Twenty-somethings have flocked to America's largest metros since 2006, according to USA Today. And Milwaukee has one of the largest growth percentages among that group.
As we speak, on the tip of the triangle at North Avenue and Ivanhoe Place, in front of Hooligan's, Mayor Tom Barrett, Ald. Nik Kovac and Jim Plaisted, of the East Side Business Improvement District, are announcing a new partnership with Zipcar that will put a Zipcar station in the parking lot behind the U.S. Bank on Farwell and North.
While one of the biggest studio films of the year will be announcing the yearly stampede of other, equally massive studio features on Friday, UWM and its film department will head in the other direction with the 13th Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, starting this Friday and running through the rest of the weekend.
Despite the fact that we had Dan Ball - a member of the legendary Velvet Whip - write about the new Avant Garde Coffee House show at UWM's Inova Gallery in the Kenilworth Building, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., I stopped in last week to get a tour from organizer John Stropes.
Dan Ball, who as a member of The Velvet Whip was there for the "rock" era of the Avant Garde Coffee House went to the opening reception of "The Avant Garde Coffee House Project" last week at UWM's Inova Gallery and reports back.
Arms and legs bare, the two coeds sat directly on UWM grass and smiled at each other as they chatted. I slowed my bike. Would they glare at me or thank me if I said something? I kept going. The usual Pesticide Application Keep Off the Grass signs were posted, block after nauseating bl...
As combative sports continue to assert themselves as a mainstay in popular culture, more and more disciplines are being taught within America’s educational systems.Emphasizing self-control, clearer and faster thinking, confidence, determination, and serenity, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has becom...
The UWM Campus was in Never Neverland as usual on Thursday, when both staff and students apparently confused their own campus for the State‘s Capitol or were mislead into thinking Scott Walker was visiting to speak that day. Or, at least you'd think so considering they stayed home to ...
Youngblood is back in a big way. A big script, a big cast and to big accolades.
What do you get when you mix 12 superheroes, a submarine and William Shakespeare? Well, it's called SPIRITS TO ENFORCE. That description alone makes this one-act play sound like a farce, and while it's funny and...
The “Triumph of the Spirit” program will begin with a 22-minute film about Jungreis’s life in the Bergen-Belsen camp. This film is packed with the horrors of the Nazis, yet full of faith, hope and the triumph of the Jewish spirit. Jungreis is a consummate storyteller...