Announcing Our Next Bar Time Bloggers

Announcing Our Next Bar Time Bloggers

Hotel Foster. First and foremost, thanks to all who submitted entries to this year’s Bar Time blogger contest. There were plenty of submissions to choose from and we put the finest up to a vote. You voted, told your friends to vote, and passed around the link more times than we could keep track of. For all of this, we were ecstatic.  But then we hit a roadblock.  The Milwaukee Magazine staff could simply not decide on one person to take up the Bar Time blogging torch. And this torch is no small task. There are always new bars opening…


Hotel Foster.

First and foremost, thanks to all who submitted entries to this year’s Bar Time blogger contest. There were plenty of submissions to choose from and we put the finest up to a vote. You voted, told your friends to vote, and passed around the link more times than we could keep track of. For all of this, we were ecstatic. 

But then we hit a roadblock. 

The Milwaukee Magazine staff could simply not decide on one person to take up the Bar Time blogging torch. And this torch is no small task. There are always new bars opening and closing, new menus and wacky specials ripe for the tasting,  and locally made spirits and beer that must be put to the test. The success (and occasional failure) of all of these, of course, must be artfully and authoritatively reported to you, dear readers.  

So we’re happy to announce we’ll now have two Bar Time bloggers: Michael Bischoff and Kaitlin Corner. Congratulations to the winners. Look for the first Bar Time posts soon.

Claire Hanan worked at the magazine as an editor from 2012-2017. She edited the Culture section and wrote stories about all sorts of topics, including the arts, fashion, politics and more. In 2016, she was a finalist for best profile writing at the City and Regional Magazine Awards for her story "In A Flash." In 2014, she won the the Milwaukee Press gold award for best public service story for editing "Handle With Care," a service package about aging in Milwaukee. Before all this, she attended the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and New York University's Summer Publishing Institute.