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This week we’re welcoming our friends from Up North to out west, for it’s Wisconsin State Fair time and that means corn, cream puffs, cotton candy and…

No matter how well we present ourselves to the world, underneath we are all made up of contradictions. Lake Effect essayist Linda Flashinski was recently…

You might know about a small park within Milwaukee's harbor on Jones Island called Kaszube. Harbor View Plaza will become the first greenspace since the…

Though the days of summer are waning and theater companies have opened and closed late summer productions, the fall season is still a few weeks away. In…

Milwaukee Fringe Festival opens this weekend with performances from around the country. One of those performances is a new work from Elizabeth Fuller and…

This past week President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a multitude of charges, including falsifying submissions to a bank and…

From a very young age, Sue Marks has valued entrepreneurship and a strong work ethic.After her grandparents immigrated from Germany in 1919 with nothing,…

The complex world of carbon trading and energy speculation might not seem, at first blush, to be fertile ground for a suspense novel. But it's familiar…

Editor's note: This piece was originally published on Sept. 27, 2018.The website, Atlas Obscura, takes visitors to exotic and unusual sites around the…

There was a time when the corporate break room was a hodgepodge of vending machines selling bitter coffee, stale sandwiches, and those cheese and cracker…