Articles by Gabrielle Barriere

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“You’ll like Chris,” said New Orleans Arnaud’s Jazz Bistro maître d’ Jeff Bergman. “He’s a…character.” Artists of all kinds travel to New Orleans looking to fulfil their artistic pursuits. Whether it’s painters, street performers, musicians, or psychics, the city is filled with nothing but bright colors. Usually, these performers dress brightly to stand out from […]

UW-Milwaukee alum Trapper Schoepp released his newest album “Rangers & Valentines” on April 1. This album, though, was no April Fool’s joke. The 25-year-old musician’s second album offers a classic rock-and-roll background with a country feel. As he sat at Milwaukee’s Urban Ecology Center sipping a cup of coffee, he discussed his sound with great […]

“It feels good to be back,” said Lotus bassist Jesse Miller. “Milwaukee has always been good to us.” Electronic jam-band Lotus recently returned to Milwaukee for a highly anticipated two-night concert series nearing the end of their current tour. Downtown’s Turner Hall Ballroom was bustling with people of all ages the night of Feb. 26, […]

The journalism students were given one task: To find each of the 1,244 missing photographs of Vietnam veterans from Wisconsin who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country 40 years ago. But in some cases, they found the photos but also families whose shattering losses remained so emotionally vivid they couldn’t put them into public words. That […]

Everyone gathered around as Sam Huenink stepped towards the tank, preparing to feed the snake a dead mouse. “Please no screaming when he grabs the mouse,” Huenink, the community programs educator for Milwaukee’s Urban Economy Center, told the gathered children. “Then he’ll be scared and won’t want to eat.” With Earth Day of Service quickly […]

North Carolinian psychiatric nurse James Lally, 25, would not have traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin if he had not met Milwaukee resident Billy Russell. Lally tells his story of his journey to Burning Man, a music and arts festival in Nevada, and how fate stepped in and introduced him to one of his newest and closest […]

Over 50 of UW-Milwaukee’s women’s studies and philosophy members joined together on March 5 to welcome Alison Jaggar, author and pioneer of feminist philosophy, at her event “Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies.” Jaggar came to Milwaukee from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she leads their departments of philosophy and gender studies. During […]

Weight loss is a goal, but a healthy lifestyle is the motivation for UWM student Amber Bak.