Showing posts with label Milwaukee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milwaukee. Show all posts
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Listen to Me on the Radio (and Podcast)

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Starting with this weekend's episode, I am the host and producer of " The Score ," a podcast featured on the news and politics...
Monday, July 03, 2017

Celebrating Milwaukee as America's Frozen Custard Capital

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July is National Ice Cream month , the result of a congressional resolution passed in 1984 and first proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan o...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

From the Archives: A Review of the Revival of 'Chicago' (1997)

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Monday's post about Big Stone Gap , which mentioned cast member Jasmine Guy, reminded me about how, in the last years of the last centur...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas in Milwaukee - 1967

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Back in 2008, I offered my recollections of how my family celebrated Christmas as I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Now I have s...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

That Old Nougat Cross

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Many have no doubt heard the story about a syncretistic Christmas display in a Japanese department store that featured a prominent figure o...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Images from Milwaukee's Marquette High c. 1952

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Through the magic of eBay , I recently acquired the 1952 edition of The Flambeau , the yearbook of Marquette University High School in Milw...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Sagal and Ferguson on the 'Real America'

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Peter Sagal, host of NPR's weekly quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me , was a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Community Theatre - Part Five

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Yesterday the world remembered the first time men set foot on the lunar surface, 40 years after that event took place on July 20, 1969 . Tod...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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One morning earlier this week, as I was preparing to leave for the Tuesday Morning Group Coalition monthly meeting in Richmond, I became awa...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

'Ave, Greenwald': MUHS Latin Teacher Retires

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Thanks to Google Alerts, I learned today that Mr. James Greenwald, who has taught Latin at Marquette University High School (my alma mater) ...