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By Diego Costa

Film

Birthday Girl
Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m.
Free
Union Theatre
229-4070
www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre

Lily, the birthday girl, performs for the camera while simultaneously being pursued by it. This ambivalent relationship builds over the course of one day and one night until finally the threshold between performer and subject cracks, if only for a moment.

(Steve Wetzel, USA, 60 min., DV, 2005)

Music

Heroes, Monsters and Madmen Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 9, at 2:30 p.m.

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St.
291-7605
$20 - $79

He's the only performer in the world to have performed as the leading man in “Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Misérables” and “Jekyll and Hyde.” Craig Schulman brings his signature characters to Uihlein Hall for three performances only. Conductor: Andrew Massey.

DVD

“Broken Blossoms” by D.W. Griffith (USA, 1918) “Ma vie en rose” by Alain Berliner (France/Belgium, 1997) “All About My Mother” by Pedro Almodovar (Spain, 1999)

Download

“Djagnéba” by Amadou & Mariam “Trigger Hippie” by Morcheeba “Je t’aime…moi n’on plus” (Vibrators mix) by Serge Gainsbourg

Podcasts

“In the Mix” with Trent Jackson
“Wait Wait … Don’t tell me!” by NPR
“Bill Maher’s New Rules” by Home Box Office

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