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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s 19th annual drag show breaks out the sequins and spandex, dance moves and feel-good grooves on February 24 at the Miller High Life Theatre. The 2018 UWM Drag Show will feature more than 20 drag performance artists, special guest Jaidynn Diore Fierce of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” two emcees and an intermission performance from a rising singer-songwriter to be announced next week. A family-friendly, all ages pre-show will run in the theater’s rotunda. The 2018 UWM Drag Show will be emceed by celebrated drag performers Lady J (aka Jazz Nance, a UWM alum and current graduate student)...

Volunteers this year will see a new identity for Milwaukee Riverkeeper when they register for the 23rd Annual Milwaukee Riverkeeper Spring Cleanup event held on April 21. The non-profit enlisted the help of the branding and identity experts at Monarch Creative, Inc. to design a new logo coupled with updated messaging, to better communicate the organization’s mission, vision and programming. In the new logo, three rivers are depicted within a bold shield that represents how the Milwaukee Riverkeeper staff and volunteers protect the Milwaukee River Basin which includes the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers. The heroic interpretation was chosen...

The Milwaukee Ballet recently announced their 2018-19 season, and revealed a companion series of inspired murals that feature Michael Pink’s Dracula, The Nutcracker, Genesis 2019, Lambarena, and Bruce Wells’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The 2018-19 season will open in October with Dracula, Milwaukee Ballet Artistic Director Michael Pink’s most famous work. The blockbuster ballet has been presented in companies across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, accompanied by singers from the Florentine Opera’s Donald and Donna Baumgartner Studio Artist Program, will perform Philip Feeney’s score live. “This season we celebrate innovation, collaboration, and creation,”...

The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce and Herzing University-Brookfield announced a new scholarship for LGBT individuals working in the healthcare industry on February 12. The Pride in Healthcare scholarship opens up new possibilities for members of the Greater Milwaukee LGBT community to pursue careers in healthcare and further raise awareness among all healthcare professionals of the need for increased cultural understanding when caring for and supporting coworkers of the LGBT population. The fifty-percent scholarships provide half-off tuition, up to $15,000, through Herzing University’s Brookfield campus for LGBT employees of three Chamber members in southeastern Wisconsin – Aurora Health Care,...

The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued a reminder to voters that there is still time to get the appropriate photo ID they will need to vote in the Spring Primary on February 20. Wisconsin’s voter ID law, enacted in 2011 after Republicans took control of the legislature and the statehouse, requires citizens to show a driver’s license, a passport, a naturalization certificate or one of several other fairly uncommon documents before casting a ballot. A federal court blunted the impact of the law in 2016, ordering the state to give a free ID to any voter who asked for one,...

The public will be able to sip and sample from thirty downtown Milwaukee restaurants over five nights from March 5 to 9. Taste & Toast, a happy hour event coordinated by Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, returns again this year with an assortment for restaurant enthusiasts to enjoy. The event features specially priced small plates, appetizers and one-of-a-kind beverages, alcoholic and nonalcoholic, at more than two dozen restaurants, bars and lounges in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. “Taste & Toast is a unique event that highlights downtown Milwaukee’s evolving restaurant and nightlife scenes,” said Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown...