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The stories of Milwaukee’s book co-ops
Local book co-ops find success in the communities that help to sustain them.
Oct 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Field is ripe for young farmers
We are growing ever more concerned about our food, where it comes from and how it's made.
Sep 30th, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
So you wanna’ be a locavore?
If you think we like to cook, you should see us dance; it’s not just salt and pepper shakin’ in our kitchens! Our mad dance skills are perfectly complemented by all things local, too. Check out Local Live on WMSE every Tuesday night from 8-9 on the Midnight Radio show.
Sep 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Eating for two
Eating for two? It’s a better idea to eat twice as well, not twice as much.
Sep 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
On becoming your mother
“ . . . like, I am so not like my mom. Every single time I leave the house she’s like, ‘Be careful, sweetie, drive safe.’ I will never, ever say the same thing like that to my kids. It makes me so crazy!”
Sep 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
United by passion
What makes community? A united passion, most of all.
Sep 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
News you need to know
A film crew followed the family as they went without basic needs such as electricity (...) and even toilet paper.
Sep 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Hard to beet
My husband swore he wouldn’t eat beets before I prepared them and my brother-in-law is still conflicted about them since an incident with his childhood babysitter. But I love beets and therefore grow lots of them, both red and golden, in my garden each year.
Aug 25th, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
August 17-23
This week: gear up for the 2009 Gay Softball World Series with an art opening at the MKGAC, rock out WMSE's Radio Summer Camp and hit the lakefront for the Milwaukee Wine Festival and Mexican Fiesta.
Aug 17th, 2009 by Erin Petersen
The way it was
Cronkite felt that journalists had a duty to hold up a mirror to society, to tell and show what had happened. “And that’s the way it was,” was his customary sign-off.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Take it with a grain of salt, pt2
Be aware that some over-the-counter medicines contain a lot of sodium. Two tablets of dissolvable Alka-Seltzer have a whopping 1,134 milligrams of sodium.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Greening our schools
Sustainability is all about those wonderful virtues we grew up with; giving without expecting to get back, finding enlightenment even from your mistakes, sharing the knowledge, recording the failures as well as the successes, implementing and reflecting and doing it again.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
