Greetings All,
Happy almost Friday, Happy almost End of the Week, and Happy almost Weekend!
Snow? Snow in the forecast again? I Love it! And speaking of Love…it’s Valentine’s Weekend!! Cards, chocolates, prime rib and lobster dinners at an awesome Milwaukee supper club…oh yeah, sounds like Love to me. And have I mentioned that I LOVE snow? A whole weekend of Love and fun in the snow (at least I’ll be having fun in the snow). And I can’t think of a better place to enjoy this weekend of Love than in Milwaukee, my home by the Lake.
Milwaukee, in my humble opinion, is THE BEST little big city because it just so happens to be packed with tons of mega big city cool! So, are you interested in a few Milwaukee weekend things to do? Well, without further ado here are a few Milwaukee weekend things for you (weekend of February 14th, 15th, and, 16th, 2025):
New and Cool???
-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents “Casablanca” (it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship?).
-Pabst Mansion presents “Love is Brewing” (it is a mansion built by beer after all).
-Florentine Opera presents Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” this weekend only (can you Handel it?).
-Marquette University Music Ensembles presents “Winter Wind Ensemble Concert” (and it certainly will feel like winter this weekend).
-Cedarburg Winter Festival (in Cedarburg…and it will most definitely be winter).
-University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Concert at the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.
-Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum presents “Bird Feeder Workshop”.
-Old Wade House presents “Over the River and Through the Woods” (and there will likely be ice and snow on the river and throughout the woods!).
-Riveredge Nature Center presents: “Trails Aglow: Valentine’s Night”; “Family Tapping”; and “From Sap to Syrup”.
-Schlitz Audubon Nature Center presents: “Saturday Morning Bird Walk”; “Raptor Encounter”; “Toadally Loveable: Valentines with our Animal Ambassadors”; “Search for Ice-canos”; “Nature Ambassadors”; “Raptor Encounter”; and “Sound Waves Winter Concert Series: Ukaladies”.
-Urban Ecology Center presents “Wonderful Winters-Early Adventurers” and “Take It Outside Day-Cross Country Skiing & Sleds” (and it looks like there will even be snow for all those snow activities).
-Lynden Sculpture Garden presents: “Dog Days”; “Asmaa Walton and the Black Art Library”; and “Lynden by Night 2025” (on a real winter night).
-Wehr Nature Center presents “Flow Yoga” and “Pop-Up Nature: You Can Be a Scientist!” (I don’t wanna be a scientist…ugh, too late).
-UW Milwaukee’s Manfred Olson Planetarium presents “Constellations of the Zodiac” and “Rooftop Stargazing”.
-Discovery World Museum presents “Love Your Great Lakes Day” (I Love my Great Lakes!).
-Indoor Winter Farmers Market at the Oak Creek Community Center.
-Next Act Theater debuts “The Children” which runs through March 9th.
-Sunset Playhouse presents “Sailing: Cool Grooves of the 70’s & 80’s” (Sailing…takes me away…).
-Kettle Moraine Playhouse debuts “Bad In Bed (A Fairy Tale)” which runs through February 23rd.
-2025 NARI Spring Home Improvement Show at the Wisconsin Exposition Center.
-Angelic Roots in Oak Creek presents “Drum Circle & Storytelling with Mr. Charging Crow”.
-Milwaukee Wave is at home against the Texas Outlaws.
-Marquette University Golden Eagles Women’s Basketball is at home against the DePaul Blue Demons.
-UW Milwaukee Panthers Men’s Basketball is at home against the Wright State Raiders and the Northern Kentucky Norse.
Continuing…Yet Still Cool???
-”Winter Break 2025” wraps up at Havenwoods State Park (and it will certainly feel like winter).
-”Canstruction Milwaukee” wraps up at The Milwaukee Public Museum. BTW, all those food items get donated to local food pantries when it’s over!
-First Stage Theater wraps up “Emily Song and the Queen of the Night” and “The Dinosaur Play” (a play about dinosaurs playing?).
-Falls Patio Players wraps up “Miss Holmes Returns” (and now she’s leaving).
-Milwaukee Ballet wraps up “MKE MIX”.
-The Domes continues its indoor garden train show “Golden Age of Steam” through April 6th.
-Wehr Nature Center continues “Wehr Birders” every Sunday (where?).
-Milwaukee Repertory Theater continues “The Craic” through March 16th and “The Woman in Black” through March 23rd.
-Racine Zoo continues “Winter Picnic in a Snow Globe” through February 23rd.
-Waukesha Civic Theater continues “Akeela and the Bee” through February 23rd.
-Lakeside Players continues “Anastasia: The Musical” through February 23rd.
-”Yoga at the Terrace” continues at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum (indoors…I hope).
-Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art continues: “The Big 4-0 Collection, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection”; “Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink”; “Visual Legacies: Photographs by Ellie Lee Weems”; and Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art”. All run through May 24th.
A Dare? I dare you to…get outside and enjoy the snow!
Live Music/Comedy? Holy Crap Everywhere! Venues include (but are not limited to) 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. Plant seeds of happiness wherever you go. 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
Sources: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (paid subscription); Shepherd Express (paid subscription); On Milwaukee (paid subscription); and lotsa websites.
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