Whether it’s the Pabst Blue Ribbon serving tray that’s down in grandpa’s basement bar or the magnetized Blatz bottle opener that’s always been on Uncle Karl’s refrigerator, tiny traces of our town’s brewing legacy have been with many of us since before we can remember. This weekend, guests of the Captain...

It has a unique identity. It has a following. It has soul. G. Groppi Food Market seems to exist in contrast to nearly every aspect of the national supermarket behemoths. With 95 years behind it, Groppi's is a South Side institution with a solid connection to a time when things were a little slower, a little more familiar. In the early 1900s, Giocondo and Giorgina Groppi emigrated from Lucca, Italy, to the South Side of Milwaukee, where they settled their family and opened a food market at the corner of Russell and Wentworth avenues in the Bay View neighborhood.

To blog, to journal publicly on the Web, has gained popularity at an exponential rate. According to Technorati, an Internet search engine that collects, organizes and distributes blogs and other forms of independent, user-generated content, there are more than 175,000 new blogs every single day.

The title of Sukumaran Muralidharan’s debut cookbook, A Short Course in Culinary Experiments: Vegetarian Indian Cuisine for Innovative Non-Experts, sounds a bit like the descriptive heading for a doctoral thesis, and understandably so. Muralidharan is a research associate at the University of Maryland Biotechnology...

Our goal is to be a gathering place in the middle of our neighborhood where people can walk, and not have to drive, to get a great cup of coffee and enjoy a good meal,” says Marvin Jones, owner of A Taste of Art Coffee Bar and Deli. Jones and company spent a year refurbishing a unique corner location into a comfortable, spacious and bright gathering spot...

Before becoming our state’s agriculture secretary in 2003, Rod Nilsestuen spent 24 years as president and chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives (WFC). Under his guidance, the WFC increased its size to 860 co-ops and 1.8 million members.

Milwaukee has given birth to another beer! Looking to lighten up a stressful career as a marketing and public relations consultant, Craig Peterson pursued a more easygoing, fun way to spend his time: brewing beer. As an added bonus, the formation of the Buffalo Water Beer Co. in 2007 helps to quell the sting of our city losing yet another national brewing company.

A "full-tasting" wine ticket is $20 if purchased by Aug. 21, or $30 cash at the festival's entrance. If you're a Milwaukee Art Museum member, you'll be reward ed with a discount. The ticket includes a wine glass, a festival program listing the 250 wines available for sampling at the festival, a book of 10 tasting tickets (each good for a one ounce wine pour) and a coupon for 15-percent off the purchase of the festival wines available at Sendik's Food Markets. At the festival, visitors can purchase booklets of 10 tasting tickets for $5. Forty-one representatives from various wine producers ...

It’s a beautiful coupling really: Milwaukee’s ethnic diversity combined with our cherished Wisconsin fish fry. Just to get a grasp on our reverence for the almighty fish fry, know that restaurants in other parts of the country, if they offer them at all, often relegate their fish fries to Fridays during Lent, a mere 40 days, mind you.

More flavor than water, more pep than juice, nothing quenches the thirst like the sweet carbonation of a cold soda. These fizzy soft drinks date back to the mineral waters discovered in natural springs. Ancient cultures, like the Romans in Bath, England, for example, believed that bathing in and drinking the water from...