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Check cashing stores and payday loan centers have a checkered reputation, to put it mildly. Critics say their high interest rates and fees take advantage…

Earlier this week, Milwaukee Magazine and Lake Effect kicked off a new, monthly live conversation series. This month’s MilMag Live! event focused on two…

Last week, Milwaukee was one of four cities nationwide that participated in NPR's A Nation Engaged project. The idea behind the project was to gather…

Hundreds of thousands of people will descend on Washington, D.C., starting tomorrow for events related to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration -…

In the last episode of Radio Chipstone, contributor Gianofer Fields introduced us to a young woman named Ashley Kuehl.Kuehl inherited two pieces of ruby…

An election season often brings to the fore the issues that divide the country, but a Milwaukee organization - while not taking on politics directly - is…

Ayad Akhtar was sitting in the Starbucks near the corner of West Blue Mound Road and Highway 100 in late 2008 when the idea came to him - a play about…

In December of 1984, a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide leaked poisonous gas and chemicals into the environment in and around Bhopal, India. The…

The film 20th Century Women is set in 1979, a time of disco, new wave feminism and punk. It’s a boy’s coming of age story, told through five characters,…

Super Bowl 51 will kick off on Sunday in Houston. Many football fans here in Wisconsin are still miffed that it will be the Atlanta Falcons, and not the…