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Tisia Muzinga sat down with her mother, Dr. Annie Kinwa-Muzinga, over Thanksgiving break. They talked about Tisia’s childhood, her goals, and how proud Kinwa-Muzinga is of Tisia.

Dwayne Lee’s brother, Eric, has cerebral palsy. He has encouraging advice and insight about his disability.

Michael Bourne and Matt Ziems have been best friends for about 14 years. Matt is at the end of his first year as a Milwaukee firefighter and paramedic. Michael learned what it was like for him to realize his life long dream of becoming a firefighter, and how he handles honor and horror that comes […]

Kids don’t always make the best interviewees, but Rebecca Papenthien asked her boyfriend’s daughter, Aleya Perera, the right questions. The two have been buddies for most of Aleya’s life.

Alexandra Claas talks with her brother about growing up together and the transition into becoming more than siblings: best friends.

Ean Holtz lost his godfather, Joe Brown, to suicide just before Thanksgiving. Ean talks with Joe’s brother, Dave, about their shared loss.

At the Newsroom Pub on East Wells St., heightened ceilings hold dim lights that spill on the faces of well-known members of the local media. Behind a voluminous bar, suited writers and jubilant broadcasters of the Milwaukee scene project their smiles onto one another, exchanging handshakes and playful recollections, under the auspices of the Milwaukee […]

Sometimes shorter is better. The six-word memoirs from JAMS 204 students prove it.

Michael Newman grew up in Toronto, Canada and always wanted to be a writer. “I approach the world ready to do a critical interpretation. This means looking below the surface,” Newman said. Newman is a media scholar at UW-Milwaukee who majored in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He later got his PhD […]

Gina Barton spends her days interviewing criminals and racing to the scene of the crime, working as a criminal justice investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Recently, Barton has taken up a story that sounds like it’s straight out of a mystery novel. She created a seven-week serial called “Unsolved,” and every Wednesday of […]

Freaks and geeks from across the nation come came to watch and perform in the largest live music variety show in the Midwest. Dead Man’s Carnival is a Milwaukee-based vaudevillian, circus and burlesque show that can be seen every month at the Miramar Theatre. Leah Mailloux reports.

Students ditched the books and picked up a few Legos at Sandburg Hall in a building competition sponsored by the Student Housing Administrative Council (SHAC). Geaneth Garcia stopped by.