Lake Effect

One of Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery's sculptures is celebrating a homecoming of sorts. Forest Home volunteer docent and sculpture curator Brian Fette and the Forest Home Preservation Association’s executive director Sara Tomlin join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to share more about the significance of the bronze Angel of Peace.

The cold, deep underwater holes offer a look at Lake Michigan’s distant past.

Investigative reporter Mary Spicuzza of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel examines the murder of her cousin, Augie Palmisano, and the history of organized crime in Milwaukee in a new podcast.

Greentree and Teutonia Apartments are a public housing community on Milwaukee's north side. The community inspires us to consider deeper meanings of "safety."

As the summer is nearing its end, many of us are trying to soak in the good weather while we can. And what better way than by checking out a new, local restaurant?

Milwaukee civil rights pioneer and politician Vel Phillips is now the first African American woman to have a monument on the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. It’s one step toward making Wisconsin’s public art more representative of its rich, diverse history.

Murals help tell the less-documented stories of the diverse people that make up Milwaukee.

Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakowski and Milwaukee musician Trapper Schoepp bring you "Live at Lake Effect" — a filmed music series featuring local and nationally touring musicians performing in the Lake Effect Surf Shop. This episode features Cuban-born virtuoso guitarist René Izquierdo.

Unlike our currently election system, instant runoff voting is a system where voters have a number of choices, usually more than two, and rank them based on preference.

When Milwaukee's King Center opened almost 50 years ago, it was designed to serve the entire community. And for so long it has. But the narrative around the center changed a few months ago with a police killing.