Abby Callard

Start your morning, day, week right with our must-read stories. The New York Times Magazine has the story of Stephen King’s family’s writing dynasty. The Washington Post has what governors really talked about during the National Governors Association summer meeting, which was held in Milwaukee over the weekend. One year after the Sikh Temple shooting, the Associated Press looks at the unlikely alliance formed between one of the victim’s sons and a former racist. The Oak Creek police chief also reflects on that day one year ago and what it’s meant to his force in the past year. Hundreds of…

The Colectivo Lakefront café will be hosting a sidewalk sale this Saturday to get rid of sell its remaining stock of Alterra gear. The sale will run from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., or until the gear is gone. The merchandise includes $5 T-shirts, $5 tin signs, half-off sweatshirts and free posters. Unfortunately, no mugs for sale.

Oak Creek Patch has an exclusive interview with mayor Steve Scaffidi about the one-year anniversary of the Sikh Temple shooting. “Aug. 5 has never left my mind,” he says. Monday marks one year since Wade Michael Page killed six and wounded three at Oak Creek’s Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. Our photographer Adam Ryan Morris documented the community’s strength in the face of tragedy. “Wade Michael Page may have wounded the Sikh community, but he clearly failed to divide it,” he wrote in the photo essay. One of those wounded was Oak Creek police Lt. Brian Murphy, who faced a long…

Make sure you’re the most-informed person at your Monday mornings meetings with this great sampling of today’s news. Your favorite coffee might have a new name starting today. Alterra Coffee announced yesterday that its name will change to Colectivo Coffee. The change comes after the end of a three-year deal with Mars, which will retain full rights to the Alterra name. The JS has more. And for more on the Milwaukee coffee scene, check out our feature from 2012 “Coffee Wars.” Yahoo Sports is in the midst of a contest determining the No. 1 greatest athlete in Milwaukee. A top…

Milwaukee residents Lilah Horwitz and Nick Olson were sitting in the mountains of West Virginia watching a sunset when they had a thought: make a house with a wall of windows. “Wouldn’t it be cool if you had a house where the whole wall was windows because then you would never have to be trying to fit the sunset into one little space,” says Horwitz in a short documentary released today by web-based documentary series “Half Cut Tea.” Less than a year later, that thought was a reality. The documentary is gorgeous and features tin types, hand sewing, photography and,…

This year’s Milwaukee Film Festival artwork was inspired by the festival’s fifth year. Cathy Brautigam of Loneshoe Graphics and illustrator Kristopher Pollard (also known as Kpolly) collaborated on the posters that borrow from popular films such as Say Anything and Star Wars.

The day has finally arrived! The Royal baby is on his or her way. Now let’s all get back to watching Twitter for the first news of the most important person ever.  The Iron Horse Hotel is now offering a complimentary car to its guests, courtesy of a partnership with Heiser Automotive. The Royal baby is on the way. Every media outlet in the world is reporting that Duchess Kate is in the early stages of labor at St. Mary’s Hospital. According to USA Today, the official word came via Twitter. That has to be a first. The Journal Sentinel…

Start your week on the right note by informing yourself of all that’s new. Start here. The Journal Sentinel takes a look at the effects of the affordable care act’s insurance mandate on home care workers in Wisconsin. Self-defense proved too hard to disprove in the trial of George Zimmerman. The New York Times analyzes some of the reasons why. In Milwaukee, more than 125 protested the decision. Paul Fanlund at the Cap Times opines on what the next year might hold for Wisconsin politics. It’s not pretty. The Atlantic Cities posted an interesting social media/dining hybrid: a map of the most…

Milwaukee Downtown launched their new campaign Cya Downtown in May 2013, and the TV spots have been making the rounds on the interwebs since then. The BID uploaded four videos to their YouTube page at the end of June: two 30-second spots and two 60-second spots. Cya Downtown is the third branding campaign for Milwaukee Downtown since it started in 1998. The press materials for the campaign state the organization came up with this approach after “starting completely from scratch.” Except not quite. Most of the footage is actually featured in a 2011 video (also on the Milwaukee Downtown YouTube…