Culture

A group of students called the Coalition Against the Ultra Right delivered a petition to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone’s office today in protest of Breitbart News Editor Milo Yiannopoulos coming to campus next week as part of his “Dangerous Faggot Tour.” Yiannopoulos, who is openly gay and nicknamed the Dangerous Faggot, has been […]

Milwaukee got a visit from Hollywood as Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on the classic CBS sitcomThe Munsters, had a booth set up at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference. Patrick posed for a few photos with fans while showcasing Herman Munster on his shirt. He was also selling and autographing photos and other Munsters memorabilia. […]

When you live in Milwaukee and think your house is haunted, you don’t call Ghostbusters, you call a group like the Paranormal Investigators of Milwaukee. Michael Graeve, an investigator with the organization, has always been curious about the paranormal,although he considers himself to be a skeptic. He joined other paranormal investigators, Bigfoot hunters and skeptics […]

Black. Lives. Matter. The hashtag emerged in 2013 and changed social activism ever since. It’s 2016 now and those words still serve as a call to action. The co-founders of that hashtag aim to live in a society where everyone has the access to make decisions over their own lives. They have been traveling across […]

“I want to change your perception about every bite of food you bring to your lips.” Kyle Cherek’s “We Eat What We Are” TEDxUW Milwaukee talk, highlighted how flavor plays a role in our memory and identity. His talk explored how flavors formed us and how our food choices affect our future. Nearly 40 people […]

As I walked through Boerner Botanical Gardens I was transported back to my childhood in a suburb of Chicago. Every December, each resident on Forest Avenue would impressively adorn their home with Christmas lights, nativity sets and inflatable Santas in sleighs pulled by reindeer. People would park their cars nearby, get out and walk the […]

Every year, the Milwaukee Film Festival kicks off with a rocking party sponsored by local businesses that showcases the upcoming festival and brings together Milwaukee’s movie lovers. Since the renovation of the Peck School of the Arts building, the annual film festival party has taken place in the effortlessly cool renovated building which serves as […]

After watching and discussing Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade” this past Wednesday, October 12, participants learned one thing: “Lemonade” was made for black women. Angela Lang and Shavonda Sisson facilitated a group of roughly 30 people in UW-Milwaukee’s Inclusive Excellence Center in the Union, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to chat about “Lemonade.” It is […]

On stage at UW-Milwaukee’s Korean Day were two black belt professors who were accompanied by 10 students. The students themselves had their own colored belts: five red belts, three black belts, one green belt and one brown belt. Each belt stands for what level that student has reached in the art of Taekwondo. During this act, there […]

Harlem is rising. #LukeCage pic.twitter.com/Rg13hUpgai — Luke Cage (@LukeCage) September 30, 2016 Luke Cage has been unveiled on Netflix and has caused quite a stir with the streaming public, and mostly in two opposite directions. I’m loving the trend of filmmakers placing cultural “Easter eggs” in contemporary film, offering subtle or explicit confirmation that they […]

In a year full of musical star power, where some of music’s biggest personalities have been taking up the spotlight with their releases, it seems as though there’s an insane amount of impressive music getting ignored and thrown under the rug. Here are some of the best releases from the first half of 2016 that […]

As you probably know, there have been a few incidents recently regarding police officers, and the black community. Of all of the groups of angry people in the United States, this group is one of the few that are justified in their complaints. However, for some reason, a common form of protest seems to be […]