a year as managing director of the Panida Theater, Veronica Knowlton is stepping down to accept a new job as operations manager of the Festival...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff In the five years since its inception, Jack Frost Fest has grown from a modest, ticketed concert event to a free, all-day celebration of music, community and, above all,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff What happens when the imagination of a bereaved school kid collides with the reality of cold, hard cash? A comedy-drama about grief, morality, empathy and soul, such as the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff For nationally touring stand-up comedian Brendan Gay, humor is simply a conduit for sharing stories about a muse he knows best: himself. “It’s all coming from me,” Gay told...
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “They who sing through summer, must dance through winter.” — Italian Proverb There is no doubt about it, we are entering a new season and it’s likely to be...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Libraries possess one thing in spades: novels. What exactly constitutes a novel? A novel is a narrative work of fiction that focuses on characters moving a plot over the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Lena Haug likes a challenge. The professional equestrian has never shied from the unknown, whether it was leading horseback expeditions as a teen in Chile or, more recently, in...
