{"id":1943,"date":"2009-05-30T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2009-05-30T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:50:56","slug":"crickettoes-time-has-come-for-a-milwaukee-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/crickettoes-time-has-come-for-a-milwaukee-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"CricketToes: Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crickettoes.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/time-has-come-for-a-milwaukee-upgrade.html\">CricketToes: Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Upgrade! At a point in history when independent artists, collectives, galleries, and small arts organizations are struggling to see their way through this thickly choking economic smog, all the while acutely aware that the endeavors of some of their colleagues have been sadly lost forever, there are still a few discernible rays of hope in the form of a growing number of groups that place an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Locally, we&#8217;ve seen the establishment and continuing success of the creative\/tech idea incubator Spreenkler and the foundation of the much anticipated artistic cross-pollinator RedLine Milwaukee, opening in July. In what may enable us to confidently call this a trend o&#8217; our times, we can now happily welcome Upgrade! Milwaukee to our fair city by the Great Lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crickettoes.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/time-has-come-for-a-milwaukee-upgrade.html\">read more&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE on CricketToes: Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade! Time Has Come for a Milwaukee Upgrade! Upgrade! At a point in history when independent artists, collectives, galleries, and small arts organizations are struggling to see their way through this thickly choking economic smog, all the while acutely aware that the endeavors of some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,38,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-vl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1969,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/july-12-at-moct-upgrade-milwaukee-presents-nadav-assor-israel-and-maria-bolivar-venezuela\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":0},"title":"July 12 at MOCT: Upgrade! 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