Articles by Carmella D’Acquisto

Caroline Jordan didn’t know she was pregnant until she was rushed to the hospital. Jordan had just gone through a major breakup and had been throwing up. She figured it was stress. When she was evaluated by her doctor, she found out she was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend.   It was the middle of summer in […]

Harrison Colby, 34, sits on his back porch in Riverwest, smoking a Camel Blue and looking out at his corner lot backyard. The previous owner’s crops have taken over the garden beds. There is a sandbox, but Colby doesn’t have any children. Three fruitless cherry trees line the broken-up concrete sidewalk. Colby says the yard, […]

“I reject the idea of ‘making it,’” said Willem Dafoe, prolific multi-award-winning American actor to a room of eager Peck School of the Arts students. Dafoe, a UW-Milwaukee alumnus, was visiting Milwaukee to receive his honorary doctorate of art and serve as the 2022 commencement speaker. On Saturday, May 22, UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone hosted […]

Eighteen-time award winning musician, Lizzo, has started a new line of size-inclusive shapewear that’s designed to encourage plus-sized women of all shapes and sizes to unabashedly celebrate their bodies. The line is named Yitty after Lizzo’s childhood nickname and became available for purchase on April 12, three years after Lizzo and her team began to […]

Darrell Brooks, the alleged perpetrator of the car attacks during the Waukesha Christmas parade, has been charged with nearly 80 criminal counts during his preliminary hearings at the Waukesha County Courthouse hearing.  Nearly 70 counts were added during this preliminary hearing, most of which are for injuries of the victims who survived the attack. The […]

Residual anguish from lockdown kept thousands of UW-Milwaukee graduates from celebrating their commencement. Fewer than 9% of UWM students who had a virtual graduation in 2020 or spring of 2021 attended the in-person recognition ceremony on Sunday, April 10 at the Panther Arena. While only a small percentage of graduates were in attendance, those who […]

Artist Julia Bradfish was awarded Best In Show at UWM’s Juried Art Show for her oil portrait, “Regimen,” featuring a woman shaving her legs on the toilet. Bradfish, one of three women honored with awards at the show, reflects on her experiences as a woman throughout several of her pieces. “I address stereotypical expectations of […]

The Newline Cafe is the only coffee shop in the south side neighborhood of Silver City. It’s also a classroom for Escuela Verde, the high school next door that focuses on emotional growth and social opportunities just as much as academics. Nestled along the Menomonee Valley, the Newline Cafe is a bright and versatile event […]

David Kotke, 58, has been a bartender his whole life. When the pandemic hit, his bar closed permanently. For the first time in a long time, he was left without a clue of what came next. David was planning to retire from that same bar in a few years time. He was unemployed through most […]