“Sijan” and Chip Duncan’s “The First Patient” among world premieres at Milwaukee Film Festival
Milwaukee Film recently announced its first wave of programming for the 10th Annual Festival, including the World Premieres and new Das Kino, GenreQueer, and Teen Screen program categories. Programmed by teens and for teens, Teen Screen includes four features,...
Annual boat parade on Milwaukee River to feature parade floats that actually float
The 2nd Annual Milwaukee Riverkeeper Boat Parade will be held on September 8, and this year it celebrates the city’s creative talent with floating art installations. The effort applies the same habit of presenting parade floats on land, but with the Milwaukee River as...
Milwaukee launches pilot study of dockless bicycle share system
The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW), at the direction of the Common Council, is initiating a “pilot” study of Dockless Bicycle Share in Milwaukee. Dockless Bicycle Share systems are privately operated and consist of self-service bicycles made...
From Milwaukee to Costa Rica: Leaving the nest for an encounter with the bigger world
I have been fascinated by birds all my life. The beauty and mechanics of each feather, their ability to defy gravity, and the unique calls they make captivated my imagination since I was very little. In order to get closer to these exotic avian creatures, I would...
Hip-Hop Week kicks off as an immersive music and cultural platform for civic engagement
The Miller High Life Theater hosted a news conference with Alderman Khalif J. Rainey and community leaders on August 20 to launch Hip-Hop Week MKE, the first official city-wide event of its kind. The inaugural event runs from August 20 to August 26 at various venues...
Special mural addition will pay tribute to closing of Kashou Carpets after 108 years
After 108 years in Milwaukee, Bob Kashou, owner of Kashou Carpets, one of the oldest carpet stores in the country, announced the beloved East Side store will be liquidating its inventory and closing its doors by the end of 2018. Kashou has been tracking the changes in...
A conversation with Anne Basting about aging and its conflicted cultural value
On January 31, Milwaukee PBS hosted an enlightening conversation with 2016 MacArthur Fellow, UWM Theatre Professor, and Founder of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling, Anne Basting. Basting has dedicated her life to improving the lives of older adults through the arts,...
Main ingredient of Monsanto’s heavily used herbicide found in popular breakfast cereals
A number of popular breakfast foods, including cereals, granola bars and instant oats, were tested and found to contain potentially dangerous amounts of cancer-linked glyphosate, the main ingredient in weed killer. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), an...
Independent media is “not the enemy of the people”
Photo by Gage Skidmore and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 President Trump’s “fake news” campaign and shunning of press diversity has led to a series of grave abuses against media and journalists, and threatens an already wilting American democracy. Since taking office,...
City maps now reflect permanent place for Vel Phillips as 4th Street renamed in her honor
History was made on August 7 as Vel R. Phillips, Milwaukee’s first African-American and first female Alderperson, had a public street officially named to memorialize her life and work. Signs for North 4th Street, from West Saint Paul Avenue to West Capitol Drive, were...
Blunders by news outlets did not prevent Mandela Barnes from winning Democratic primary
The candidate for Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor was left off the election notices of three newspapers just one day before the state’s August 14 primary, and he even had to convince a television station that he was still alive. At least the glitches did not cost him...
Milwaukee officially declared a Purple Heart City and County on medal’s 236th anniversary
The Milwaukee County War Memorial Center hosted a ceremony to honor veterans wounded in combat on Purple Heart Day, August 7. The annual observance commemorates the creation of the Purple Heart Medal on August 7, 1782 by the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army,...
