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The Wisconsin Anti-ViоIеncе Effort (WAVE) hosted an ILOVE (Impacted Lives Overcoming ViоIеncе Effort) story sharing program at Milwaukee City Hall on March 21, presenting Time Magazine’s interactive mural project “Guns in America” along with local stories from leaders and members of the community affected by gun viоIеncе. A group of Milwaukee civic organizations came together to share heartfelt stories from people affected by gun viоIеncе, and offered education about how the public can get involved in preventing gun viоIеncе in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Led by Heidi Rose and Olu Sijuwade, WAVE has been the only statewide grassroots organization solely...

United States Senator Tammy Baldwin visited the new Sherman Phoenix and met with small business owners and employees on March 16, celebrating the neighborhood entrepreneurial hub that she helped secure redevelopment funding for. Senator Baldwin successfully advocated for a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Community Services (OCS) to support the Sherman Phoenix Project last year. The federal money helped close the funding gap for the critical economic project in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. “I was immensely inspired by the work that the Sherman Park residents undertook to rebuild and heal...

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” made a triumphant return to Milwaukee on March 7 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts as part of a brand new North American tour. Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of the phenomenal musical has been hailed by critics as “bigger and better than ever before,” with a production boasting exciting new special effects, lighting designs, staging, and choreography. Inspired by the 1911 classic novel Le Fantôme de L’Opéra by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera musical opened on London’s West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988....