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The City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance announced its support for PrideFest Milwaukee’s inclusion of three nonsmoking areas on the festival grounds Designated nonsmoking areas include the Exercising Pride: PrideFest Health and Wellness section, the Youth Area, and the Children and Family Stage. Festival organizers also request that attendees refrain from smoking in the new PrideFit area that features yoga and dance, along with the History and Stonewall tents. As the demographics of the LGBTQ community change, family friendly spaces are increasingly in demand. At just 6 years old, Jasper Murray-Bentz and his two moms like to attend PrideFest, but...

Over 100 free concerts, movie nights and events are scheduled in Milwaukee County Parks this summer – including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at Boerner Botanical Gardens, concerts at Grant Beach and a Thursday night traveling concert series. As well as established concert series such as Chill on the Hill at Humboldt Park and Jazz in the Park at Cathedral Square, entertainment will include a new Traveling Tunes series, which will visit ten parks around the county on Thursday nights. A new concert series at Washington Park this summer will feature a different theme each night, including ‘beer and bass’...

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele announced that a custom Traveling Beer Garden bicycle design will be revealed on June 7 at the Kletzsch Park Traveling Beer Garden as part of Wisconsin Bike Week. The unique bicycles, designed by Fyxation Bicycle Co., features custom colors to match the Traveling Beer Garden branding, white wall tires inspired by the Sprecher Brewing fire trucks, and even include a custom leather stein holder. Visitors to the Traveling Beer Garden throughout the summer will have a chance to win the one-of-a-kind bikes. “Cycling along the Oak Leaf Trail to one of the Traveling Beer...

Professor and author Richard Florida will be the featured guest in an upcoming “On the Issues with Mike Gousha,” June 8 in the Lubar Center at Marquette University Law School’s Eckstein Hall. In 2002, Florida’s best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class, focused on a demographic shift happening around the world — an urban revival sparked by young, creative, tech-savvy professionals. Now, 15 years later, Florida has written a far more sobering book, The New Urban Crisis. It explores a darker side of the urban renaissance, something he calls “winner-take-all urbanism.” Florida sees deepening inequality in our cities,...

The first all day dining event along West Vliet Street will be held on June 10 to celebrate popular eateries. The West Vliet Street Business Association announced that they planned to hold a first-time event for the business district focused on celebrating food. The Business Association is a non-profit civic organization dedicated to a Vliet Street renaissance. “We’re thrilled to launch this exciting new event to showcase all the great dining establishments on West Vliet Street,” said Lynita Wolf, events coordinator for the West Vliet Street Business Association. “We invite residents to come out for dining specials, music, shopping,...

Week-long promotions and events brings together business owners, neighbors, and partners to celebrate Milwaukee’s Silver City neighborhood from June 10 to 17. The Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN) and business owners invite the public to celebrate community and opportunity in the Silver City Neighborhood in June. The Silver City neighborhood is known for its diversity of businesses including one of Milwaukee’s best International dining destinations on the Southside of Milwaukee. The event is hosted by Layton Boulevard West Neighbors and Silver City neighborhood business owners. “Silver City Week offers an chance for Milwaukeeans to enjoy all the wonderful assets...