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A Bubbler Talk listener sent us a question asking why Wisconsin's only urban state forest, Havenwoods, was created.
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Sculpture Milwaukee has been bringing public art to the streets of downtown Milwaukee for the past five years. Since it began, the project has featured pieces from prominent artists, displaying them in public spaces for all Milwaukeeans to enjoy. This year’s newest exhibition will feature various works that play on the city’s relationship to nature.
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Marquette University's On Your Marq launched three years ago to help students on the autism spectrum navigate college through social and academic coaching. The support program celebrated its first graduate this month.
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Actors Steve Martin and Martin Short are once again making their way to Milwaukee for a performance at the Riverside Theater. The comedy duo first began working together on the set of “The Three Amigos!” in the mid 80s. Nearly four decades later, they continue to regularly tour together and their latest streaming project, "Only Murders in the Building" is set to release its second season next month.
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Judge Derek Mosley is well known for his role as a municipal court judge for the City of Milwaukee. But, you also might know him as one of Milwaukee’s food influencers.
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Alex Scott was diagnosed with cancer as an infant and at four-years-old, she created Alex’s Lemonade Stand, to fund pediatric cancer research one cup at a time. Her work and life are the topic of a new show by local playwright, James DeVita. “The Amazing Lemonade Girl,” opens this week at First Stage Children’s Theatre.
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Dylan Farrow is an author, mother, activist, and the survivor at the heart of the Emmy-nominated docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. She'll be this year's keynote speaker for The Women's Center annual EmPower Luncheon. Ahead of the event, Farrow joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to discuss her advocacy work.
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Gaming plays a major role in how Wisconsin tribes figure out their annual budgets and when COVID-19 forced casinos to close their doors, it pushed Wisconsin’s eleven federally recognized tribes to face a long awaited challenge: how to diversify their economies away from gaming.
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A new novel by Mary Helen Stefaniak explores how a virtual reality game impacts the lives of nursing home residents and their young caregivers.
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For Biluge Ntabala, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, college was always the goal, yet she wasn’t sure how she could make it happen. That was until she found help from College Possible - an organization that helps students in Milwaukee access and navigate college.