Local poets to celebrate plaque honoring Thoreau's Milwaukee sleepover
On Saturday, local poets and performers will help Colectivo Coffee celebrate the night that poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau spent in Milwaukee. On his way to Mackinac Island in 1861, Thoreau took a train to Milwaukee and stayed overnight in a ...
Cubs Game Notes For Friday @ Milwaukee
* The Brewers have gone 26-8 at home against the Cubs since 2011 – their best home record against any opponent over that span. * At 71-88, the Cubs will have to win two of three games this series to avoid losing 90 games for an MLB-high 24 th time since ...
Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Representatives Attend People’s Climate March
NEW YORK CITY – Six representatives of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Milwaukee Youth Council traveled to New York City last week to attend the largest climate awareness demonstration in U.S. history. Aqueel Scott ...
Bucktown's Blighted Northern Gateway at Milwaukee, Western Ripe for Change
BUCKTOWN — A blighted patch of Bucktown at the southeast corner of Milwaukee and Western avenues could be seeing its next chapter, now that an unused parking lot belonging to the shuttered Illinois Title Loans complex has been bought. "It's an important ...
Milwaukee Brewers exercise 2015 option on Yovani Gallardo
The Milwaukee Brewers plan to have Yovani Gallardo back for 2015, and will pick up his $13 million option for next season, rather than pay him a $600,000 buyout. The move is not a surprise, as Gallardo is still young (he will pitch all of 2015 at age 29 ...
Cover Alert | Freeman Covers No Quarter In Milwaukee
Co-founding member of Ween Aaron Freeman, the artist formerly known as Gene Ween, is currently in the middle of his first full tour with his new band - Freeman. Last night Freeman performed at Turner Hall in Milwaukee, where the band had a treat in store ...
Milwaukee Co. Supv. Alexander: Shines light on the false claims for retaliatory audit
Milwaukee County Supervisor Deanna Alexander released a statement today regarding the County Board’s vote to move forward with an audit: “After yesterday’s 15-2 vote to audit Family Care providers, at least two Supervisors made public statements to ...
Milwaukee Film Festival: featuring a ‘passport’ to Mexico
A celebration of family in all of its messy beauty Changing hearts and minds isn’t normally the specific mission statement of film festivals, but that’s the idea behind the Milwaukee Film Festival’s special Passport program (running through Oct. 9 ...
Milwaukee Rep's THE COLOR PURPLE Opens Tonight
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2014/15 Quadracci Powerhouse Season kicks off in grand style with an uplifting production of The Color Purple. This hit musical, based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will be directed by Artistic Director Mark ...
