Music - June 14, 2008
Rockhaus reissues classic Appliances-SFB debut
Although the band was from Madison, Appliances-SFB was a fixture on the Milwaukee music scene at the dawn on the 1980s. Now, Rockhaus Guitar's Rusty Olson reissues the band's acclaimed first LP on CD.
Tags: Appliances-SFB, Rusty Olson, Rockhaus, 3rd and Long, Bill Feeny, Ed Feeny, Ron Faiola, Milwaukee Rock Posters, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Motor Primitives, Tom Laskin, Bill Siebecker, Scott Young, Subliminal Overtones, The Starship, Niko's, Cafe Voltaire

Arts & Entertainment - Feb. 20, 2008
McComas returns to the scene of the novel
An award-winning filmmaker and a published novelist and short story writer, Paul McComas -- who lives in Evanston, Ill. -- is also a native Milwaukeean.
Tags: McComas, Planet of the Dates, Permanent Press, The Starship, Oil Tasters, Violent Femmes, Coffee Trader, Mars Cheese Castle, Park Avenue, Radio Doctors, Sweet Doomed Angel, Haskels, Red Ball Jets