Street Art Exhibit Premieres on Milwaukee’s East Side

Street art display, Black Cat Alley, held its grand opening on September 18 in the alleyway between Kenilworth Pl. and Ivanhoe Pl., south of North Ave. Artists, including UW-Milwaukee students, painted nine murals on the building walls of the alley. The exhibit’s founder, Tim Decker, said he wanted to use art to change a dull […]

UW-Milwaukee Considers Sustainability ‘Green Fund’

UW-LaCrosse has one. UW-Eau Claire has one. UW-Stevens Point has one, and now UW-Milwaukee may be getting one too. Now, the Student Association (SA) has voted in favor of establishing a green fund at UWM. The green fund is designed to give students who have an idea about how to make the campus more sustainable […]

13-year-old Tyre King Dead After Officer-Involved Shooting in Columbus

A Columbus police officer will receive psychological support counseling and time off after fatally shooting and killing 13-year-old Tyre King, according to the Columbus Division of Police. Following a report of an armed robbery, officer Brian Mason, a nine-year veteran, shot King after he “pulled a gun from his waistband”, Columbus police say. The weapon […]

Human Trafficking in Milwaukee: Lifting the Veil

She was 14. She was dirty, she was hungry, she’d been running away from home for about a year, and she was 14. There came a time when she hadn’t eaten anything or slept at all in three days when a man who had taken her out to dinner in the past approached her. He […]

MMA says Goodbye to the Wild West Days

The dust has barely settled in Las Vegas after WWE pro wrestler/part-time MMA fighter/athletic circus freak Brock Lesnar returned from a five-year absence from fighting, and this morning the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has announced the company’s sale to WME | IMG. The sale comes at a price of $4 billion, the largest amount of […]

5 Underrated Albums That Have Been Neglected So Far in 2016

In a year full of musical star power, where some of music’s biggest personalities have been taking up the spotlight with their releases, it seems as though there’s an insane amount of impressive music getting ignored and thrown under the rug. Here are some of the best releases from the first half of 2016 that […]

3 Reasons Blocking a Freeway Won’t Help Your Cause

As you probably know, there have been a few incidents recently regarding police officers, and the black community. Of all of the groups of angry people in the United States, this group is one of the few that are justified in their complaints. However, for some reason, a common form of protest seems to be […]

4 Reasons to be Skeptical About a New Pokémon Movie 

When a non-movie property becomes insanely popular, chances are that hundreds of movie studios will be clamoring to turn it into a movie. And that appears to be the case yet again with Pokémon, whose recent game Pokémon Go has topped Twitter’s daily users and has people spending more time with it than Facebook. According […]

Will Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner” help him climb out from the shadows of “Panda?”

It seems like every hip-hop head’s worst nightmares has come true… Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner” will be a definite song. The single artwork surfaced on his Instagram early Monday morning on July 11. The “Panda” rapper’s recent 2016 XXL Freshman Class Magazine cypher had people scratching their heads wondering, “Did he just say Timmy Turner?” His […]

“New” Japanese Food in Milwaukee

Customers today not only care about the quality and taste of the food of a restaurant, they also care whether they have been serviced well. Personally speaking, when I choose a restaurant, I would pay more attention on its food. After I came to Milwaukee, I found the Chinese restaurants here are limited to choose, […]