Articles by Emily Zantow

As authorities launched an aggressive search for the killers of Laylah Petersen, the 5-year-old Milwaukee girl who was shot twice in the head while sitting on her grandfather’s lap inside her own home, one of the alleged murderers was already in gun court: For another shooting that occurred the month before Laylah was slain. Carl […]

Moss crawls up the decaying walls to reach cracks of light through the broken windows. Shadows accompany a silence that yearns to be broken. Tools, notepads and remnants of a factory blanket the floor where feet once did… a different side of Milwaukee than most people see. Milwaukee resident and photographer Jackie Nytes stumbled upon […]

A year and a half ago, 35-year old Brian Tebbitt quit his job as a scheduling manager and became the first in his family to attend college. Upon returning to the United States after traveling overseas, Tebbitt and his wife struggled to find a job. “A high school diploma will no longer get you where […]

Morgan Paradis fell in love with the oboe years ago.  

Yale professor and critic Aníbal González-Pérez presented a lecture to honor Latin-American novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez one year after his death. González-Pérez focused on Márquez’s novel 100 Years of Solitude. The UWM Department of Spanish and Portugese and UWM Libraries sponsored the event. Emily Zantow listened in.

A.V. Club Milwaukee Editor and Onion writer Matt Wild gave a talk to the Journalism and Media Studies Living Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Nov 18th, and told the students to “write about stuff you can have fun with.” Wild received his Bachelor’s degree in Film at UW-Milwaukee. After graduation in 2002, […]