So you try to include your truest friend on the biggest night of your life. You hook up said last-friend-standing, your honored bridesmaid Regan (Tess Cipinski), with the spoils of youre femine conquest: a swank hotel suite in downtown NYC. You bagged a rich groom who buys the crap out of your love already,... Continue Reading →

   Her white dress, haute fashioned hand-spun dupioni and chiffon, tailored, waits in a garment bag hidden in her closet ready to hug her waist firmly, tighter than her groom ever could. White leather heels poised to lift her feet from the floor, lay together in box getting a good nights rest. On her vanity... Continue Reading →

  We can reminisce on 2015 as the "Year of the Book" in Milwaukee, among many other dubious pop distinctions no doubt. Miller Brewing, the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee's neighborhoods (Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods) and even its most infamous characters (Milwaukee Mayhem) got books published in their honor. In the case of Miller, releasing a book this... Continue Reading →

   Emotions, idiosyncratic banter, control complexes, convoluted personal mythology, rationalizations, self-mutalizations, self-righteousness, conspicuous social cause pandering, psychodramas, endless searches for belonging, all these appear in the characterization of of a long lost group of friends, testing the moral and intellectual compasses of the audience from start to finale. Starlings brilliantly constructs a story of the sloppy... Continue Reading →

   Promenading up the Vliet Street Artwalk this past April, I ducked in few low-key favorites like James Steeno Gallery, Four Corners Fair Trade, newer urban kitchy facades like ReStore; a couple that might not have made it through the summer like Milwaukee Apothecary and Bare Knuckle Barbery; found a few new spots like Milkweed Designs. The... Continue Reading →