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Wednesday, July 1,2009

Red Knife Lottery's Soiled Soul

By Evan Rytlewski
Red Knife Lottery opened their debut EP, So Much Drama, with the plotted rape and torture of Travel Channel personality Samantha Brown, paving the way for five more tales of brutality and murder, penned in the vulgar literary style of Edgar Allan Poe and enacted by the terrorizing screams...
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Wednesday, June 24,2009

Spotlight: Milwaukee Music

Local Bands Get Their Due at Cascio Groove Garage

By Evan Rytlewski
Although Summerfest was conceived largely as a showcase for local bands, over the decades slots for opening bands became elusive as the festival began to emphasize national headliners, explains Michael Houser, a former Summerfest board member and the current chief executive...
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Wednesday, June 3,2009

Summer Fun on the Cheap

By Brian Muilenburg
Despite all the energy and excitement surrounding our city’s summer events, Milwaukeeans remain a frugal lot, demanding low-cost diversions during the all-too-short warm-weather season. Happily, there are free and low-cost entertainment and activities in spades this summer. Free for all...
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Wednesday, May 27,2009

What’s Your Worth?

Compare your salary to these Milwaukeeans

By Cory Liebmann
How much is your work worth? Is your salary equal to the importance of your work to society? Or does it reflect your willingness to sell your soul for a paycheck? Or is your salary simply a function of your level of education or how in demand your skills are? We have taken a look at what our...
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Wednesday, May 20,2009

Wisconsin Vacations

Keeping Travel Cheap

By Heidi Yahnke
Given the current state of the economy, it may be difficult to spring for a plane ticket to an exotic locale; luckily, Wisconsin has no lack of fun day trips. Some of them are kid-friendly and others are more suited for adults. But no matter which trip you decide to take, you will likely bring home...
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Wednesday, May 13,2009

Good Luck, Grads

Advice for job seekers in tough times

By Lisa Kaiser
Every day seems to bring worse news about the economy, both national and local. If Chrysler isn’t shutting down a plant it had just promised to keep open, then the governor and mayor are warning of big layoffs and furloughs. So what’s the class of 2009 supposed to do? Be positive and persistent, counseled area...
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Wednesday, May 6,2009

Grow Your Own

Milwaukeeans plant for the future

By Sarah Biondich
When faced with a radical crisis, when survival is threatened, an organism will either die or adapt to the circumstances within its habitat. Adaptation is a basic phenomenon of biology, and humanity is certainly not exempt. In fact, our highly developed brains, capable of language, introspection, problem solving and...
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Wednesday, April 29,2009

Turning a New Leaf

Schwartz’s legacy lives on

By Aisha Motlani
The challenges facing brick-and-mortar bookstores represent the diminishing analog way of life. Hours idled away in bookshops are being supplanted by time spent browsing Amazon. The millions of downloadable books on Google yield a depressing vision of the future. Even mighty retailers like Borders and Barnes & Noble feel the pinch of changing habits and an uncertain economy, and the future...
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Wednesday, April 22,2009

Target: MPS

Will reform come from insiders or outsiders?

By Lisa Kaiser
Is this the beginning of the end of the Milwaukee Public Schools? Yes, if you believe the hype promoted by the suburban business community, their representatives in the state Legislature, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, who argue that MPS is so dysfunctional and wasteful that it can’t save itself. State Sen. Ted...
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Wednesday, April 15,2009

UW-Milwaukee Poised for Growth

University-based research can fuel Milwaukee’s economic development

By Michael Timm
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is in the midst of a metamorphosis. UWM's leadership is shaking off the institution's old reputation as a second-tier, underrated commuter campus by embracing a bold plan to expand its research capacity. Focusing on research will result, hopefully, in...
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Wednesday, April 8,2009

How Milwaukee Saved its Public Museum

Leaders public and private gambled on giving the county’s failing museum a second chance. How their efforts breathed new life into the old institution.

By Evan Rytlewski
In 2005 a county committee convened to control the crisis at the Milwaukee Public Museum. A rogue chief financial officer had been covering up the museum’s snowballing debt by raiding the museum’s endowment, while a negligent board remained unaware that the institution was being run into the ground. With...
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Wednesday, April 1,2009

Baseball ’09: Bright Forecast for Brewers?

By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Predicting the results of Major League Baseball seasons is no easy task. One can’t rely on laws of science like the ones that bring lovely, snow-free weather to Wisconsin every April. Nor can one simply use common sense, like all those experts who foresaw so easily that greed, corruption and governmental apathy just...
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Wednesday, March 25,2009

The 2009 SXSW Wrap-Up

Milwaukee provides a strong presence at the overstuffed music festival

By Evan Rytlewski
Although attendance was up at this year's South by Southwest music conference, ticket sales were down...
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Wednesday, March 18,2009

Staying Above the Fray

Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson fends off attacks on her record

By Lisa Kaiser
For many Wisconsinites, a state Supreme Court without Shirley Abrahamson is unthinkable. Abrahamson has served on the state’s highest court for 33 years, 13 of them as its first female chief justice. During her tenure, Abrahamson has developed a national reputation as a no-nonsense jurist who isn’t afraid to wield the...
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Thursday, March 12,2009

Celebrating Ireland

A culinary tour

By Sarah Biondich
It is our nostalgic claim to Irishness that finds us in a smoky corner bar on St. Patrick’s Day...
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Friday, March 6,2009

Old Milwaukee

Why Rockabilly Thrives on Milwaukee's South Side

By Evan Rytlewski
The Bay View neighborhood on Milwaukee’s south side is a living time capsule, much of it untouched by the past half-century...
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Wednesday, February 25,2009

Milwaukee’s Green Machine

Fueling the local economy with ‘green jobs’ and new ideas

By Jessica Steinhoff
Green jobs have been a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan since the early days of his campaign. It’s a concept that’s gotten people roaring with energy, ideas and an appetite for progress. But what, exactly, does this term mean? “Green jobs” seems to be so vague that it can be applied to...
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Wednesday, February 18,2009

Predicting Oscar

A Slumdog night

By David Luhrssen
It’s Slumdog versus wizened old Benjamin, a scrappy kid from Mumbai against an American freak of nature. This year’s Academy Awards promises a battle between Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for several top prizes and many lesser ones. Sean Penn’s unforgettable performance in Milk...
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Tuesday, February 17,2009

How Milwaukee Does It

The Shepherd’s 2009 sex survey results

By Evan Rytlewski
Apparently people do more in the Bayshore Park N Ride lot than just wait for busess...
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Wednesday, February 4,2009

Leaving the Fast Lane

The Slow Food phenomenon

By Sarah Biondich
You don’t have to dig deep to see the allure of fast food. It’s cheap, it’s convenient and it’s everywhere. The fast-food franchise machine, however, has gone unchecked for decades, garnering an unprecedented degree of power over our country’s food supply. It has played its part in fueling the industrialization of...
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Wednesday, January 28,2009

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

By Robert Weissman
What a year for corporate criminality and malfeasance! As the Multinational Monitor compiled its annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations, it would have been easy to restrict the 2008 awardees to Wall Street firms. But the rest of the corporate sector was not on good behavior during 2008 either, and didn’t deserve to escape...
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Wednesday, January 21,2009

Mr. Jobs

Donald Sykes Discusses the City's efforts to Create Employment

By Louis Fortis and Lisa Kaiser
When Donald Sykes took over the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board in 2007, he had decades of experience in training new workers. Sykes—a former head of the Social Development Commission and the New Hope Project, and a veteran of Washington policy-making—returned two years ago to a Milwaukee...
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Wednesday, January 14,2009

The Skinny on Childhood Obesity

Local groups are teaming up to help overweight children slim down

By Jessica Steinhoff
We hear it all the time, especially around the start of each new year: Many Americans are fat. On average, we weigh more—and eat more— than people in most other countries, as well as our parents and grandparents did. Plus, the problem is starting so early that we’re now seeing some of the most severe...
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Wednesday, January 7,2009

PACKERS RECAP: Back to Midfield

By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Last January the Green Bay Packers fell one victory short of the Super Bowl. Now they’re watching the NFL playoffs, having backtracked from a 13-3 record in 2007 to 6-10 this season. The Packers expected the season to open the post-Brett Favre era, and it did, but only after the soap opera of Favre’s unretirement...
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Wednesday, December 31,2008

A Vision for 2009

Bold action for difficult times

By Shepherd Express Staff
This year, like every year, gives us an opportunity to consider where we've been, how we arrived at the present moment, and how we can launch a new year with promise.2008 was particularly difficult and is ending with our nation in the deepest recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. These difficulties offer us an opportunity to make big changes in the way we think about our society, our neighborhoods and our role in moving into the future in a fair and just manner.
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