Articles by Mac Writt

With white shutters warming under the bright spring sunshine, Dorothy Bertolas’ small one-story home sits quietly along the sleepy residential streets of Menomonee Falls, Wis. The house’s interior is warm, snug, and neat as a pin. Its walls, all painted in a crisp eggshell white, are laden with relics of a time gone by. Years […]

Littered with the remains of a once thriving industrial sector, Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood spawns dense clusters of rusted-out warehouses and long-forgotten telephone wires. The sights along Greenfield Avenue are awash with urban decay. To the north lies a sprawling vacant parking lot, slowly being reclaimed by thickets of yellowing prairie grass. A cracked and […]

Mac Writt reports on the final student art exhibit at the Peck School of the Arts.

A full crowd gathered inside the UWM Union Ballroom for the 2014 Winter Swing Dance, presented by the campus organization, Panther Swing. The event, held on Dec. 6, started with an introductory swing tutorial taught by Jumpin’ Jive Club’s Maureen Majeski and Stephanie Wise. The participants ranged from dance beginners to swing enthusiasts. After an […]

The Klotsche Center hosted Thriller Night on Oct. 30, a dance tutorial on Michael Jackson’s pioneering music video. Attendees included those who loved the King of Pop, people who wanted to learn more about the Klotsche Center’s events and programs, and those who just wanted to have fun on a Thursday night. The event was […]

Nuzzled amidst the colorful racks of secondhand clothing, UW-Milwaukee student and avid thrift store shopper Maria Kuck riffles through her finds. Wearing a “Rosie the Riveter” headscarf and bubblegum pink horn-rimmed glasses, she leafs through her cart, proudly pulling out a pair of high-waisted, acid wash blue jeans, a flannel shirt, a chunky red sweater […]

UW-Milwaukee ranks as the second highest educational institution in the state for foreign student admissions, says a new report. The finding comes as the number of new UWM students from Wisconsin has plummeted over recent years, while the university makes up the gap in part with a growing number of foreign students, especially those from […]

Up the rain spattered steps of UWM’s Helene Zelazo Center, past the origami vending tables and traditional hanbok dresses sheathed in glass display cases, through the sea of audience members and into the Helen Bader Concert Hall, the members of the UWM Symphony Orchestra readies themselves for their impending Korea Day performance. Yeng Thao, 21, […]

Fifty years and 40 missions after NASA’s first spacecraft to Mars, “The Red Planet” astronomy show on Oct. 17 celebrated the exploratory history, current discoveries, and future NASA missions to the planet. The event, held at UW-Milwaukee’s Manfred Olson Planetarium, was the sixth astronomy presentation between Sept. 12 and Oct. 24 to highlight Mars and […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Greene Hall was particularly lively for the first annual International Dessert Competition. Mac Writt sampled the sugary selection.