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Warning: This article deals with topics that may be triggering including suicide and depression. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, it is important to reach out to loved ones or consider scheduling an appointment with a therapist near you. In May 2020, I was admitted to a psychiatric ward […]

Sabrina Carpenter performed for a sold-out crowd at The Sylvee. Photo: Brady Jager MADISON, Wis. — A monumental heart set piece with flashing lights rolled out to the center of The Sylvee stage on April 28. Audience members pulled out their phones in anticipation, as this indicated that 24-year-old pop star Sabrina Carpenter was moments […]

Eighteen voices merged into one singing “Flesh and Bone,” “Nina Cried Power” and “Stone Cold.” Public Hearing is currently the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s only a cappella group, and it was created in February 2022 by students River Rommel and Tyler Grant. Rhythmic was UWM’s most recent a cappella group that dispersed in 2019. Grant and […]

From articles discussing the walleye wars to modern day coverage of water protectors, Native Americans and the media have often had struggles of equal representation, context and attention in native communities and the news that exists around them. The intricate relationship between Indigenous communities and media outlets has run a course that has sowed distrust, […]

At UW-Milwaukee’s Art & Design MFA Exhibition: “already, no longer, not yet,” talented students pushed the boundaries of their craft and reflected on their journeys as artists. Dive into this exhibition with us. 

It’s easy to see why the shoegaze band, Wednesday, would choose to intersperse their latest album, “Rat Saw God” with lyrics about drug addiction, specifically opioids. The group is from Buncombe County, N.C., where more than 10 million painkillers were prescribed to a population of 260,000, according to a study done by Red Oak Recovery, […]

Nervous laughter echoed in the James Madison Academic Campus’s auditorium before Tiff Polzin’s students took the stage. Stragglers in the small group are ushered away from messing around with the piano, which is missing a few keys that chime like an uncomfortable chuckle, and banished to the edge of the stage near the stairs. Polzin, […]

Photo: Sheryl Crow, Instagram. Yung Gravy, Drake White-Bergey, the Daily Cardinal. Summerfest’s 55th anniversary is just months away. The Big Gig revealed seven of the nine American Family Insurance Amphitheater headliners, like Imagine Dragons and Eric Church, as well as the ground stage lineup featuring artists such as Coi Leray, Japanese Breakfast and Cheap Trick. […]

In 2009, Michael Jackson announced his final tour “This is It” which would take place in July of that year. Unfortunately, the King of Pop would never make it to that tour. On June 25, 2009, Michael Joseph Jackson died. Jackson’s legacy will live on through his friends, family, fans and new biopic. Recently, the […]

The snowy roads of downtown Milwaukee were transformed into streets of leprechauns, Irish dancing and green and gold beads during The Shamrock Club’s 55th St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday. The parade started at noon on North MLK Drive and West Wisconsin Avenue, and it ended an hour and a half later on Water Street and […]

After 990 days of playing the lick of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” on TikTok, Milwaukee musician Evan Marsalli of garage-rock band Diet Lite caught the attention of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo.  Marsalli posted a video of him playing the iconic guitar riff every day for nearly three years. On Feb. 27, Cuomo duetted his near-1000th video, […]

Lucas Muellenbach drove from Oshkosh, Wis. Valentine’s Day to see his favorite drag queen perform in Milwaukee.  However, there was one problem. 18-year-old Muellenbach’s car was in turmoil during the hour-and-a-half drive and ultimately broke down in a no-parking zone on Milwaukee’s East Side.  “I don’t know how I’m getting home,” Muellenbach said. “I’m not […]