Culture

From spiders, to twins, to a surly police officer that protects a city from getting soaked in piss, Willy Jonas has played them all. A BFA acting major about to enter his senior year of college, Jonas has been in plays almost every year since kindergarten. Even after never having been in a musical past […]

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

Andy Tarnoff’s life changed over lunch. In 2000, while having lunch with a friend, the young entrepreneur shared the struggle that he and other OnMilwaukee.com co-founders, Jeff Sherman and Jon Krouse, were enduring while starting up their online magazine. The graphic designer told him to talk to her husband. Like many other investors at the […]

Classical music doesn’t usually receive notoriety in pop culture. It doesn’t make money on a grand scale like pop music. But for UW-Milwaukee music professors, Tanya Kruse Ruck and Elena Abend, the music itself is what really matters. Kruse Ruck and Abend are recording an album for voice and piano, using music from three female […]

The Christkindlmarket is an open-air Christmas market that is held in Chicago, IL at Daley Plaza. It is inspired by the Christkindlesmarkt, which began in 1545 in Germany. It runs from Nov. 26th to Dec. 24th. The market includes over 50 vendors that sell everything from authentic German food and drink to handmade wooden figurines […]

More couples are living together than ever before, but this doesn’t mean marriages are lasting longer. Social scientists are calling this phenomenon the “Cohabitation Effect.” Although it is widely accepted that living together is a good test for marriage, it seems the very act of living together can lead to young people choosing spouses that […]

The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music threw its first Festival of Trees and Music, welcoming the holiday season with dozens of performances by Milwaukee musicians over eleven days.

It’s hard for international students to find their sense of belonging when they arrive in a new country. They are not familiar with local cultures, customs and taboos. Students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Concordia University and Marquette University gather at the Meyers house every Friday night. In the first week of September, as school […]

The 70th Annual Holiday Folk Fair arrived in Milwaukee, bringing together cultures from all over the state. The event took place at the Wisconsin Exhibition Center at State Fair Park in late November.

Avant-garde film artist Peggy Ahwesh held a screening at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Union Theater on Oct. 12. Set up by UWM’s Film and Art departments, as well as the Women’s Resource Center, the screening displayed several of Ahwesh’s short films, which touched upon a variety of topics, mostly pertaining to feminist ideas. Ahwesh has […]

Each month, the Peck School of the Arts hosts an event called “Milwaukee Unplugged.” The school brings in local artists to play at UW-Milwaukee’s Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts. Now in its second year, the program continues to showcase the city’s music scene and foster a sense of community among the students through […]

Nicholas Lampert, an author and educator at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, recently published his latest work, A People’s Art History of the United States. The book is the newest addition to the “People’s History Series.”  “A People’s History Series” is a project started by The New Press in attempt to feature alternative histories. Eelisa Jones […]