Jamie Lee Rake

Jazz drummer-composer Jonathan Barber's band’s name and the title of their latest album could hardly dovetail better. Barber’s eight full pieces and two reprises comprising his and Vision Ahead's third release, In Motion, maintain an aspirational momentum. The collection’s sense of forward motion toward a goal of a complete, satisfying aesthetic statement not only comes from the bandleader’s propulsive, colorful percussion, but from the rest of his quintet. It also often derives from a compositional economy that packs numerous memorable melodic ideas usually in segments under five minutes each.

It may speak of polka music's prime demographic that the latest album by Pulaski's Chad Przybylski and The Polka Rhythms arrives only on compact disc. It’s old-time music delivered in a (relatively) old-timely format. But there’s still something to be said about the plastic physicality of a CD jewel case, especially when it allows for the clever illustration of what looks like the pattern for a concertina-festooned Hawaiian on its insert.

Green Bay’s veteran punk rock band to headline Milwaukee street festival.

The comedian will be in town Wednesday, Sept. 25 for a show in the Mani Room of The Improv.

Had’s offers a midday buffet (11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.) on weekends as well as weekdays in a casual, almost coffee shop-like atmosphere.

Cofounder Matt Kemple discusses how his festival put comedy on the map in Milwaukee.

Motherhood as a lyrical theme often lends itself to saccharine sentimentality or humor born from the rigors of the maternal role. Canadian jazz vocalist Andrea Superstein finds a fresh way to convey multiple perspectives related to feminine parenthood on Oh Mother.

Travis Chambers and cartoonist Niko E. Porter’s comic strip appears on the website of Uptown Society, an organization promoting multicultural interaction among Milwaukeeans.

A Nepali restaurant finally opens in Milwaukee offering intriguing items on its lunch buffet.

It’s fortunate enough that Wow! Live At The Childe Harold, a 1976 concert recording by Milwaukee native and internationally renowned jazz singer Al Jarreau, exists in audio form. It's unfortunate, however, that no video document of the show was recorded as it was broadcast on a freeform FM radio station from a tiny club in a converted Washington. D.C. Victorian townhouse.