by Ellen C. Warren, photo by Kurt Johnson Karina Turner worked with volunteer coordinator Gib Caldwell this summer. Milwaukee kids were working this summer, thanks to an initiative put together by the City of Milwaukee and funded by the State. Mayor Barretts Summer Youth Jobs Initiative offered 350 jobs to young people in a variety […]
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bill Wood & brian Dettmering
Story by Ben Elmadar The ceremonial lighting of ordinarily vacant storefronts inaugurates the tax season. Lady Liberty plays his boom box on the street corner. Seems everyone is in the fiscal spirit. local guys Brian Dettmering is a year-round accountant with 25 years experience. He has spent the past 12 years helping people in Riverwest […]
Rrrrrreving Up For Rrrrrrrockerbox!
by Tea Krulos Rockerbox is the crowd. Thats the cool thing about Rockerbox, Scott Johnson tells me. Were sitting outside his flagship business, Fuel Café. This type of conversation will be impossible to conduct here August 11, when the street will be filled with revving motorcycles for the fifth annual Rockerbox Motofest. Johnson thought of […]
Health Matters: Seasonal Affective Disorder
by Emily DeLeo With the holidays behind us, we now head into the long dark months of winter. This is a time of year when many people may feel a little down or depressed. Sometimes this depression is temporary and can be attributed to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The lack of sunlight during January and […]
A b j e c t P o e t r y
by Mary K. Vuk Marie Larson, director of marketing at Woodland Pattern, will leave Milwaukee in August to pursue graduate studies in poetry at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Larson said that working at Woodland Pattern has been a priceless education. It was an opportunity for me to immerse myself and learn about whats going […]
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