Bonnie North
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Milwaukee, WI, United States
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The Bath Tiles Of Milwaukee's History
A listener wondered if it was true that there were underground baths in Milwaukee where powerful men once met in secret to do powerful things. To answer → Read More
Swedish Singer & Composer Sophie Dunér Performs With Milwaukee's Present Music
Since graduating from Boston's Berklee School of Music in 1994, Swedish singer and composer Sophie Dunér has carved out a career composing and performing → Read More
Milwaukee Music Roundup: GGOOLLDD, Stephen Strupp, Vinz Clortho, The Frogs
window.parent.CKEDITOR.tools.callFunction( 47, window ); Matt Wild is one of the co-founders of Milwaukee Record , which he and the other co-founder, Tyler → Read More
Weather's Going To Happen Whether Or Not We're Ready
The United States may be divided politically, but there's one thing just about everyone agrees on: Why can’t the weather forecast be more accurate? There → Read More
Fiber Arts Exhibit Explores Expressive Nature of Water
An exhibition on view at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts is exploring the expressive nature of water. The various materials used by some of → Read More
Nick Offerman On Human Rights & Handkerchiefs
Nick Offerman is best known for his Parks and Recreation character Ron Swanson. But the accomplished actor, comedian, and master woodworker, has a lot more → Read More
One Man Band: The Virtuosity Of Irish Guitarist Shane Hennessy
Hearing, and seeing, guitar virtuoso and composer Shane Hennessy is magical. It’s technique, sure. He has it in spades. But his music goes well beyond → Read More
Paul Reiser on Life, Comedy & Getting Older
If the only thing he was known for was the TV show Mad About You , Paul Reiser could still hold his head high. That 90s hit, recently rebooted as a sequel → Read More
First National Veterans Theater Festival Takes Place In Milwaukee This Week
Feast of Crispian, a Milwaukee theater troupe that uses Shakespeare to help veterans cope with trauma and reintegration issues, is taking their mission one → Read More
Secretary Robert Wilkie Outlines Cultural Changes At The Department Of Veterans Affairs
Robert Wilkie was appointed as the Secretary of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last July. Wilkie grew up at Fort Bragg in a military family and still → Read More
Gone Grove? Why Many Milwaukeeans Want To Preserve Dan Kiley's Chestnut Trees
It's under a foot of snow right now so no one’s spending any time there. But that doesn’t mean the Dan Kiley -designed grove of chestnut trees along the → Read More
Milwaukee Rep Imagines A 'Pride and Prejudice' Sequel
Most of us know the titles: Sense and Sensibility . Emma . Pride and Prejudice . And many of us have seen the Masterpiece Theatre or film adaptations of → Read More
'Against the Grain' Dances Through The Life Of Wisconsin Artist Levi Fisher Ames
The new production Against the Grain: The Life and Times of Levi Fisher Ames tells a lesser-known Wisconsin story about a Civil War veteran who found a → Read More
As Second Year Of Public Art Along Wisconsin Avenue Wraps Up, Sculpture Milwaukee Looks Ahead
Sculpture Milwaukee is a month away from wrapping up its second year of art installations along Wisconsin Avenue. This year, it was bracketed on one end by → Read More
Sixth VA Mental Health Summit Focuses On African-American Veterans
The Zablocki VA Medical Center and UW-Milwaukee have discovered they make good partners in providing military veterans with a wide range of services. For → Read More
Actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker Help Wrap Up 2018 UPAF Campaign
The annual campaign for the United Performing Arts Fund, or UPAF, wrapped up this week. It successfully raised more than $12 million for local performing → Read More
Celebrating 50 years of LGBT history in Walker's Point
1968 was a pivotal year for so many facets of American culture, from the anti-war and civil rights movements, to rapidly changing musical styles, to women → Read More
Exploring The Music of 'Swan Lake'
While the dancers get most of the notice in a performance of Swan Lake , the music they dance to is no slouch either. Written by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky → Read More
'A Life in Railroad Photography' Celebrates Wallace W. Abbey
Wallace Abbey captured images of trains and how railroads played a role in shaping large cities for decades, beginning in the 1940s. And in doing that, the → Read More
Canoeing 'Disappointment River': 1200 Miles Through Canada's Northwest Passage
Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark crossed the North American continent to "discover" the Pacific Ocean, Scottish fur trader and explorer Alexander → Read More