The Downfall of Starbucks Coffee

             Starbucks Coffee Company is the largest coffee chain in the world. Starbucks was originally founded in Seattle in 1971 but has since found its way to every corner of the globe. Employing over 350,000 partners, serving an average of 8 million Starbucks drinks a day (Leo Qin). I started working there in early 2019, […]

Henry Ford and the Führer

When we talk about the influence and importance of a revered individual from American history, we often tend to exclude, or develop amnesia for, any uncomfortable facts about said person’s livelihood or personal opinions. Henry Ford, whose company is a household name within the automobile world, is one of these people. Revealing the ugly truth […]

The UWM Cambridge Commons CO leak

     This past spring semester, the UWM council officially failed to protect the wellbeing of students. To be more specific about what happened, on 1 March 2022, our own Cambridge Commons was experiencing a leak of Carbon Monoxide and was ordering to evacuate all residents. Except this is just a basic descriptor of the event […]

Review: We Own This City

     More and more, every year, larger amounts of people are given more evidence to the corruption our nation’s police are guilty of profiteering off of, hiding, or doing what else they can with it. This is what the HBO exclusive We Own This City tells us. While there are far too many cases and […]

Grunya Sukhareva is The True Aid of Autism

Pretext The woman this community, and I, truly have to give thanks to is one Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva (Груня Ефимовна Сухарева). In light of recent discoveries within the Autism community, the notion of referring to individuals as ‘on the spectrum’ or ‘having Asperger’s syndrome’ have come under immediate fire. By ‘discoveries’, I am referring to […]

Italian Summer in the City: Tenuta’s in Bay View Satisfies

Tenuta’s Italian Restaurant Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 4PM to 10PM 2995 Claremont Ave., Milwaukee Pricing: 3$ of 5 (entrees $17 to $26) Stars: 4 of 5 The sun is still high and hot this early evening and the neighborhood bakes with reflected warmth from the street’s old stones. An aproned waiter straightens cloths on sidewalk […]

You Should Know Who Vladislav Surkov Is

     I don’t think people consider the impact of Russian politician and business Vladislav Surkov enough. Now, I’m not in shock if people don’t know him already, especially those outside of or not directly reading from the Kremlin; almost a guarantee for the many who live outside Russia. What was surprising to me was learning […]

Republicans Are Not As Pro-life As They Claim  

Roe v. Wade is a legal case from 1973 that ruled the unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional and violated women’s constitutional rights of privacy, according to Brittanica. Now, after almost 50 years, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, which in short means that there is no longer a federal constitutional […]

Howl’s Moving Castle: How Love Transcends War

Howl’s Moving Castle  Studio: Ghibli   Director: Hayao Miyazaki’s  Starring (English Voice Cast): Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, and Lauren Bacall.   Runtime: 1h 59min.  Rating: 5 Stars  Along the line of Miyazaki’s trend to turn classic children’s literature into works of art, Howl’s Moving Castle is no different. Loosely based off of the book of the British […]

Hulu’s ‘The Dropout’ and What We Should Take Away From Lizzy

As George Schultz asks in the final episode of “The Dropout,” “Isn’t it amazing how far decent people will go when they’re sure that they’re right?” The eight episode run of Hulu’s miniseries began as somewhat of a character study of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of a medical tech company who stole the livelihoods […]

Chick-A-Dee’s Is a Breakfast Must

This morning for the first time ever I had breakfast at Chick-A-Dee’s family restaurant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, my girlfriend Olivia and I went as she told me it was the best breakfast place in Eau Claire. As an avid fan of breakfast food, I decided to give the small restaurant a chance. Chick-A-Dee’s is […]