Locust Street Festival of Music and Art Milwaukee 2018

Allow your Pride flag fly

The lakefront festival season is officially on:PrideFest lands at Maier Festival Park, 200 N. Harbor Drive, for a weekend of customs, partying, parades and one of the best entertainment lineups this side of Summerfest. Highlights include an appearance by keynote speaker Danica Roem, the commencement openly transgender person to hold an elected seat in a country legislature, at 3 p.m. Friday; fireworks at nine:thirty p.grand. Saturday; singer-actor Jussie Smollett ("Empire"), performing at x:10 p.m. Saturday on the Miller Lite Mainstage; the Milwaukee Pride Parade, starting at 2 p.m. Sunday at South. second St. and West. Lapham Blvd. (come across prideparademke.org for the road); and the B-52's, headlining the viii:15 p.m. show Sunday at the Miller Lite Mainstage. PrideFest'south hours are 6 to eleven p.grand. Th, 2:30 p.thousand. to midnight Friday, noon to midnight Sabbatum and noon to 10 p.m. Sun. Admission is $thirteen; $9 for the Thursday night opening party; four-day weekend passes are $39. Children 12 and younger free with a paid adult access.

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Info: pridefest.com

Party on Locust St.

Half-dozen stages of live entertainment, food from more than a dozen vendors and what'due south likely Milwaukee's longest-running beer run make up this yr's Locust Street Festival of Music & Art Sun, along E. Locust St. from N. Humboldt Ave. to N. Holton St. The street party kicks off with the 42nd annual Riverwest Beer Run or Walk at 11:30 a.thou., and lasts until eight p.chiliad. Performances include alive music, DJs, comedy and, at 3 p.m. at the exterior stage at Riverwest Public House, a mass singalong of "Don't Terminate Believin'." Admission is complimentary.

Info: locuststreetfestival.org

Meet, and listen to, 'West Side Story'

You'd exist hard-pressed to find a more than vital and alive movie than "West Side Story." This weekend, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra turns the Oscar-winning classic up to 11, performing Leonard Bernstein's powerful and romantic score along with the picture, showing at 7:thirty p.m. Sat and 2:30 p.thousand. Sunday in Uihlein Hall at the Marcus Middle for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St. Tickets get-go at $22.

Info: mso.org

Go upwards, get up, get … outside

Saturday is National Get Outdoors Twenty-four hour period (in Milwaukee, that's any day information technology'southward not 47 degrees and drizzling). Several of Milwaukee'south outdoors-thinking outfits are offering ways to go y'all out there.

• Riverwest Outdoor Educational Adventures is getting the discussion out by promoting the day with free activities from x a.yard. to 4 p.m., including biking, starting at Truly Spoken, 604 E. Center St., and riding to Hubbard Park via the Oak Leaf Trail; hiking, canoeing and kayaking, starting at River Revitalization, 2134 N Riverboat Road; and rock climbing and rappelling, at 1420 E. Belleview Place. Info: riverwestoutdoors.org/go-day.
• The Urban Ecology Centre and Milwaukee's Let'due south Move Outside coalition host a twenty-four hours of hiking, bird-watching, canoeing, ecology lessons and more than in Washington Park, 1859 N. 40th St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.yard. Info:urbanecologycenter.org.
• Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, 1111 E. Brown Deer Route, Bayside, offers guided hikes featuring the center'south many sights, as well as up-shut-and-personal visits with animals in the heart's Swell Hall, from 9 a.m. to noon. Info: sanc.org.

Food fest on Vliet Street

Participating restaurants and other establishments on Due west. Vliet Street, from N. 43rd to around Due north. 62nd streets, are offering deals and more than Sabbatum from eleven a.m. to 9 p.grand. for Eat on Vliet. It'south a risk to sample both some good eateries and a great Milwaukee neighborhood.

Info: Eat on Vliet Facebook folio

Happy birthday, Wizard of Waukesha

Les Paul, the godfather of the solid-body electric guitar (and with it, stone 'n' roll), would take turned 103 this Saturday (he died in 2009), merely that doesn't hateful he wouldn't still appreciate a birthday party. At to the lowest degree, that'south the thinking at Discovery Earth, 500 N. Harbor Bulldoze, where they're throwing an activities-filled fustigate to celebrate the Waukesha native's birthday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participants tin pattern and build their own musical instruments, learn about electricity and sound, and more than. Veterans from Guitars For Vets will be on-site giving guitar lessons (and accepting guitar donations for veterans.) Information technology'south role of regular admission at Discovery World: $nineteen; $16 for seniors 60 and older and kids ages 3 to 17; $fourteen for higher students with I.D., veterans and active members of the war machine; and free for children 2 and younger.

Info: discoveryworld.org

Another take chances to have some time together

Have a question for a TV legend? Ballad Burnett is taking the old opening of her landmark diversity show — in which she took questions from the audience — to the Riverside Theater at 8 p.one thousand. Saturday for "An Evening of Laughter and Reflections Where The Audition Asks Questions." (The comedy legend is also taking questions in her new gig, the Netflix series "A Piffling Help With Carol Burnett.") Tickets are $55 to $175, at the box part at the Riverside, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave.; (414) 286-3663; and the Pabst Theater website.

Info: pabsttheater.org

Final call

This weekend is your last take chances to meet this performance.

"Urinetown": Skylight Music Theatre's product of the nighttime-funny musical about power, love and the importance of indoor plumbing concludes its run Sunday at the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Broadway. Info:skylightmusictheatre.org.

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Source: https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/events/2018/06/07/things-do-milwaukee-weekend-pridefest-locust-street-bash/663539002/

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