A&E Feature

Beautifying Milwaukee Through Rain Gardens

Homeowners can help to reduce pollution, improve water quality

This spring, those who would like to make the environment a greener place need look no further than their yards. Thanks to a novel approach to reduce storm water, we can all become eco-friendly gardeners. Rain gardens were invented in 1990 as a means to reduce storm water in a cost-effective way. Bioretention, which is the holding and filtering of storm water in plant systems, was the solution Larry Coffman, head of environmental...


Milwaukee Color

Looking Back at Frontier Radio

WMSE’s birthday party

Today, it’s hard to escape the constant allure of media buzz—24-hour news, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook—available at our fingertips and formatted to suit our individual preferences. But back in the late-’70s, it was a completely different era. A kid from Bay View would have been hard-pressed to find a...

Expresso

Issue of the Week: The True Impact of Waukesha’s Water Request

Plus Hero and Jerk of the Week

Will Lake Michigan water allow Waukesha to develop at the expense of minority residents of Milwaukee and low-income workers? That’s likely, according to a new report by the ACLU of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Sustainable Story Hill and the...


On Music

Modest Mouse, The Roots and The Bravery to Play Summerfest

Also Floating On: Danny Gokey

Summerfest rolled out some more side-stage headliners today via its Facebook page. Among them are perennials The Roots, O.A.R. and The Wailers, as well as The Bravery, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts an...

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Dining
Mr. Perkins’ Home Cooking
By Jeff Beutner
Sláinte!
By Sarah Biondich
I Hate Hollywood

News
Poll

Allowing people to carry guns in public remains a hot issue. Would you feel safer if many of the customers in coffee shops, grocery stores or restaurants you patronize were carrying guns, whether in the open or concealed?

 

 

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Cover Story

Reinventing the Library

Tight budgets, technology and community propel libraries forward

In the age of Google, iPhones and Kindle, are brick-and-mortar libraries necessary? Absolutely. Now more than ever. In fact, libraries are enjoying a surge in attendance, despite the pervasiveness of instant-gratification multimedia options. Nationally, library use is up; according to a 2008 survey conducted by the American Library Association (ALA), 76% of Americans...



Sports
Impossible Dream? Now’s the Time for It
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
No Cap on Complexities in This Year’s NFL
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
The Original High Def Sure Has Gotten Pricey
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Curl Up and Enjoy a Sport for the Masses
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Ballyard Brainstorms Are Springing to Mind
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Art for Art's Sake

Welcome, Losers

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So yeah, damn it, it’s happened again. I’m talking about that bullshit Daylight Saving Time, and I’m not...

 
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