Holiday Guide - Dec. 13, 2012
2012 picks: Holiday gift guide for food lovers
The holidays are right around the corner, and it's time to get serious about your gift list. Whether your recipient is kitschy and quirky, sophisticated, picky or just plain practical, with a little bit of thought, and a quick scan down this list (which happens to include some of my very favorite things), you're sure to find something that fits the bill.

Holiday Guide - Dec. 5, 2012
Feasting with a conscience: Eating locally for the holidays
Do you care about reducing your carbon footprint? How about supporting local producers? Creating a holiday dinner that's both delicious and sustainable? If you said "yes" to any one of these questions, it might be worth your time to consider sourcing all or most of the products for your holiday meals locally.

Living - Oct. 26, 2012
Harvesting soybeans: a view through the combine windshield
There's no denying it, I'm a city boy through and through. Yet when the offer to ride along in a combine, harvesting soybeans arrived in my inbox, I couldn't reply fast enough. A mere 75 minutes from my desk and I was sitting in the jump seat of a John Deere 9500 - at about $250,000, by far the most expensive wheeled vehicle I've ever taken a ride in - on Jeff Gaska's farm near Columbus.

Music - July 20, 2012
4th Street Elevator swings into the jazz scene
Milwaukee-based gypsy swing band 4th Street Elevator has been playing in venues all around town since 2010, but the six-piece formed in 2007. Meet the members and learn more about this genre of jazz music.

Dining - July 12, 2012
An educated food truck
When Heatherlee Muehlius' new food truck hit the streets a month ago, she most likely became the best educated restaurateur on wheels in Milwaukee. Known as Hattie, Muehlius has a culinary degree from Moraine Park Technical College in Fond du Lac, and bachelor and master's degrees in education. For most of the year she is an English as a second language specialist in the Milwaukee Public Schools, but this summer she has become the owner and operator of Hattie's Truck.