Andrea Luecke is the project manager for the "Milwaukee Shines" program. Amy Heart is director of the Milwaukee office for the Midwest Renewable Energy Association and the city's so-called Solar Coach. Both are involved in the Solar Decade Conference that runs Friday and Saturday at the Midwest Airlines Center in Milwaukee. Solar tours also run Friday and Saturday. There's a discounted registration rate by entering WUWM in the online registration form here.
Frank Almond is the concertmaster for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Johnson is the principal cellist. They will perform Brahms’ Double Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra this Friday and Saturday evenings at Uihlein Hall.
Lake Effect contributor Nancy Camden produced our feature about Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, which first aired in April for National Poetry Month. The music featured in that story was performed by pianist Jeffrey Wagner. The first annual Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival is this weekend in Ft. Atkinson.