Culture

The Milwaukee Art Museum put on a special exhibition of couture gowns and fashions that helped redefine beauty for African American women. Media Milwaukee reporter Mary Jo Contino gives a recap on Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair.

African food, music, dance and fashion filled the Union Ballroom during African Cultural Night at UW-Milwaukee. The African Student Association and Sociocultural Programming co-sponsored the event. They saw a major turnout, as almost every chair in the ballroom was occupied. Due to the large turnout, the food ran out and more had to be made. […]

North Carolinian psychiatric nurse James Lally, 25, would not have traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin if he had not met Milwaukee resident Billy Russell. Lally tells his story of his journey to Burning Man, a music and arts festival in Nevada, and how fate stepped in and introduced him to one of his newest and closest […]

Taylor Duffrin, 20, is one of the many students you can find hooping outside in the grassy areas of Spaight’s Plaza at UWM. Hooping is a popular new trend among many students. Ellie Malone reports.

Graduating with a major in finance, a minor in economics and earning an international business certificate, UW-Milwaukee student Ana Fuentes has a future full of numbers. Ask her to calculate any equation and within seconds, if not minutes, she would have the answer. Numbers may come first in her life, but what most people don’t […]

On the last night of Geek Week at UWM, I attended the Bam! Pow! Comic Book Club’s Cosplay Masquerade in the Wisconsin Room of the Union. I spoke with Alexis Dalbey, secretary of the club, who helped organize the group’s second annual Cosplay Masquerade. Dalbey has been involved with the club for the last two […]

On the first Wednesday of March each year, the Best Buddies organization holds a Spread the Word to End the Word campaign in order to raise awareness about the use of the R-word. The campaign asks people to pledge to stop using the R-word in hopes that it will lead to a more conscious awareness […]

Over 50 of UW-Milwaukee’s women’s studies and philosophy members joined together on March 5 to welcome Alison Jaggar, author and pioneer of feminist philosophy, at her event “Hearts Starve as Well as Bodies.” Jaggar came to Milwaukee from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she leads their departments of philosophy and gender studies. During […]

It wasn’t a calm and quiet Saturday night in the union on April 4. Because the ballroom was home to Hmong Student Association’s second annual “I am Hmoob.” The cultural program showcased a variety of performances, as well traditional Hmong dancing, and singing. Over 100 people were in attendance for the event including students, community […]

Alan Guszkowski is a performer at ComedySportz Milwaukee and also teaches two improv classes off campus there. Shannon Kirsch reports.

Outdoor Pursuits is bringing the latest trend in yoga to campus. It is a mash up between paddle boarding and Vinyasa flow yoga called standup paddleboard yoga, or SUP yoga for short. Mary Sherman, UWM student and SUP instructor explains that this type of yoga builds strength, flexibility, and is a great way to have […]

In room 154 of Mitchell Hall, the Art History Gallery currently features one of the largest collections held in the UWM Art Collection, the Reflections on a Collection, an exhibition that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Rogers Family Collection of Greek and Russian Christian icons to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The exhibit’s […]