Chris Foran

The troubled pop music legend first performed on a Milwaukee stage in 1964, when the Beach Boys were "America's answer to the Beatles."

The jam band's sold-out fall residency was canceled in 2024 following news that guitarist Jimmy Herring was being treated for cancer.

Summerfest has lost a headliner who also canceled her 2022 performance at the festival.

New movies in Milwaukee theaters starting May 30 also include "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," which closed the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival.

Some celebrities who died in 2025 stopped in Wisconsin along the way — sometimes as performers, sometimes as tourists and sometimes just coming home.

George Wendt, best known for portraying Norm on "Cheers," attended high school in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He died May 20 at age 76.

Shrinking its footprint to the Oriental and Downer theaters, the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival showed a sizable increase in attendance per screening.

Here's a guide to where you can watch movies under the stars for free during the summer of 2025 in the Milwaukee area.

Documentaries about justice and beating the odds won some of the top awards at the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival, which ended its 15-day run May 8.

On tap for the weekend of May 9-11: free admission for moms on Mother's Day at the zoo and other sites, the Brew City Birding Festival and more.