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The Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) announced Wayne Brady as the headline performer for Laugh It Up Milwaukee 2018, the annual fundraiser that celebrates community partnership. Brady, an internationally adored comedian and performer is the current host of “Let’s Make A Deal” who recently starred as Aaron Burr in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hamilton in Chicago, will take the Riverside Theater stage on Saturday, January 27th, with proceeds going to support the programs of the JCC and Laugh It Up Milwaukee 2018 partner beneficiary, Safe & Sound. “Not only has Laugh It Up Milwaukee grown to...

Daylight Saving Time kicks in today, and the nation’s “Fall Back” ritual brings the return of earlier sunsets and darker evenings. A national poll, conducted by EndDaylightSavingTime.org, was taken to see if Daylight Saving Time (DST) still makes sense in modern times. “We decided to see how the nation felt about that,” said Anthony Boldin, founder of EndDaylightSavingTime.org, the organization responsible for the poll. The poll of 1,147 adults—which had a margin of error of 4 percent—was conducted across the U.S. October 29 through October 31. The poll found that 74% of Americans want to end Daylight Saving Time...

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and Festival Pro, LLC announced that the wildly successful China Lights lantern festival saw attendance of more than 110,000 visitors from across the state, the Midwest, and beyond. China Lights: The Magic Returns was a celebration of Asian culture featuring 50 larger-than-life sculptural lantern displays illuminating 10 acres of Milwaukee’s renowned Boerner Botanical Gardens, in Whitnall Park in Hales Corners. “We promised that China Lights would be back this year bigger and brighter than ever. The overwhelming response to this event exceeded even those high expectations,” Abele said. “It has been a joy to...

The message Discovery World hopes to drive home with Girls & STEM event on November 11 is that any girl can thrive in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The interactive event is designed to spark new interests, make real-life connections, and fight stereotypes and obstacles facing young girls and women in Milwaukee. Girls & STEM hopes to inspire young women to see themselves as future STEM leaders by connecting brilliant female professionals with girls while inspiring creativity and curiosity through engaging hands-on STEM activities. The event will feature more than 35 organizations dedicated to cultivating confidence...

According to a new study by Ipsos, a global research firm, on behalf of Milwaukee’s National Business Furniture, office design and aesthetics are playing a greater role in recruiting young talent. The study, which surveyed adults over the age of 18, including a subsample of adults who work in an office environment, looked at which factors have the biggest influence on employees when it comes to first and lasting impressions. Changing of the guard There seems to be a generational shift as younger adults care more about the look and feel of a workplace than older generations. Design: 76...

The bill is intended to end the collection of taxes, that began in 1996 with the promise of ending by 2010, no later than December 31, 2019. State Senator Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) has introduced legislation that will end the sales and use taxes that have been imposed on residents of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Racine and Washington Counties for the sole purpose of supporting taxpayer funding of Miller Park. “We can all have an extra special New Year’s Eve party that day,” said Carpenter. “Ending the Miller Park tax is one thing in which I think we can all agree.”...