OnMilwaukee.com Recommends, June 22, 2013
Want to smell like Clooney? Swim like Phelps? It's all here in this week's edition of OnMilwaukee.com Recommends.Read more...
Want to smell like Clooney? Swim like Phelps? It's all here in this week's edition of OnMilwaukee.com Recommends.Read more...
We all know Wisconsin has its share of the quirky. And we don't mind celebrating it. Whether or not we'd want someone from south of the state line to do it, is questionable. But when Chicago writer Jerome Pohlen does it - in the new second edition of his book "Oddball Wisconsin: A Guide to 400 Really Strange Places" - it's OK.Read more...
"Everyone calls me 'Messy' or 'Santa,'" says Bill Mesenbrink during a recent visit to Johnson's Green 7, a Glendale bar and restaurant that's been around - and family-owned - for 51 years. Mesenbrink is enjoying retirement as a golfer, bartender and a booked-solid Santa Claus.Read more...
Bluewater Productions is using crowdsourcing to help fund an effort to tell the story of the Stonewall Riots in a graphic novel.Read more...
If you're hankering for some original music, great local bands, fantastic street food and good old-fashioned family fun, look no further than the East Side. The 12th annual Summer Soulstice festival will take place on June 22, and as always it promises good music and good times.
See More Stories In Festival Guide …With all that Lake Geneva offers less than an hour away from the city, maybe it's time for Milwaukeeans to look south for their "up north" vacation.
See More Stories In Kids & Family …Pixar is going back to the drawing board for their 14th film. 2001's drawing board to be precise, as they make a prequel to one of their earliest entries, "Monsters Inc." "Monsters University" still won't qualify as one of their finest features, but it might be up there with some of their funniest.
See More Stories In Movies & TV …So after seemingly countless delays, reshoots and just generally bad news coming from the Hollywood insider magazines, "World War Z" has arrived. And for some odd, miraculous reason, despite all of the off-screen drama, the on-screen drama turned out pretty good. An actual zombie apocalypse breaking out would be less surprising.
See More Stories In Movies & TV …Relief pitcher Burke Badenhop came to Milwaukee this offseason by way of a trade, and the right-hander is enjoying his first season in the city and with the Brewers. OnMilwaukee.com caught up with the 30-year-old right-hander to talk about falling into media storylines, the life of a reliever, and what his go-to meal is at Café Hollander.
See More Stories In Sports …Milwaukee designer and former Pfister Artist-in-Residence Timothy Westbrook will be featured on Season 12 of Lifetime's "Project Runway," it was announced today.
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