Ed Fallone is president of Wisconsin Stem Cell Now, a non-profit, non-partisan Milwaukee group advocating for support of stem cell research. He talks with Jane Hampden about breakthrough research using skin cells at UW-Madison.
Pam Mehnert is general manager of Outpost Natural Foods. She’s working with a new alliance of local businesses called Our Milwaukee. She speaks with Jane Hampden. The group is launching its Buy Local campaign this weekend. Participating businesses include Outpost, Schwartz Bookshops, Alterra Coffee, Laacke & Joys, The Pabst Theater, Beans and Barley, the Brewery Credit Union and Lakefront Brewery. Here are links to other “buy local” efforts and information: livingeconomics.org civiceconomics.com
Howie Magner writes the column, The Sports Nut for Milwaukee Magazine’s website. He’s assistant editor at the magazine, and a regular sports contributor to Lake Effect. He speaks with Mitch Teich.
Lake Effect contributor Paul Kosidowski of Shorewood is a freelance art critic and writer. He joins Bonnie North on Fridays to talk about the weekend scene in arts and entertainment.
Joan Parsley is artistic director of Musical Offering. She talks with Bonnie North about the group’s preference for small venues, and Steven Lubin’s concert of Beethoven solo piano works, set for this weekend at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
Susan Bence produced our sound portrait of Milwaukee’s Ugandan community. It was recorded at the Taste of Uganda, an event to benefit the Milwaukee-based group, Grandmothers Beyond Borders.
Cheryl and Jeff Bonell of Waukesha share a moving story of Cheryl’s mother in today’s Milwaukee StoryCorps. The StoryCorps booth will be at the Milwaukee Central Library through January.
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