Daily Agenda July 30: Jamie Foxx and Warped Tour

Even though they eventually proved false, rumors that Jamie Foxx (appearing tonight at the Milwaukee Theatre) was being considered to play Frank Sinatra in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming biopic made sense. After all, name another modern entertainer who, like Sinatra, can act (even picking up an Oscar for his troubles), make ’em laugh (lest we forget, Foxx started on In Living Color, and reportedly has a new sketch show in the works), and lay claim to two No. 1 albums. The most recent, last year’s Intuition, topped the R&B charts for six weeks straight—testament to the fact that Foxx is more than just a dilettante, but a genuine triple-threat. Now all he needs is his own Rat Pack. (Lil Wayne would make a great Dean Martin.)

Over at Marcus Amphitheater today, the Warped Tour trudges through its 15th anniversary this year, which means that many of those who went to the first round are in their early 30s and probably long since over groups like Deftones and Face To Face. Thankfully there’s always a new free-spending demographic of teens to profit from, and this year they’ll have to sit politely through “old dudes” like NOFX and Bad Religion to get to modern upstarts like 3OH!3 and Chiodos.