Articles by Elizabeth Sloan

Actress Lori Laughlin, her husband Mossimo Giannulli, and their eldest daughter, social media celebrity Olivia Jade, have become the poster family of the college admissions scandal, after federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint charging 50 people with conspiracy to commit fraud in March.  The outrageous details of the Giannulli case include alleged payments totaling $500,000 […]

The Kar-Jenner clan was made famous in part by Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with former boyfriend Ray J in 2003, after which the family became reality television royalty. On a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, her sister Khloe thanked her for taking one for the team.  In her iconic kitchen, Kris Jenner […]

On March 4, 2019, Media Milwaukee student journalists initially reported that UW-Milwaukee Professor Anthony Azenabor was facing allegations of sexually assaulting one of his PhD student advisees in the basement of Enderis Hall.  The next development in the story came shortly thereafter, when a Media Milwaukee student journalist armed with a list of questions was […]

If someone is sitting in a restaurant, walking down the street, taking a seat on the bus, among countless other mundane activities, what is one glaring phenomenon they might observe? Beams of bright blue light illuminating the faces of Americans everywhere, providing unlimited digital assistance for an unfathomable number of tasks. Almost a decade ago, […]

Every Tuesday night from 6 to 11 p.m., UW-Milwaukee sophomore Alexis Neri, 20, spends her time working as a volunteer with homeless youth at Pathfinders Youth Shelter. Each week she arrives at the shelter, located at 1614 East Kane Place, a big cream-colored house with bright blue trim on Milwaukee’s East Side, in time to […]

Milwaukee Public Schools does not know how many sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints have been made against MPS employees because it does not keep centralized records of the cases. MPS could not produce the number of complaints in response to a Media Milwaukee open records request seeking the numbers since 2014. According to  the […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student news website Media Milwaukee won a 2017-18 Open Records “Scoop of the Year” award from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. Media Milwaukee was awarded the “Scoopee” on March 8 for its investigation into dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations on the UWM campus. Media Milwaukee is the only […]

There was an explosion of excitement backstage, in dressing room 250. Milwaukee singer-songwriter Lex Allen stared into the mirror with his hypnotic hazel eyes after a two-hour glam session with rising local makeup artist Shalisa Smith, who has worked with stars like actress Issa Rae and rapper Dej Loaf “I don’t usually do drag makeup,” […]

Carrie Mahone hopes to one day take her big personality to the big screen.