by Liam Kane-Grade | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
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...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
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...
by Dion Kempthorne | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
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...
by Dion Kempthorne | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
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...
by Liza Burkin | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
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....