Culture

UWM’s Chess Club serves as a lively hub where students gather to share their love for the game by building friendships, having fun, and finding a mental escape from the anxieties of college. Erin O’Neill has the story.

At a Halloween party a few blocks from the UW-Milwaukee campus, six students reflect on growing up, their college experience, and what about it will stay with them in the future. [sound of car door closing and walking on cement] [sound of door opening] [party sounds enter slowly] (Max) So going to college, I think […]

Are you interested in local history that dives into feminism, socialism and abolition? Cabaret Milwaukee explores these topics and more in their upcoming puppet show about the history of the Milwaukee Turners. Sophia Stezala with the story.

The Trove Arts Parlour is premiering on a brand new production called Into the Shadows. Let’s take a look at what makes this event perfect for the Halloween season. Peyton Bell tells us more.

Oasis has expanded its highly anticipated 2025 worldwide reunion tour, announcing their first Australian concerts in 19 years, according to NME. The famous Manchester rock band will perform a pair of stadium concerts in Melbourne and Sydney next fall on Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 respectively, as announced by Live Nation on Tuesday morning. “People […]

You probably have heard the old saying, “Everything is bigger in Texas.” With the number of cities and towns, you would never have expected what you could find. Eagle Pass, Texas, is one of those towns with some history. Texans realize it is a town on the border of Texas and Mexico; it has a […]

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The border is such a very divisive topic and over the last eight years here in America, it has many sides going against each other with many wanting a wall across the border and stricter precautions when it comes down to immigration itself and many wanting restrictions to be loosened. My […]

With the border crisis, you always hear more about the cities on the United States side, but you hear slightly less about the towns in Mexico. With Texas being one of the biggest states in the United States, you would expect to hear very little from its neighbor across the river. Piedras Negras is a […]

Laredo, Texas, although not the focus of mainstream immigration media, remains a port for immigrants from Mexico to the United States. A rich Mexican-influenced culture juxtaposes a struggling border town, where abandoned budlings and empty stores line the historic streets.   The media have thoroughly investigated Eagle Pass, Texas after the surge of migration in December […]

With many big cities in the state of Texas, you would have to expect which one would be the most historical. With the amount of history and how Texas was originally a part of Mexico, you would need to know what to expect. San Antonio is known for two of the biggest things (no pun […]

Eagle Pass, Texas, has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate. The rise of immigration over the past year has caused the Governor of Texas, Gregg Abbot, to declare a state of emergency sending in the Texas National Guard and with them, a great deal of concertina wire and buoys. This has attracted other […]

Wisconsin has always been a state known for beer and cheese, and it has many unheard-of cities and towns. Whitewater is one of Wisconsin’s small towns with some history. Wisconsinites realize it as a school town; it has a history, from how the school began to when it was founded. Whitewater, Wisconsin, is a small […]