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This year's Shorter is Better, the shorts-film-specific programming in the Milwaukee Film Festival, features a cast of unusual characters. It includes a…

Every month, Lake Effect talks with contributor Robert Cohen, the cellist for the Milwaukee-based Fine Arts Quartet, about the life of a working and…

Last week, the U.S. Labor Department reported that unemployment fell to 5.1 percent, its lowest level in seven years. But that figure only tells part of…

The effort to build a new downtown arena for the Milwaukee Bucks took another step forward last week. County Executive Chris Abele announced the sale of…

The friendship of two of America’s leading 20th Century poets are at the center of the latest production at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. The playwright…

In the last few years, two of the most contentious debates in Wisconsin have been over a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin and over the future of…

Singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer has had a lot happen to him in his 33 years. His father died suddenly when Scheuer was 13, his family drifted apart,…

Public health leaders talk about diabetes in epidemic terms. In Milwaukee alone, 40% of people are at high risk for developing diabetes, which is 14%…

The nine-month after school and summer program aims to arm students from across the Milwaukee area with hands on experience and skills that start with…

Military service was long seen as, if not a prerequisite, then certainly as a desired quality for people wishing to be President of the United States. But…