Meet the 2025 Unity Awards Winners: Mary Joy Hickey
Mary Joy Hickey helps kids find their true selves through Girls Rock MKE.
Meet the 2025 Unity Awards Winners: Jim Gaillard
Jim Gaillard trains people of color into sustaining careers in the trades – and improves blighted housing on the way.
Ruth Arts’ New Gallery Space Honors Its Benefactor’s Wisconsin Roots
The Walker’s Point gallery is just one piece of a multimillion-dollar arts grant machine.
28 Ways to Show Love to the Arts in Milwaukee
Our city abounds with music, dance, theater and more. Stirring performances, intriguing exhibitions, rockin’ concerts. It’s a lot to be grateful for. Here are 28 ways to show your love and appreciation for Milwaukee’s creativity, in all its many forms.
Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker Is Thinking of the Future Beyond Herself
The Milwaukee dance trailblazer founded Ko-Thi Dance Company in 1969.
What’s On at Milwaukee’s Six Historic Concert Venues This Spring
Consider this your guide to the local concert scene this spring.
Milwaukee Ballet’s Mireille Favarel On Her Upcoming Retirement
She moved to Milwaukee in 1989 from France to become a principal dancer and eventually artistic director of the ballet’s second company.
Meet Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s New Principal Pops Conductor
Byron Stripling wants to show people that classical isn’t stuffy.
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Celebrates 50 Years by Looking Forward
Fifty years after its founding, intimate casts and strong writing remain the heart of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.
5 Indie Bookstores Within a Two-Hour Drive of Milwaukee
A road trip to a cool independently owned Wisconsin bookstore? We thought you’d never ask.