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River Revitalization Foundation is a nonprofit headquartered in what originally was a brick ranch along the Milwaukee River, upstream from downtown…

We take for granted that Santa Claus and Christmas trees are symbols of the Christmas season, but there are other traditions with lesser known…

When it comes to discussing politics, especially controversial topics, it can be difficult to leave a conversation without feeling the need to shout at…

Voters made history in Wisconsin’s April 7 spring election by voting during a global pandemic. They also made history by electing the first black…

Monday's protest in Milwaukee was designed to call attention to what demonstrators say is a criminal justice system that has historically been violent to…

The attraction of the outside world to Milwaukee is not an accident, and is, in large part due to the work of VISIT Milwaukee—Peggy Williams Smith, Joshua Albrecht, and Claire Koenig—who champion and lift up the city’s culture every day through their work.

Milwaukee County has unhealthy levels of smog, according to the American Lung Association's newly released annual State of the Air report.Milwaukee County…

For many of us, the holiday season is a time to go to the movies. But some people remain wary about returning to the cinema because of the pandemic. How have theaters responded? And what does the future hold for how we take in films?On this episode of Curious Campus, we talk about movie theaters and the movies with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, an associate professor and director of the film studies program at UW-Milwaukee; and Andrew Mencher, director of programming and operations at the Avalon Theater in Washington, D.C.Mencher also is owner and operations director of The Cinema Club, a national organization that, in non-COVID times, offers sneak previews to new independent and foreign films. Szczepaniak-Gillece is a co-moderator of the Milwaukee chapter of The Cinema Club.

Women’s bodies go through many physical changes during and after a pregnancy, but researchers say a mother’s attention to her own health care seems to…

The Menomonee Valley's astounding renaissance is considered a national model of urban revitalization. Now the Valley is pushing into phase two of its…