Culture

Ted and Joe Glorioso have been selling Italian imports and deli to the east side of Milwaukee for over 65 years. In 2010, a new location across the street filled from floor to ceiling with specialty wines, cheeses and olives giving the family more space to expand their business. The smell of smoked ham only […]

Windy Breeze is dressed in a zebra-themed costume. She seductively walks onto the stage in six-inch zebra-print heels, black tights, a zebra-print tutu and a black top. Breeze walks and dances as if she was born to perform in heels. She performs to a Ke$ha themed soundtrack and dances fiercely during her five minute spot. […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Broadcast Club put on their first productions of the spring semester Friday afternoon. The Broadcast club made two productions Friday.  The first featured two interns, Rachel Anderson and Megan Kiepert, of the Focus Training Company, while the second featured two employees of UW-Milwaukee, Cynthia Petrites, a Interim Director, and Sherri Pfennig, a […]

It will take a well-designed paper plane and an even better throw to break this year’s world record distance. Students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee took flight on Saturday March 3, 2012 at the Red Bull Paper Wings event and swept the competition. The event was a paper plane contest held specifically for UWM and […]

The stage inside the Zelazo Center is dark. There are about twenty women on the stage of all different shapes, races, and ages.  Slowly, one-bye-one, a spotlight shines on each woman while she describes what her vagina would wear.  Some of the descriptions are light and fun, others are dark and morbid. This is the UW-Milwaukee performance […]

Surrounded by collages and students Michael Newman revealed through the medium of television how videogames have impacted society in his study on the cultural history and early interaction of videogames at the New Media Studies conference room last Tuesday. Newman, a professor of media studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, presented his research spanning from […]

Ayurveda, an arrangement of traditional medicine, as well as a form of alternative medicine that is claimed to balance the body, is explained in depth in the Multicultural Lounge in the Union on Monday by Carrie Van Kempen, a certified Ayurvedic educator. It is said that by practicing and following the ways of Ayurveda, “one […]

The temperature finally dropped to the normal bone-chilling cold weather expected of a Milwaukee winter, but that didn’t stop locals from attending the weekend’s Riverwest Fest. The winter Riverwest Fest boasted nearly fifty bands in two days sponsored by local radio stations and business, all held in the neighborhood west of the Milwaukee River. Although […]

The man behind the cult phenomenon, the Milverine, John Hamman, said he gets recognized on average about 20 times per week. The Milverine was part of a meet-and-greet on Gallery Night at Too Much Rock for One Hand on Friday evening. Hamann, 35, revealed plenty of personal information to lessen the mystery about who he is and […]

George Riemersma, 73, is a postcard collector from Milwaukee. He was diagnosed with cancer when he was 58 and was told by his doctors that he would never make it to 60. Now a 15-year cancer survivor, his collection boasts more than 20,000 postcards from 105 different countries. Riemersma says that he never expected the […]

Sanad Wir, 20, is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a skateboarder from Amman, Jordan. As a skater, Sanad is able to fit into western culture more easily than other Middle Eastern people. Skateboarding has also opened his mind to a view of the world where race, ethnicity, nationality and religion are not […]

Once the glass doors of the Sugar Maple Bar open on the evening of Cinco de Mayo, the hustle of the streets is lost within a fiesta of music, margaritas, and a variety of art that explodes color onto canvas. “I am bound to and love paint as a form of medium.  I love the color that can be created and […]