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Jim Guy: Theater props make a most unusual garage sale

The average garage sale offers unique trinkets from the life of a neighborhood family. Multiply that a few times, and it starts to come close to the accumulation of things by Milwaukee’s largest theater company. Except for experimental theater, rarely does an audience expect to see an empty stage with naked actors. The performers do get all the attention on stage, but their craft would be incomplete without props. From simple objects and costumes, to elaborate sets, props are a vital part of the live theater experience. Since 1998, Jim Guy has been producing these important visual elements for...

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Joel Brennan outlines Discovery World expansion at president’s breakfast

“Working with our community partners, we have formulated a vision for an exciting and transformational project that will help shape our organization’s future for the next 20 years, and allow us to have a more significant impact on kids in our community.” – Joel Brennan The winning robot from Team 1675, aka the “Ultimate Protection Squad,” kicked off the annual president’s breakfast on April 24 by delivering speech notes to Joel Brennan, Discovery World’s CEO and President. Brennan introduced the students from Rufus King International High School, who recently won the FIRST Robotics competition and qualified for the World...

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Doug Johnson: Family is about love and not skin color

With a career that spans three decades in the music industry from a sound engineer to booking top artists for Summerfest, Doug Johnson is most proud of his other full-time job as being the father of adopted African-American twins. His holistic approach to life, persistence for social justice, and insightful parenting in action takes on racial issues with healthy and direct action. Johnson’s philosophy serves as an example beyond his living room and as a model to the segregated Milwaukee community for how to embrace and incorporate racial diversity. | Q&A with Doug Johnson Milwaukee Independent: What is the...

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Mark Hogan highlights WEDC partnerships at GMC event

The Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) held its membership meeting, with a focus on the Scale Up program and regional jobs creation, at the University Club on April 10. Leaders from local corporations and nonprofits attended the April event in support of the Greater Milwaukee Committee’s work and for a progress update. During the meeting it was announced that the GMC program Scale Up Milwaukee had created almost 500 jobs since it began. “Altogether 57 companies have graduated from the six-month Scalerator program over the last three years,” said Julia Taylor, President of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. “In partnership with...

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Father Patrick Desbois: Uncovering a Holocaust by Bullets

Images of the Holocaust are forever ingrained in the public memory from old photographs of Jews being put on trains for destinations like Auschwitz or Treblinka, locations where millions were exterminated in secret. But those powerful images showed only half of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest from France, has dedicated his life to telling the story of the more than two million Jews who were kiIIed on Soviet territory. For the opening program of the Holocaust by Bullets at the Milwaukee Jewish Museum, Father Desbois gave a public lecture to a sold...

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