Tim McCormick

1. What happens when a group known for making beautiful music adds a world-renowned violinist to its ranks? Does it make beautiful-er music? We can’t answer that without further mangling the Queen’s English, but we will be in the audience to see what happens when the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra welcomes violinist Frank Almond as its first artist-in-residence. Oct. 15. Schwan Concert Hall.  2. The city’s second-largest theater company – and yes, it’s a kids troupe – begins its 28th season with a world premiere of Eric Coble’s Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars. First Stage will re-create the streets…

Photo courtesy of the Las Vegas News Bureau.  The flamboyant entertainer with West Allis roots had a talent for tickling the ivories that was rivaled only by his expert showmanship. Play along with us. By Tim McCormick 1. True or False When Wladziu Valentino Liberace began his career, playing movie houses and saloons, he adopted the stage name “Walter Busterkeys.” 2. True or False Liberace, escorted to the ring by the Rockettes, worked the very first “WrestleMania” in 1985 as a guest timekeeper.  3. True or False Liberace’s Las Vegas mansion, which, according to the musician, included a $1.5 million…

Neil Degrasse Tyson, courtesy of David Gamble 1. If there’s such a thing as a rock star astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson is it. After putting a wrap on FOX’s “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” he now takes his explanatory show on the road. Dec. 11. Riverside Theater.  Slavne, Ukraine, from You Are Here, courtesy of NASA 2. Another spaceman visits when Col. Chris Hadfield, a former resident of the International Space Station, brings copies of You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes, which features impressive images (below) from his travels. Nov. 13. Boswell Book Company.  3. Self-taught photographer Leanne Parshelle caught…