All Lion’s Tooth events are free and open to the public
Friday December 8, 2023 | 5-8PM
PAPER JAM holiday market at The Bindery EXTENDED!
Thursday, December 7, 2023 | 5:50-7PM
MILK Comic Workshop!
Presented by Milk Comic Fest
MILK Comic Fest is hosting a couple more COMICS WORKSHOP at Lion's Tooth this year! This is an opportunity for cartoonists at any step of their process to get feedback on their work. It doesn't matter what state your project is in, but come prepared to explain your work to the group, and what specifically you want feedback on. Hosted by MILK organizers Hannah Hallman and Hali Fisher.
Thursday December 14, 2023 | 5:30PM
Book launch - Rewind: A Cathartic Autobiography
Come celebrate the release of the book Rewind: a Cathartic Autobiography, by local author and activist Shelly Conley. You can confirm to the event here.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Rewind: a Cathartic Autobiography, poetically and introspectively, unravels the past while embracing the boundless future of poet, author & community educator, A. Shelly Conley and uplifts any Woman whose voice has been lost (and found).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shelly Conley experienced most of her youth in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code, an area notoriously known for having the highest incarceration rate of black men in the country. If she lived by society's labels, she may have seen a different life. Instead, she decided to lose the restraints often associated with those labels and embraced the lessons learned along her journey: the fight, the Love, the loss, and the resilience. Born with a unique balance of creativity and structure, Shelly uses her creative gift of poetry and writing to encourage, empower, and celebrate the culture.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Rewind: a Cathartic Autobiography, poetically and introspectively, unravels the past while embracing the boundless future of poet, author & community educator, A. Shelly Conley and uplifts any Woman whose voice has been lost (and found).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shelly Conley experienced most of her youth in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code, an area notoriously known for having the highest incarceration rate of black men in the country. If she lived by society's labels, she may have seen a different life. Instead, she decided to lose the restraints often associated with those labels and embraced the lessons learned along her journey: the fight, the Love, the loss, and the resilience. Born with a unique balance of creativity and structure, Shelly uses her creative gift of poetry and writing to encourage, empower, and celebrate the culture.
Saturday December 16, 2023 | 10AM-6PM
Fundraiser for Rufus King International High School
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday December 16 and 10% of all sales will be donated to Rufus King International High School.
Sunday December 3, 2023 | 3-6PM
Zine for Queer Professionals Issue 4 release party!
Come get your copy the new issue of this great Milwaukee zine featuring art & stories from queer professionals.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Holiday gift-making craft workshop
With Christel Thompson of Creative Legacy
Saturday, November 25, 2023
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY!
Prizes and surprises all day and butt portraits by Rachal Duggan of RAD Illustrates fame from Noon to 3PM
Sunday, November 19, 2023 | 7PM at Cactus Club
Hour of the Star Screening Curated by Lion’s Tooth
Read the book, watch the movie, get the zine and fall in love with Clarice Lispector, the Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist who is considered the most important Jewish writer in the world since Kafka. Cactus Club's Moving Image and Lion's Tooth present a screening of the 1986 film Hour of the Star, based on Lispector's final book and directed by Suzana Amaral. Lion's Tooth will also be launching the zine Clarice. All ages, free and open to the public.
Saturday, November 18, 2023 | 5:30PM
Cicada Comics Number 1 Release Party
Join Lion's Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira (pronounced "cicada") celebrating her first mini comic in over 20 years, including part one of her first-ever long-form story "May You Get What You Want". Don't miss a live reading by Cris, Isabella Gargiulo and Zack Pieper, with sounds effects by Brock Gourlie aka Rum Revere.
Friday, November 17, 2023 | 5:30PM at The Sugar Maple
Special event with author Stefani Goerlich
With Sprinkles On Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky People Need to Communicate, Explore, and Connect
Join award-winning author and Certified Sex Therapist Stefani Goerlich and Lion’s Tooth at the Sugar Maple as we celebrate the launch of her first for couples! Stefani will be reading an excerpt from her new book With Sprinkles On Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky People Need to Communicate, Explore, and Connect and then taking questions from the audience before lingering with us to socialize and sign your copy of Sprinkles. This is a can't-miss event for anyone who's been curious about their partner's desires... or their own!
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 10AM-6PM
Fundraiser for Bay View Montessori School
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday November 11 and 10% of the sales will be donated to the Bay View Montessori School.
Friday, November 3, 2023 | 5:30PM
Find out Why Tammy Wynette Matters
Author Steacy Easton in conversation with writer and musician Josh Langhoff
ABOUT THE BOOK
With hits such as "Stand By Your Man" and "Golden Ring," Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette's music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steacy Easton has written about country music for NPR, Slate, and the Atlantic. They are a PhD student in critical disability studies at York University.
With hits such as "Stand By Your Man" and "Golden Ring," Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette's music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steacy Easton has written about country music for NPR, Slate, and the Atlantic. They are a PhD student in critical disability studies at York University.
Saturday, November 4, 2023 | 5:30PM
Reading and audiovisual presentation by Billups Allen
101 Movies You Could See Before You Die - A film guide for the disenchanted
Presented by Goner Records
Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 5:30PM
Event with author Justice Shiller
Reading from Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
ABOUT THE BOOK
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Shiller, raised by migrant Jewish parents, was radicalized by the anti-war and civil rights movements. Shiller was in a collective of whites aligned with the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Beginning in 1987, Shiller was a radical Chicago alderperson for 24 years.
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Shiller, raised by migrant Jewish parents, was radicalized by the anti-war and civil rights movements. Shiller was in a collective of whites aligned with the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Beginning in 1987, Shiller was a radical Chicago alderperson for 24 years.
Sunday, October 22, 2023 | 2PM
Special event with Milwaukee author Christina Ward
In celebration of her new book Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat -- An American History
ABOUT THE BOOK
Holy Food features over 75 recipes from religious and communal groups tested and updated for modern cooks. (Dough Gods! Funeral Potatoes! Yogi Tea! Mother F*cker Beans! The Source Family’s infamous Aware Inn Salad!) Also includes over 100 historic black and white images.
Holy Food features over 75 recipes from religious and communal groups tested and updated for modern cooks. (Dough Gods! Funeral Potatoes! Yogi Tea! Mother F*cker Beans! The Source Family’s infamous Aware Inn Salad!) Also includes over 100 historic black and white images.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christina Ward is an independent food historian, a Master Food Preserver (Wisconsin), and writer who works in the publishing industry.
Christina Ward is an independent food historian, a Master Food Preserver (Wisconsin), and writer who works in the publishing industry.
Saturday, October 21, 2023 | 10AM
KIDS EVENT! Diverse Read Aloud with Melissa Temple
Bring the kiddos for a fun read aloud time with diverse, inclusive children's books by teacher activist Melissa Temple.
Melissa (she/her) is a National Board Certified early childhood teacher activist and co-author of the ALA Stonewall Honor book, Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Melissa has over 20 years experience teaching primary grades in bilingual and dual language classrooms in public schools.
Melissa (she/her) is a National Board Certified early childhood teacher activist and co-author of the ALA Stonewall Honor book, Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Melissa has over 20 years experience teaching primary grades in bilingual and dual language classrooms in public schools.
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 5:30PM
Author Emily Grandy in conversation with Bill Embly
Come celebrate Emily Grandy's award-winning debut novel Michikusa House. Reading, Q&A and a conversation with Milwaukee author Bill Emily.
ABOUT THE BOOK
After enduring a complicated recovery from eating disorders, Winona Heeley is struggling to return to normal life. Her mother recommends a change in scenery and arranges for Winona to stay with friends in rural Japan, at Michikusa House.
The centuries' old farmhouse hosts residents who want to learn to grow their own food and cook in concert with the seasons. Jun Nakashima, an aspiring kaiseki chef, is one such resident. Like Winona, Jun was a recovering addict and college dropout. While the two bond over culinary rituals, they change each other’s lives by reconstructing long-held beliefs about shame, identity, and renewal.
But after Winona returns to her Midwest hometown, Jun vanishes.
Two years pass and Winona, seeking revival through gardening, accepts a job as a groundskeeper at a local cemetery…and begins searching for Jun Nakashima once more.
Winner of the Landmark Prize for Fiction
After enduring a complicated recovery from eating disorders, Winona Heeley is struggling to return to normal life. Her mother recommends a change in scenery and arranges for Winona to stay with friends in rural Japan, at Michikusa House.
The centuries' old farmhouse hosts residents who want to learn to grow their own food and cook in concert with the seasons. Jun Nakashima, an aspiring kaiseki chef, is one such resident. Like Winona, Jun was a recovering addict and college dropout. While the two bond over culinary rituals, they change each other’s lives by reconstructing long-held beliefs about shame, identity, and renewal.
But after Winona returns to her Midwest hometown, Jun vanishes.
Two years pass and Winona, seeking revival through gardening, accepts a job as a groundskeeper at a local cemetery…and begins searching for Jun Nakashima once more.
Winner of the Landmark Prize for Fiction
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before she became an author and scientific editor, Emily worked as a biomedical engineer and clinical research specialist. Her debut novel, Michikusa House, was awarded the Landmark Prize. Her second novel (forthcoming) was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction. Her other writing has appeared in both scientific and literary publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She currently calls Milwaukee, Wisconsin home.
Before she became an author and scientific editor, Emily worked as a biomedical engineer and clinical research specialist. Her debut novel, Michikusa House, was awarded the Landmark Prize. Her second novel (forthcoming) was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction. Her other writing has appeared in both scientific and literary publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She currently calls Milwaukee, Wisconsin home.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 5:30PM
Pocket Vinyl performance with music and live painting!
Join us Wednesday October 18 at 5:30PM for a night of live music and painting with Eric Stevenson and Elizabeth Jancewicz of Pocket Vinyl. Celebrate their brand new graphic novel How to Completely Lose Your Mind: A Graphic Novel Memoir of One Indie Band's Attempt to Break a World Record about a 2019 tour where they tried to play a show in every state in the fastest amount of time ever. This should be a blast, don’t miss it.
Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 5:30PM
Event with Author Lincoln Rice
The Ethics of Protection: Reimagining Child Welfare in an Anti-Black Society
Saturday, October 10, 2023 | 11AM-5PM
Lion's Tooth at the Ann Arbor Comics Arts Festival: Small + Indie Press!
We're going to represent Milwaukee comics in Michigan! More info about the fest here.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 5:30PM at Cactus Club
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, presented by Rethinking Schools
In honor of Banned Books Week, Cactus Book Club will read Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe, otherwise known as ‘The Most Banned Book of 2022’. This illustrated/graphic memoir documents the author’s “journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears”.
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30pm at Cactus Club (2496 S. Wentworth Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53207). All book club meetings are free, no registration required.
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30pm at Cactus Club (2496 S. Wentworth Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53207). All book club meetings are free, no registration required.
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 5:30PM
Poetry Night!
Join us for a poetry reading featuring Courtney LeBlanc (Her Whole Bright Life), Margaret Rozga (Holding My Selves Together) and Angela Voras-Hills (Louder Birds).
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 5:30PM
An evening with author Kathie Giorgio
Hope Always Rises
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathie Giorgio is the author of six novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and three poetry chapbooks. She?s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award in Fiction. Her short story "Snap Dragon" was performed on stage for the Stories On Stage series at SuTeatro theatre in Boulder, Colorado. Kathie is the director and founder of the international creative writing studio
AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop LLC.
Kathie Giorgio is the author of six novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and three poetry chapbooks. She?s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Silver Pen Award for Literary Excellence, the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence, and the Eric Hoffer Award in Fiction. Her short story "Snap Dragon" was performed on stage for the Stories On Stage series at SuTeatro theatre in Boulder, Colorado. Kathie is the director and founder of the international creative writing studio
AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop LLC.
Sunday, September 17, 2023 |11AM-5PM
Lion's Tooth at the Awkward Nerd Book Fair at the Cooperage
Saturday, September 16, 2023 | 5:30PM
Author event with Kristine Hansen
Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin: How America's Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State
ABOUT THE BOOK
America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin’s landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green. This comprehensive guide to Wright’s designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public—as well as insider historical information about sites now demolished, and those available for “drive-bys” only—is for the architecture or history fan looking for tours, overnight stays or creative inspiration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Based in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood, Kristine Hansen is a nationally recognized design and travel author with articles published on Travel + Leisure’s and Architectural Digest’s websites, as well as in Time, Midwest Living, and Milwaukee Magazine. She is also the author of Wisconsin Cheese Cookbook: Creamy, Cheesy, Sweet, and Savory Recipes from the State’s Best Creameries.
America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin’s landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green. This comprehensive guide to Wright’s designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public—as well as insider historical information about sites now demolished, and those available for “drive-bys” only—is for the architecture or history fan looking for tours, overnight stays or creative inspiration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Based in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood, Kristine Hansen is a nationally recognized design and travel author with articles published on Travel + Leisure’s and Architectural Digest’s websites, as well as in Time, Midwest Living, and Milwaukee Magazine. She is also the author of Wisconsin Cheese Cookbook: Creamy, Cheesy, Sweet, and Savory Recipes from the State’s Best Creameries.
Friday, September 15, 2023 | 5:30-7:30PM
Community Scholars Travel Fund Celebration Launch and Fundraiser
Join us at Lion's Tooth to celebrate the launch of the Community Scholars Travel Fund, a dynamic and empowering initiative established to foster academic and personal growth among individuals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's underserved or economically disadvantaged communities. In partnership with local organizations, this fund seeks to eliminate barriers to education, facilitate cross-cultural exchanges, and broaden horizons by providing financial support to scholars who face financial constraints in pursuing travel opportunities.
Guest speakers Dr. Monique Liston, Founder, Chief Strategist and Joyful Militant at UBUNTU Research and Evaluation, and Dr. Michael Carriere, Professor of History and Director of the MSOE Honors Program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering will be on hand to further discuss this innovative program.
A portion of Lion's Tooth sales will be donated to the fund; there will be other ways to donate as well. Or just come out and hear about this exciting development! Can't make it? Give directly at Donate (paypal.com), or scan the QR code below. For more information contact Professor Michael Carriere at carriere@msoe.edu
Guest speakers Dr. Monique Liston, Founder, Chief Strategist and Joyful Militant at UBUNTU Research and Evaluation, and Dr. Michael Carriere, Professor of History and Director of the MSOE Honors Program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering will be on hand to further discuss this innovative program.
A portion of Lion's Tooth sales will be donated to the fund; there will be other ways to donate as well. Or just come out and hear about this exciting development! Can't make it? Give directly at Donate (paypal.com), or scan the QR code below. For more information contact Professor Michael Carriere at carriere@msoe.edu
Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 5:30PM
An Evening with Wisconsin Writers
Join us for an evening of readings from four Wisconsin writers!
Donna Rewolinski is the author of the Novice Mystery series. She has a master’s degree in social work and is a practicing social worker. She is a member of the Red Oak Writer’s Critique Roundtable, Wisconsin Writer’s Association, and Sisters of Crime.
Joy Ann Ribar writes cozy mysteries about bakery and wine set in a small Wisconsin tourist town. A retired English educator, Joy writes on the road from her Winnebago, wherever it roams.
Kim Suhr lives and writes in southeastern Wisconsin. She is the director of Red Oak Writing and Nothing to Lose is her debut book of fiction.
Mary Wimmer is a Wisconsin-based writer and school psychologist. Mary’s novel, The Art of the Break, about cheesemaking and coping with loss, was published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 2022.
Donna Rewolinski is the author of the Novice Mystery series. She has a master’s degree in social work and is a practicing social worker. She is a member of the Red Oak Writer’s Critique Roundtable, Wisconsin Writer’s Association, and Sisters of Crime.
Joy Ann Ribar writes cozy mysteries about bakery and wine set in a small Wisconsin tourist town. A retired English educator, Joy writes on the road from her Winnebago, wherever it roams.
Kim Suhr lives and writes in southeastern Wisconsin. She is the director of Red Oak Writing and Nothing to Lose is her debut book of fiction.
Mary Wimmer is a Wisconsin-based writer and school psychologist. Mary’s novel, The Art of the Break, about cheesemaking and coping with loss, was published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 2022.
Sunday, September 10, 2023 | 10:30AM to 4:30PM
2nd Annual MILK Comics Fest at the Cooperage
Saturday, September 9, 2023 | 5:30PM
Liz Mason Celebrates Caboose #14 My Canadian Boyfriend
Plus Fan Obsession-Themed Open Mic
Lion's Tooth welcomes Chicago-based zinester and Quimby’s Bookstore manager Liz Mason to celebrate the 14th issue of her long-running zine Caboose and hopes you will bring your own stories of fan obsession to share. Event attendees are encouraged to bring ephemera they’ve been holding for years in their closets of past or present celebrity crushes to show and talk about, in an open mic format. Bring your relevant diary entries that you’ve tucked away from the prying eyes of family and friends, that mass of decaying magazine clippings that once plastered your bedroom walls, photos where you dressed up for the concerts, fan club swag like key chains, t-shirts, and most importantly, your stories of being an obsessive fan to share. Mason wants you to talk about it, no matter what era you came of age during and regardless of your age.
ABOUT CABOOSE #14 MY CANADIAN BOYFRIEND
This book-length issue, subtitled My Canadian Boyfriend, is an ephemera-filled fanzine, a thoughtful and deeply pleasurable dive into the concept of parasocial relationships and neural nostalgia, through the lens of Mason’s own pre-teen obsession with pop star Corey Hart, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the pop star with the brush-cut bravado who wore his “Sunglasses at Night” and encouraged his audience to “Never Surrender.” Equal parts memoir, journalistic investigation, music criticism and well-researched cultural study, she explores what it means to be a fan, all done with a unique sense of humor. In the pages of Caboose #14, you’ll recognize some of your own urges toward fan obsession.
ABOUT LIZ MASON
Liz Mason has been self-publishing for over twenty years. Recent works include Caboose #14 My Canadian Boyfriend, Awesome Things #4, Cul-de-sac #9 and The Most Unwanted Zine. Her work has also been published in such publications as The Chicago Tribune, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, The Zine Yearbook, Third Coast Review and more. Currently, she is the manager of Quimby’s Bookstore, home of wild and weird reading material in Chicago, where she has worked since 2001. She is also a former judge for the Lion’s Tooth-sponsored Dandelion Comics Residency. Her membership number to SHADES The Official Corey Hart Fan Club was #13881. For more info: LizMasonIsAwesome.com @caboosezine
ABOUT CABOOSE #14 MY CANADIAN BOYFRIEND
This book-length issue, subtitled My Canadian Boyfriend, is an ephemera-filled fanzine, a thoughtful and deeply pleasurable dive into the concept of parasocial relationships and neural nostalgia, through the lens of Mason’s own pre-teen obsession with pop star Corey Hart, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the pop star with the brush-cut bravado who wore his “Sunglasses at Night” and encouraged his audience to “Never Surrender.” Equal parts memoir, journalistic investigation, music criticism and well-researched cultural study, she explores what it means to be a fan, all done with a unique sense of humor. In the pages of Caboose #14, you’ll recognize some of your own urges toward fan obsession.
ABOUT LIZ MASON
Liz Mason has been self-publishing for over twenty years. Recent works include Caboose #14 My Canadian Boyfriend, Awesome Things #4, Cul-de-sac #9 and The Most Unwanted Zine. Her work has also been published in such publications as The Chicago Tribune, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, The Zine Yearbook, Third Coast Review and more. Currently, she is the manager of Quimby’s Bookstore, home of wild and weird reading material in Chicago, where she has worked since 2001. She is also a former judge for the Lion’s Tooth-sponsored Dandelion Comics Residency. Her membership number to SHADES The Official Corey Hart Fan Club was #13881. For more info: LizMasonIsAwesome.com @caboosezine
Saturday, September 2, 2023 | 5:30PM
It Did Happen Here Talk and Q&A
Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowster, co-authors and editors of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History, who also produced a podcast of the same name.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Portland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city. In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nationalist violence and right-wing organizing throughout the Rose City and the Pacific Northwest. It Did Happen Here compiles interviews with dozens of people who worked together during the waning decades of the twentieth century to reveal an inspiring collaboration between groups of immigrants, civil rights activists, militant youth, and queer organizers. This oral history focuses on participants in three core groups: the Portland chapters of Anti-Racist Action and Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, and the Coalition for Human Dignity.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mic Crenshaw was born and raised in Chicago and Minneapolis and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent hip hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator, and activist. Crenshaw is the lead US organizer for the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan and uses cultural activism as a means to develop international solidarity related to human rights and justice through hip hop and popular education. Crenshaw was a founding member of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti Racist Action. He was a coproducer and narrator of the podcast version of It Did Happen Here.
Moe Bowstern is an @-zone alum, writer, laborer, Fisher Poet, and DIY social practice artist. Moe is the longtime editor of many publications, including the commercial fishing zine Xtra Tuf. She was a writer on the podcast version of It Did Happen Here and lives in Portland, OR.
Portland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city. In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nationalist violence and right-wing organizing throughout the Rose City and the Pacific Northwest. It Did Happen Here compiles interviews with dozens of people who worked together during the waning decades of the twentieth century to reveal an inspiring collaboration between groups of immigrants, civil rights activists, militant youth, and queer organizers. This oral history focuses on participants in three core groups: the Portland chapters of Anti-Racist Action and Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, and the Coalition for Human Dignity.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mic Crenshaw was born and raised in Chicago and Minneapolis and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent hip hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator, and activist. Crenshaw is the lead US organizer for the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan and uses cultural activism as a means to develop international solidarity related to human rights and justice through hip hop and popular education. Crenshaw was a founding member of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti Racist Action. He was a coproducer and narrator of the podcast version of It Did Happen Here.
Moe Bowstern is an @-zone alum, writer, laborer, Fisher Poet, and DIY social practice artist. Moe is the longtime editor of many publications, including the commercial fishing zine Xtra Tuf. She was a writer on the podcast version of It Did Happen Here and lives in Portland, OR.
Thursday, September 7, 2023 | 5:30PM
Event with author Shelton Stromquist
Claiming the City: A Global History of Worker's Fight for Municipal Socialism
Saturday, August 26, 2023 | 5:30PM
Special event with Seth Tobocman and Susan (Sue) Simensky Bietila
Join us for an evening with artists Seth Tobocman and Susan (Sue) Simensky Bietila, two of the minds behind World War 3 Illustrated, the legendary political comics anthology that has been going strong since 1980. Tobocman founded the magazine with fellow cartoonist Peter Kuper and painter Christof Kohlhofer, and Milwaukee's own Simensky Bietila is a frequent contributor. We will talk comics, activism and the end of times. Don't miss it!
Sunday, August 13, 2023 | 4-6:30PM at SEMOLINA, ticketed demo 4PM, free signing at 5:30PM
Danny Loves Pasta demo and book signing
Danny Freeman (of Danny Loves Pasta social media fame) is coming to Milwaukee as part of his book tour!
Our awesome neighbors at Semolina (2474 S KK) are hosting a private meet and greet with Danny, including a pasta-making demo, samples from the cookbook and time to chat with the author. Get your ticket now!
A book signing free and open to the public will take place from 5:30-6:30PM, also at Semolina.
Our awesome neighbors at Semolina (2474 S KK) are hosting a private meet and greet with Danny, including a pasta-making demo, samples from the cookbook and time to chat with the author. Get your ticket now!
A book signing free and open to the public will take place from 5:30-6:30PM, also at Semolina.
Saturday, August 5, 2023 | 5:30PM
Josh Rank signs and reads from The Present is Past
ABOUT THE BOOK
Mary Weber is losing her grasp on the difference between the past, present, and future. And after her husband suffers a heart attack, they need to figure out how to move forward. Something seems to be calling to her—but can they figure out what it is before it’s too late?
Mary Weber is losing her grasp on the difference between the past, present, and future. And after her husband suffers a heart attack, they need to figure out how to move forward. Something seems to be calling to her—but can they figure out what it is before it’s too late?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josh Rank graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving to various cities around the country only to return to his hometown. His fiction has appeared in The Emerson Review, The Feathertale Review, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. He keeps himself busy putting together ugly woodworking projects, cooking for his wife, and wishing his dogs were better behaved.
Josh Rank graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before moving to various cities around the country only to return to his hometown. His fiction has appeared in The Emerson Review, The Feathertale Review, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. He keeps himself busy putting together ugly woodworking projects, cooking for his wife, and wishing his dogs were better behaved.
Friday, August 4, 2023 | 5:30PM
Join us in conversation with Doug Singsen, co-author of the Eisner-nominated book Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels
Nominated for an Eisner Award in 2023 for Best Academic/Scholarly Work, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels explores how whiteness has been represented in the medium of comics and graphic novels. Join us for a reading by one of the book’s co-authors that will explore the overt as well as the subtle manifestations of white racial framing across a range of genres, including superheroes, horror, sci-fi, and indie comics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Doug Singsen is a scholar of popular culture and the avant-garde who teaches art and design history at UW-Parkside. In his spare time, he coaches his son’s soccer team and works on socialist candidates’ campaigns for local office. His work has been published in Modernism/modernity, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Art History Teaching Resources, Jacobin, The International Socialist Review, and elsewhere.
Doug Singsen is a scholar of popular culture and the avant-garde who teaches art and design history at UW-Parkside. In his spare time, he coaches his son’s soccer team and works on socialist candidates’ campaigns for local office. His work has been published in Modernism/modernity, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Art History Teaching Resources, Jacobin, The International Socialist Review, and elsewhere.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 | 5:30PM at the Cactus Club
Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy presented by Girls Rock Milwaukee
Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by Carla Joy Bergman is a collection that “weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives.” All ages event, free and open to the public.
Saturday, July 29, 2023 | 2PM
Reading by local author Kelly Melton
Join author Cate Miller for a reading of her book "Did You Say Baby?, about a 6 year old name Raylan. Raylan's mom is pregnant and he is in the process of navigating through his emotions about becoming a big brother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly Melton is a family childcare provider in Milwaukee, WI, as well as a youth and community advocate. She created "Did you say baby?" to help parents, guardians, and educators introduce the topic of expanding a family. The book guides children through their emotions and provides expression and tools to help them feel valued and loved despite a major change in their household.
Kelly Melton is a family childcare provider in Milwaukee, WI, as well as a youth and community advocate. She created "Did you say baby?" to help parents, guardians, and educators introduce the topic of expanding a family. The book guides children through their emotions and provides expression and tools to help them feel valued and loved despite a major change in their household.
Thursday, July 27, 2023 | 5:50-7PM
MILK Comic Workshop
Presented by Milk Comic Fest
MILK Comic Fest is hosting another COMICS WORKSHOP at Lion's Tooth! This is an opportunity for cartoonists at any step of their process to get feedback on their work. It doesn't matter what state your project is in, but come prepared to explain your work to the group, and what specifically you want feedback on. Hosted by MILK organizers Hannah Hallman and Hali Fisher.
Sunday, July 9, 2023 | 2PM
Kids' Story time with Bay View author Cate Miller
Bring the whole family and join author Cate Miller in a special story time for kids of all ages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cate Miller, a writer since childhood, has authored and published two national award-winning “dog-centric” books for children. Everything You Say About Me THAT’S WONDERFUL is True is an A-Z prescription for happiness of 26 alphabetical poems about positive qualities told from a dog’s perspective, that captured a 2020 First Place Feathered Quill Book Award. Cate’s second book, From Wags to Riches, a novel for 8- to 12-year-olds about a dog named Wags who escapes from a puppy mill, was honored with a Silver Feathered Quill Book Award, and a 2023 Independent Press Award for Children’s Fiction. She is currently working on a sequel entitled Wags Goes to School.
Cate enjoys living in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her two loving rescue dogs, Señor Alfredo and Oscar Wild.
Cate Miller, a writer since childhood, has authored and published two national award-winning “dog-centric” books for children. Everything You Say About Me THAT’S WONDERFUL is True is an A-Z prescription for happiness of 26 alphabetical poems about positive qualities told from a dog’s perspective, that captured a 2020 First Place Feathered Quill Book Award. Cate’s second book, From Wags to Riches, a novel for 8- to 12-year-olds about a dog named Wags who escapes from a puppy mill, was honored with a Silver Feathered Quill Book Award, and a 2023 Independent Press Award for Children’s Fiction. She is currently working on a sequel entitled Wags Goes to School.
Cate enjoys living in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her two loving rescue dogs, Señor Alfredo and Oscar Wild.
Sunday, June 25, 2023 | 2PM at Cactus Club
Hit Girls book event
Join in celebrating women's punk history! Book event for Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983, by Jen B. Larson. Panel discussion, femme DJs and maker market.
Friday, June 16, 2023 | 5-7PM
LAUNCH PARTY: This is a Zine for Queer Professionals Issue 2
Come get your copy the second issue of this great Milwaukee zine featuring art & stories from queer professionals.
Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 5:30-7PM
MILK Comic Workshop
Presented by Milk Comic Fest
Mark your calendars for MILK's first comic workshop on June 15th from 5:30 to 7pm at Lion's Tooth. This free event is open for anyone who has started the process of making their own comic. Bring in what you're working on, and the group will provide feedback. It doesn't matter what state your project is in. Bring in your scripts, thumbnails, sketches, inks, or finished comics. Whatever you bring in, we'll look at together.
This community building workshop is hosted by MILK organizers Hannah Hallman and Hali Fisher.
This community building workshop is hosted by MILK organizers Hannah Hallman and Hali Fisher.
Sunday, June 11, 2023 | 2PM
Demo of the board game Factions: Battlegrounds
A locally-designed combat board game that exposes people to cultures & mythologies that they typically would not see in the fantasy genre/board game space.
Saturday, June 10, 2023 | 4-7PM
Reading and workshop with author Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author of The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
Please join us for an evening with author Mary Helen Stefaniak, including a reading and a workshop, both free and open to the public.
Starting at 4:30PM - Reading, signing, and conversation about the author’s new book, The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life. “A treasure trove of marvels, the sort of book you want to wave around and buy for everyone you love”; says Valerie Laken, author of Separate Kingdoms and Dream House. “These brief, beguiling essays turn ordinary moments into extraordinary delights.”
Starting at 5:45PM - Following the reading, you’re invited to join Mary Helen for a free writing workshop. Select a prompt from the end of the book and capture a moment from your own personal past. Sharing your work will be encouraged but not required
Starting at 4:30PM - Reading, signing, and conversation about the author’s new book, The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life. “A treasure trove of marvels, the sort of book you want to wave around and buy for everyone you love”; says Valerie Laken, author of Separate Kingdoms and Dream House. “These brief, beguiling essays turn ordinary moments into extraordinary delights.”
Starting at 5:45PM - Following the reading, you’re invited to join Mary Helen for a free writing workshop. Select a prompt from the end of the book and capture a moment from your own personal past. Sharing your work will be encouraged but not required
ABOUT THE BOOK
This collection of 55 short essays culled from two decades’ worth of Mary Helen Stefaniak’s Alive and Wellcolumn in The Source—many of them read by the author in six-minute spots on Iowa Public Radio—delivers more joy than many books twice its size. Each essay invites readers into the ordinary life of a woman “with a family and friends and a job and a series of cats and a history, living in one old house after another, at the turn of the 21 st century in the middle of the Middle West.” Set in Iowa, Omaha, Milwaukee, and around the globe, many of the essays are laugh-aloud funny. What’s more, writing prompts at the end of the book invite readers to search their own lives for such moments—the kind that could have been forgotten but instead are turned, by the gift of perspective and perfectly chosen detail, into treasure.
This collection of 55 short essays culled from two decades’ worth of Mary Helen Stefaniak’s Alive and Wellcolumn in The Source—many of them read by the author in six-minute spots on Iowa Public Radio—delivers more joy than many books twice its size. Each essay invites readers into the ordinary life of a woman “with a family and friends and a job and a series of cats and a history, living in one old house after another, at the turn of the 21 st century in the middle of the Middle West.” Set in Iowa, Omaha, Milwaukee, and around the globe, many of the essays are laugh-aloud funny. What’s more, writing prompts at the end of the book invite readers to search their own lives for such moments—the kind that could have been forgotten but instead are turned, by the gift of perspective and perfectly chosen detail, into treasure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Helen Stefaniak is the author of a collection of short fiction and three novels. Her work has been honored by the Wisconsin Library Association, translated into seven languages, and chosen as an Indie Next Great Read. A graduate of Marquette University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Mary Helen was born and raised in Milwaukee. She spent her early years living in her grandmother’s house on East Bay Street, about a block from Kinnickinnic Avenue. (The location is featured in The Turk and My Mother, her debut novel.) The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life is her first book of nonfiction.
Mary Helen Stefaniak is the author of a collection of short fiction and three novels. Her work has been honored by the Wisconsin Library Association, translated into seven languages, and chosen as an Indie Next Great Read. A graduate of Marquette University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Mary Helen was born and raised in Milwaukee. She spent her early years living in her grandmother’s house on East Bay Street, about a block from Kinnickinnic Avenue. (The location is featured in The Turk and My Mother, her debut novel.) The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life is her first book of nonfiction.
Friday, June 9, 2023 | 5:30PM
Discussion of A Mary Nohl Sunrise
BearBear in conversation with Alex Gartelmann, JMKAC's Mary Nohl program director and site steward
Mandatory event for fans of Mary Nohl, one of Milwaukee's most important artists! Join Diana Chu and Ben Grzenia of BearBear in conversation with Alex Gartelmann, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Mary Nohl program director and site steward as they discuss the process surrounding their project and book A Mary Nohl Sunrise.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 | 4-7PM
Cartoonist Megan Kelso at Lion's Tooth!
Author of Who Will Make the Pancakes
Come hang with Megan Kelso, the award-winning artist behind the legendary mini comic Girlhero (compiled in Queen of the Black Black), as well as the recently relaunched Artichoke Tales and the brand new collection Who Will Make the Pancakes.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Taken collectively, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelso's unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story's needs.
- The Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of 2022
- Publishers Weekly, Best Graphic Novels of 2022
Taken collectively, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelso's unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story's needs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Kelso has been drawing comics for over 30 years. In 2007, she was invited by The New York Times to serialize her "Watergate Sue" comic as part of the weekly "Funny Pages" feature. In 2019, she was selected for a public art commission for Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
Megan Kelso has been drawing comics for over 30 years. In 2007, she was invited by The New York Times to serialize her "Watergate Sue" comic as part of the weekly "Funny Pages" feature. In 2019, she was selected for a public art commission for Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
Monday, June 5, 2023 | 5PM
An evening with author and educator Dr. Artika R. Tyner
Dr Artika R. Tyner is an author and law professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. She is a passionate educator and advocate for justice, committed to training students to serve as social engineers who create new inroads to justice and freedom. She will be at Lion's Tooth for an informal conversation about her most recent books, The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity and Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity
What is inclusive leadership? How can you take practical steps to pursue justice and equity in your practice and in organizations in which you have a leadership role?
The Inclusive Leader provides a pathway for leaders to effect change through reflecting on and grappling with unconscious and implicit biases, encouraging honest discussions, and taking action to change organizational behavior for the better. It provides a practical framework for building the essential leadership competencies rooted in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
What is inclusive leadership? How can you take practical steps to pursue justice and equity in your practice and in organizations in which you have a leadership role?
The Inclusive Leader provides a pathway for leaders to effect change through reflecting on and grappling with unconscious and implicit biases, encouraging honest discussions, and taking action to change organizational behavior for the better. It provides a practical framework for building the essential leadership competencies rooted in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire
Justice has grown up witnessing the many ways her grandma serves the community. She wants to make a difference in the world, too, but how? Isn't she too young? Through conversations with her grandma and their shared love of books, Justice learns about important women and men throughout history who changed the world: Ella Baker, Shirley Chisholm, Charles Hamilton Houston, Dr. Wangari Maathai, Paul Robeson, and Ida B. Wells. Justice learns how each leader was a champion for advancing justice and improving the world, and she dreams of becoming a change maker, too--"Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire," a superhero with a law degree and an afro!
Justice has grown up witnessing the many ways her grandma serves the community. She wants to make a difference in the world, too, but how? Isn't she too young? Through conversations with her grandma and their shared love of books, Justice learns about important women and men throughout history who changed the world: Ella Baker, Shirley Chisholm, Charles Hamilton Houston, Dr. Wangari Maathai, Paul Robeson, and Ida B. Wells. Justice learns how each leader was a champion for advancing justice and improving the world, and she dreams of becoming a change maker, too--"Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire," a superhero with a law degree and an afro!
Friday, June 2, 2023 | 5-9PM
Bay View Gallery Night with BearBear
A Mary Nohl Sunrise exhibit
Lion's Tooth is hosting BearBear for Bay View Gallery Night! Diana Chu and Ben Grzenia will be showing risographed work from their project A Mary Nohl Sunrise, about one of Milwaukee's most important artists and focusing on Mary's house and art environment in Fox Point. Stop by any time to see the show and check out the accompanying 30-page book printed in 13 ink colors, with over 60 Riso impressions per book.
Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 4-6PM
All Butts are Good Butts book release party
By Rachal Duggan AKA radillustrates
Come celebrate the release of the book All Butts Are Good Butts: Celebrate Your Derriere with Booty Affirmations, As*trology, Tushie Trivia, and More by Milwaukee's own Rachal Duggan AKA radillustrates <3
ABOUT THE BOOK
Embrace your behind--flaws, farts, and all--with historical heinies, celebrity cabooses, seat self-care, and more fun facts in this little book of booty body positivity.
Butts are amazing. They're practical, hilarious, and hardworking, and almost every person and animal has one that is entirely unique and their own. Just like a fingerprint, nothing makes you you like your backside. But why is it that so many of us have such a complicated relationship with our buns? Too big, too small, too high, too low... there's no such thing. This book is here to proclaim that all butts are good butts!
From professional buttocks portraitist Rachal Duggan whose work has been seen on Instagram and TikTok (@radillustrates), this illustrated gift book examines all things bootylicious--from historical legends to adorable animals to otherworldly as*trology. For those in need of a little self-love, this book will cover fresh tactics to accept your perceived imperfections and easy strategies for honoring your cheeks. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll (hopefully) see your glorious derrière in an entirely new light.
Embrace your behind--flaws, farts, and all--with historical heinies, celebrity cabooses, seat self-care, and more fun facts in this little book of booty body positivity.
Butts are amazing. They're practical, hilarious, and hardworking, and almost every person and animal has one that is entirely unique and their own. Just like a fingerprint, nothing makes you you like your backside. But why is it that so many of us have such a complicated relationship with our buns? Too big, too small, too high, too low... there's no such thing. This book is here to proclaim that all butts are good butts!
From professional buttocks portraitist Rachal Duggan whose work has been seen on Instagram and TikTok (@radillustrates), this illustrated gift book examines all things bootylicious--from historical legends to adorable animals to otherworldly as*trology. For those in need of a little self-love, this book will cover fresh tactics to accept your perceived imperfections and easy strategies for honoring your cheeks. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll (hopefully) see your glorious derrière in an entirely new light.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachal Duggan is an illustrator and live drawer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is originally from the far-reaching burbs of Chicago, where she attended art school and worked as an artist for over a decade. Best known for her highly coveted booty portraits, Rachal travels far and wide for pop-up events, where she draws people on the spot. When she's not creating custom portraits or drawing her illustrated period story series, Rachal teaches virtual and in-person drawing workshops for all skill levels. Some of her clients include the Guardian, NYLON magazine, Chicago Reader, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See more of her work online at radillustrates.com.
Rachal Duggan is an illustrator and live drawer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is originally from the far-reaching burbs of Chicago, where she attended art school and worked as an artist for over a decade. Best known for her highly coveted booty portraits, Rachal travels far and wide for pop-up events, where she draws people on the spot. When she's not creating custom portraits or drawing her illustrated period story series, Rachal teaches virtual and in-person drawing workshops for all skill levels. Some of her clients include the Guardian, NYLON magazine, Chicago Reader, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See more of her work online at radillustrates.com.
Saturday, May 27, 2023 | 5-7PM, reading at 5:30PM
Death's Intern Derrick book signing
With author Becky Franzel
Join local author Becky Franzel and surprise guest to celebrate the release of her third book, Death's Intern Derrick. Limited edition copies while supplies last.
Friday, May 19, 2023 | 5:30PM
Author discussion of Owning Grief: Widowed Young, How I Discovered Gifts in Loss
By Gael Garbarino Cullen
Join local author Gael Garbarino Cullen for a discussion of his book Owning Grief: Widowed Young, How I Discovered Gifts in Loss.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Owning Grief, Gael Garbarino Cullen describes her refusal to let the sudden death of her 40-year-old husband destroy the very fabric of her young family’s life and legacy.
Her intensely personal and moving memoir tells of the irony of finding gifts amid horrific loss, gifts that would later prove invaluable as she battled cancer, recovered from a crippling bicycle accident, and dealt with all the twists and turns that life inevitably throws our way.
This is more than a story of surviving an unspeakable loss. It’s a story of discovery, resilience, and determination.
In Owning Grief, Gael Garbarino Cullen describes her refusal to let the sudden death of her 40-year-old husband destroy the very fabric of her young family’s life and legacy.
Her intensely personal and moving memoir tells of the irony of finding gifts amid horrific loss, gifts that would later prove invaluable as she battled cancer, recovered from a crippling bicycle accident, and dealt with all the twists and turns that life inevitably throws our way.
This is more than a story of surviving an unspeakable loss. It’s a story of discovery, resilience, and determination.
Monday, May 15, 2023 | 6PM
Special event with Jim Ruland
Author of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records and Make It Stop: A Novel
Presented in partnership with Rushmor Records
We are thrilled to welcome to Lion's Tooth author Jim Ruland, novelist and best-selling chronicler of LA punk. In conversation with Dan DuChaine of Rushmor Records, Jim will talk about and sign his most recent books Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records and Make It Stop: A Novel.
A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more.
Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners and transmitters. But when Ginn wanted to launch his band, Black Flag, no one was willing to take them on. Determined to bring his music to the masses, Ginn turned SST into a record label. On the back of Black Flag's relentless touring, guerilla marketing, and refusal to back down, SST became the sound of the underground.
In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall. With records by Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, and scores of obscure yet influential bands, SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s--until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down. Throughout this investigative deep-dive, Ruland leads readers through SST's tumultuous history and epic catalog.
Featuring never-before-seen interviews with the label's former employees, as well as musicians, managers, producers, photographers, video directors, and label heads, Corporate Rock Sucks presents a definitive narrative history of the '80s punk and alternative rock scenes, and shows how the music industry was changed forever.
Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa Beach, CA, to supply ham radio enthusiasts with tuners and transmitters. But when Ginn wanted to launch his band, Black Flag, no one was willing to take them on. Determined to bring his music to the masses, Ginn turned SST into a record label. On the back of Black Flag's relentless touring, guerilla marketing, and refusal to back down, SST became the sound of the underground.
In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall. With records by Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, and scores of obscure yet influential bands, SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s--until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down. Throughout this investigative deep-dive, Ruland leads readers through SST's tumultuous history and epic catalog.
Featuring never-before-seen interviews with the label's former employees, as well as musicians, managers, producers, photographers, video directors, and label heads, Corporate Rock Sucks presents a definitive narrative history of the '80s punk and alternative rock scenes, and shows how the music industry was changed forever.
A speculative tale of dysfunctional vigilantes, sex-crazed junkies, and corporate healthcare run amok.
Scores of detox and rehab centers across Southern California have adopted a controversial new conditional release policy that forces patients to stay until they pay their bills. And if they can't pay? They don't leave.
Enter: Make It Stop, a group of highly skilled recovering addicts dedicated to rescuing those trapped in these prison hospitals by posing as patients and getting them out by any means necessary. But when Scary Gary, one of their top ops, gets killed on assignment, Melanie Marsh and her crew set out to avenge his death and unravel an unthinkable medical conspiracy that threatens to destroy the organization and cripple the city with a dangerous new drug. Melanie may be LA's best hope but if, and only if, she can stay sober.
From decrepit rehab wards to beachside punk clubs, Make It Stop takes readers into LA's darkest corners, exploring sobriety, sanity, and a society hell-bent on profiting off those who need its help the most.
Scores of detox and rehab centers across Southern California have adopted a controversial new conditional release policy that forces patients to stay until they pay their bills. And if they can't pay? They don't leave.
Enter: Make It Stop, a group of highly skilled recovering addicts dedicated to rescuing those trapped in these prison hospitals by posing as patients and getting them out by any means necessary. But when Scary Gary, one of their top ops, gets killed on assignment, Melanie Marsh and her crew set out to avenge his death and unravel an unthinkable medical conspiracy that threatens to destroy the organization and cripple the city with a dangerous new drug. Melanie may be LA's best hope but if, and only if, she can stay sober.
From decrepit rehab wards to beachside punk clubs, Make It Stop takes readers into LA's darkest corners, exploring sobriety, sanity, and a society hell-bent on profiting off those who need its help the most.
Jim Ruland is the author of the LA Times bestseller Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records, the award-winning novel Forest of Fortune and the short story collection Big Lonesome. He is the co-author of Do What You Want with Bad Religion, My Damage with Keith Morris, founding member of Black Flag, Circle Jerks and OFF!, and Giving the Finger with Scott Campbell, Jr. of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch.
Jim writes about punk and pop culture for Razorcake -- America’s only non-profit independent music zine. He also writes book reviews and author profiles for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Jim’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Believer, Electric Literature, Esquire, Granta, and Oxford American, and has received awards from Reader’s Digest and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jim is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and has worked for advertising agencies, entertainment enterprises, and the gaming industry. He lives in Southern California and is an avid enthusiast of punk rock music, tattoo culture, and strong coffee.
Jim writes about punk and pop culture for Razorcake -- America’s only non-profit independent music zine. He also writes book reviews and author profiles for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Jim’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Believer, Electric Literature, Esquire, Granta, and Oxford American, and has received awards from Reader’s Digest and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jim is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and has worked for advertising agencies, entertainment enterprises, and the gaming industry. He lives in Southern California and is an avid enthusiast of punk rock music, tattoo culture, and strong coffee.
Saturday, May 6, 2023 | 2-4PM
Kids' event with Oliver Bestul, author of The Zodiac Dozen book series
Join local author Oliver Bestul for a reading and discussion of The Zodiac Dozen, his 12-book superhero series for kids.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oliver Bestul lives in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been writing there since he was in his teens. He likes to say he gives his young readers a lot of credit, challenging them to explore new vocabulary, genres, and life outlooks. Like the twelve main characters of his books, Oliver is excited to grow from the adventure alongside his audience!
Oliver Bestul lives in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has been writing there since he was in his teens. He likes to say he gives his young readers a lot of credit, challenging them to explore new vocabulary, genres, and life outlooks. Like the twelve main characters of his books, Oliver is excited to grow from the adventure alongside his audience!
Saturday April 29, 2023 | all day
2023 Independent Bookstore Day
Every year indie bookstores across the country throw a party for ourselves in the last Saturday in April. Come by Lion's Tooth for exclusive treats and surprises all day, 10AM-6PM.
Saturday April 22, 2023 | 4-7PM
Pop-up exhibit and MZF after party at Lion's Tooth
Join us at Lion's Tooth for a celebration of Milwaukee Zine Fest and special display of The Museum of the Unintentional, an assemblage of found, loaned and contributed multimedia expressions in pop-up style exhibition. In this first showing in five years, the Museum, largely contained in one, musty suitcase, unfurls for a special presentation of writings, photos, A/V and personal items in their context, once removed. In honor of the 2023 MZF, a one-of-a-kind zine will serve as program and companion during your unique visit through ephemera in this uncollection, brought to you by Milwaukee musician, writer and conservateur naiveté Justin Kern.
Saturday April 22, 2023 | 10:30AM-4:30PM
Milwaukee Zine Fest at the Central Branch of the Public Library
Lion's Tooth is a proud community partner of the Milwaukee Zine Fest presented by The Bindery in partnership with The Milwaukee Public Library. We'll be tabling there with Dandelion Artist-in-Residence Casey "KC" Harrison. Come say hi!Founded in 2008, MZF is an annual explosion of zine-focused wonder in the form of a boisterous festival featuring over 70 vendors from across the country. It's always free to attend, and always super fun for all ages.
The single day event is held at the Central Branch of Milwaukee Public Library, and packed with opportunities to explore and purchase various forms of DIY and independent publishing presented by diverse artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, poets--and more!
The single day event is held at the Central Branch of Milwaukee Public Library, and packed with opportunities to explore and purchase various forms of DIY and independent publishing presented by diverse artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, poets--and more!
Saturday April 22, 2023 | 10-7PM
Fundraiser for Rufus King International High School
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday April 22 and 10% of the sales will be donated to Rufus King International High School.
Thursday April 20, 2023 | 5-7PM, talk starts at 5:30
An evening with cartoonist Lara Antal
Illustrator of Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars (written by Rick Louis)
Come meet Milwaukee's own cartoonist Lara Antal, now based out of Brooklyn. Lara will be in town for the Milwaukee Zine Fest and we are thrilled to host her at Lion's Tooth for a discussion of her most recent graphic novel, Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars, a partnership with author Rick Louis.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lara Antal is an artist who loves black humor, black coffee, and colorful characters. Her work has appeared in places like the Washington Post and the Skimm, and she has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, WNYC-NPR, the Huffington Post, Bustle, and more. If you dine in New York City, you may have seen one of her infamous Choking Victim posters. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her almost-toothless chihuahua, Chuck.
Lara Antal is an artist who loves black humor, black coffee, and colorful characters. Her work has appeared in places like the Washington Post and the Skimm, and she has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, WNYC-NPR, the Huffington Post, Bustle, and more. If you dine in New York City, you may have seen one of her infamous Choking Victim posters. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her almost-toothless chihuahua, Chuck.
Sunday April 16, 2023 | 4-6PM
Tea Krulos live at Lion's Tooth
Join author, journalist and store BFF Tea Krulos as he celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the publication of his first book, "Heroes in the Night," and shares some of his adventures in writing. All of Tea's six books as well as drinks (including n/a ones) will be available.
Some of the stories Tea is likely share:
- The time he was almost expelled from high school for something he wrote.
- An article he wrote where he had to overcome his dread of calling people on the phone with only the White Pages as a source.
- The time he caught pepper spray and got punched in the face in Seattle (a classic!).
- The other time he got pepper sprayed in Seattle (and more stories of unpublished book ideas).
- The time he went on a Bigfoot expedition but saw a UFO instead (another classic!).
- The time Tea and Paul Kjelland got a tour of the doomsday bunkers of the rich and famous.
- The light bulb moment that led to an award-winning article.
- What would Richard McCaslin think of conspiracy culture of the 2020s--king of the hill or kids get off my lawn?
- How one Mothman led to another.
- What he is working on now (provided he figures it out by April 16).
- His first typewriter and its terrible fate at the hands of Loose Bruce
Saturday, April 15, 2023 | 5-7PM
Release party for How a Flower is Born by Casey "KC" Harrison
The very first mini comic completed as part of the Dandelion Comics Residency
Come celebrate the release of the mini comic produced by our Artist-in-Residence Casey "KC" Harrison.
How a Flower is Born is an imaginative and poetic story told in a meticulously planned 12-page mini comic bound by hand by KC, including translucent vellum pages and a 3-color riso cover printed by BearBear.
How a Flower is Born is an imaginative and poetic story told in a meticulously planned 12-page mini comic bound by hand by KC, including translucent vellum pages and a 3-color riso cover printed by BearBear.
The Dandelion Comics Residency is a juried program presented by Lion’s Tooth in partnership with BearBear and MILK Comic Fest, with mentorship by Quinn Blackshere, Cris Siqueira and Shelly McClone-Carriere. Our goal is to support Milwaukee's local comics community while promoting work produced here to well-respected professionals active in the industry today. More info here.
Saturday, April 8, 2023 | 4PM at The Sugar Maple
Release party for Breakfall, a new novel by Zhanna Slor
Join us around the corner at The Sugar Maple to celebrate the release of Breakfall, the new novel by Milwaukee's own and Lion's Tooth favorite Zhanna Slor.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"BREAKFALL is a sexy and compelling slow burn, part twisted romance, part mystery — think FIFTY SHADES OF GREY with a murder."
— Nick Petrie, author of THE RUNAWAY
Mina Banksy, a 32-year-old writer and mother of a rambunctious toddler, is still reeling from a tumultuous divorce when two Chicago detectives show up at her door looking for her friend, Dylan. Or, more accurately, the van that she allowed him to register in her name, because Dylan, a friend from her former Jiu Jitsu gym, is a recovered addict and convicted felon. The van quickly becomes the least of her problems, as Dylan, too, is nowhere to be found. His disappearance triggers a series of events that turn everyone at the close-knit gym into suspects or victims, and somehow all roads lead back to Mina Banksy, and the scandal that forced her to leave the gym in the first place.
Part unlikely romance and part murder mystery, set inside the eclectic subculture of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, BREAKFALL is an exploration of sexual desire, motherhood, and marriage in modern times.
"BREAKFALL is a sexy and compelling slow burn, part twisted romance, part mystery — think FIFTY SHADES OF GREY with a murder."
— Nick Petrie, author of THE RUNAWAY
Mina Banksy, a 32-year-old writer and mother of a rambunctious toddler, is still reeling from a tumultuous divorce when two Chicago detectives show up at her door looking for her friend, Dylan. Or, more accurately, the van that she allowed him to register in her name, because Dylan, a friend from her former Jiu Jitsu gym, is a recovered addict and convicted felon. The van quickly becomes the least of her problems, as Dylan, too, is nowhere to be found. His disappearance triggers a series of events that turn everyone at the close-knit gym into suspects or victims, and somehow all roads lead back to Mina Banksy, and the scandal that forced her to leave the gym in the first place.
Part unlikely romance and part murder mystery, set inside the eclectic subculture of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, BREAKFALL is an exploration of sexual desire, motherhood, and marriage in modern times.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zhanna Slor was born in the former Soviet Union and moved to the Midwest in the early 1990s. She has been published in many literary magazines, including Ninth Letter, Another Chicago Magazine, and Michigan Quarterly Review, as well as contributing to the popular news publication The Forward. Her debut novel, AT THE END OF THE WORLD, TURN LEFT, was named by Booklist as one of the "Top Ten Crime Debuts" of the last year, and by CrimeReads as one of the "Ten Great Novels to Read This April." She lives in Milwaukee with her young daughter. Find her online at zhannaslor.com
Zhanna Slor was born in the former Soviet Union and moved to the Midwest in the early 1990s. She has been published in many literary magazines, including Ninth Letter, Another Chicago Magazine, and Michigan Quarterly Review, as well as contributing to the popular news publication The Forward. Her debut novel, AT THE END OF THE WORLD, TURN LEFT, was named by Booklist as one of the "Top Ten Crime Debuts" of the last year, and by CrimeReads as one of the "Ten Great Novels to Read This April." She lives in Milwaukee with her young daughter. Find her online at zhannaslor.com
Saturday, March 18, 2023 | ALL DAY
Lion's Tooth 2 years in Bay View birthday celebration
Can you believe it's been two years since we opened our brick-and-mortar store on KK? Come celebrate our Bay View birthday, with a show of original art by Luke Chappelle, DJ Rum Revere and plenty of surprises all day 10AM-7PM.
ABOUT THE ART SHOW
Luke Chappelle is an artist that resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He considers it a privilege to engage in creative work within the community. For Lion's Tooth's birthday Luke is showing a selection of the hand drawn pen and ink pages of his cookbook/zine/grimoire "The Arcana de Flora."
Luke Chappelle is an artist that resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He considers it a privilege to engage in creative work within the community. For Lion's Tooth's birthday Luke is showing a selection of the hand drawn pen and ink pages of his cookbook/zine/grimoire "The Arcana de Flora."
Luke was actually the VERY FIRST artist we ever partnered with. "The Arcana de Flora" was featured in our debut subscription packages in January 2020, when we still only dreamed of a brick-and-mortar store. Here's a picture of Luke at our Sugar Maple pop-up in the beforetimes:
Sunday, March 19, 2023 | 3PM
FRSO Program release and discussion
Come to Lion's Tooth the weekend after Milwaukee's celebration of International Women's Day for the official release of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization program book.
Sunday March 5, 2023 | 3-6PM
"This is a Zine for Queer Professionals" launch party
Please join us for the launch of “This is a Zine for Queer Professionals”, a zine featuring shared experiences and art from queer professionals across a multitude of different industries. The celebration will feature readings and information about the Butterfly Collective, a mutual aid resource that is receiving part of the proceeds of the zine. Stick around to shop or mingle with other queer professionals and creatives.
Saturday March 4, 2023 | 10-6PM
Fundraiser for Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday March 4 and 10% of the sales will be donated to Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts.
Saturday February 11, 2023 | 10-7PM
Fundraiser for Bay View Montessori School
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday February 11 and 10% of the sales will be donated to the Bay View Montessori School.
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 7PM at the Component Taproom
Component Brewing's Beers & Book Club
Discussion of We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz at the Component Taproom
Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 5-7PM, discussion starts at 5:30PM
Event with Milwaukee author Kenneth M. Kapp
Discussion of Johnny's Trail of Tears
ABOUT THE BOOK
Johnny's Trail of Tears is a coming-of-age story unfolding along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In the manner of magical realism, Johnny sets out in 1948 from southern Illinois and is guided along his journey by Indian Sentinels and Jewish Mystics. After staying with Sequoyah in Fort Payne he is ready to begin the quest on his restored motorcycle, an Indian Pony. He leaves for New Echota, one of the nation’s most significant Cherokee sites where the tragic trail began, and travels along the northern route of the forcedmarch. His last stop is in Springfield, Missouri, the site of a lynching in 1906 that took three innocent African-American lives. He carries memories of their pain and suffering to the bluffs above the Illinois River overlooking Tahlequah, Oklahoma – the end of the Trail.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ken was a Professor of Mathematics, a ceramicist, a welder, an IBMer, and yoga teacher. He lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writing late at night in his man-cave. He enjoys chamber music and mysteries. He's a homebrewer and runs whitewater rivers. His essays appear online in havokjournal.com and shepherdexpress.com. Please visit www.kmkbooks.com.
Johnny's Trail of Tears is a coming-of-age story unfolding along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In the manner of magical realism, Johnny sets out in 1948 from southern Illinois and is guided along his journey by Indian Sentinels and Jewish Mystics. After staying with Sequoyah in Fort Payne he is ready to begin the quest on his restored motorcycle, an Indian Pony. He leaves for New Echota, one of the nation’s most significant Cherokee sites where the tragic trail began, and travels along the northern route of the forcedmarch. His last stop is in Springfield, Missouri, the site of a lynching in 1906 that took three innocent African-American lives. He carries memories of their pain and suffering to the bluffs above the Illinois River overlooking Tahlequah, Oklahoma – the end of the Trail.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ken was a Professor of Mathematics, a ceramicist, a welder, an IBMer, and yoga teacher. He lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writing late at night in his man-cave. He enjoys chamber music and mysteries. He's a homebrewer and runs whitewater rivers. His essays appear online in havokjournal.com and shepherdexpress.com. Please visit www.kmkbooks.com.
Friday, January 27, 2023 | 5-7PM, discussion starts at 5:30PM
Event with author Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, JD, PhD
Discussion of Lactation at Work
ABOUT THE BOOK
In recent decades, as women entered the US workforce in increasing numbers, they faced the conundrum of how to maintain breastfeeding and hold down full-time jobs. In 2010, the Lactation at Work Law (an amendment to the US Fair Labor Standards Act) mandated accommodations for lactating women. This book examines the federal law and its state-level equivalent in Indiana, drawing on two waves of interviews with human resource personnel, supervising managers, and lactating workers. In many ways, this simple law - requiring break time and privacy for pumping - is a success story. Through advocacy by allies, education of managers, and employee initiative, many organizations created compliant accommodations. This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change; helps labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations; and enables workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.
In recent decades, as women entered the US workforce in increasing numbers, they faced the conundrum of how to maintain breastfeeding and hold down full-time jobs. In 2010, the Lactation at Work Law (an amendment to the US Fair Labor Standards Act) mandated accommodations for lactating women. This book examines the federal law and its state-level equivalent in Indiana, drawing on two waves of interviews with human resource personnel, supervising managers, and lactating workers. In many ways, this simple law - requiring break time and privacy for pumping - is a success story. Through advocacy by allies, education of managers, and employee initiative, many organizations created compliant accommodations. This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change; helps labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations; and enables workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Society at Purdue University. Hoffmann studies how people's legal consciousness and organizational location shape their experience of the law in the workplace. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has won awards from the Labor and Employment Research Association, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the American Bar Foundation.
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Society at Purdue University. Hoffmann studies how people's legal consciousness and organizational location shape their experience of the law in the workplace. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has won awards from the Labor and Employment Research Association, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the American Bar Foundation.
Thursday, January 5, 2023 | 5:30PM
Calling all horror fans! Threads book event
With author Bob Mielke and DieDieBooks co-founder Nick Toti
Lion’s Tooth is so pleased to host an event for the very first title from DieDieBooks, specialized in book-length studies on horror films. Each book covers a specific movie and is written by a different author in a personal, idiosyncratic and obsessively researched style.
Join us on January 5 at 5:30PM for a discussion of Threads, an exploration of the 1984 nuclear panic film by Milwaukee native Bob Mielke. DieDieBooks co-founder Nick Toti will also be here to talk about the idea behind the series and more generally about the vibrant subculture of horror fans.
Join us on January 5 at 5:30PM for a discussion of Threads, an exploration of the 1984 nuclear panic film by Milwaukee native Bob Mielke. DieDieBooks co-founder Nick Toti will also be here to talk about the idea behind the series and more generally about the vibrant subculture of horror fans.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Threads is a movie that pulls no punches, reveling in the slow-building sense of dread that arises from its nightmarish—and painfully realistic—depiction of the lead-up, destruction, and years-long aftermath of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, England. Commissioned by the BBC to warn audiences about the dangers of the Cold War, this television film has since been reclaimed and celebrated by horror fans as one of the scariest movies ever made.
Mikita Brottman, the lauded author of numerous books of film criticism and true crime (and also a Sheffield native), commented on Mielke's book: "You cannot win a nuclear war, but as Mielke explains in this genial and engaging guide, you can definitely enjoy watching one. Although Threads paints a grim portrait of post-nuclear-war Sheffield, Mielke's lively, lucid and cheerful book makes the doom a little less relentless."
The central character in Threads is Ruth Beckett, a young woman who is pregnant at the time of the blast and must raise her daughter in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. Karen Meagher, the actor who portrays Ruth, had this to say about Mielke's book: "We are genetically predisposed to survive. It is a primal necessity. The irony is not lost on me that it is 'we' who have laboured, researched, and refined instruments of destruction throughout our existence to essentially obliterate ourselves from existence! I hope the reader will consider every word Mielke has written in this comprehensive and considered, yet easily accessible, book. It took me right back to the visceral experience and time that was Threads."
Combining decades of nuclear activism and hands-on research at ground-zero sites with a background in film and cultural studies, Bob Mielke examines Threads through the lens of history, pop culture, and horror. Mielke’s impeccable research, sharp analysis, life experience, and gallows humor bring new insight into exactly what makes this film so disturbing—and disturbingly enduring.
Threads is a movie that pulls no punches, reveling in the slow-building sense of dread that arises from its nightmarish—and painfully realistic—depiction of the lead-up, destruction, and years-long aftermath of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, England. Commissioned by the BBC to warn audiences about the dangers of the Cold War, this television film has since been reclaimed and celebrated by horror fans as one of the scariest movies ever made.
Mikita Brottman, the lauded author of numerous books of film criticism and true crime (and also a Sheffield native), commented on Mielke's book: "You cannot win a nuclear war, but as Mielke explains in this genial and engaging guide, you can definitely enjoy watching one. Although Threads paints a grim portrait of post-nuclear-war Sheffield, Mielke's lively, lucid and cheerful book makes the doom a little less relentless."
The central character in Threads is Ruth Beckett, a young woman who is pregnant at the time of the blast and must raise her daughter in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. Karen Meagher, the actor who portrays Ruth, had this to say about Mielke's book: "We are genetically predisposed to survive. It is a primal necessity. The irony is not lost on me that it is 'we' who have laboured, researched, and refined instruments of destruction throughout our existence to essentially obliterate ourselves from existence! I hope the reader will consider every word Mielke has written in this comprehensive and considered, yet easily accessible, book. It took me right back to the visceral experience and time that was Threads."
Combining decades of nuclear activism and hands-on research at ground-zero sites with a background in film and cultural studies, Bob Mielke examines Threads through the lens of history, pop culture, and horror. Mielke’s impeccable research, sharp analysis, life experience, and gallows humor bring new insight into exactly what makes this film so disturbing—and disturbingly enduring.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Mielke has been a scholar and activist in the field of nuclear research for over four decades. He lives in Kirksville, Missouri, where he is a Professor of English at Truman State University, teaching literature, film, and cultural studies. His other publications include works of poetry, playwriting, music criticism, and a co-authored work of photojournalism on atomic imagery. A native cheesehead, Mielke is currently co-directing a seven-part documentary on the Milwaukee musician Sigmund Snopek III.
Bob Mielke has been a scholar and activist in the field of nuclear research for over four decades. He lives in Kirksville, Missouri, where he is a Professor of English at Truman State University, teaching literature, film, and cultural studies. His other publications include works of poetry, playwriting, music criticism, and a co-authored work of photojournalism on atomic imagery. A native cheesehead, Mielke is currently co-directing a seven-part documentary on the Milwaukee musician Sigmund Snopek III.
Friday, December 16, 2022 | 5-7PM
The Chrysanthemum Project Zine Launch Party!
With Xueyou Wang
Come celebrate the launch of The Chrysanthemum Project, Xueyou Wang's thesis zines for the Women's and Gender Studies department at UW-Milwaukee. Print and digital PDFs of the three zines will be available for purchase and perusal!
Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 3-5PM
Book Talk & Character/World-building Workshop
With Jenny Benjamin, author of Corrupted: Book Two of the Terrian Trilogy
Milwaukee author Jenny Benjamin will be at Lion's Tooth for a book talk about her novel Corrupted: Book Two of the Terrian Trilogy. Jenny will also be leading a character and world building workshop for fantasy and science fiction. This workshop is good for ages 13 and up, especially those interested in writing, drawing, or role-playing games. Book talk starts at 3:30PM.
Friday, December 9, 2022 | 5-7PM
Book talk with Milwaukee author Jennifer DK
Refrigerator Girl, with art by Katelyn Windels
Join us for an evening with Milwaukee author Jennifer DK to celebrate her graphic novel Refrigerator Girl, with art by Katelyn Windels. Book talk starts at 5:30PM.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Refrigerator Girl is a response to the trope common to comics (movies, tv) known as "fridging" or "girls in refrigerators." These and related terms were coined by Gail Simone to call out the storyline of the wife/ girlfriend/ partner of superheroes being murdered in order to advance the story of the hero, give him emotional depth, make him sad, whatever. OUR Refrigerator Girl finds out she's the girlfriend of a hero, but she resists that narrative and writes her own story.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Refrigerator Girl is a response to the trope common to comics (movies, tv) known as "fridging" or "girls in refrigerators." These and related terms were coined by Gail Simone to call out the storyline of the wife/ girlfriend/ partner of superheroes being murdered in order to advance the story of the hero, give him emotional depth, make him sad, whatever. OUR Refrigerator Girl finds out she's the girlfriend of a hero, but she resists that narrative and writes her own story.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 | all day, 10AM-8PM
Fundraiser for The Bay View Historical Society
Shop at Lion's Tooth on Saturday December 10 and 10% of the sales will be donated to the Bay View Historical Society.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 | 5-7PM
Book talk with Dmitry Samarov
Paint By Numbers
Join us for an evening with Chicago-based author and artist Dmitry Samarov, in celebration of his latest book Paint-by-numbers. Book talk starts at 5:30.
Friday, November 25, 2022 | 5-7PM
Zinester mixer led by Ladasia Bryant
Come hang out with other zinesters at Lion's Tooth in an informal mixer led by Ladasia Bryant of Braided Magazine.
Saturday, November 26, 2022 | all day, 10-8PM
Small Business Saturday!
Discounts, prizes and surprises all day at Lion’s Tooth. Support your favorite tiny bookstore!!!
Also Saturday, November 26, 2022 | 6-8PM
Special event for author Andy Tyra, in partnership with Milwaukee Record
Author and illustrator Andy Tyra will come to Lion’s Tooth to read a portion of his book Caverns Below Milwaukee, answer questions about his book, and discuss Cream City creatures. Milwaukee Record will also be on hand to lead a Q&A and talk about some other bits of localized lore. Andy will be selling copies of his book, as well as some prints and other goodies.
Read the Milwaukee Record article about the event here:
https://milwaukeerecord.com/arts/join-us-for-a-caverns-below-milwaukee-conversation-with-andy-tyra-on-november-26/
Read the Milwaukee Record article about the event here:
https://milwaukeerecord.com/arts/join-us-for-a-caverns-below-milwaukee-conversation-with-andy-tyra-on-november-26/
Friday, November 18, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Author event with LGBTQ+ author Anne E. Terpstra (Chicago)
Join us for an evening with Chicago author Anne E. Terpstra. Her novel Beyond Any Experience is an intimate, emotional debut that explores grief, parenting, neurodiversity, and the vulnerability of love after loss, all through a queer lens.
Saturday, November 19 | 5-7PM
Author event with local author Geoff Carter
Join us for an evening with author Geoff Carter as he discusses his newest book Thicker Than Water, an eco-thriller set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
Friday November 11, 2020 | 6-8PM
Poetry reading with Sujash Purna
Join us for an evening of poetry with Sujash Purna, a Bangladeshi poet and photographer based in Madison, Wisconsin.
A first-year PhD fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sujash is the author of “Biriyani” (Poet’s Haven) and "Epidemic of Nostalgia'' (Finishing Line Press). His poetry has appeared in California State Poetry Quarterly, Reed Magazine, South Carolina Review, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Kansas City Voices, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gutter, Stonecoast Review, and others. A 2022 Anaphora Residency Fellow and Moon City Review Creative Nonfiction Award Winner, he is the poetry editor for Pyre Magazine. “Azans for the Infidel,” his hybrid chapbook of essays and poems, will come out from Mouthfeel Press in 2023. His photography piece “Enamored with the Unknown” is forthcoming in the Ilanot Review. Sujash and his photography can be found on Instagram @poeticnomadic
A first-year PhD fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sujash is the author of “Biriyani” (Poet’s Haven) and "Epidemic of Nostalgia'' (Finishing Line Press). His poetry has appeared in California State Poetry Quarterly, Reed Magazine, South Carolina Review, Hawai`i Pacific Review, Kansas City Voices, Poetry Salzburg Review, Gutter, Stonecoast Review, and others. A 2022 Anaphora Residency Fellow and Moon City Review Creative Nonfiction Award Winner, he is the poetry editor for Pyre Magazine. “Azans for the Infidel,” his hybrid chapbook of essays and poems, will come out from Mouthfeel Press in 2023. His photography piece “Enamored with the Unknown” is forthcoming in the Ilanot Review. Sujash and his photography can be found on Instagram @poeticnomadic
Saturday November 12, 2022 | 1PM
Spanish Book Launch Party for author Mandy Reilly
Join us for the launch for the Spanish version of Mandy Reilly’s I Know I Am, a kid’s book about body positivity. There will be readings of the book in English and Spanish, an affirmation activity, photo ops, free swag and more! Meet the author plus illustrator Amy Kleinhans and translator Verónica Davis-Quiroz.
Also Saturday November 12, 2022 | 5-7PM
Live music with Sam Rodewald and Jorge Vallentine
Come check out some live music by live humans! Music will start promptly at 5:30.
Jorge Vallentine draws on a variety of influences to bridge the gap between indie folk singer-songwriter and gritty indie rocker.
Sam Rodewald takes his influences from operatic aria, classical art songs, and modern pop and folk music and writes new songs that interrogate the absurdity of living and making music in a temporary world.
Jorge Vallentine draws on a variety of influences to bridge the gap between indie folk singer-songwriter and gritty indie rocker.
Sam Rodewald takes his influences from operatic aria, classical art songs, and modern pop and folk music and writes new songs that interrogate the absurdity of living and making music in a temporary world.
Saturday November 5, 2022 | 10-7PM
Fundraiser for Fernwood Montessori School
Shop the store all day to benefit Fernwood PTO with 10% of our sales.
Also Saturday November 5, 2022 | 2-3PM
Signing with Rob Weiland
Milwaukee’s own Rob Weiland will be at Lion’s Tooth signing his comic Girl’s Heist Out
And again Saturday November 5, 2022 | 5-7PM
Mural release party with artist Chandler Hougan
Come celebrate the newest addition to our building!
Special event | Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 5pm to 7pm
Milwaukee Drag: Seven Generations of Glamour, by Michail Takach and B J Daniels
Presented by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
Why has Milwaukee been a breeding ground for drag talent since the 1880s? What were the seven generations of glamour? What was the Pansy Craze? Was there really a mid-century drag craze in downtown Milwaukee? When was the Golden Age of Milwaukee Drag?
Get answers to all these questions and more at this book talk by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project honoring National LGBTQ History Month!
All book purchases will directly benefit COURAGE MKE.
Questions? Contact wislgbtqhistory@gmail.com
Get answers to all these questions and more at this book talk by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project honoring National LGBTQ History Month!
All book purchases will directly benefit COURAGE MKE.
Questions? Contact wislgbtqhistory@gmail.com
Special Halloween Party with Molly Roberts
Friday, October 28, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Join us for an evening of ART MAGICK: Book signing, art magick crafts, bewitching treats and more. Free and open to the public (like all Lion's Tooth events). Costumes encouraged!
Kids event | Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 1pm to 2pm
Reading with local children's book author Ceara Milligan
Bring the kids out to Lion's Tooth for a fun story time with local author Ceara Milligan. Ceara will be reading from her book Penny the Pepper. Like all Lion's Tooth events, this is free and open to the public.
Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 5pm to 8pm
Unmissable release party for Luke Geddes' zine TV Grime
Join us to celebrate the release of TV Grime's inaugural Halloween issue, a 100+ page compendium of author Luke Geddes's reviews of and personal reflections on every Halloween-themed television episode he has ever seen (along with bonus comics by such cartoonist luminaries as Beth Heinly, John Sammis, and Andy Weiland). Geddes is a local writer who has earned international acclaim for both his Simon & Schuster-published novel Heart of Junk (named one of NPR's Best Books of 2020) and his self-published Chick Tract-style zine about The Velvet Underground's Doug Yule. His latest project, TV Grime, is a deeply personal and yet broadly practical treat, centered on TV Guide-style listings of Halloween-themed programming from throughout the medium's long history. It is sure to be an essential aid in planning readers' spooky-time viewing in years to come. This release event will be accompanied by one-of-a-kind entertainment and will include a "least favorite Halloween candy" buffet. To miss this once-in-a-lifetime treat would be to pull a cruel trick on yourself. Be there!
Tuesday, October 11 to Sunday, October 16, 2022
Window exhibit of post-it ghosts by Zack Pieper
Come meet the artist on Sunday, October 16 | 3pm to 5pm
You must visit us to check out this gorgeous installation, up only until Sunday Oct 16! Milwaukee's own Zack Pieper covered our windows with his amazing post-it ghosts and it's stunning! Lion’s Tooth will be CLOSED Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct 12-14), this is our present to Bay View while we are away. We resume regular hours on Saturday, and on Sunday Oct 16 the artist will be in attendance from 3-5PM - come say hello!!
BVGN Double Feature | Friday, September 30, 2022 | 5pm to 9pm
Live screen printing with Living Shadow c/o INVIS
Plus art by Francisco Ramirez
Live screen printing with Living Shadow c/o INVIS and art by local artist Francisco Ramirez. Bring shirts to print or buy one from Lion’s Tooth: $5 for printing your own shirt, $10 to get a shirt + printing. Fun for kids and adults, come hang out with us!
Live screen printing with Living Shadow c/o INVIS and art by local artist Francisco Ramirez. Bring shirts to print or buy one from Lion’s Tooth: $5 for printing your own shirt, $10 to get a shirt + printing. Fun for kids and adults, come hang out with us!
Join the Alliance Française de Milwaukee for a French-speaking happy hour at Lion's Tooth bookstore in Bay View. Free and open to the public, beer and wine available for sale.
Kids event | Saturday, October 8, 2022 | 11am to 1pm
Because Cockroaches Rule by John Janezic
Reading and show with comedy, magic and puppets
Author John Janezic will be at Lion's Tooth will read from his book Because Cockroaches Rule, based on his cockroach puppet Louie the Roach. This will be a show with comedy and magic. Free and open to the public - bring your kids!
John Janezic has been an educator for the last 23 years. Originally from Milwaukee, John now resides in Mesa, AZ. He is an award-winning actor and storyteller and has been involved in numerous theatre productions, both in Milwaukee and Arizona, as well as film, television commercials, and professional wrestling. Learn more at Johnjanezic.com
Gaming party | Saturday, September 24, 2022 | 5pm to 8pm
Word Games! With indie game developers
Celebrating Space Raft and Orebody Binder's Tale coming to Nintendo Switch
Come support your local bookstore and indie game developers in a unique and intimate video game creator hang out!
Grab a drink, buy a book and play some locally-developed Milwaukee retro games. Play on the NES or try out the Nintendo Switch ports!
Grab a drink, buy a book and play some locally-developed Milwaukee retro games. Play on the NES or try out the Nintendo Switch ports!
Poetry reading | Friday, September 23, 2022 | 6:30pm
Poets Stephen Anderson and Barbara Wuest
Reading and book signing by the authors of High Wire (Anderson) and Rhythms All Aquiver (Wuest).
Poetry reading | Thursday, September 22, 2022 | 6pm to 7pm
Milwaukee poet Carrie Voigt Schonhoff
Author of The Liminal Space and The End of the Beginning
Join us for an evening of poetry reading and book signing with local author and poet Carrie Voigt Schonhoff.
Free and open to the public
Free and open to the public
Zine party | Friday, September 2, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Lauren Hamell releases their new zine
Lion's Tooth August featured artist
Milwaukee zinester and artist Lauren Hamell will read from their new zine about The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and display their art dolls. More info about Lauren in our Subscriptions page
Thursday, September 8, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Books Not Bombs event with Jeff Winkowski and Andy Frye
A benefit for Midwest Books for Prisoners
Join us for a benefit for Midwest Books To Prisoners.
Hear two authors and old punks talk about music, zines, pop culture and how the state of the world changed through punk rock and alternative music in the 1990s. Jeff Winkowski and Andy Frye will share secrets and perspectives about the Milwaukee and Chicago music scenes, and talk about their inspiration for writing books about the '90s.
About the authors
Jeff Winkowski is a Milwaukee based writer and teacher, and author of Time of Your Life: Hardcore, Punk, Indie, Rock and a Life of Well Begun in Milwaukee.
Andy Frye is a Chicago-based writer and author of the new novel Ninety Days In The 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story.
There will also be 90s trivia and prizes.
Free admission. All ages welcome. Please bring gently used and unwanted books for donation if you can.
Hear two authors and old punks talk about music, zines, pop culture and how the state of the world changed through punk rock and alternative music in the 1990s. Jeff Winkowski and Andy Frye will share secrets and perspectives about the Milwaukee and Chicago music scenes, and talk about their inspiration for writing books about the '90s.
About the authors
Jeff Winkowski is a Milwaukee based writer and teacher, and author of Time of Your Life: Hardcore, Punk, Indie, Rock and a Life of Well Begun in Milwaukee.
Andy Frye is a Chicago-based writer and author of the new novel Ninety Days In The 90s: A Rock N Roll Time Travel Story.
There will also be 90s trivia and prizes.
Free admission. All ages welcome. Please bring gently used and unwanted books for donation if you can.
Friday, August 26, 2022 | 4pm to 8pm
Brazilian Portuguese Happy Hour
Special guest DJ Isabella Gargiulo
Calling all* expats da terrinha and anyone who wants to practice their Brazilian Portuguese!! Happy hour na língua de Camões and DJ-ing by São Paulo riot grrrl (and birthday girl!) Isabella Gargiulo.
* This will be an anti-fascist good time, so no Bolsominions please, sorry-not-sorry :)
Free and open to the public, all ages.
* This will be an anti-fascist good time, so no Bolsominions please, sorry-not-sorry :)
Free and open to the public, all ages.
Friday, August 19, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
In the Park with Olmsted: A Vision for Milwaukee catalogue discussion
Join a variety of local authors for an event celebrating the publication of In the Park with Olmsted: A Vision for Milwaukee, a catalogue for a current exhibition of the same name currently on display at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum (through September 25th). This first concerted look at renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s work on parks in Milwaukee features contributions from Michael Carriere, Martha Chaiklin, Lee Hall, Annemarie Sawkins, and Virginia Small. Texts on the history of the public parks movement in Milwaukee and Olmsted’s continued relevance for today’s city combine throughout the catalogue to fill gaps in existing scholarship on these timely topics.
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Gather and enjoy pre-event conversation
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Catalogue discussion with authors
7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Post-discussion chatting
Free and open to the public
About In the Park with Olmsted:
This 68-page full-color catalogue, designed by Jena Sher, includes a wide variety of images from the exhibition. Historical texts and maps accompany vintage postcards along with modern and contemporary works of art in a rich presentation of Olmsted and his ability to inspire others. Curated by Martha Chaiklin and Annemarie Sawkins, the exhibition and its accompanying publication mark the 200th anniversary of Olmsted’s birth and tell the story of his profound influence on the greening of America’s cities through his ideal of “parks for all people.”
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Gather and enjoy pre-event conversation
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Catalogue discussion with authors
7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Post-discussion chatting
Free and open to the public
About In the Park with Olmsted:
This 68-page full-color catalogue, designed by Jena Sher, includes a wide variety of images from the exhibition. Historical texts and maps accompany vintage postcards along with modern and contemporary works of art in a rich presentation of Olmsted and his ability to inspire others. Curated by Martha Chaiklin and Annemarie Sawkins, the exhibition and its accompanying publication mark the 200th anniversary of Olmsted’s birth and tell the story of his profound influence on the greening of America’s cities through his ideal of “parks for all people.”
Kids event | Sunday, August 21, 2022 | 1pm-2pm
Wes Tank live storytelling
Milwaukee'w own Wes Tank will perform his Books, Beat & Life musical readings live at Lion's Tooth. Free and open to the public, fun for children of all ages!
Friday, August 12 at The Sugar Maple, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Zine release party and reading by QZAP co-founder Milo Miller
Join us for an evening with Milo Miller, Milwaukee-based zinester extraordinaire and co-founder of QZAP (the Queer Zine Archive Project). Milo will be reading from several of their recent zines, including the newly released "I'll Have an 'E', Please, Bob".
Free and open to the public, all ages.
Free and open to the public, all ages.
Music at Lion's Tooth | Friday, August 5, 2022 | 6pm to 8pm
Vectors of Resonant Prescients Album Release Show
With special guest Rum Revere
Join us for the album release show of Kevin DeMars' Vectors of Resonant Prescients with special guest Rum Revere (Brock Gourlie). Music starts at 6:30PM.
SPECIAL EVENT | Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 5pm to 8pm
Discussion of The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America
By Michael H. Carriere and David Schalliol
Join TRUE Skool Co-Executive Director Fidel Verdin and other local not-for-profit leaders, Milwaukee-based historian Michael Carriere, and Minneapolis-based sociologist David Schalliol for an event about how artists, activists, and neighbors are creating community-based programs that are changing the way that cities work.
The discussion will be framed by Carriere and Schalliol’s book, The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), for which the pair collaborated with local organizations and visited more than 200 groups in more than 40 cities around the country. The book draws from these experiences, combined with archival research, interviews, original photographs, and more to better understand what is often called “creative placemaking” and to anchor it neighborhoods for a more just and equitable future.
5PM-6PM Show up when you want, hang out, and enjoy music DJed by Sahan
6PM-7PM Discussion and Q&A
7PM-8PM Post-discussion chatting with music DJed by Sahan
Free and open to the public
The discussion will be framed by Carriere and Schalliol’s book, The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), for which the pair collaborated with local organizations and visited more than 200 groups in more than 40 cities around the country. The book draws from these experiences, combined with archival research, interviews, original photographs, and more to better understand what is often called “creative placemaking” and to anchor it neighborhoods for a more just and equitable future.
5PM-6PM Show up when you want, hang out, and enjoy music DJed by Sahan
6PM-7PM Discussion and Q&A
7PM-8PM Post-discussion chatting with music DJed by Sahan
Free and open to the public
SIGNING PARTY | Tuesday, June 7, 2022 | 4pm to 7pm
Laetitia Barbier signs Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive
A stunning visual history of tarot! This 400-page book presents--for the first time--a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle purposes, and explores, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the crossroads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture.
Photo by Shannon Taggart
French born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, a curator and a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University in Paris. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy in NYC since 2010 as Programming Director and Head Librarian.
Follow Laetitia on Instagram
Follow Laetitia on Instagram
BAY VIEW GALLERY NIGHT | Friday, June 3, 2022 | 5pm to 9pm
New works on paper by Milwaukee’s Polar Ghost
With special performances of Moustache Bride, Rum Revere and Illiciteagle
SPECIAL EVENT | Friday, May 6, 2022 | 6:30pm to 8pm
Chicago Boys - Working Class Readings about Chicago as Place and Character
With Martin Billheimer (Mother Chicago) & Theodore Van Alst (Sacred Smokes & Sacred City)
Martin and Ted are lifelong friends with the City of Chicago in their blood. The City informs and infuses their very different books. They will read pieces from their respective books and discuss how cities become characters in fiction and non-fiction. Moderated by Feral House publisher, Christina Ward.
Join us for an evening of history writ large and small. Martin Billheimer tells stories about how the great Midwestern cities attempted to "cure" poverty and disease. While Theodore Van Alst, Jr. weaves riveting stories about growing up in Chicago as a "city Indian." The authors, friends and comrades, will discuss their work and how Chicago has influenced their writing.
Beer and wine available for purchase at the Lion's Tooth bar. Complimentary light hors d'ouerves and snacks available.
Free and open to the public
Join us for an evening of history writ large and small. Martin Billheimer tells stories about how the great Midwestern cities attempted to "cure" poverty and disease. While Theodore Van Alst, Jr. weaves riveting stories about growing up in Chicago as a "city Indian." The authors, friends and comrades, will discuss their work and how Chicago has influenced their writing.
Beer and wine available for purchase at the Lion's Tooth bar. Complimentary light hors d'ouerves and snacks available.
Free and open to the public
Mother Chicago is the story of three institutions – an obscure juvenile experiment called the Chicago Parental School, the great Municipal Sanitarium, and Dunning, the amalgam of poor house, asylum, and cemetery that occupied the far northern
boundaries of the City. This sector of quarantine and detention built on stolen lands acted as a limiter on the production of dreams and an orphan zone for people cast adrift by societal decree.
The book tells the story of the corporeal specters used against the working class: redlining, property speculation, and racism. Like the game of snakes and ladders, the City lays her traps for the unlucky on a numbered grid – easy to navigate yet
impossible to escape.
boundaries of the City. This sector of quarantine and detention built on stolen lands acted as a limiter on the production of dreams and an orphan zone for people cast adrift by societal decree.
The book tells the story of the corporeal specters used against the working class: redlining, property speculation, and racism. Like the game of snakes and ladders, the City lays her traps for the unlucky on a numbered grid – easy to navigate yet
impossible to escape.
Martin Billheimer was born in 1970 in Chicago’s working class Uptown neighborhood, then a hotbed of radical activism. His family moved to Bradford, England, a city in the industrial north, where he spent his childhood, before returning to Chicago in the early ‘80s. There, he founded the semi-notorious noise-punk band the Devil Bell Hippies in 1983 and participated in anti-fascist organizing in the music scene. After dropping out of high school, he continued his education by finding work as a dishwasher, house painter, construction worker and furniture mover. He continues to perform and record music in various projects around Chicago and has acted in pantomimes, puppet theater and agit-prop. He writes on culture, art and politics at Counterpunch online and at the Chiseler.
Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. Sacred Smokes takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians. He will be in readers' heads for a long time to come.
Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst's award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes. Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country. Part love song and part lament, Sacred City explores what options are available to an intelligent, smart-assed young man who was born poor and grew up in a gang. Van Alst's skillful storytelling takes us on a journey where Chicago will never seem the same.
Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst's award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes. Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country. Part love song and part lament, Sacred City explores what options are available to an intelligent, smart-assed young man who was born poor and grew up in a gang. Van Alst's skillful storytelling takes us on a journey where Chicago will never seem the same.
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. is a professor and the chair of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. Hi's mosaic novel about sort of growing up in Chicago, Sacred Smokes, winner of the 2019 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing, is now in its second printing. His follow up, Sacred City, was published November 2021, also by the University of New Mexico Press, who released his 2015 edited volume The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. His writing and photography have been published in Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Red Earth Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Apex Magazine, Electric Literature, Indian Country Today, and The Massachusetts Review, among others.
MUSIC | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 5pm to 8pm
Teething Veils and special guests
TEETHING VEILS [Washington DC] | Chamber folk by chamber folk. Featuring members of Silo Halo and The Antiques. Old friends returning to MKE for the first time since 2012!
https://teethingveils.bandcamp.com/
MILDEW | Milwaukee's finest experimental noise duo
https://mildew1.bandcamp.com/
SITUATIONS | Singer/songwriter Ashley Altadonna of Milwaukee's Vacancy Chain
https://situationsmke.bandcamp.com/
**PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. WE'LL ALL BE WEARING MASKS AND WOULD LIKE IT IF YOU WOULD TOO.**
https://teethingveils.bandcamp.com/
MILDEW | Milwaukee's finest experimental noise duo
https://mildew1.bandcamp.com/
SITUATIONS | Singer/songwriter Ashley Altadonna of Milwaukee's Vacancy Chain
https://situationsmke.bandcamp.com/
**PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. WE'LL ALL BE WEARING MASKS AND WOULD LIKE IT IF YOU WOULD TOO.**
RECORD STORE DAY| Saturday, April 23, 2022 | 11am to 7pm
Fundraiser for Lilliput Records
On this Record Store Day we will donate 10% of all our sales to effort to turn Milwaukee's Exclusive Company (which will be closing soon) into a new shop called Lilliput Records. Read more about the project and make a direct donation to their gofundme campaign.
Saturday, April 30, 2022 | 11am to 7pm
Independent Bookstore Day
A nationwide celebration of Bookstores! Shop at Lion's Tooth and enter our raffle to win a specially-curated selection of cool swag, exclusive gifts and signed books. Promoted by the American Booksellers Association.
Also don't forget to pick up your free copy of the Midwest Indie Bookstore Roadmap. Organized by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and with awesome art by Kevin Cannon, this is an old-school roadmap that allows you to explore nearly 200 bookstores throughout the region.
BOOK RELEASE PARTY | Thursday, December 9 2021, 6PM
Brady St. Pharmacy: Stories and Sketches
By Tea Krulos
Come celebrate Tea Krulos' new memoir "Brady St. Pharmacy: Stories and Sketches" out from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Bring proof of vaccination to have drinks.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.
Tea Krulos is a freelance journalist and author from Milwaukee, WI. Some of his favorite subjects to explore include subcultures, weird news, and strange personalities. He writes about local art and entertainment, lifestyle, and food/drink for publications like Milwaukee Magazine, Shepherd Express, and Milwaukee Record. His books, American Madness, Heroes in the Night, Monster Hunters and Apocalypse Any Day Now explored the driving beliefs and lives of the people who choose to reject accepted reality and substitute their own.
Tea writes a weekly column called “Tea’s Weird Week” on teakrulos.com.
Tea writes a weekly column called “Tea’s Weird Week” on teakrulos.com.
OUTREACH | Saturday, December 11, 2021
Support Highland Community School
On December 11 a percentage of our proceeds will be donated to the Highland Community School, a parent-directed, Montessori Charter school.
ARTIST VISIT | Saturday, December 18 2021, 4-7PM
Rachal Duggan, aka RADILLUSTRATES
Join us on Saturday December 18 for a special art pop-up. Rachal Duggan, aka RADILLUSTRATES, will be here drawing butt portraits during our vaxxed happy hour.
ART OPENING | Friday, November 19 2021, 5-8PM
Clark Rendall's Spomenik Series
Join us at the store on Friday, November 19 from 5 to 8PM CST, for an art party celebrating Milwaukee’s own Clark Rendall and his new series of prints inspired by Yugoslav “spomeniks”. We'll be serving drinks but please be prepared to show proof of vaccination - card or photo in your phone. Come have some fun while staying safe and protecting our community. More info about Clark's work here.
BOOK EVENT | October 13, 2021 7:30PM CST 5:30PM PST | 8:30PM EST
Encyclopaedia of Hell II
The Conquest of Heaven
By Martin Olson
Join us for a celebration of Martin Olson’s new book Encyclopaedia of Hell II: The Conquest of Heaven, in partnership with Feral House. This will be an exclusive online event for everyone who buys the book from us, with special guests, signed bookplates, swag and more!
Buy the book and attend the event | $24.95
Emcee/Host: Comedian Jimmy Tingle
Special guests: Olivia Olson (Queen Marceline from Adventure Time), legendary cartoonists and Encyclopaedia of Hell illustrators Tony Millionaire and Mahendra Singh plus surprise appearances by comedians you will know
The event is LIVE and interactive! Q&A opportunity for attendees
WHEN
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:30PM CST (5:30PM PST | 8:30PM EST)
WHAT YOU GET
HOW TO ATTEND
Buy the book from Lion’s Tooth HERE
We will contact you by email with the details for the event
Special guests: Olivia Olson (Queen Marceline from Adventure Time), legendary cartoonists and Encyclopaedia of Hell illustrators Tony Millionaire and Mahendra Singh plus surprise appearances by comedians you will know
The event is LIVE and interactive! Q&A opportunity for attendees
WHEN
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:30PM CST (5:30PM PST | 8:30PM EST)
WHAT YOU GET
- Signed bookplate
- A chance to win some amazing Encyclopaedia of Hell and Feral House swag, raffled live during the event
- Grand Prize: one winner--chosen at random beforehand--will have a short song written about them performed live for the attendees
HOW TO ATTEND
Buy the book from Lion’s Tooth HERE
We will contact you by email with the details for the event
About the book:
Evil Readers, as ye partake of Encyclopaedia of Hell, rejoice! The hateful sequel written by Satan has arrived!
After Hell's army conquers Insignificant Earth and devours the human race in a celebratory feast, Lord Satan reveals that he will now journey deep into the universe to find the throne of the despised Creator. There Satan will depose God and take his rightful place as Emperor of Existence.
However, hellish complications quickly arise: exposed to the rays of the Celestial Sun, Satan's horns and claws become brittle and his undercarriage breaks out in a rash. And a hypnotic, ghostly nun named Debbie seduces the naïve King of Hate into taking a wrong turn. Now Lord Satan must face Oblivion when he enters Heaven's labyrinthine Library, from which there is no escape.
But when the Armies of Hell arrive to find Lord Satan and conquer Heaven, instead they find a disturbing secret at the core of Creation too shocking for even a demon to stomach.
Behold it all in Encyclopaedia of Hell II, a disgraceful tour de force of literary Blasphemy! Pickled with paradoxy, puzzles and paranoia, herein lie terrible cosmic secrets stolen from God's Library, including the mystery of why God created Satan, never mind mosquitoes, cellulite and murder hornets.
Coming someday to a film palace near you: Encyclopaedia of Hell--The Movie! The pernicious production rights have been most evilly obtained by the creative demons at Warner Brothers.
Evil Readers, as ye partake of Encyclopaedia of Hell, rejoice! The hateful sequel written by Satan has arrived!
After Hell's army conquers Insignificant Earth and devours the human race in a celebratory feast, Lord Satan reveals that he will now journey deep into the universe to find the throne of the despised Creator. There Satan will depose God and take his rightful place as Emperor of Existence.
However, hellish complications quickly arise: exposed to the rays of the Celestial Sun, Satan's horns and claws become brittle and his undercarriage breaks out in a rash. And a hypnotic, ghostly nun named Debbie seduces the naïve King of Hate into taking a wrong turn. Now Lord Satan must face Oblivion when he enters Heaven's labyrinthine Library, from which there is no escape.
But when the Armies of Hell arrive to find Lord Satan and conquer Heaven, instead they find a disturbing secret at the core of Creation too shocking for even a demon to stomach.
Behold it all in Encyclopaedia of Hell II, a disgraceful tour de force of literary Blasphemy! Pickled with paradoxy, puzzles and paranoia, herein lie terrible cosmic secrets stolen from God's Library, including the mystery of why God created Satan, never mind mosquitoes, cellulite and murder hornets.
Coming someday to a film palace near you: Encyclopaedia of Hell--The Movie! The pernicious production rights have been most evilly obtained by the creative demons at Warner Brothers.
About the author:
Martin Olson's savage wit provides the firepower for a preposterous literary feat unaccomplished since Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce passed--channeling the real voice of Satan. As a satirist, Olson has inflicted numerous comedy series on the populace via HBO, CBS, Showtime, Comedy Central, Disney, and FX. He has most infamously appeared as the Lord of Evil (Hunson Abadeer, father of Marceline the Vampire Queen) on the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time.
Martin Olson's savage wit provides the firepower for a preposterous literary feat unaccomplished since Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce passed--channeling the real voice of Satan. As a satirist, Olson has inflicted numerous comedy series on the populace via HBO, CBS, Showtime, Comedy Central, Disney, and FX. He has most infamously appeared as the Lord of Evil (Hunson Abadeer, father of Marceline the Vampire Queen) on the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time.
In partnership with Feral House
ARTIST VISIT | August 11-15, 2021
Pacolli's week at Lion's Tooth
Art party and bar mural reveal: Saturday August 14, 2021 4PM CST
On the week of August 11-15 Lion's Tooth received a special visit from Pacolli, the incredible artist who designed our logo. During her time here Pacolli painted a mural on our bar.
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San Francisco based artist Pacolli is originally from São Paulo, where she was a producer at MTV Brazil and curated and ran an art space called Bendgy. Self taught and with a strong DIY ethic, Pacolli works in a variety of media and styles, including painting, silk screening and collage. In addition to the original pieces, her amazing compositions can be found in prints, zines, and an array of one-of-a-kind gear and objects -- and now also at Lion's Tooth!
Follow Pacolli on Instagram
Follow Pacolli on Instagram
Pacolli installing her art at Banksy's legendary print shop and gallery Pictures on Walls, in London.
POETRY READING | Wednesday August 11, 2021 5PM CST
Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems
By Margaret Rozga
Join us for an evening with poet Margaret Rozga to celebrate her book Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems. In person at Lion's Tooth and broadcast on Instagram Live @lionstoothmke
About the book:
In Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems, her fifth volume of poems, Margaret Rozga brings together some of her best-loved poems about Milwaukee’s fair housing marches and her concern for issues of peace and social justice with new poems that identify with Alice in Wonderland and imagine new Alice adventures. New poems also grapple with issues of recent political turmoil and pandemic-induced uncertainty. They seek and sometimes find the words, the moments of calm, needed to hold oneself together.
About the author:
As 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, MARGARET ROZGA edited the anthologies Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems and On the Front Lines // behind the lines. She is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at Waukesha and was recently chosen the first scholar / artist in residence at the UWM at Waukesha Field Station.
About the book:
In Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems, her fifth volume of poems, Margaret Rozga brings together some of her best-loved poems about Milwaukee’s fair housing marches and her concern for issues of peace and social justice with new poems that identify with Alice in Wonderland and imagine new Alice adventures. New poems also grapple with issues of recent political turmoil and pandemic-induced uncertainty. They seek and sometimes find the words, the moments of calm, needed to hold oneself together.
About the author:
As 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, MARGARET ROZGA edited the anthologies Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems and On the Front Lines // behind the lines. She is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at Waukesha and was recently chosen the first scholar / artist in residence at the UWM at Waukesha Field Station.
BOOK EVENT | Thursday August 5, 2021 5PM CST
Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland
By Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett
Lion's Tooth presents a celebration of Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland, by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett. In person at Lion's Tooth and broadcast on Instagram Live @lionstoothmke
The authors were present virtually for a discussion, reading and Q&A.
About the book:
Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett explore the do-it-yourself scene built by Peoria punks, performers, and scenesters in the 1980s and 1990s. From fanzines to indie record shops to renting the VFW hall for an all-ages show, Peoria's punk culture reflected the movement elsewhere, but the region's conservatism and industrial decline offered a richer-than-usual target environment for rebellion. A raucous look at a small-city underground, Punks in Peoria takes readers off the beaten track to reveal the punk rock life as lived in Anytown, U.S.A.
About the authors:
JONATHAN WRIGHT is a writer, editor, musician, and longtime veteran of the Peoria music scene. He is editor in chief at Peoria Magazines.
DAWSON BARRETT is an associate professor of history at Del Mar College. His books include The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America.
The authors were present virtually for a discussion, reading and Q&A.
About the book:
Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett explore the do-it-yourself scene built by Peoria punks, performers, and scenesters in the 1980s and 1990s. From fanzines to indie record shops to renting the VFW hall for an all-ages show, Peoria's punk culture reflected the movement elsewhere, but the region's conservatism and industrial decline offered a richer-than-usual target environment for rebellion. A raucous look at a small-city underground, Punks in Peoria takes readers off the beaten track to reveal the punk rock life as lived in Anytown, U.S.A.
About the authors:
JONATHAN WRIGHT is a writer, editor, musician, and longtime veteran of the Peoria music scene. He is editor in chief at Peoria Magazines.
DAWSON BARRETT is an associate professor of history at Del Mar College. His books include The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America.
February 2020 Pop-up Extravaganza
Sugar Maple • February 15, 2020
Kids subscription book clubs and activities
The Nile Club (teen band) and Ravi/Lola
January 2020 Pop-up Extravaganza
Sugar Maple • January 18, 2020
Our first kids' book club!
Featured artist Luke Chappelle signs Arcana de Flora
The Golden Grenades (teen band)
Brew City Crafters' Second Annual Holiday Art & Craft Fair
American Serb Hall
5101 W Oklahoma Ave
Saturday, December 14, 2019 • 10AM-4PM
Free admission
5101 W Oklahoma Ave
Saturday, December 14, 2019 • 10AM-4PM
Free admission
RRRAGS | Riverwest Random Recycled Art and Gift Show
Falcon Bowl
801 E Clarke St
Saturday & Sunday, December 7-8, 2019 • 12-6PM
Free admission
801 E Clarke St
Saturday & Sunday, December 7-8, 2019 • 12-6PM
Free admission
Punk Rock Rummage Sale
Small Business Saturday
Club Garibaldi
2501 S Superior St
Saturday, November 30, 2019 • 12-4PM
Free admission
Club Garibaldi
2501 S Superior St
Saturday, November 30, 2019 • 12-4PM
Free admission
Hovercraft
The Pritzlaff Building
325 N Plankinton Ave
Sunday, December 1, 2019 • 12-6PM
Admission $5, kids free
325 N Plankinton Ave
Sunday, December 1, 2019 • 12-6PM
Admission $5, kids free
Cactus Patch Holiday Pop-up
Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Sunday, November 24, 2019 • 2-6PM
Free admission
2496 S Wentworth Ave
Sunday, November 24, 2019 • 2-6PM
Free admission
Launch Party and pop-up
With shows by Scrimshaw and Negative/Positive
Sugar Maple
441 E Lincoln Ave
Saturday, November 23, 2019 • 12-6PM
Free admission, kids welcome with parents or guardiansThank you Troy Freund and other friends for the beautiful pics!
Sugar Maple
441 E Lincoln Ave
Saturday, November 23, 2019 • 12-6PM
Free admission, kids welcome with parents or guardiansThank you Troy Freund and other friends for the beautiful pics!
Beet Street Fall Harvest Festival
Block party by Cactus Club
2496 S Wentworth Ave
October 12, 2019 • 12-6PM
2496 S Wentworth Ave
October 12, 2019 • 12-6PM
2421 S Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee WI 53207
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