They say you can’t buy happiness, but you can buy local! The Green Holidays section is a handy guide to local holiday music, fairs, art, books, shopping, and dining. “Green Holidays” means local shopping and keeping the “green” in the hood. It also means going “green” with eco-friendly gifts. Our local shopkeepers offer many ways […]
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Krampus, The Christmas Devil
by Ellen C. Warren Long before good old Santa Claus got the job of finding out who was naughty or nice there was a team who handled that duty. Precursor to Santa, St. Nicholas headed out on the eve of his name day with his dark buddy, Krampus, in tow. In the night they would […]
Eleanor’s views of North Avenue
A question I have often been asked is why I choose to draw this street in particular. To answer, I would like to contextualize this series with my last project: a panoramic drawing representing locations on a train route between Milwaukee Wisconsin and Los Angeles California. Drawing a series of a local thoroughfare seemed a […]
ACLU: Guardians of Our Galaxy of Civil Rights
If it weren’t for organizations like the ACLU of Wisconsin, we citizens of the United States likely would be victims of far more attempts to subvert or even destroy the unalienable rights guaranteed to each of us by the US Constitution. Entities who want to advance their own agendas – whether corporations, politicians or governmental […]
Neighbor Spotlight – Eugene Parmenko
I started volunteering at the People’s Books on Thursdays, the closing shift. One Thursday I received a call from Eugene, who was briefly mentioned to me in passing. He was an older gentleman who taught Chinese after store hours at the end of my shift. I gave my pretty natural yet generic salutations anyone develops […]
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