Articles by Emily Bea

Complete coverage: multimedia project Jessica Davis sits on her horse, Just A Cool Kat, outside the coliseum, waiting for her turn to enter the arena. A group of riders is assembled, and Davis is the most vivid in a bright purple flamenco-style skirt. Her mount is also dressed up for the occasion. Her mane is plaited […]

It’s like a scene from a bad horror film.  One minute all seems right with the world, and the next minute birds plop one by one onto the ground.  The road is littered with tiny bodies, around 3,000, all dead. New reports of massive and random deaths of bird flocks seem to be pouring in […]

Alena Joling, a student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, sits alone at the counter of a dark coffee house on campus, sipping her coffee.  She looks like actress Ellen Page, except with extremely short, bleached hair, Buddy Holly glasses, and sporting a mustard-colored tie. Underneath this hip exterior beats the heart of a devoted Cheesehead. “It’s the […]

The little ball of scruffy gray fur yips at his crowd of admirers. Little black eyes shine in the fluorescent lights as the dog squirms with excitement. The man holding the little pup lets out great “Ho-Ho-Ho” and ruffles the dog’s fur. Were it not for the man in red and the Wisconsin Humane Society, the […]