Culture

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 […]

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 […]