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It’s a Street Party Like No Other

by Jim Linneman and Tess Reiss Tell your neighbors and bring your friends to the Locust Street Festival on Sunday, June 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Now in its 26th year, the Locust Street Festival extravaganza has become one of Milwaukee’s most colorful and finest old-time street festivals. In 2001, Shepherd Express readers […]

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Miramar Open Mic Host Has Underground Life

by Jean Scherwenka Folk singer and guitarist Sandy Weisto and her three-woman band Sweet Diversity released their second CD, “They Get That Way Underground,” on October 14. Band members Weisto, Carrie Sanders, and Ann Elizabeth- Nagel are known for their acappella singing, as well as their guitar, piano, and percussion. The new release, their second […]

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Woodland Pattern: A Humbling Experience

by Mary Vuk Working at Woodland Pattern has been a humbling experience for Robert J. Baumann, Bookstore Assistant. He doesn’t seem like someone who actually needs to be humbled, but 25-year-old Baumann, who loves his job at Woodland Pattern, simultaneously feels awed and intimidated by the poets and people who come his way. “I often […]