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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Now this is a party

Posted by on February 28 at 11:07 AM

Museum mayhem from today’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

The glistening white Santiago Calatrava addition has made the Milwaukee Art Museum one of the city’s classiest social addresses. But a recent martini fete held there turned into an overcrowded, drunken affair. Some unruly guests accosted artworks, which have been taken off display for a checkup. People threw up, passed out, were injured, got into altercations and climbed onto sculptures at Martinifest, a semi-formal event organized by Clear Channel Radio and held at the museum Feb. 11, according to several people who attended or worked at the event. “Hindsight is 20-20 … it was probably too cheap,” Kerry Wolfe, a local programming director for Clear Channel, said of the event’s premise - unlimited martinis for $30.

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that's a pretty good deal.. now only if I could get unlimited martinis for $30

any suggestions?

No kidding. $30 for unlimited martinis and they expected people not to puke on the artwork?

Leave it to Clear Channel to think that one up.

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