Arts & Entertainment - Feb. 20, 2008
McComas returns to the scene of the novel
An award-winning filmmaker and a published novelist and short story writer, Paul McComas -- who lives in Evanston, Ill. -- is also a native Milwaukeean.
Tags: McComas, Planet of the Dates, Permanent Press, The Starship, Oil Tasters, Violent Femmes, Coffee Trader, Mars Cheese Castle, Park Avenue, Radio Doctors, Sweet Doomed Angel, Haskels, Red Ball Jets

Travel & Visitors Guide - Feb. 17, 2008
Disenchanted with Mars Cheese Castle
I want to like this place so much that I feel slightly sacrilegious writing this.
Tags: Mars Cheese Castle, cheese, Kenosha, I-94, Jelly Belly

Bars & Clubs - Aug. 13, 2004
Strange brew: surprising local places that sell booze
We live in a world where smoking is less tolerated, yet drinking is more popular than ever, even in places where it seems really out of place. Church festivals? Chuck E Cheese's? The mall? Yup, only in Brew City!
Tags: brew city, lounge, beer, Mars Cheese Castle

Marketplace - May 6, 2002
Mars Cheese Castle far from stale
Almost smack dab between Milwaukee and Chicago sits a monument that you've no doubt driven past dozens of times. You've chuckled and maybe even felt a little guilty -- either for laughing at it or even for being from Wisconsin. But have you ever stepped foot inside the Mars Cheese Castle? If you haven't, it's high time that you do.
Tags: mars cheese castle, kenosha, cheese