Bars & Clubs - March 23, 2009
10 cheap but tasty Wisconsin beers
In these tough economic times, people are cutting back left and right, looking for areas to scrimp and save. Fortunately, our own state produces a number of good, value-driven beers. And even if the "champagne of beers" is no Dom Perignon, it'll get the job done at a tasty price.
Tags: cheap beer, schlitz, blatz, huber, high life

Music - Dec. 4, 2008
Sucher helps Benet to two Grammy nominations
Eric Benet's recent "Love and Life" disc -- recorded with Milwaukee producer and engineer Kevin Sucher, at Sucher's The Laboratory Recording Studio in the Blatz building Downtown -- has earned a pair of Grammy nominations.
Tags: Kevin Sucher, Eric Benet, Grammy, Blatz, The Laboratory Recording Studio, Love and Life

Politics - March 5, 2008
Homicide Commission under fire
Members of the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission will update the city's Public Safety Committee on its progress this week.
Tags: Ruvin, Park East, MPD, Barry Mandel, fireworks, Sydney Hih, Blatz, Aloft Hotel, Stoehr, Milwaukee Mile, State Fair Park, Witkowski, Pfister and Vogel, North End

Bars & Clubs - Feb. 1, 2008
Local beer aficionado builds The Bomb Shelter
The Bomb Shelter is a beer-centric bar that pays tribute to the classic corner varieties that flourished during a time when locally-brewed beer seeped from the city's pores.
Tags: the bomb shelter, greg landig, the monkey bar, pabst, schlitz, blatz, old style, beer, vintage, polka, city brewery, city lager, buffalo water brewery, bison blonde, cream city brick, walker's point

Milwaukee Buzz - April 27, 2004
Peoples was America's first Black-owned brewery
Milwaukee is and has always been America's beer capital, so it makes perfect sense that the country's first African American brewery was born here thanks to Theodore Mack, Henry Crosby and their cohorts.
Tags: Peoples, brewery, African American, Oshkosh, Nigl, Mack, Blatz, Pabst