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Rating System 1 star= well below average, did not meet standards 2 stars= below average, still disappointing 3 stars= average, satisfactory 4 stars= above average, exceeded expectations 5 stars= exceptional, sets a new standard   Title: Wind River Studio: Acacia Filmed Entertainment Director: Taylor Sheridan Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen Run Time: 111 minutes Rating: […]

Mulan Disney Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy 1hr 28min ***** Mulan is a Disney movie that came out in 1998. The animated, children’s film was based on an old Chinese folktale. Although it’s supposed to be a movie for kids, can adult still enjoy it? Of course! It’s one of my favorite […]

Title: Coco Studio: Disney/Pixar Director:  Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina (co-director) Main actors:  Anthony Gonzalez (voice of Miguel), Gael García Bernal (voice of Hector), Benjamin Bratt (voice of Ernesto de la Cruz) Run Time: 1h 45min Rating: 4/5   Disney-Pixar’s “Coco”: A Great Movie Undermined By Disney’s Growing Laziness As a full-time college student, it’s rare that I find the […]

Movie: Filth Movie rating: ????? (out of 5) “Filth” lets you step in to the mind of a corrupt, cocaine-snorting, pill-popping Edinburgh cop, and experience first-hand what untreated bipolar disorder looks like. Filled with dark realism and fantasy-style elements, the main character spends most of the movie hallucinating shocking visions of animal heads, the ghost […]

Gestan Joshua works full time as a repair & installation technician, all while building his catalog as a producer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqG3QZu7yaU&w=700&rel=0  

Despite its location, many UWM students don’t even know the American Geographical Society Library exists. Visitors have access to hundreds of globes and maps, including maps of Milwaukee county which detail where the best to live might be based on crime rates and high levels of residential security. Curator Marcy Bidney does her part to […]

The UW-Milwaukee campus merger listening session on Tuesday, Dec. 12 ended a half an hour early as the attendees realized that the board members did not have the answers to their questions. “We’ll tell you what we know, which is not a lot because a lot of it is a flux,” said Ron Perez, Interim […]

She lives a life revolved around the arts. That’s what life is like for Gekayla Telford, or as her Facebook profile says, Ya’amani Anaeshii Telford. The name Ya’amani means peace and joy.  Interesting lead. Gekayla is an actor, writer, and artist all while being a student at the University of Milwaukee. She is an English/Lit […]

For the upcoming fall 2018 semester, the JAMS 505: Research for Advertising and Public Relations course will soon be faded into the background. Students in the advertising/public relations concentration in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies will now have a new course requirement to follow. JAMS 407: Persuasive Media Strategies and Tactics is a three-credit course […]

UW-Milwaukee’s Women and Gender Studies program held its third lecture in the Fall Brown Bag Series on Nov. 16 where two very different topics were connected and combined: James Joyce and disability studies. Sarah O’Connell, an English PhD candidate, presented on her topic “Gerty Makes a Scene: Sexual Selfhood and Disability in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” […]

No. That’s what students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee told school officials last week when a referendum asked them to increase their fees to update the Student Union. The school asked students to support an increase in their fees of $124 per semester to fund the “renovation and/or replacement of the existing Student Union.” In […]

Media Milwaukee talks to UWM students to see how they feel about working while being a full time student.