1. Plan Your Wedding at WEDMKE
BRIANNA SCHUBERT, ASSOCIATE DIGITAL EDITOR
It’s hard to believe that I’ve made it nearly a month before mentioning in our weekly editors’ picks that I got engaged. Let’s not read too much into the fact that I mentioned my cat like twice on milwaukeemag.com within a week of getting her … Anways, I got engaged! And my now-fiancé and I are going to WEDMKE this Wednesday to check out the cool Milwaukee wedding vendors and venues. I’m excited to get inspo and hopefully find a venue because turns out, they book out incredibly far ahead (oof!). It’s at Turner Hall Ballroom on Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 4-8 p.m. You can get tickets online – it’s cheaper to buy them ahead but you can get them at the door too.
2. Get Started on Holiday Baking
ANN CHRISTENSON, DINING EDITOR
Every year I say I’m going to start my holiday baking earlier. Making cookies this time of year is a priority but often comes in fits and starts depending on how busy I am with other things. That said, I just made my first batch of the season, a new recipe from the December 2023 issue of Bon Appetit. They’re called tiramisu snowballs and incorporate mascarpone, espresso and Kahlua. I baked off one pan of them, but haven’t tasted them yet. Will they be worthy of my family’s cookie trays this year? That is the question – to be answered soon.
It’s time to pick your Milwaukee favorites for the year!
3. Let Me Pour You a Beer at Milwaukee Press Club’s Meet the Media
CHRIS DROSNER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
One of my secret professional fantasies is being a bartender. I have a lot of respect for the profession, and I’m quietly confident that I have the temperament, customer service chops and alcohol acumen to pull off a reinvention if this whole journalism thing doesn’t work out. (So far, so good after 24 years.) You can put confidence to the test – and meet a whole host of other media members who don’t strain the concept of “celebrity bartenders” nearly as much as I do – at the Milwaukee Press Club’s Meet the Media event on Thursday. It’s open to the public and a great chance to network with community and business leaders if you think you have a story to tell. I’ll be behind the bar from 6:45-7 and on the other side for most of the rest of the evening. Thursday, 5-8:30 p.m., Newsroom Pub, 137 E. Wells St. Free, with registration encouraged but not required.
4. Get a Library Card
BRIANNA SCHUBERT, ASSOCIATE DIGITAL EDITOR
Last week, we published a story about 10 cool things you can do with a library card – and I was blown away by some of the interesting things you can do beyond checking out books. Did you know you can take six-week courses in things like creative writing and business for free through Gale courses? And you can check out things like hiking equipment! I already had a library card – hi, huge reader over here, nice to meet you – but now I’m excited to check out all these other features. And you should too. Milwaukee residents can sign up for free and non-residents can sign up for a $100 fee.
5. Find Refuge with a Slice of Il Dolce at Classic Slice
ARCHER PARQUETTE, MANAGING EDITOR
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing it is to say what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more; But of the good to treat, which there I found, speak will I of the other things I saw there.
That was how Friday was going for me last week. But then I went for a late-night snack at Classic Slice in Bay View – home to gigantic slabs of some of the finest pizza in Milwaukee. Let me tell you, my slice of La Dolce, with tomato, garlic, basil and mozzarella, was delicious. Ok, the slice of pepperoni I had was delicious, too. And the slice of Gabagool. I was hungry; leave me alone.
