Culture

Indian community members gathered at the Union Ballroom to celebrate life and ancestors with dancing and singing at the fall UWM powwow. The grand entrance began at 1 p.m. in the afternoon on a recent Saturday. Songs were song for the veterans and the warriors. Flags were held high, and the marching and dancing was […]

The lights dimmed as the band played with wild harmony; the crowd is silent as one among them makes the way to the stage. As the artist recites work, another draws cartoons on a large screen, the room’s energy guiding the drawing. The aura inside the Lyrical Sanctuary, a long-standing UWM tradition, was powerful with […]

They did the Mash. The Monster Mash. And the Cupid shuffle. And of course the Wobble. And any other dance you could think of. Students from UWM and other area colleges gathered to laugh, dance and socialize at the UWM Black Student Union Halloween Party.  While some came in costume and others just wore jeans, […]

Prophet Blackmon was a local artist who would sell his work on the street. He established a series of storefront churches and enterprise centers throughout the inner city. These places offered religious services and served as a site to recycle goods, among other things. Blackmon produced hand-lettered signs made out of found materials to advertise these […]

Milwaukee Film was missing a key component, organizers felt: The black audience. So, the Milwaukee Film Festival’s Black Lens program was developed this year to broaden the festival’s appeal to diverse communities. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student was one of those running it. Milwaukee Film Festival co-programmer, Geraud Blanks, talked to UW-Milwaukee’s Minority Media Association on […]

The author’s presentation was not as much a reading as it was a performance. Ana Maria Shua read each piece in her native Spanish, with an engaging energy and a magnetic rhythm that drew in the audience at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. When Shua – considered one of Argentina’s foremost writers living today, finished each […]

Deborah Miranda, a renowned Native American author and poet, visited the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to give a craft talk on her book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir.   Process was a prevalent theme throughout the talk. She described the 10 years she spent working on it as “drawing a river that she thought her DNA […]

Author, playwright, and performance artist Kate Bornstein spoke to a crowded audience – and one heckler – at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Oct. 30 about gender and sexuality.

Has anyone ever accused you of something that you didn’t do? Did it hurt your reputation to the point where you lost your job and your home? This allegedly happened to an African-American woman who owns a design firm in the south side of Chicago named Regina Wade. She is now suing her former client, […]

Students took a turn trying out Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance moves the night before Halloween. The event at the UW-Milwaukee Klotsche Center was sponsored by University Recreation. Graham Kilmer reports.

  A Plymouth High School band is embracing the German heritage that surrounds the city through more than just the style of music that they play. “We like to think of ourselves as the only authentic high school German band in the country, and there is some validity to that,” Director of Bands at Plymouth […]

Frightening people. That’s what Juan Lopez had in mind when he put his exhibit together. “My goal was to scare people, as well as be able to use a new version of magic lanterns to project the material,” Lopez said. “The idea was to reflect the pictorial qualities of the phantasmagoria.” The exhibit in question […]