This Milwaukee concert blew away our reviewer

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There's a chance for a wet weekend, with a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, and a 40% chance for more Saturday, with a high near 83 today and 78 on Saturday. We'll have a mostly sunny Sunday and a high near 79.

'One of the coolest-looking concerts I have ever seen'

Journal Sentinel music reviewer Piet Levy has seen just about everything the Milwaukee concert scene has to offer, from festivals to arena shows to The Rave and more. So if he calls something "one of the coolest-looking concerts I have ever seen," that certainly grabs my attention.

Levy was in the house when Childish Gambino, a.k.a. multi-hyphenate Donald Glover, was at Fiserv Forum delivering an epic farewell-tour performance. He said it's "a show that's going to be studied closely by Glover's fellow A-listers, with dazzling effects and inspired staging that will undoubtedly be borrowed for future blockbuster tours."

I'm suddenly quite jealous I wasn't there. To make up for it, perhaps I will attend one of the 16 fall concerts Levy spotlighted on Milwaukee's fall calendar.

The looming danger for Wisconsin state parks

If you're like me, you saw a lot more nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly you had a state parks pass on your windshield and found yourself camping out with your family; it was the perfect activity when so many indoor events were off the table. And hey, maybe you've been to state parks more often in the years since compared to the years before the pandemic.

I know I'm not alone. A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum showed that sales of state park annual admission stickers in 2023 remained high — almost a 50% increase over 2019. But that doesn't mean the parks have all the resources they need, and without taxpayer money (cut off by Act 55 in 2015), parks are lurking closer to lacking the needed resources to maintain current levels of conservation, which are essential to keeping the parks beautified and the wildlife coming back.

Zoe Jaeger has more about the issue and why a decline in hunting and fishing licenses plays a big role.

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JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com . Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe .

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