Three boards holding dark stain jut perpendicular from the wall, taught and plum square; it's almost an illusionist's trick setting table ledges of half-inch thickness this way. Stark white paint covers the walls thoroughly from ceiling to terrazo floor, broken up only by Pilcrow Coffee's candy red trim wrapping the tasting room like a waist belt. Milwaukee's... Continue Reading →

Going back to the future with some Duran Duran playing in the background, pre-engineering major Ruby (Molly Corkins) has entered her mind palace. Once there, her imagination reanimates some of science's greatest minds to group problem-solve her core values and her life purpose. She searches for her true inner-being in a world of shallow platitudes,... Continue Reading →

Centered in an ornate and improvised theater round, paper cut puppets (Anja Seiger) flutter mystically over a piano, depicting a cautionary ordeal of a prince, his confidant, his love jones and a serpent; an ordeal that hapless wanderers may undertake, and well-tempered town dwellers would dare not. So we gaze on. This back-lit picture show,... Continue Reading →

A bounty of microbrews have reached full fermentation in Milwaukee 2016. If a doubt lingered about what city is the beer mecca, the new brews on the scene have put those doubts to rest.  You shouldn't have had a hard time convincing your relatives to come to MKE anyway, so I'm sure you're scratching your... Continue Reading →

A jovial sneer reaches the corner of Anne Bonny's mouth. A surly fellow known as Blackbeard, convincingly played by James Carrington, has unexpectedly encroached upon her flighty courtship of Calico Jack (Zach Thomas Woods). No strangers to trysts, Anne Bonny (Alicia Rice) and Blackbeard clearly had a thing going. In the present day, a little yelling would... Continue Reading →