On Sunday, August 2 you can enjoy the sounds of live jazz along the lakefront at Visions on the Lake at Henry Maier Festival Park! This FREE event is created in partnership between Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. and Milwaukee Jazz Vision, and sponsored by the Summerfest Foundation, Inc.
the doldrums. 1  a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 2  the weather prevailing in this area.
Today the expression carries the contradictory connotations of comfort and discontent, with emphasis on the latter: movement in a fixed course is smooth and easy but deadening. in the doldrums Inactive, stagnant, nonproductive; depressed, in low spirits, in the dumps, in a blue funk. Doldrum derives from dol, an obsolete form of dull, and is itself an obsolete slang term for a dullard. Thus, the doldrums refers to a condition of dullness, low spirits, or depression.