88Nine RadioMilwaukee will spend summer 2008 hyping Milwaukee's neighborhoods this summer with its "Summer Passport" promotion.
The event highlights more than two dozen events in Milwaukee's neighborhoods and parks and will include a printed passport to assist listeners in their Brew City travels.Passports can be stamped at each event and allow listeners the chance to win a number of prizes at the end of the season.
Among those prizes are four round-trip tickets to Milwaukee and, what the station calls, "a maxed-out weekend for family or friends right here in Milwaukee." It's a great way to show off the city's charms to your out-of-town friends or family.
“Milwaukee ’s neighborhood festivals are among the city’s universally loved features,” says Mikel Ellcessor, RadioMilwaukee ’s executive director. “They’re something everyone loves and after the long winter, Milwaukeeans are especially ready to get out and enjoy the city together. RadioMilwaukee’s Summer Passport is a guide, a roadmap and, with the great prizes, a real incentive to get out and explore Milwaukee . We’re going to feature some of the city’s best summer events, many of which aren’t as well known as they deserve to be.”
Summer Passports will be available at RadioMilwaukee’s booths all summer at the events along the route. Check out the station's Web site for specifics.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
