Lilo Allen photo by Mahdi Gransberry by Adam Krueger,photo by Mahdi Gransberry Lilo Allen is a Milwaukee based artist and business owner of Papyrus & Charms. She creates culturally conscious art that is wearable and handmade. Everything Allen makes honors her African American and Jamaican heritage. Allen works with the Bronzeville Collective, a collaborative store […]
Photo by Joe Brusky by George Martin George Floyd’s daughter Gigi, 6, shouted “Daddy changed the world!” after her dad’s arrest-death. The country and the world saw George Floyd’s life squeezed out of him by a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. Since his death on May 25, 2020, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) […]
Dale Jones photo by Lee Gutowski by Lee Gutowski Dale Jones sat on a porch in Riverwest recently for an interview with the Riverwest Currents. Porches are his natural element at the moment; from this porch, Dale can point out more than one that he’s built or worked on right on this very block. And […]
By Roberta Hanus …when I hear a word or a phrase that fascinates or is new to me, my ears perk up and I ponder the possibility that it may have greater significance than what was intended. Today a client of mine described the situation in her life as a “hard re-set”.I am a Jungian-oriented […]
by Eileen Ciezki You are reading this in the month of May and I have had to write this in mid-April, in the midst of “Safer at Home.” This is a time of fear, worry, sadness, grief, hardship. But we just celebrated Passover and Easter— both fitting promises for these hard times we are all […]
