Liam Callanan
Author | | Commentator and writer Liam Callanan teaches creative writing at UW-Milwaukee. He's author of The Cloud Atlas; his most recent novel is All Saints.
Listen to all of Liam Callanan's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Nancy Camden
Freelance Producer | | New Wisconsin resident, Nancy Camden interviews the Wisconsinites she meets while roaming the Milwaukee area with audio recording equipment. She draws upon her thirty-year career as a visual artist to create audio 'pictures' through editing slice-of-life pieces for Lake Effect. Using that same curiosity and interest in people, she also has a business of audio recording personal histories for people to pass down to their families.
Listen to all of Nancy Camden's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Bruce Campbell
Surgeon, Blogger | | Bruce Campbell is a head and neck cancer surgeon at Froedtert Hospital and Professor of Otolaryngology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He learns something new every day from his patients and his students. He writes about his experiences in his blog, "Reflections in a Head Mirror." |
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Kurt Chandler
Writer, Editor | | Kurt Chandler is a senior editor at Milwaukee Magazine and the author of two books of nonfiction, including Shaving Lessons: A Memoir of Father and Son. His work has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines, from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, to Advertising Age, The Advocate and Salon.com. Chandler is a writing instructor, motorcycle enthusiast and guitar player in a bluegrass band. He lives in Wauwatosa with his wife and their teenage daughter.
Listen to all of Kurt Chandler's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Ann Christenson
Dining Critic | | Ann Christenson is dining critic for Milwaukee Magazine and writes the Dish on Dining blog at MilwaukeeMagazine.com.
Listen to all of Ann Christenson's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Jean Creighton
Astronomy Contributor | | Dr. Jean Creighton was born in Toronto and grew up in Greece, where her mother claims she showed a great interest in how stars form from the age of five. To her, Physics was the gateway to Astronomy, and so she studied physics at the University of Athens. She returned to Canada to earn a masters degree from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Waterloo. Since 1999, she's taught Astronomy at UW-Milwaukee, taking over as director of UWM's Manfred Olson Planetarium in 2007. Jean enjoys interacting with audiences in the theater and on the radio to give them an appreciation of what we know and how we know it.
Listen to all of Dr. Jean Creighton's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Tim Cuprisin
Media critic | | Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for onmilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." He was the regular TV writer at the Milwaukee Journal and then the Journal Sentinel for 15 years. In addition to his regular Lake Effect segments, you can also follow him at twitter.com/cuprisin and on Facebook. |
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Will Durst
Political Satirist | | Will Durst is sworn enemy to all tyrants, foreign and domestic. He has managed to patch together a half way decent quilt of a comedy career utilizing syndicated columns, radio and television commentaries, acting, stand up comedy, voice-overs, margarine smuggling and a book, The All American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing. He’s a regular on CNN & Fox News, has performed for 3 elected Presidents and is still in search of the perfect cheeseburger. His wife is much funnier than he.
Listen to all of Will Durst's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Ray Fister
Wine blogger, podcast engineer | | Ray Fister is Lake Effect's regular wine contributor and the co-creator and voice of the wine blog and podcast "Life Between the Vines." He is also the owner and engineer of 5th Floor Recording Company. He has 30 years experience in professional recording, including 21 years working in the Milwaukee Market. |
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Bob Greenstreet
Architect, Professor, Author | | Professor Robert Greenstreet is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM and is currently the longest serving Dean of Architecture in North America. Dr. Greenstreet is the author/co-author of seven books, has contributed to fifteen other texts and handbooks and has published over one hundred and fifty working papers and articles, both nationally and internationally. In addition to being a registered architect in the United Kingdom, he is a practicing arbitrator and mediator recognized in both the United States and Europe.
Listen to all of Bob Greenstreet's Lake Effect appearances. |
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John Gurda
Historian | | John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who's studied his hometown since 1972. He is author of seventeen books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, churches and industries. Gurda's The Making of Milwaukee is the first feature-length history of the community published since 1948. Milwaukee Public Television produced a five-hour documentary series based on the book.
Gurda is also a lecturer, tour guide, and history columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Boston College and a master's in cultural geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Gurda is an eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Award of Merit.
Listen to all of John Gurda's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Eric Hansen
Urban Adventurer | | Eric Hansen is a Milwaukee writer and outdoorsman who frequently explores the upper Great Lakes and the American West.
He writes for Backpacker Magazine and other publications, and has written two guidebooks: Hiking Wisconsin and Hiking Michigan's Upper Peninsula - A Guide to the Greatest Hiking Adventures in the U.P. The books reflect a memorable 1,700 miles of research on foot in search of the region's most notable pathways.
Hansen's adventures include 24 treks to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, ascension of most of the high peaks of Glacier National Park, and a telemark-style ski descent from Colorado's highest summit, Mount Elbert.
Listen to all of Eric Hansen's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Dave Haseman
Technology Contributor | | Professor Dave Haseman is the Director of the Lubar School of Businesss Center for Technology Innovation.His research interests are in the area of group decision making, emerging technologies, eBusiness, Web Services and the use of the Internet for business applications. Professor Haseman has published over thirty books, book chapters and journal articles and has made over 50 conference presentations.
Listen to all of Dave Haseman's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Peggy Hong
Milwaukee Poet Laureate | | Peggy Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Hawaii and New York. She is author of several books including the poetry collection Three Truths and a Lie (Water Press and Media). She writes a monthly column for LiteraryMama.com called Far From Cool, about parenting teenagers. Hong has lived in Milwaukee since 1987 with her husband and their three children. She teaches at Alverno College, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and Riverwest Yogashala, where she is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor. She is Milwaukee's Poet Laureate for 2006 and 2007.
Listen to all of Peggy Hong's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Jeanette Hurt
Artisan Cheese Expert | | Jeanette Hurt is Lake Effect's cheese contributor for our regular "Good Fermentations" segment. She's also a freelance food writer from Milwaukee. She is the author of several books, including most recently The Cheeses of California: A Culinary Travel Guide, published by The Countryman Press.
Listen to all of Jeanette Hurt's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Dr. Shaili Jain
Psychiatrist, Medical contributor | | Lake Effect contributor Dr. Shaili Jain is a psychiatrist with Aurora Behavioral Health Services and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She wrote a book about the relationship between physicians and drug companies, and she maintains a website about doctors’ bedside manner.
Listen to all of Dr. Shaili Jain's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Sonya Jongsma Knauss
Editor & General Manager, MilwaukeeMoms.com | | Sonya Jongsma Knauss is editor and general manager of MilwaukeeMoms.com, a resource and networking community for parents of children from 0 - 13 years of age. Until recently, Sonya was a member of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board as the "Your Opinions" editor. She was the editor and a founding member of a popular neighborhood newspaper, Riverwest Currents. She was also a founding board member of the Riverwest Co-op. Sonya has a master’s degree in journalism from UW-Madison with a focus on health care and public policy. She and her husband Dan live in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood with their four daughters. |
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Paul Kosidowski
Art Critic, Writer | | Paul Kosidowski writes the Culture Club column for MilwaukeeMagazine.com, and covers the local arts and culture scene for a number of publications. He teaches journalism at UW-Milwaukee and is the past literary director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Paul is temporarily producing and interviewing for Lake Effect. He lives with his wife and son in Shorewood.
Listen to all of Paul Kosidowski's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Dave Kozlowski
Farmer | | David Kozlowski heads the Milwaukee Community Supported Agriculture Initiative, representing CSA farmers in southeast Wisconsin. He is a board member of Slow Food Wisconsin Southeast and on the planning and developing committee for the Farm Fresh Atlas, promoting local food sources in southeast Wisconsin. Kozlowski, with his wife, Sandra Raduenz, owns Pinehold Gardens in Oak Creek, a 21-acre farm providing fruits and vegetables to CSA members, farm market customers and local restaurant-goers.
Listen to all of Dave Kozlowski's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Jacqueline Lalley
Essayist | | Jacqueline Lalley is a contributor to The Onion. To read her mind-blowing poetry, visit Konundrum Literary Engine, and if your sanity is still intact, check out her essays in Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women's Friendships (Seal Press) and Bitch Magazine. The excessively patient can read one of her Lake Effect essays in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Cancelled (Villard, 2009). Jackie moved to Milwaukee from Chicago in 2004 and lives in Riverwest. She is a communications consultant for nonprofits and serves on the board of Woodland Pattern Book Center.
Listen to all of Jacqueline Lalley's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Tom Lidtke
Museum Director | | Tom Lidtke is executive director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend and past president of the Wisconsin Federation of Museums. He's author of numerous essays and articles on Wisconsin art published in the United States and Germany. Lidtke is an art educator and consultant, and serves as juror for art fairs and exhibitions, including the Lakefront Festival of Art.
Listen to all of Tom Lidtke's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Dave Luhrssen
Film Critic | | David Luhrssen is arts & entertainment editor of the Shepherd Express, co-founder of the Milwaukee International Film Festival and co-author of A Time of Paradox: America Since 1890. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and Milwaukee Area Technical College. He joins Lake Effect's Dan Harmon each month to review new movies and discuss news of the film industry.
Listen to all of Dave Luhrssen's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Howie Magner
Sports Contributor | | Milwaukee Magazine associate editor Howie Magner is the Sports Nut columnist for MilwaukeeMagazine.com. An occasional actor, poker player and train travel enthusiast, he spent 15 years slinging newspaper ink in Oklahoma, Ohio and Michigan before settling in Bay View with his Wisconsinite wife. The University of Tulsa grad has won numerous writing awards for features, commentary and news.
Listen to all of Howie Magner's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Tom Matthews
Novelist, screenwriter | | Tom Matthews worked in the film industry in Southern California for 15 years before returning to his native Wisconsin in 1994. His screenplay "Mad City" was produced by Warner Bros. in 1997, directed by Costa-Gavras, and starring Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta and Alan Alda. His satirical novel "Like We Care" was published in the fall of 2004. He has written for Milwaukee Magazine, the Journal Sentinel, Creative Screenwriting, the Baltimore Sun and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently working on a new novel.
Listen to all of Tom Matthews' Lake Effect appearances. |
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Mel Miskimen
Essayist | | Mel Miskimen is an award-winning writer, author, playwright. She currently writes for More Magazine. She is a lifelong Milwaukeean, who managed to raise two children to adulthood and stay married to the same guy for 25 years – a guy who she picked up at The Up and Under. She lives in a big, old house with said husband and their black Lab, and is presently learning how to cope with her partially empty nest, i.e. once the kids were gone, who knew she had so many towels?
Listen to all of Mel Miskimen's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Bruce Murphy
Journalist | | Milwaukee Magazine editor Bruce Murphy has won more than 30 national and state journalism awards. He is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and prior to that edited Milwaukeeworld.com, where he broke the pension scandal story that resulted in the county executive and seven county supervisors losing their jobs. He and colleague Kurt Chandler examine local stories in the news on the monthly Lake Effect reporter roundtable, along with Milwaukee Magazine editorial page editor Ricardo Pimentel.
Listen to all of Bruce Murphy's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Melinda Myers
Gardening Expert | | Melinda Myers, is host of Great Lakes Gardener on public television and the author of many gardening books, including Month by Month Gardening in Wisconsin.
Listen to all of Melinda Myers' Lake Effect appearances. |
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Jodi Olson
Frugalitarian™ | | Jodi Olson is one of Lake Effect's regular contributors on living a frugal life and the founder of thefrugalitarian.com. She's a former news reporter and freelance television producer who appeared regularly on Lifetime as a national health correspondent. As a creative lifestyle designer, she advocates changing how we acquire things, creating a sense of community and enjoying the simple life. Today, she lives out The Frugalitarian™ philosophy on a bucolic farm in rural Wisconsin, where for the first time in her life, she tends a herd of sheep and cares for chickens in exchange for lower rent. |
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Richardo Pimentel
Journalist | | Ricardo Pimentel is editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He joins Milwaukee Magazine editors Bruce Murphy and Kurt Chandler each month to review local stories in the news on Lake Effect's Reporter Roundtable.
Listen to all of Ricardo Pimentel's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Anne Reed
Animals / Animal Welfare | | Anne Reed is executive director of the Wisconsin Humane Society, the state’s largest animal welfare organization. The Wisconsin Humane Society provides a comprehensive adoption program, veterinary care, educational programs, information resources, and one of the largest wildlife rehabilitation hospitals in the United States, in fulfillment of its mission to build a community where people value animals and treat them with respect and kindness.
Listen to all of Anne Reed's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Rob Ricigliano
Professor, World Affairs | | Robert Ricigliano is director of the Institute of World Affairs and the Peace Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches International Mediation and Negotiation through the Department of Communication. Ricigliano was a founding board member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a consortium of leading conflict resolution NGOs and academic centers. He has worked with political parties in the new Iraqi Parliament and on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's been involved in peace building interventions in Russia, Georgia, Colombia and South Africa. He holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College.
Listen to all of Robert Ricigliano's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Lucy Saunders
Beer Writer | | Lucy Saunders is Lake Effect's regular beer contributor for our "Good Fermenetations" segment. She's also the author of five cookbooks, including Grilling with Beer, and The Best of American Beer and Food. Saunders is also the editor of beercook.com. She conducts beer tastings and appreciation classes at culinary schools, retailers and non-profit groups, including the American Cheese Society, the Newberry Library and the Smithsonian. Her business, F&B Communications LLC, is based in Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA. |
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Mark Savage
Automotive Writer | | Mark Savage is a certified “car nut,” writing the auto review column – Savage on Wheels – for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and previously the Milwaukee Sentinel, for more than 20 years. He also is editor of American Snowmobiler magazine, published locally by Kalmbach Publishing Co. Savage is an Indianapolis native where he fell in love with cars, the Indy 500 and all things fast, dating back to his pedal car days.
Listen to all of Mark Savage's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Amy L. Schubert
Food Writer | | Amy L. Schubert is a 15-year veteran of the hospitality industry and has worked in every aspect of bar and restaurant operations. She finds great pleasure in sharing her knowledge and passions for food and writing in her contributions to OnMilwaukee.com.
Listen to all of Amy L. Schubert's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Mark Siegrist
Commentator | | Commentator Mark Siegrist is a freelance television producer. His most recent documentary is Milwaukee’s Muslim Faithful, airing on Milwaukee Public Television. Milwaukee’s Vowed Women of Faith aired on MPTV last fall.
Listen to all of Mark Siegrist's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Judy Steininger
Writer, Scientist | | Judy Steininger is a Professor Emerita at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, where she teaches chemistry and literature classes, and leads the Great Books Dinner and Discussion Series. She won a 2006 Milwaukee Press Club award for Best Magazine Feature Story. Steininger has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, and describes herself as a never-say-quit golfer.
Listen to all of Judy Steininger's Lake Effect appearances. |
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George Stone
Natural Sciences Instructor, Milwaukee Area Technical College | | George Stone lives in Milwaukee, where he teaches at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Now in his fourteenth year on the faculty, George teaches Earth Science, General Geology, Weather Fundamentals, Climate Change Fundamentals and Energy in Nature, Technology and Society. He has also taught Basic Chemistry and Environmental Science at MATC. George earned a B.S. in geology from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Listen to all of George Stone's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Dave Swanson
Chef | | Milwaukee chef Dave Swanson is owner of Braise-on-the-Go, offering cooking classes and advocating for the Slow Food movement. He stops by the Lake Effect studio to discuss food trends, local ingredients and seasonal recipes.
Listen to all of Dave Swanson's Lake Effect appearances. |
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Jonathan West
Writer, Actor, Director | | Jonathan West is a writer, actor, and director based in Milwaukee. He is the former artistic director and co-founder of the late, great Bialystock & Bloom. He writes about art for everyday people through his Artsy Schmartsy blog.
Listen to all of Jonathan West's Lake Effect appearances. |
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