Royal Brevv�xling

Royal Brevväxling is a writer, editor and freelance teacher. As a photo essayist, he also likes to tell stories with pictures. In his writing, Royal focuses on the people who make Milwaukee an inviting, interesting and inspiring place to live.

Royal is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has taught courses in critical pedagogy, writing, rhetoric and cultural studies at several schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is a member of the Educators’ Network for Social Justice, a Milwaukee-area group dedicated to improving education for everyone.

A ‘75 Eldorado owner, Royal drives around like it’s the pre-Carter years and gas is cheap. Royal lives in Walker’s Point with his family and uses the light of the Polish Moon to illuminate his way home.

Recent Articles

	Marketplace - September 7, 2012
	Cutting Group offers high-end haircuts at discount prices
	Tom and Stephanie Miller started The Cutting Group in 2006. The idea behind the lower-cost alternative to full-service salons for haircuts is to do one thing, focus on it and excel at it. The idea is summarized in its tagline, "Get cut. Look good."

	Dining - September 7, 2012
	Bun Me adds banh mi to Milwaukee food cart scene
	Bun Me is a playfully-worded Vietnamese banh mi sandwich cart that's been hitting a lot of street corners all around Milwaukee this summer, serving up sandwiches, chips and soda, and garnering a lot of attention.

	Living - August 31, 2012
	New directions for the LGBT Community Center
	The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, the non-profit organization dedicated to being the home of Milwaukee's LGBT population, is making some important changes, reenergizing and building new connections with the broader community.

	Dining - August 29, 2012
	Zak's Cafe finds niche in local dining scene
	It's been a year and a half since we found Doug Konzak in the middle of renovating the space that's become Zak's Cafe. And Konzak keeps going, drawing on the resources of the Walker's Point neighborhood, adding new menu items this summer and getting ready to build a new patio.

	Arts & Entertainment - August 24, 2012
	Celebrate John Cage centenary with sound
	Celebrate American composer, writer and philosopher John Cage's birthday centennial with a series of events sponsored by Woodland Pattern Book Center. The first is a "Literary Musicircus" at Riverside Park, where 50 people will simultaneously read from Cage's books.

	Marketplace - August 22, 2012
	I.M. Salvage finds treasure in destruction
	I. M. Salvage has, or had, almost everything imaginable from structures built a few months to 140 years ago. For example, street lights, exotic chandeliers and ordinary kitchen lights fill just a few of the different spaces in I. M. Salvage's 30,000-square foot building.

	Bars & Clubs - August 17, 2012
	The Salty Dog sails into Cudahy, introduces Bimini Ring game
	Cudahy's The Salty Dog was formerly Sassy Sue's, in addition to a few other things, including most recently Red Stone, which closed last month. The new bar's grand opening is tonight at 3479 E. Plankinton Ave.

	Bars & Clubs - August 16, 2012
	Dugout Sports Bistro triple plays beer, Brewers and upscale bar food
	The Dugout Sports Bistro opened two months ago in West Milwaukee. Dedicated to the Brewers who play up the street, it's the latest venture by Rick Kosidowski, who's opened a bar each summer for the last three years. Chris Bohl debuts a new dinner menu of "better food than average tavern offerings" this week.

	Music - August 10, 2012
	Honky Tonkitis wails and twangs hardcore country
	Honky Tonkitis is a Milwaukee-based band formed in 2008 that plays original country music in the "hardcore" style of Johnny Cash, Faron Young and Hank Williams, with song tiles like "I Wanna Marry a Bartender," "I'm Leaving Wisconsin" and "Pabst in the Can and Schlitz in the Bottle."

	Arts & Entertainment - August 8, 2012
	LGBT Film Festival goes outdoors with "Kiss"
	The LGBT Film / Video Festival is holding one of its monthly screenings on Thursday, Aug. 9, with Andy Warhol's film "Kiss" at the Lynden Sculpture Garden. The open-air screening of 13 couples kissing is co-sponsored by the LBGT Community Center.

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