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Album: Blank Face LP. Artist: ScHoolboy Q. Label: Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment. Released: July 8th, 2016. Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap. Price: $12.99. ScHoolboy Q’s days of drug dealing and gangbanging are behind him but his legacy will forever be wrapped in a blue bandana. “Groovy Q” has been a Hoover St. Crip his entire life and always will […]

Restaurant review SERVICE: ***** SETTING: ***** FOOD: ***** VALUE: **** OVERALL: ***** Cuisine type:  AMERICAN Price per entrée: From $10 to $19 Attire: NICER CASUAL Reservations:  ACCEPTED Payment: CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED   The Yard at the Iron Horse Hotel 500 W. Florida St, Milwaukee, WI 53204 (414) 374 – 4766 Summer hours: Sunday -Thursday: 10 […]

Book Review By Amanda Busch Spin. Catherine McKenzie. New York. Harper Collins Publishers. 2012. 419 pages. In non-fiction book, Spin, Catherine McKenzie does a great job at shadowing a young woman throughout her journey at a rehab facility. The author begs us to ask if Katie should take the role as a journalist at a […]

Lemonade. Directed by Beyonce Knowles-Carter and Kahlil Joseph. 5/5 Beyoncé’s Lemonade was as much of a film as a musical album. Though titled a visual album, its brilliant artistry deserves to be reviewed like a film. Along with her sixth solo album, the film also premiered featuring the music. It begins with the realization of […]

Wisconsin rocked out to air guitar riffs in the 1960s when Sgt. Glenn Fredrick Dean and his band played the taverns around Washington County. At just 20 years of age, Dean left his family, friends and fans heartbroken when the news broke about his death. Writing Dean’s biography in 2015 came easier than expected for […]

The 2016 Milwaukee Brewers were not supposed to be an exciting team. General Manager David Stearns has already admitted that the team is in rebuilding mode. The team has a few former all-star veterans that they were expected to move, but seems to have stuck trade-deadline gold with a few of their recent acquisitions. The […]

This past week has been absolutely depressing for the black community. Personally, my entire energy has been nothing but negative. I am filled with fear, pain, confusion, disbelief, sadness, and disgust. It’s hard for us to watch another brother of ours go down and be executed the way Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were. Some […]

Last month, after police chased five armed youths from Milwaukee into Washington County, Republican state Representative Janel Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls argued that crime in Milwaukee is starting to spill out into the suburbs and that the state should cut funding to the City of Milwaukee until steps are taken to reduce crime. While crime […]

When it comes to summer, lots of people choose to move and do some home decoration. The furniture market is also going to have its peak high on sale. Many last chance sale or sample sales are released in summer, not Craigslist at this point, so it is a good time to consider shopping new […]

Baseball can be a very frustrating game. It is frustrating for the fan, the player and the team. It can be even more difficult for a team that is below the ranks of other cities, or, in other words; a small market. That is where the Milwaukee Brewers currently stand in their rebuilding, refuting the […]

Living in a salad bowl society over 21 years of my life, I have come to learn that being individual and holding on to your own beliefs is a good thing; however. after moving to the United States and living a society where it is more a melting pot and not a salad bowl, my […]

Netflix is famous for taking liberties that cable television does not have the ability to take: One being the risky topics that “Orange is the New Black” tackles in every single episode. It has been referred to as being far too graphic and extremely violent. Although this may be true, Netflix is not forcing any […]