City Life

It snowed a lot over the weekend. It's gonna snow some more in the next few days. Who removes all that snow? Milwaukee's Department of Public Works. Is the DPW doing a good job at snow removal? Well, according ...

On Wednesday morning, the Common Council's Public Works Committee unanimously passed a resolution to change the name of Milwaukee's Old World Third Street to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The change would a...

Milwaukee loves its public spaces and county parks. They're great! But if there's one thing Milwaukee loves even more than its public spaces and county parks, it's going ballistic any time the ideas of "privati...

A street with two names—or would that be three?—may finally have only one—or would that be two? On Wednesday, January 27, at 9 a.m., the Public Works Committee of the Milwaukee Common Council will meet to di...

Dookies (noun): North Side Milwaukee slang for a style of shoe created by Nike in 1982. Pairs come in low, mid, and high top. Typically solid white. Philadelphia. Twenty-eleven. I was at the Rocky stairs whe...

There’s a lot of hate, ignorance, and stupidity floating around these days, which makes this day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, all the more needed. Looking for something productive to do today, Milwaukee? Here a...