Feature Stories

“Keep Driving” is a popular song on Harry Styles’ album “Harry’s House.” For Beth, the song touched her heart, giving her happy vibes.

Obi is 17 years old and has learned quite a bit about delicate relationships.

Hans Reitmeyer reflects on a week-long experience that altered his perspective on music.

Black mothers and their babies are dying at alarming rates in Milwaukee. Doulas and birth workers are trying to prevent loss in the community. Doulas are people trained to provide emotional and physical support to mothers before, during and after childbirth. Lakeeta Watts, a Milwaukee doula and health worker, founded Essentially Empowered Inc. to provide […]

Eneida Rios shares a special rice recipe with her granddaughter, UWM senior Madison Rios, and Eneida’s son Miguel offers insight on Puerto Rican hospitality.

Andrea Bellart joined a sea of Santas to check out the giant gathering of bike-riding Santa Clauses that happens every December.

Madeline McGuire is a sophomore at UWM with a passion for her craft: film. But she worries about going forward in the film industry as a woman of color in the Midwest. “I definitely do have a lot of fears,” said McGuire. “I feel that women are overlooked in the industry.” Despite her fears, McGuire […]

When customers walk through the doors of The Exclusive Company, the earthy smell of incense and the subtle sounds of music fill their senses as they navigate through aisles of records, CDs and movies.  For five and a half years, Bella Charles worked at this record store’s Greenfield location. Earlier this year while Charles was […]

The sun has been in the sky for less than an hour when Corey Prom arrives with his Red Bull Yellow Edition each morning at Corners Pet and Grooming. As soon as his keys stop jangling and the door to the store lets in the brisk morning air, he is met with the sound of […]

The UWM Art Gallery is marking its fiftieth year since it first began in 1972. The primary objective of the art gallery is to nurture visual artists, promote their work, and allow them to expose their work to the public, collectors, media, and cultural institutions. This year the Crossing Over exhibition is in the Peck […]

Olivera Prpa and her daughter, Jelena, tell about Serbian celebrations and why tradition is an essential part of their culture. Sonia Spitz reports.

Eighty-five-year-old German immigrant Irene Christensen tells her granddaughter about growing up in Europe and moving to the United States during a tumultuous time.