Bubbling Up

Bubbling Up

As Donna Neuwirth sees it, the recent economic downturn has created an opportunity for Wisconsinites to re-imagine our relationship with food and entertainment. “We’re in an interesting time when we have to do more for ourselves,” says Neuwirth, Executive Director of...
Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

The fever started during lunch at a friend’s cabin on the Wisconsin River this spring. Over sandwiches and homemade potato salad, my friend offered us an open-ended invitation to stay for a week at the cabin during the summer. Still in giddy shock at the generosity of...
Rifling

Rifling

I loved the words, the names,when I was a boy whenhis blue eye turned meto the muscular heft of arms,Winchester and Remington, the smell of gun oil and gun powder,the thumbed-smooth feel of wood and steel,the slick liquid clatter of lever actions,the lovely locking in...
How to Start Your Poem

How to Start Your Poem

Let your dog runsee where it goes what it turns upwhat it brings back a hollow yellow balla blue baby shoe a rabbit-skin glovethe thumb torn off a shimmering star-ling fluttering in its moutha broken wing its eyes spark-ling beads of ebony its burnished beaklocked...
Knocking on Heaven's Door

Knocking on Heaven's Door

As Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons strode on the stage of Milwaukee’s historic Turner Hall, the audience—comprised of both well-dressed suburban folks out for a night of musical entertainment and flannel-clad hipsters from the city—applauded enthusiastically....