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Frontier Radio Theater (FRT)



We have some pretty exciting news for you. That is, if you enjoy media that experienced its peak sometime between 1920 and 1950, then we have some pretty exciting news for you. You see here, kid. WMSE doesn't just celebrate the jumps and grooves of American's greatest of past-times - a past-time no more or less important than the great game of The Big Train and the Georgia Peach. Don't you know were talking about letting vibrations of voices and instruments into the old sound catchers. Music, see.

No, good citizens of Old Milwaukee (\ww/), WMSE doesn't just celebrate music. The station also celebrates the very thing that they are - radio - and the sky-high potential of what terrestrial radio waves can bring to your home. What we're talking about, see, are the non-music radio programs that need to be dusted from the vaults and brought back to the guys and dolls of America.

Each and every Sunday from 8:00am - 9:00am, tune into WMSE 91.7FM on your trusty RCA to hear cliff hangers, science fiction, horror, suspense and comedy delivered to you in good, old-fashioned radio dramas. From The Shadow to Jack Benny and Fibber McGee and Molly to the Green Hornetand the Inner Sanctum, nothing but the best from WMSE and Frontier Radio Theater.

The WMSE gang of merry dames and gents have already hipped Milwaukee to live and true storytelling with Ex Fabula on the air, and now what we have here, this week, see, is a real doozy of a kick-off if a doozy of a kick-off has ever been heard. WMSE has lots of chums, see. Some chums strum the fiddle and some pals put the quill & ink to scroll. Other friends, well, other friends rework and rewrite classic literature into live, hybrid presentations of radio theater.

Radio WHT - Wisconsin Hybrid Theater - Stick with these guys and gals and you'll go straight to the top. This week they bring their dashing good looks and knack for creating characters to live, broadcast radio with a presentation of:

"Sherlock Holmes' Adventure at Stonor Manor"

This here radio drama was written ("adapted for your imagination") by the great and talented, man of international mystery and charm, Sir Charles Sommers. The adaptation is based on The Adventure of the Speckled Band by, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The cast:
Ira Hampton as Sherlock Holmes
Jack Farwell as Dr John Watson (and a cabbie)
Allis Chase as Miss Helen Stonor (and a newsie)
With live sound effects created by Chris Knapp.

We'll also hear a brief episode of an original soap opera The Lonely Hearts of Sacred Heart starring Deb Burnham and Russell Downer.

So, shovel the day's most important meal in your food depository, sit comfortably in your chaise lounge and prepare for the best pre-curser to a Dewey Gill big band radio show you could ever ask for.

See...

The Local Yokel!

As has become tradition, we at WMSE are teaming up with great local partners in the month leading up to the Food Slam to promote the event, get people into Milwaukee restaurants and hopefully, raise a few dollars for the station. This year, we again had the mad geniuses food creators from Comet Cafe and Honeypie Cafe concoct a sandwich that while delicious and out of this world is admittedly deplorable.

It's OK. You can do it. And we hope you do tackle this behemoth because for the entire month of September, Comet and Honeypie will donate $2.00 from every sale of the Local Yokel WMSE burger right back to us here at the station.

And now, for the grand finale, here's what all these ingredients amount to in real life sandwich form (LOVE the breakfast sausage garnish!) - Lettuce, BBQ Pork, Burger, bacon, Swiss Cheese, carmelized onions, mushrooms, beer-battered jalepeno sticks, Ranch dressing, sunny side up egg, a bun and a breakfast sausage garnish.

PS - We know it looks intimidating, but just know that he proper technique will take you where you need to be in order to finish. Here is the technique we suggest:

1. Remove the breakfast sausage garnish - Think of the sausage as your Bloody Mary beer chaser.
2. A slow smoosh - Use one hand to steady the ingredients, the other to slowly smoosh from the top down.
3. The Cut - Without disturbing the burger, slowly adjust your top hand so that it covers only half the burger. With your free hand, use the provided steak knife to half the burger (one WMSE staffer prefers quarting the burger).
4. Eat. Eat. Eat. - Pick up half of the burger and eat the damn thing. It's delicious.

Note: the beauty of this burger, or one of the beauties we should say, is that you won't have to worry about any other meals on the day you eat. This will be enough. Trust us.

We're really excited, naturally, for another great Food Slam. We're doubly excited, though, that we're moving the Slam to our home - the campus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) at The Grohmann Museum. We're being sincere when we say that we fully expect the Food Slam to sell out this year, so you might want to get advanced tickets online right now.

Here is who we have confirmed to help make the Slam a killer party. There might me just a couple additions, but this is pretty much the spectrum of Milwaukee restaurants participating by offering up samples exquisite food and beverage.

Anodyne Coffee Roasting Company, Atomic Chocolate Company, Ball ‘N Biscuit Catering, Beans & Barley, Blue’s Egg, Eat Cake!, Hector’s on Delaware, The Horny Goat Hideaway, Hotch-a-do, Jake's Deli, Mamasita's Tamales, Martita’s Mixers, Maxie’s Southern Comfort, McBob’s Pub & Grill, Milwaukee Ale House, Novo@Moct, Molly Cool's Seafood Tavern, Motor, Nanakusa Japanese Restaurant, Red Rock Saloon, Sala da Pranzo, Simma's Bakery, Soups On!, Times Square Pizzeria

We'll also be serving craft beers and a fine Argentinean wine selection from sponsors Milwaukee Brewing Company and Trapiche respectively. Additional sponsorship support comes from MSOE, Clark Graphics and AV Club Milwaukee.