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607-9446 Jim Stingl, columnist for the Milwauee Journal Sentinel, just posted an online video about Bradford Beach. What's even nicer about the film is that Jim's wearing his Times Cinema t-shirt . (Watch Jim's video now) BAT MANIA STRIKES! - July 17 , '08 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Larry Widen, owner of the Rosebud Cinema Drafthouse in Wauwatosa, said he started selling tickets for his 165-seat theater as soon as he received permission for a midnight showing from Warner Bros. (Read entire story) Jan Kelly, the well-regarded chef from the late Barossa in Walker's Point, opened her own place in August in the Washington Heights neighborhood, and it's pulling in crowds. (Read entire story) TUSSLE OVER TERMS LIMITS MOVIEGOERS' OPTIONS - Jan 24, '08 - Milw Journal Sentinel The dispute between Milwaukee-based Marcus Theatres and Paramount Pictures has limited filmgoers' access to two high-profile films in the past two months. (Read entire story) WIDEN BRINGS OLD MILWAUKEE TO LIFE - December 18, '07 - OnMilwaukee.com Larry Widen, who runs The Times Cinema and the Rosebud Cinema Drafthouse, calls himself "one of Milwaukee's 'Nostalgia Merchants'," and he's the author of "Entertainment in Early Milwaukee." The 127-page softcover volume shows how Milwaukeeans amused themselves from the middle of the 19th century until 1950, with chapters focusing on hotels, taverns and restaurants; theater, music and museums; social gathering places; amusement parks and outdoors; shopping and movies. (Read entire story)
THEATER HISTORIAN BUYS TIMES CINEMA- January 3, '07 - Small Business Times Leonard Sadorf is an artist, a philosopher, a Renaissance man and so much more. Len is the author of Elgin Road, a new collection of southeastern Arizona photographs. Buy Elgin Road online now. Len and Milwaukee writer Larry Widen have also published their photographic memoirs of 1979 as Lar and Len: A Long Strange Trip. Buy Lar and Len online now. (Read entire story from the Sierra Vista Herald) LARRY WIDEN ON MPT's "I REMEMBER" WITH HOST JIM PECK - February 25, 2006 Vintage Milwaukee Postcards offers a snapshot of the area from another time, when Wisconsin Avenue was known as Grand Avenue. The downtown was busy with street cars joining the horse and carriage trade... (Read transcript of I Remember interview) TV6's MARK CONCANNON INTERVIEWS LARRY WIDEN - February 24, 2006 - FOX6 News Inside the new M Magazine, Larry Widen, the author of "Vintage Milwaukee Postcards." Also with him, the City edition editor, Jordan Dechambre Childers. (Read transcript of Fox6 interview) PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES - February 23, 2006 - M Magazine There was one tiny invention that put a halt to sending postcards in the early 1900's: the telephone. (Read M Magazine book review) CITY CONTRIBUTORS - February 22, 2006 - M Magazine Jordan Dechambre Childers writes: "History was never a good subject for me. I guess all I needed to appreciate it was someone who knows how to make it interesting." (Read Jordan Dechambre's M Magazine editorial) AT 10's JANE HAMPDEN INTERVIEWS LARRY WIDEN- February 6, 2006 - WUWM If you want to learn more about a place, old postcards can be a historical gold mine. Milwaukee writer Larry Widen is the author of "Vintage Milwaukee Postcards." It's a collection of wonderful views of the city's past. (Read transcript of WUWM interview) MULTI-TALENTED WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS NICHE - Jan 24, 2006 - MATC NOW When Larry Widen left a thriving career in advertising to become a freelance writer, it was a gamble, but he hit the jackpot in terms of making a living doing what he loves. (Read entire story) MILWAUKEE POSTCARDS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS - January 10, 2006 - ON MILWAUKEE.COM Local historian and writer Larry Widen gathered 250 of his favorites in his new book, "Vintage Milwaukee Postcards." It's a collection he's been accumulating for 25 years. (Read entire story) LARRY WIDEN AT A GLANCE: INTERESTS Blues music, cemeteries, film noir, history, movie theaters, photography Favorite: PLACES Arizona, gardens, Florida, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City, the ocean, San Francisco, Williamsburg MOVIES Batman, The Big Sleep, The Bourne Identity, Casablanca, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, The Empire Strikes Back, Gladiator, Gengarry Glen Ross, The Godfather, GoodFellas, The Maltese Falcon, Million Dollar Baby, Notorious, Out of the Past, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Spider-Man, Sunset Boulevard, This Gun For Hire, Vertigo DIRECTORS Tim Burton, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, David Mamet, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo MUSIC Allman Bros, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, The Doors
Film scores (Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Hans Zimmer), Buddy
Guy, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, B B King, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf
The Art of Noir, Arizona Highways, biographies, comic books,
The Devil's Music, The Dharma Bums, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The
Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, No One Here Gets Out Alive, On The Road,
Regarding Wave, The Stand
F Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Jim Morrison
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