Lake Effect: Segments Podcast
Lake Effect is your connection to the community. We bring you local conversations about the people, places and organizations that shape Milwaukee.
This podcast features Lake Effect's individual segments.
Learn more about Lake Effecthere.
Latest Episodes
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The housing market is tight across the country, but Milwaukee presents some unique challenges that some other cities aren’t facing. Milwaukee Magazine's Chris Droser breaks down some of those challenges.
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Sisters Karen and Jennifer Lemke visited more than 50 parks to put together the accessible field guide. They consider it a showcase of the city they love and a vision for an inclusive future.
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There is both a positive and thorny legacy that the 1997 film “Chasing Amy” has in the LGBTQ community. The new documentary "Chasing Chasing Amy" provides a new outlook on the complicated classic indie, both for its director Sav Rodgers and the people who made it.
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To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week, The Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project created a free lesbian history exhibit as well as hosting other events in the Milwaukee area.
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When Franco Stevens realized she was a lesbian, there was hardly any representation of queer women. So in 1990, she decided to change that and founded "Curve" — the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine that still exists today.
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Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakowski and Milwaukee musician Trapper Schoepp bring you "Live at Lake Effect" — a filmed music series featuring local and nationally touring musicians performing in the Lake Effect Surf Shop. This episode features Milwaukee's own Buffalo Nichols.
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The BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin recently donated 20 “birding kit” backpacks to neighborhood centers and schools across Madison and Milwaukee.
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The experimental documentary from Milwaukee filmmaker Jesse Mclean explores the relationships — and social contract — between people and the plants we live with.
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A new documentary offers a nuanced exploration of a little-known chapter of America's atomic bomb history.
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The back rooms of the Milwaukee Public Museum are stashed with millions of items from its collection. In the anthropology department, a rare painting called “Menominee Women” serves as an uncommon record of how Native American women used European goods.