Milwaukee Magazine Articles
It has proven transformational for the local building design landscape. It’s also a defining work of its world-renowned Spanish architect. And in the years since its completion, the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum – so synonymous with the man who designed it that most locals to this day...
Attending a live performance is a wonderful way to spend an evening. And in our city, we have the luxury of many different options to choose from, including the symphony, Rep, the Florentine and the ballet. But the COVID-19 pandemic changed audience habits, not just here but across the nation. Audiences...
At the outset of Impossible Town, you might anticipate that the film will reach a triumphant conclusion. The documentary follows a decades-long battle to get at the truth about carcinogenic compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) left behind by the coal mining industry in the rural southern West Virginia town...
Next week, More than 50,000 attendees of the Republican National Convention, including 15,000 media members, are expected to descend on the city. Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic deprived Milwaukee of the hoopla and economic benefits that it expected from hosting the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Milwaukee is back in...
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Friday hailed the Republican National Convention as a success “by many measures,” though he admitted that there are lessons to be learned from the city’s first full-scale major political event. Johnson said the city triumphed in staging an event the “size, caliber and magnitude” of...
Last fall, Renee Scherck-Meyer conjured up the courage to do something on her bucket list when she tried out for the Milwaukee Bucks Grand Dancers, a squad of older adults who perform on the court during the team’s games at Fiserv Forum. On an emotional high after being selected for...
Portions of the Midwest, including Southeastern Wisconsin, have been stalked by “corn sweat” in recent days, which has contributed to the extreme heat and oppressive humidity. Corn sweat, or transpiration, is the process in which water evaporates from the leaves of corn stalks.
After seven years of calling Nashville home, aspiring singer and songwriter Allison Mahal needed a change of scenery. So, she left Music City and moved … to Milwaukee. Born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, Mahal desired a sense of community that she felt was missing in Nashville. She...
The historic, 15-story Wells Building was Milwaukee’s first skyscraper, completed in 1901. It features classic architectural details of the period: a stunning white Italian marble lobby and grand staircase, detailed domed mosaics, and an ornamental terra cotta exterior with brass finishings.
But inside, there’s far more than meets the eye.
The Milwaukee Admirals are in the thick of one of the most remarkable winning streaks in Wisconsin professional sports history.
The Admirals have won 17 consecutive games, which is tied for the second-longest winning streak in American Hockey League history with the 2004-05 Philadelphia Phantoms and the 2018-19 Bakersfield Condors.
A team from the Wauwatosa Curling Club has won a spot in the men’s USA Curling Club National Championships for the first time. Sliding, sweeping and throwing stones with pinpoint accuracy, Team Carlson, representing the club, earned the title of Team Wisconsin and will take part in the championships at...
At a cramped gym on the upper floor of Golda Meir School near Downtown Milwaukee, Allazia Blockton smoothly moves across the basketball court dressed in a jersey with black and white vertical stripes, dark sweatpants and dark shoes and a whistle draped around her neck, all standard gear for her...
For more than a century, Master Lock Co.’s North Side factory has churned out a variety of products, but the core of the company’s business is plain to see for all passersby. A large replica of its signature laminated padlock sits atop the north end of the facility. The multi-building...
On a sunny Sunday morning in late May, Gal Dahan steps to the lectern and gazes over the packed crowd that has gathered at the Wisconsin Center for Cardinal Stritch University’s graduation ceremony, the last in its 86-year history. The undergraduate commencement speaker, clad in a black graduation gown and...
After a long push, roller skating in Downtown’s Red Arrow Park finally became a reality this summer. But organizers remain irked by limited hours, issues surrounding the playing of music and the lack of on-site skate rentals at the county-operated park. Terrence Clarke, who leads the nonprofit group Roll Train,...
From the start, it was cast as a fight for survival. When plans for a pair of music halls in the Deer District backed by mega concert promoter Live Nation became public earlier this year, local independent concert venue operators scrambled to join forces to try to block the project....
It has proven transformational for the local building design landscape. It’s also a defining work of its world-renowned Spanish architect. And in the 21 years since its completion, the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum – so synonymous with the man who designed it that most locals to this...
The United States reclaimed the Ryder Cup with a dominating win over the European squad at Whistling Straits in Kohler over the weekend. Held over three days on the magnificent layout in rural Sheboygan County, the Ryder Cup drew large and boisterous crowds – more than 40,000 attended each day...
Lifelong Milwaukee Bucks fan Dan Roberts is often quick to attract attention. A mountain of a man at 6 feet, 9 inches tall and 450 pounds, Roberts has long dealt with the stares and finger pointing because of his size. But a brief moment on the Jumbotron at Fiserv Forum...
Marques Johnson, Zora Stephenson and Jim Paschke were in a strange new routine on Aug. 26, putting on a pregame telecast from Milwaukee ahead of the Bucks’ afternoon playoff game in the NBA’s “bubble” at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The team hadn’t yet taken the court for...
Bright lights illuminate the gymnasium at Bradley Tech High School in Walker’s Point as a sparse crowd looks on from the bleachers. Burly security guards occupy spots at each corner of the court. A rap song, “Watch Me,” by Silento, blares from courtside speakers, and a few players move in...
The marquee outside the Knights of Columbus Hall in West Allis whispers more than it shouts, in modestly small red LED lights: “Brew City Wrestling. Bell 7:30PM.” A kindly older woman collects the $17 general admission entry fee from early arrivers, most of them clad in jeans and T-shirts. A...
With her hair pulled into a ponytail and No. 11 stenciled across her green road jersey, Tori Albrecht ran onto the soccer field with her Wisconsin Lutheran College teammates at St. Norbert College. The sun set on a picturesque early fall evening as the teams took their positions for kickoff...