An e-zine for happenings of local culture in Milwaukee and elsewhere
Instructions 1) Enjoy this as a whole. 2) Wholly enjoy this. 3) This whole, enjoy. Manual Controller released his debut full length album Salutations July 2012 and it still has legs. Click the Malus Domestica (apple) to check it out on Bandcamp. Manual Controller - CD Release (realtime) from Local Trolley on Vimeo.
I used to have this awfully bad attitude like most teens, especially toward popular media, and for some reason it extended to books of literature. I used to rant about how anyone could just start writing, making up any old thoughts and pass them off as facts or novels. Around this time, this newspaper started... Continue Reading →
Maybe because it happened to be Black History Month did the irony of Aaron McGruder's talk at UW-Milwaukee's most recent Distinguished Lecture Series evening feel even more striking. McGruder's comic strip turned animated adult cartoon series, picked-up steam the past three years as one of the only televised young and flippant pop-culture outlets originating from... Continue Reading →
Do experiences ever end as they started? If they end, then I suppose not. JC Poppe became known in Milwaukee's hip-hop music and media scene, and beyond, as a pretty solid fixture after about two years on the keyboard creating content for his own website Milwaukee UP. Early on, OnMilwaukee added Milwaukee UP as a... Continue Reading →
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