Mornin’ All,
Happy Friday, Happy (almost) Weekend, and Happy End of the Week!😃
Well, there was some sadness at Milwaukee Happy Note this past week. And that sadness made me look at the power of memories and their emotions. It’s funny how a memory can hook me and carry me into its attached emotion. And it sure seems that sad and dark memories/emotions have a whole lot more pull and gravity than happy stuff. So the last few days I’ve been working on letting dark memories come and go without letting them hook me into a dark place emotionally. At the same time I’m letting happy things hook me big-time and lift me up into better and happier places. Having a whole bank account of happy is a really good and helpful (and healthy) thing when those dark and sad things/times hit (they always do and sometimes you never see them coming). So I’m looking to the happy and I’m looking forward to a happy weekend complete with new memories and emotions to store away in my happy bank account.
Interested in a few (happy) Milwaukee weekend things to do? Well, without further ado here are a few Milwaukee weekend things for you (weekend of April 28th, 29th, and 30th, 2023):
-Milwaukee Domes continues its Spring Show: Metamorphosis–The Lives of Frogs and Butterflies through May 29th (do frogs and butterflies hang out and have a life together?).
-Milwaukee Domes also presents its Art in the Green 2023 Art Show (with over 30 local artists) AND Food (including mimosas and bloodies) AND Music (AND the show helps support the Domes and local artisans…win-win👍).
-MSOE Theatre Troupe wraps up its performances of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Dierck’s Hall NIVIDIA Auditorium (my spellcheck thinks I spelled NIVIDIA incorrectly 🤷♂️).
-Haggerty Museum of Art presents Tomas Saraceno: Entangled Air through May 21st.
-Sunset Playhouse continues its performances of Young Frankenstein through May 7th (Frrronk-en-shteen).
-Ice Storm Drone Racing at the Pettit National Ice Center (racing drones can reach speeds of 120MPH!!!😱).
-Waukesha Area Symphonic Band presents The General–A Silent Film at the Bradley Symphony Center (will the band be silent too? Guessing there won’t be any wrong notes?).
-Yoga at Kind Oasis (what kind of an oasis is it?).
-Carthage College Theater debuts Legally Blonde: The Musical with performances through May 6th.
-Independent Book Store Day at multiple bookstores around the Milwaukee area.
-Slow but steady the Milwaukee Public Museum’s Survival of the Slowest Special Exhibit continues unabated toward its finale on May 19th.
-PanCan Purple Stride Walk for Pancreatic Cancer at the Rock Sports Complex.
-Milwaukee Chamber Theater continues it performances of The Mountaintop through May 7th.
-Animal Encounters continues at Discovery World.
-Milwaukee Pop-Up Vegan Market at the Pabst Brewery.
-Waukesha Civic Theater continues its performances of Rent through May 26th.
-Run 4 Water 5K Run/Walk, sponsored by UW-Milwaukee’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders, to help raise money to build water projects in rural Guatemala.
-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents An Evening With Brian Stokes Mitchell.
-South Shore Beach Clean Up (I hear there’s a beer garden at South Shore…just sayin’ 🤷♂️).
-Floral Reflections (Japanese Ikebana) at the Pabst Mansion.
-Rescued (Coffee) Roasters wraps up its roasting and selling coffee at Almost Home Cat Rescue MKE (cats, especially rescue cats, are awesome).
-Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds (play) at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (don’t worry…about a thing…cuz every little thing’s…gonna be alright).
-Milwaukee Brewers are at home against the Angels (is it wrong to want to defeat a bunch of angels 🤷♂️?).
-Sunset Playhouse presents Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (is it five women in one dress all at the same time 🤷♂️? That would have to be a really big dress?).
-Nrityagram with Chitrasena Dance Company at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (this Friday only).
-Riveredge Nature Center presents: Family Nature Club–Spring Ephemerals; Vernal Pond Sensory Exploration; and Welcome Hikes.
-Bombshell Theatre Company continues performances of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard at the Broadway Theatre Center through May 7th.
-Wehr Nature Center presents Birding by Ear AND Wehr Birders (where 🤷♂️?).
-Zuri’s Crown (play) in Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall.
-Urban Ecology Center presents: On Belay! Outdoor Rock Climbing; Seedling Swap; and various Earth Week Service Activities.
-The Constructivists at Interchange Cooperative Theater wraps up its performances of I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard.
-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center presents: Spectacular Snakes; Word With a Bird; Pond Exploration; Birding Exploration; and Nature Ambassadors.
-Falls Patio Players wraps up its performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (isn’t that by Andrew Lloyd Weber as well?).
-Lakeside Players of Kenosha continues its performances of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast through May 6th (tale as old as time…).
-Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues its performances of God of Carnage through May 14th.
-Next Act Theater debuts God’s Spies with performances through May 21st.
-Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest presents Hiking For Beginners at the Scuppernong Trails (if you’re a beginner at the beginning of your hike then what are you at the end of your hike? Hopefully not full of blisters?).
-UW Milwaukee Manfred Olsen Planetarium presents Spring Stars AND Rooftop Stargazing.
-Chicago Botanic Garden presents Midwest Daffodil Society Show AND Seed Starting Edible Plants (can you eat the daffodils?).
-Angelic Roots in Oak Creek presents: Reiki Share; Celebrate Your Greatness Vision Board Workshop; and Chakra Alignment Meditation (chiropractor for your chakras?).
-Beer Garden? How about the recently opened Estabrook Park Beer Garden (proceeds help support our beautiful Milwaukee County Parks)? Not a beer drinker? Well then how ‘bout a crazy huge pretzel (all that gluten would probably kill me…or at least make me feel so bad I want to die but death just laughs at me and says “ha, you did this to yourself so deal with it” 🤷♂️)?
-Live Music/Comedy? Holy Crap Everywhere! Venues include ComedySportz, Shank Hall, Rave, Cactus Club, Jazz Estate, Ally’s Bistro, Red Rock Saloon, Da Bar, Helene Zelazo, Miller High Life Theater, County Clare, Nashville North, Colectivo, X-Ray Arcade, Linneman’s Riverwest Inn, Bar, Centro, Turner Hall Ballroom, Miramar, Club Girabaldi, Fiserv, Potawatomi, Sugar Maple, Cooperage, Suburban Bourbon, Anodyne, Mad Planet, Blu Milwaukee, Sharon Lynne Wilson, Riverside, Pabst, etc., etc., etc.
Whew! And there you have it!! Please, please, please enjoy your Weekend. And please take care of yourself and your friends. Get out and enjoy all the good that life (and Milwaukee and our beautiful planet) has to offer. Put some happy in your happy bank account. And always know that being still and quiet and relaxing and renewing is ALWAYS an outstanding accomplishment.😊
Best regards and I’m hoping to see you around town.
Doc
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