How Good Are City’s After-School Programs?

How Good Are City’s After-School Programs?

New study by the Public Policy Forum finds strengths and weaknesses in programs for kids.

Threads: Q&A with Dawn Smart, ballroom dancewear designer
Threads

Q&A with Dawn Smart, ballroom dancewear designer

Kimberly talks to the owner of competitive ballroom dancewear company Dore Designs about her industry and the fashion of dancewear, at the Wisconsin State Dancesport Championship.

Five-Story Mixed-Use Building for Capitol Drive Moves Forward

Five-Story Mixed-Use Building for Capitol Drive Moves Forward

The $9 million project combines a charter school, job training center, and an apartment complex and sports a green roof.

Back in the News: The Arrogance of Summerfest
Back in the News

The Arrogance of Summerfest

Mayor Barrett met with Summerfest board members, who agreed to share more information about its finances and director’s compensation.

One Night with Janis Joplin: The Queen of Rock and Roll lives
One Night with Janis Joplin

The Queen of Rock and Roll lives

The life of Janis Joplin is celebrated with a flawless performance by Mary Bridget Davies at the Rep, through June 2.

City Business: 6th Annual Fair Trade Crawl
City Business

6th Annual Fair Trade Crawl

Shop at 24 local businesses throughout Milwaukee, the only major U.S. city that’s a “Fair Trade Town.”

Murphy’s Law: Did Sue Black Pay Nothing to “Buy” Wave Team?
Murphy’s Law

Did Sue Black Pay Nothing to “Buy” Wave Team?

The Milwaukee Wave has been a money loser, which might explain why she paid little, and why she's under pressure to turn the team around.

MKE This Week: May brings new music, dance and theater
MKE This Week

May brings new music, dance and theater

Figaro at the Florentine, Arlo Guthrie in South Milwaukee, Springdances at UWM, an Irish play at the Irish Center, and it's almost Ride Your Bike to Work Week.

Smithereen’s “Hedwig”: Camp, with sublime intensity
Smithereen’s “Hedwig”

Camp, with sublime intensity

Jordan Gwiazdowski offers an extraordinary performance as the transgender rock queen Hedwig, with a physicality that carries the production by emerging company Smithereen.

Newaukeean of the Week: Geoff Sieron
Newaukeean of the Week

Geoff Sieron

An Ohio native learns Milwaukee isn't just a small, cold, gloomy city of beer-swilling cheese heads.

How Scott Walker Got Snookered

How Scott Walker Got Snookered

Excerpt from new book describes how Walker was fooled by a phone call from a blogger posing as conservative billionaire David Koch.

Photo Gallery: Talk Derby to me; Milwaukee Museum Mile
Photo Gallery

Talk Derby to me; Milwaukee Museum Mile

This weekend, Third Coast Daily dropped by the Iron Horse Hotel's Kentucky Derby celebration and visited the Milwaukee Museum Mile's five locations for their second annual open house.