Welcome to #WeWant, a weekly selection of the stuff OnMilwaukee.com editors and staffers love.
Wear it: Tommy Hilfiger peacoat
I used to have a peacoat, paid for by taxpayers and given to me by the United States Navy. One hundred percent wool it was the best cold weather coat I've ever had. Since then I've gone through all kinds of parkas from LL Bean to Northface. Nothing worked like that coat, and I finally found one on Amazon. Tommy Hilfiger, who is not my normal designer, has a 100 percent wool peacoat here. At just under $120 its warmer than anything else you can get. Plus, it looks cool (even on me) and it’s got identical U. S. Navy buttons. –Dave Begel
Use it: LUSH Brazened Honey
If you haven't tried a "fresh" product from LUSH – you absolutely should. I've been trying variations of home masks for a while and I especially love the properties of honey and how it makes my skin feel so when a friend mentioned this "fresh" mask by LUSH – I knew I had to try it and save myself the work of having to put it together at home. I love that LUSH has some of the best of the best "fresh" ingredients – honey, eggs, turmeric, ginger, fennel, coriander, cardamom – and uses them in combination to create this mask. All of these ingredients come together in the mask to create a combination that really energizes and invigorates the skin. The "fresh" masks – which you can only get in store (Mayfair, $6.95) and not online -- last for about three weeks and should be refrigerated. I did find it wasn't the most moisturizing afterwards – so add some of your favorite hydrator afterwards. – Carolynn Buser
Read it: "Native Wine Grapes of Italy" by Ian D'Agata and "Wine Atlas of Germany," by Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sautter and Ingo Swoboda (University of California Press)
I've been writing about a lot of wine in this space, but if you really want to dig deep into wines from Italy and Germany, these two new hardcover titles are packed full of information and will also look great on your coffee table. D'Agata, a Rome-based wine writer, looks at the many grapes grown and vinified in Italy, from the ones you always hear about (nebbiolo, sangiovese, barbera) to ones you rarely encounter (frappato, cannonau, rossara). This is perfect for Italian wine geeks. The German book takes a much different approach, looking at Germany geographically and illustrating the text with maps and photographs, creating a volume that, in addition to offering copious detail, is serious eye candy. – Bobby Tanzilo
Watch it: Mozart In the Jungle
My latest adventure in "binge watching" included 10 episodes of "Mozart In the Jungle" over the course of a weekend. The show is a series made by Amazon Studios and instantly streamable to Amazon Prime members. Based on a memoir of the same name, the show documents the life of an oboist in the New York Symphony. "Mozart" is neither heavy nor fluffy. It offers a fresh and interesting perspective, a portal into a life that most of us know very little about. Saffron Burrows and Jason Schwartzman (who co-wrote the pilot episode) jazz up the cast and it was fun to view recent work by the talented Bernadette Peters who, for the record, is one sexy sixtysomething. – Molly Snyder
Charge it: NOVA Blox Aluminum Portable Battery Charger
When you’re looking for a portable USB charger, there are only a few criteria that matter: compact, cheap, durable and powerful. The NOVA Blox covers these, and also looks pretty cool in its "liquid gold" color – and also adds a LED flashlight to the mix. You can slip this little 4,000 mAh charger into your shirt pocket, and expect to get 1.5-2 full phone charges at a time. Being aluminum, it won’t fall apart, and internally, it uses Samsung lithium ion battery cells, not generic ones, so it won’t poop out on the inside, either. My only beef is that it charges via Micro USB, while means I have to keep that cable on hand, but at a mere $15, it’s hard to complain at all, really. – Andy Tarnoff
