Articles by Mike Holloway

Bill Van Pelt clicks the “print” button on the outdated computer in his office. As his curriculum vitae starts to print, he begins to tell me about the roots of his mistrust in technology. “I wasn’t always a technophobe,” he says. A loud clunking begins to resonate from the computer desk. The printer stops spitting […]

For the past eight years, Milwaukee Zine Fest has brought together like-minded artists, authors, and poets to display, sell, and trade their works. With a safer space policy encouraging attendees to treat each other with respect and to be assertive when oppressive or aggressive situations occur, it’s an event for participants of all ethnic, gender, […]

Tabby Llama-Ortiz is a bicycle courier for the Milwaukee bicycle delivery service Flavor Cycles. Flavor Cycles works with various restaurants around Milwaukee that give customers who are ordering food for delivery to have their meals delivered via bicycle. This has been becoming more and more popular in Milwaukee, a city with a huge bicycle culture […]

The birth of a child for many can be a special moment. Being surrounded by loved ones in a hospital and gazing into the eyes of a newborn baby for the first time are moments that aren’t easily forgotten. When Edie Pump was brought into this world on May 18, 1942, her parents were on […]

The Riverwest Public House was filling up with people eager to attend the show that Tyler Mantz, who was celebrating his 23rd birthday, had put together. While a show being held at the Public House one recent October evening is nothing out of the ordinary, the artists performing weren’t exactly similar in genre. What they […]

On December 2nd, 1969, Gloria Kinnee awoke to the sound of a sonic boom. Curious as to what could have caused the sound, Kinnee asked her neighbors if they had heard anything. Oddly enough, no one else had heard it, except for Gloria’s brother, Ronald Grieger. They would later find out that their brother Donald […]

“I’ll write to you again soon. I’m a friend until YOU die.” These two lines will forever stick in Jerry Richardson’s memory as the closing lines to the last letter he received from his best friend Lee Chester Adams, of Milwaukee, while Adams was serving in Vietnam. Richardson didn’t hear from Adams for a while […]

Growing up as a Native American on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in the 1950’s wasn’t easy. There weren’t many jobs available to the residents, and many families consisted of a single mother and many children who did what they could to help out. Wayne Malone is no stranger to these hardships. Malone grew up in a […]

There are smiles on everyone’s faces as Ryan Olson expertly holds two leashes in his left hand, a hound at the end of one and a rat terrier mix on the end of the other and aims the camera of a smart phone in his right. Opposite of Olson poses Nicole Pierce, with a Pitbull […]

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, Dean of the UWM Graduate School, apologizes to a conference center filled with UWM faculty and staff. “Apologies that there is no dinner,” Gajdardziska-Josifovska says. “I guess this is the start of our budget cuts.” The room erupts in laughter at the timely joke. The UWM faculty and staff members have gathered in […]

How quickly the list of UWM chancellor finalists was developed, and how short it is, surprised some. But overall the UWM community seems impressed with the three choices.  If they know who they are, that is. “I am very excited on Mark Mone making the short list; he always takes the faculty concerns into consideration,” […]

UW-Milwaukee student Leah Mailloux was walking four blocks from campus, when a stranger ran up behind her. “I had my headphones in, walking along two blocks away from my house, and some guy runs up behind me, tries to grab my purse and my phone, he grabs a hold of my phone but didn’t get […]