Marketplace - Sept. 10, 2009
Great Lakes Futon moving to East Side
Great Lakes Futon, 907 S. 1st St., is moving to the former Moxy space at 2219 N. Farwell Ave. on Milwaukee's East Side next month.
Tags: Futon, retail, Great Lakes Futon, Oriental, East Side, Farwell Ave., Moxy, mattresses, beds, Walker's Point

Travel & Visitors Guide - March 14, 2009
Milwaukee's best make-out spots
OnMilwaukee.com isn't suggesting you and your sweetheart get spunky in public. However, it's Sex Week, the perfect time to spontaneously -- or not so spontaneously -- sneak away for a smooch or two.
Tags: kissing, romance, sex week, make out, submarine race, at random, hyatt, pfister, library, oriental, two

Movies & TV - Aug. 13, 2008
Buckleys unveil "Jake's How-To" here in Brew City
Vincent and Kyle Buckley -- Whitefish Bay natives -- returned from Los Angeles to make the feature-length "Jake's How-To" here when it became apparent that Brew City would be a much better place to make a movie. Now, the film premieres at the Oriental.
Tags: Jake's How-To, Kyle Buckley, Vincent Buckley, Atwater Beach, Film Wisconsin, Oriental

Movies & TV - July 20, 2008
Sunday Sound-off: Favorite historic theater?
Milwaukee is home to a number of historic movie theaters, from the Oriental to the Majestic. Which one is you favorite?
Tags: Avalon, Fox Bay, Oriental, Downer Theater, Times Cinema, Majestic Cinema, Rosebud Cinema

Movies & TV - Oct. 18, 2007
Missing the world's quirkiest movies
Now that the Oriental turns 80 -- or more accurately, turned 80 in July - it's got me thinking about when I moved to Milwaukee nearly 25 years ago and the Oriental was an oasis (which means I've been an Oriental patron for almost a third of its lifetime!).
Tags: Oriental, Landmark, Kubrick, Clockwork Orange, Bongo Man, Land of Left Behind