Robert Ricigliano is a regular contributor to Lake Effect. He’s the director of the Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee. In 1995, he traveled to the Republic of Georgia as part of a team that mediated between the Georgian government and the semi-autonomous ethnic enclave of South Ossetia. Click here for the CIA World factbook and here for NPR's coverage.
Lake Effect’s Dan Harmon spoke with David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife, published by Random House. Ebershoff spent his childhood summers in Milwaukee and northern Wisconsin and now lives in New York.
Les Paul grew up in Waukesha, but made his name as a musician and innvator in California and New York.An exhibit celebrating his lifetime of achievement runs through December at Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin.Lake Effect’s Bonnie North and Tom May interviewed Les Paul at the studios of Discovery World.