Checking In: The reunion of the long-running Wisconsin Public Radio comedy/variety show “Hotel Milwaukee” filled the Turner Hall Ballroom with some 500 die-hard fans and newfound friends. After an eight-year hiatus, the show featured the original cast, including the Shepherd’s own lovable curmudgeon, Art Kumbalek, Marcie Hoffman, Mike Neville, Bill Clifford, Jeana Stillman...

Centenarian Celebration: The Zoological Society of Milwaukee (ZSM) celebrated its 100th birthday with a big blowout featuring a competition of 16 zoo-themed cakes. Judges included “Foodie-About-Town” Kyle Cherek, Dr. Robert Davis, Zoological Society CEO, MATC culinary instructors Tom LaPierre and Debra Socha, Zoo Director...

Domes Dancing: Vibrant African music echoed throughout the lavishly festive Mitchell Park Conservatory Domes, celebrating Ko-Thi Dance Company’s 40th season. Founder Ferne Caulker lovingly praised director Una Van Duvall as a “mini-hurricane” and thanked the company’s other key players: new...

Belly Up to the Bar: The annual Celebrity Bartender Night at the Newsroom Pub was packed with pols, publicists, publishers, pundits and related communications practitioners who helped the venerable Milwaukee Press Club celebrate its 124th anniversary. Sharon Cook, now with M&I’s nonprofit trust department, staked out a prime...

Best of the Best: More than 1,000 Shepherd Express fans poured into the annual Best of Milwaukee party at the InterContinental Milwaukee for noshing, schmoozing and cheering on this year’s winners. Queues formed to sample an array of food and froth. Chris Johnson poured Lakefront Brewery’s new Local Acre Lager, the first with 100% Wisconsin-grown ingredients since Prohibition...

Power of the Purse: Wine, Women and Purses were in abundance at the Gilda’s Club fund-raiser at Devon Seafood Grill. Guests came to support the club’s mission of providing emotional and so

New Brit in Town: London native Mark Clements, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s new artistic director, was wholeheartedly welcomed at a Harley-Davidson Museum celebration. Rep board member/Harl

A Sea of Pink: It was a perfect autumn lakefront day for the 13,000 people—walkers, runners, breast cancer survivors, those in treatment and their family and friends— who came out to suppo

Clothing trendies took to the streets to launch International Fashion Week with a fashionable Fashion’s Night Out. More than 30 boutiques around town participated. Adding a touch of glam at Lela were Bobbi Scherr, studying social work at MATC; Megan Radke of the Wicked Hop...

The chilly lake breeze whistling over Discovery World’s Rotary Amphitheater did not deter die-hard music fans from attending the final Live @ the Lakefront concert series. The evening featured Longacre, playing from its new CD, Transfixed Summer. The show was sponsored by...