Would You Travel In a Self-Driving Car? We Asked UWM Students Posted on September 20, 2016 by Jenna Gaidosh [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o-j4yuDK4o&w=700&rel=0]
UWM Sororities Welcome in New Members Posted on September 20, 2016 by Maggie Polsean [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhrGM57rrM&w=700&rel=0]
Human Trafficking in Milwaukee: Lifting the Veil Posted on September 12, 2016October 2, 2016 by Paul Bertling 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 […]
UW-Milwaukee Veterans Fight for More Than Liberty Posted on September 6, 2016 by Elizabeth Lapointe UW-Milwaukee student Amanda Dahms was a voluntary Marine Corps service member who enlisted when she was 17-years-old. She went to boot camp the following day after her high school graduation in 2006. After finishing boot camp, she went to the school house and then to the fleet. Dahms said that she was a survivor of […]
Larry Nicholson: A Family Legacy of Service Posted on September 5, 2016September 6, 2016 by Elizabeth Lapointe It was spring of 1968 when Larry Nicholson traveled down to the Pensacola area to see his brother Roger before leaving for Vietnam. It was at Whiting Field in Milton, Florida where Larry’s brother was stationed as a flight instructor after returning home in 1966. He served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Now his […]
Seeking the Key To Beer Happiness At Good City Brewing Posted on August 28, 2016September 12, 2016 by Ed Makowski Good City Brewing 2108 N. Farwell Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 M: Closed Tuesday-Wenesday: 4pm – 12am Thurday-Saturday: 11:30am – 12am Sunday: 11:30am – 10pm (414)539-4343 $4 – $26 Good City Brewing opened this summer on Farwell Avenue on Milwaukee’s East Side. The brewery is situated next to other recent (but breakfast-focused) restaurant, Simple Café. Andy […]
Milwaukee Veterans Are Soothed With Strums Posted on August 3, 2016October 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Lapointe [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUwckPSxiiw&w=700&rel=0] His dark brown hair lays on his chest as he caresses the body and neck of a Sitka spruce top Yamaha guitar perched on top of his faded out blue jeans. His almond-colored eyes look down at a book eagerly, yet calmly, telling him not to fret as he strums. Carlos Berumen served as […]
Pokémon Go Review – Slowpoke Servers Mar Game Posted on July 24, 2016July 24, 2016 by John Fennimore Pokémon Go Developer: Niantic Publisher: Nintendo Format: Android (reviewed on Samsung Galaxy Note 3), iOS Released: July 6, 2016 Price: Free-to-play with microtransactions There’s no denying the global phenomenon Pokémon Go has created. The game has topped daily Twitter users and sees more engagement than Facebook as well as created hundreds of headlines both good […]
Glenn Fredrick Dean: One of the Best Trumpet Players They’d Ever Heard Posted on July 23, 2016July 23, 2016 by Jaimie Anderson 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 […]
Robert G. Mueller: A Soldier Who Sensed his Fate Posted on July 12, 2016July 13, 2016 by Pakou Lee As Pfc. Robert G. Mueller was leaving his home, he looked back at the farm where he grew up and said he would never see the place again. It was as if he knew his fate was to never return home. Mueller was the third child of eight children in the two-story red farmhouse with […]
James Michael Vielbaum: A brother remembers Posted on July 8, 2016July 9, 2016 by Brandon Hartman James Vielbaum grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, raised in a tight-knit family, as one of five children. His father, Louis, was a machinist in West Allis. His mother, Dorothy, helped maintain a hospital. He enjoyed a typical childhood in Wisconsin. James enjoyed spending his free time outdoors, including frequent visits to Pike Lake to swim. […]
Aftermath of Officer-Involved #FalconHeightsShooting captured on Facebook Live (With Transcript) Posted on July 7, 2016July 7, 2016 by Miela Fetaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSjlXpQg2w The aftermath of an officer-involved shooting was captured via Facebook Live in a graphic 10-minute video late Wednesday evening. Lavish Reynolds started the video with 32-year-old Philando Castile slumped in the driver’s seat moaning after being shot by an officer. The lower half of Castile’s white shirt is soaked in blood, and his right […]