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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.

Every week, motorcyclists ride through the streets of Milwaukee hoping to inspire the community. Katarina Vergara reports.

As UW-Milwaukee hosted the city-wide kickoff of the annual Make a Difference Day for the first time on a recent Saturday, one of the people students helped was 79-year-old Eleanor Quint, who needed a hand preparing for winter. Quint was right there with the students with a rake in hand. She sported a blue, fall jacket, […]

College is expensive. That is a well-known fact. College also creates debt. Lots of it. Over a trillion in the U.S., in fact. The measures students take to rid themselves of their ever steepening mountain of debt typically range from working part/full time jobs to applying for scholarships. That doesn’t quite do the trick anymore. […]