Frank Vogel’s admiration of his own father and devotion to his family has inspired him to help others become better fathers. In March, Vogel joined the Milwaukee Fatherhood Collaborative, a network of support and social services dedicated to promoting and strengthening fatherhood among at-risk men, such as teen dads, and incarcerated and divorced fathers. The Collaborative helps “dads who need a boost to help them be strong, responsible fathers for themselves and for their families,” Vogel says…
July 2004
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A Carnival of Dissent
Documentary Captures Divisions, Frustrations in Anti-War Movement A Carnival of Dissent, a documentary on the Milwaukee anti-war movement as of last year, made its debut at the Green Gallery 801 E. Clarke St. on June 12. Produced by local activist and UWM journalism student Nathan Hall with Mike Neuman, Adriane Hoff, and Naomi Lange, about […]
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Ray Charles 1930-2004
Here’s a travesty for ya. Brother Ray is dead at 73, and the “liberal media” spends a week frothing at the mouth with an endless barrage of Ronnie Raygun flim-flam, while reducing the great Ray Charles to a mere footnote. For those of us with our hearts and souls still intact, we know the score. Charles was the high priest of soul and he was more important, far more relevant, and damn-it-to-hell, a BETTER AMERICAN than that B movie hack who talked an asleep at the wheel nation into giving him the job of Commander in Chief some twenty odd years ago…
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Rock’nRoll Evan
Evan Tyson walks in the room talking a mile a minute. “You gotta hear this CD! It’s the best disc this year so far!” Eagles of Death Metal blasts through the boom box. A campy hyper-speed Marc Bolan sound. The conversation careens through early ’70s glam rock and his fondness for such prog rockers as Roxy Music to the MC5 and the Stooges…
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Girl Saints
Were it not for the angels and patron saints surrounding fifth grader CX Dillhunt’s orphanage bed, he may never have written a book of poems–or at least that’s the impression I came away with after reading his book of poems, “Girl Saints.” …
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