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FEATURES
The Betty Awards
For our inaugural awards honoring the memory of our late publisher, we chose six Milwaukee women who personify her extraordinary qualities.
By Elly Fishman
Women Who Made Milwaukee
Focusing their energies on suffrage, fair housing, education and much more, these 11 women stand out in our city’s history.
By Anna Lardinois, Matthew J. Prigge and Hannah Hoffmeister
Women’s Work
Despite the progress made in recent years, Wisconsin women still don’t earn as much as their male co-workers and are underrepresented in the executive ranks.
By Lindsey Anderson
YOUR 414
The Doctor Is In
The Public Museum’s first woman president proves that brilliant scientists can also make brilliant leaders.
By Lindsey Anderson
Surreal Deal
Tory Folliard Gallery is throwing a birthday party for a local painter who would have turned 100 this year.
By Karisa Langlo
Culture Cosmos
Meet a choreographer who interprets the adage “all the world’s a stage” more literally than most, plus a few more of the city’s coolest creatives.
By Milwaukee Magazine Staff and Contributors
Agenda
Unrehearsed plays, a heated hockey game and fancy dress parties are just a few of the things we’re thankful for this month.
By Lindsey Anderson
INSIDER
The Big Story: Hopping Downtown
The key to measuring the success of Milwaukee’s year-old streetcar is viewing it as a development tool as much as a transit project.
By Larry Sandler
Conventional Wisdom
Meet the Democratic operative who’s planning the biggest party party in Milwaukee’s history.
By Zach Brooke
Footsteps of Dahmer
The Cream City Cannibal tour rehashes one of the city’s most painful episodes.
By Anna Miller
DINING
Phoenix Rising
Three businesswomen who are helping the Sherman Phoenix development thrive
By Ann Christenson
Good Gourd
Seven yummy ways to embrace the pumpkin spice trend
By Ann Christenson
Restaurant Review: Kin by Rice n Roll
Tosa’s Kin by Rice n Roll makes a great, fishy statement.
By Ann Christenson
WHY I LOVE MILWAUKEE
Sharon Purifoy is challenging preconceptions – in the firehouse and on her own plate.
As told to Adam Rogan
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