Music - Oct. 14, 2009
"Beatlemania Now" has special meaning to some
As a kid I was a huge Beatles fan. So, in summer 1977, my mom loaded me and my brother onto the D train and took us to see "Beatlemania" on stage at Broadway's legendary Winter Garden Theater. But there's another Milwaukee with much stronger ties to the show. A related show, "Beatlemania Now" comes to Milwaukee this week.
Tags: Beatlemania Now, Marcus Center, Reed Kailing, Winter Garden Theater, Beatles

Music - July 29, 2009
Roll up for Beatallica's "Masterful Mystery Tour"
Beatallica is one of Milwaukee's longest-running musical gags. But the thing is, if you've seen the band or heard one of its three CDs, you know that the concept - that of marrying the music and style of the Beatles with the music and style of Metallica - is a winner and that it takes a lot of skill, humor and cojones to make it work.
Tags: Beatallica, Masterful Mystery Tour, Jaymz Lennfield, Beatles, Metallica

Music - Feb. 9, 2009
Video of the Day: The show that started everything
It was on this day -- Feb. 9 -- in 1964, that the Beatles made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Rock and roll and pop culture were never the same. Take a look:
Tags: beatles, ed sullivan

Music - Aug. 11, 2008
Fab '60s Ricochettes bounce back onto local scene
The Ricochettes, a Beatles-inspired pop group that performed in area clubs and recorded a few singles in the mid-1960s, has reformed after a 40-year hiatus and plays at Serb Hall on Friday, Aug. 22.
Tags: Ricochettes, Serb Hall, Beatles, Rolling Stones, WOKY, Ar Kriegel, Herb Hohnke, Jerry Wollenzien, Jon Galobich, Humpty Neuhofer, Jim Milewski, Mike Milewski

Music - July 18, 2008
Waukesha museum exhibits Beatles memorabilia
Despite a single gig here in at the Arena in1964 and much-recounted stories of fans besieging the Fab Four's Wisconsin Avenue hotel -- now Marquette's Mashuda Hall dormitory -- Milwaukee and the Beatles don't really have much shared history. Or do they?
Tags: Beatles, Imagine, Mecca Arena, Sept. 4, 1964, Mashuda Hall, Bob Barry, John Lennon, Kirsten Lee Villegas, Waukesha County Museum, Coming Together through the art of John Lennon