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Photo Essay: District Attorney campaign kicks-off

Posted by Editor | Apr 22, 2016 |

Images from the campaign kick-off of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm. who has served the community for nearly a decade.

Jeff Redmon: The value of transformational art

Posted by Editor | Apr 21, 2016 |

While many organizations in Milwaukee profit at the expense of local artists, Jeff Redmon freely shares his passion for creativity and community activism through his efforts to enrich the Milwaukee culture and make it a better place for everyone with art.

Jeff Redmon: Creativity as social treasure

Posted by Editor | Apr 21, 2016 |

While many organizations in Milwaukee profit at the expense of local artists, Jeff Redmon freely shares his passion for creativity and community activism through his efforts to enrich the Milwaukee culture and make it a better place for everyone with art. | Q&A with Jeff Redmon Milwaukee Independent: When you started your career as a graphic designer, what was the biggest misconception people had about your work? Jeff Redmon: When I began working as a Graphic Designer, I had just graduated college and was honestly just looking for a job. I interviewed with ten different businesses and ended up working...

Photo Essay: Films of Arab Culture

Posted by Editor | Apr 19, 2016 |

The 2016 Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival began on March 3 and has played at three venues in the city, concluding on April 21.

The Idol makes American debut at Muslim Film Festival

Posted by Editor | Apr 19, 2016 |

The 2nd annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival premiered the acclaimed international movie, The Idol, on April 14. It showed a week before a Chicago preview and well ahead of its official U.S. theatrical release of May 6. The film presents the true story of Mohammed Assaf, a talented teenage wedding singer who makes a perilous journey from a refugee camp in the occupied Gaza Strip to Egypt, in order to audition for the 2013 television show Arab Idol singing competition. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad, the story gave a human voice to the Palestinian dilemma, of a people who have...

Map: Five Orchards

Posted by Editor | Apr 18, 2016 |

The Victory Garden Initiative held its Fruity Nutty tree planting project on April 16. This map shows the five winning locations for 2016 around Milwaukee County: Hales Corners, Centro Hispano, Urban Eden Community Garden, Five Points, and Gordon Place. Each site received an orchard of fruit and nut producing trees like hazelnuts, cherries, peaches, pears, apples, and plums. Read the article, navigate the map, and view the photo essay that was produced as companion features for this news...