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A La Carte at the Zoo returns to the Milwaukee County Zoo Aug. 14-17 and this year's headliners and participating restaurants have been announced.
The musical headliners are Phillip Phillips, Thursday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m.; Los Lonely Boys, Friday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m.; and LOCASH, Saturday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m.
Local bands playing a wide variety of styles will perform on six stages throughout the Zoo.
Here are this year's participating restaurants:
- A la Crepes
- BelAir Cantina
- Brew City Snowballs
- Bubble Waffle Shoppes
- Catalano Corn
- Chillwaukee Pops
- C-Viche
- La Masa
- Lumpia City- NEW
- Margaux Brasserie- NEW
- Milwaukee Pretzel Company
- MIL-WOK-EE
- Motor Restaurant- NEW
- Nothing Bundt Cakes
- Po’ Manz Food
- Saz’s
- Scrima’s Woodfired Pizza
- Shawarma House
- Thunder Bay Grille
- Tots on the Street
- Ultimate Confections Desserts featuring Suzy’s Cream Cheesecakes
- Wok in the Zoo
Of course, you can also ride the sky glider, the train, the ropes course and the carousel, check out shows at the theater, feed the goats, visit with the more than 2,200 animals that live at the zoo and enjoy all your favorite zoo fun.
During A La Carte, the zoo is open Thursday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Find more information and buy tickets at shop.milwaukeezoo.org.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
