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Fri 2/10/12 - Full Episode An Assembly bill would make it easier not to hire a felon. We talk about what returning offenders already face when looking for a job. Then, the case for why community-based solutions should be a large part of a new mental health... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project RETURN Felons face many challenges when they leave prison – most especially, finding a job. Wendel Hruska is the Executive Director of Project RETURN. Ed de St. Aubin is a psychology professor at Marquette University and is on the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Argument for Community-based Care We find out how an emphasis on community-based care might make a key difference in mental health care delivery in Milwaukee. Peter Hoeffel is the Executive Director of NAMI of Greater Milwaukee – the National Alliance on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yoga: the Science, the Risks, and the Rewards Milwaukee native – and New York Times science writer William Broad puts yoga under the microscope. His new book is called The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, published by Simon & Schuster. Broad is a science... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music from David Francey Canadian singer-songwriter David Francey plays "Paper Boy" in the Lake Effect performance studio last year. Francey will play tomorrow evening at the Irish Fest Centre on Wauwatosa Avenue. You can hear all three songs he... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 2/9/12 - Full Episode In the first in a series of conversations, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn discusses priority-setting within the department and the first four years of his tenure here. Then, NPR'S Steve Inskeep goes to Pakistan to tell the story... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chief Flynn Joins for All Points Bulletin Ed Flynn is the Chief of Police for the Milwaukee Police Department. He spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich for the first in a monthly series of conversations we're calling All Points Bulletin. (Photo courtesy of Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR's Inskeep on the Rise of Karachi NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks about the almost instant rise of Karachi and his book, Instant City. Steve Inskeep is the co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. His first book, Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, is published by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beer & Chocolate - the Perfect Valentine's As Valentine’s Day approaches, we’d be remiss if we didn’t have something on the show about chocolate. But chocolate and beer? A winning combination, according to our craft beer expert, Lucy Saunders. She is Lake... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vaclav and Lena A novel tells the love story between two Russian immigrant children in modern-day Brooklyn. Haley Tanner’s novel is called Vaclav and Lena. The paperback edition was just released this week. She joined Mitch Teich via... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 2/8/12 - Full Episode We begin the program with a conversation about US immigration policy with the former commissioner of the INS Doris Meissner. Then, the new head of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee aims to address health and wellness... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former INS Head Says Immigration Policy Needs Flexibility Immigration continues to be a hot topic in states across the country – we talk with the former head of the INS, now ICE. Doris Meissner is the director of the US Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boys & Girls Clubs' New CEO We found out how the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee are staying relevant to today’s youth. Vincent Lyles is the new president and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. He had previously served as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee MC Inspired by France Milwaukee based poet and hip-hop MC Melissa Czarnik reveals why her next album takes its inspiration from France. Melissa Czarnik is a Milwaukee-based poet and hip-hop emcee, and Eric Mire is a producer. Czarnik's upcoming... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen & Baseball Can baseball be…Zen? Shawn Green played outfield for the Blue Jays, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, and Mets over a 15-year major league career. His new memoir is called The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95MPH, published by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 2/7/12 - Full Episode Our foreign affairs contributor puts a big-picture emphasis on developments in the Middle East, including the closing of the U.S. embassy in Damascus and new sanctions on Iran. Then, a new book details the independent - but not... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World News Round-Up Looks at Middle East A year after the Arab Spring, questions linger over how change is being implemented in various countries. Dr. Arthur Cyr is the Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bay View Tackles Turf Wars & Building Bridges A local author condenses the complex history of Bay View into one small book. Ron Winkler is the author of Bay View, published by Arcadia Publishing. He spoke with Dan Harmon. Upcoming lectures: Tuesday February 21, 2012 -... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Auto Industry Really on the Rebound? Auto show season is in full force – we talk with our cars contributor mark savage next about the health of the auto industry. Dan Harmon spoke with Journal Sentinel auto writer Mark Savage, who is also the editor of American... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 2/6/12 - Full Episode Rolling Stone political columnist and Mequon native Rick Perlstein joins us with analysis of the latest in the Republican primaries. Then, our finance contributor tells a cautionary tale about tax refund anticipation loans. Later,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romney Wins Solidly in Nevada Caucuses What did the Nevada caucuses mean for Mitt Romney? Rolling Stone political columnist and Mequon native Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus and Nixonland: The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overestimating Tax Refunds Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched is the advice our finance contributor gives when it comes to tax refunds. Janet Tierney is a financial educator, loan manager at the Waukesha-Ozaukee-Washington county... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovative Doctors The February issue of Milwaukee Magazine spotlights some local innovators doing nationally significant work in medicine. Cristina Daglas is the newly named editor. She wrote the cover story on "Top Doctors" in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accidental Genius We learn why a collection of works from self-taught artists is a good fit at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Anthony Petullo is a retired Milwaukee entrepreneur and author. He is is a longtime member of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 2/3/12 - Full Episode WUWM's Susan Bence is in the North Woods, looking at the potential impact of a proposed iron ore mine - we get an update. Then, we hear some startling statistics about the epidemic of brain injuries in youth sports. Later, sports... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Impact Could an Iron Ore Mine in the North Woods Have? WUWM’s Susan Bence brings us updates from the North Woods, where she is looking at the potential impact of a proposed iron ore mine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CDC: Kids' ER Visits Up 60 Percent for Concussions There’s been a huge increase in ER visits by kids with concussions – is that because of increased awareness or rougher sports? Dr. Kevin Walter is a specialist in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Previewing a Packer-less Super Bowl Prince Fielder has left Milwaukee, but our sports contributor explains why his signing by the Tigers should be okay with Brewers fans. Howie Magner writes the Sports Nut column for Milwaukee Magazine’s website and is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Low Anthem Ben Knox Miller is one of the founders of the indie folk band The Low Anthem. He spoke with Bonnie North. The Low Anthem will play the Pabst Theatre Monday night in support of City and Colour, the stage name of Canadian singer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 2/2/12 - Full Episode The Milwaukee area - and the Medical College of Wisconsin in particular - work to attract new streams of research dollars. Later, the Milwaukee Rep and director Aaron Posner try to put a distinct stamp on "To Kill a Mockingbird."... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical Research Could Yield More Jobs The Medical College of Wisconsin’s chair of medicine reflects on how research can create biotechnology jobs. Dr. Roy Silverstein is the Linda and John Mellowes Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical Poetry Time now for a couple of poems with medical underpinnings. Lake Effect contributor Brittany Bettendorf is a resident in internal medicine and pediatrics and a resident associate in the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Medical... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Kill a Mockingbird Comes to Milwaukee Rep A new theater production lends itself to a crossover at the Milwaukee Public Library. Aaron Posner directs the Milwaukee Rep’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which opens Friday at the Quadracci Powerhouse... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TAL's Ira Glass On Telling a Great Story We talk with public radio icon Ira Glass, who’s changed how journalists tell stories. Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio show, This American Life. He’ll be on stage this Saturday night at the Pabst... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 2/1/12 - Full Episode A Florida-based political scientist puts yesterday's primary results into context and how it will shape the Republican race from here. Later, to research his new novel, writer Adam Johnson traveled to a country as foreign as it... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Romney's Florida Win Means for Gingrich's Campaign A look at the Florida primary results will put the rest of the campaign cycle into context. Dr. Susan MacManus is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida in the Department of Government and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson’s new book is fiction, but it offers a new look at real-life North Korea. It’s called The Orphan Master’s Son. It’s published by Random House. Johnson lives in California, where he teaches... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets The kings of Milwaukee doo-wop have some new numbers in store for fans. Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets are Reggie Kurschner, Don Lobacz, Tommy Lueck and Aaron Schmidt. They performed for us in Lake Effect's studio C and spoke with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 1/31/12 - Full Episode We analyze Gov. Scott Walker's appeal to out-of-state campaign donors, and the appeal of the webcam that's televising recall signature verification. Then, wel hear the story of the Milwaukee man whose real life exploits found... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AP Analysis: Majority of Gov. Walker's Campaign Donation from Out-of-State An Associated Press analysis of the campaign donations collected by Governor Scott Walker shows a majority come from out-of-state. Scott Bauer is a reporter with the Associated Press. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci from Madison.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Murderer-Turned-War Hero We hear the remarkable story of a Milwaukee-born murderer turned hero. Pete Ehrmann’s article "Thrill Killer," which is about the turbulent life of Milwaukee’s George Harsh, Jr., is in the January issue of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Once, Going Twice...Auction House Arrives in Milwaukee Big time auctioneering comes to Milwaukee. Leslie Hindman is the owner of Chicago-based Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The company now has six offices, including the one that opened last year on Mason Street in Milwaukee. You can... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vigil Opens in Next Act's New Home Vigil is Next Act Theatre’s newest production, which opens this week. Mark Ulrich stars in Vigil; David Cecsarini is Next Act’s producing artistic director. Vigil opens at Next Act’s new 5th Ward theatre this... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 1/30/12 - Full Episode Our Down to Business segment explores the big changes in downtown Milwaukee's Grand Avenue Mall. Later, what's in a street name? Then, Milwaukee bookstores and volunteers team up to hand out free books this spring. And we hear a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Down to Business: Grand Avenue's Innovation Cluster A new initiative is bringing new tenants to the rebounding Grand Avenue Mall. Julia Taylor is President of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Stacy Vogel Davis writes about the retail business for the Business Journal of Milwaukee.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History of a House Have you ever stopped to think about your address, the story behind the street, or the house, or the apartment building? A series of recent events got Lake Effect contributor Ed Makowski curious about some of those stories.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Book Night A worldwide grassroots collaborative initiative called World Book Night seeks to hand out books to unlikely readers. Lanora Haradon is the owner of Next Chapter Bookshop in Mequon; Stacie Williams is a bookseller and in charge of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Representing Milwaukee Blues A local blues musician represents Wisconsin in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis this week. John Stano is a blues guitarist who lives in Bay View. He’ll represent Wisconsin this week in the International Blues... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 1/28/12 - Full Episode Our weekly news round-up recaps Gov. Walker's State of the State address, developments in the John Doe investigation and jobless numbers in the African-American population. Then, Milwaukee County transit unveils new express... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: State of the State, John Doe, Black Unemployment Governor Walker was very much front and center in the news this week between his State of the State address and the developments in the John Doe investigation. Here to put it all into context is Bruce Murphy. Murphy is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MCTS Rolls Out New Express Bus Routes New routes are at the heart of a financial reprieve for Milwaukee County transit. Jackie Janz is the chief marketing and communications officer for the Milwaukee County Transit System. MCTS's new metro express routes go into... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dose of Durst Lake Effect’s political satirist Will Durst joins us to talk about the nastiness and the GOP primaries. Durst is a writer, comedian, and Milwaukee native who now lives in San Francisco. You can get acquainted with all things... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Oliver's Twist on Political Humor The Daily Show’s John Oliver talks about stand-up, political comedy, and the presidential campaign. Oliver is a comedian and Senior British Correspondent at the Daily Show on the Comedy Central network.  He's also... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 1/27/12 - Full Episode We present a forum called "Milwaukee's Economy: Next Steps for Growth," recorded this week at Discovery World. A panel of guests will talk about what measures are needed to get the community's economy into high gear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Economy: Next Steps for Growth - Part 1 Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich moderated a forum at Discovery World called, “Milwaukee’s Economy: Next Steps for Growth.” It was sponsored by WisPolitics.com, UW-Milwaukee and WUWM. On the panel were Greater... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Economy: Next Steps for Growth - Part 2 Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich moderated a forum at Discovery World called, “Milwaukee’s Economy: Next Steps for Growth.” It was sponsored by WisPolitics.com, UW-Milwaukee and WUWM. On the panel were Greater... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Economy: Next Steps for Growth - Part 3 Lake Effect’s Mitch Teich moderated a forum at Discovery World called, “Milwaukee’s Economy: Next Steps for Growth.” It was sponsored by WisPolitics.com, UW-Milwaukee and WUWM. On the panel were Greater... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 1/26/12 - Full Episode We recap the State of the State Address with excerpts from Governor Walker, plus reaction from a potential opponent. Then, beginning this weekend Milwaukee County transit makes cuts to some routes but adds new express lines.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analysis of State of the State We hear clips from Gov. Scott Walker’s State of the State Address, plus get reaction from Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett with WUWM’s Ann-Elise Henzl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Express Bus Routes New routes are at the heart of a financial reprieve for Milwaukee County transit. Jackie Janz is the chief marketing and communications officer for the Milwaukee County Transit System. MCTS's new metro express routes go into... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Riding the #31 a Trip The route that Lake Effect essayist Heidi Friedrichs rides to work won't be changing. That's a good thing, because she likes it just the way it is. Friedrichs lives in Wauwatosa. She's written hundreds of stories and essays for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World Won't End in 2012 The rumor that says a Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in November has our astronomy contributor fired up. Jean Creighton is the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee and our regular astronomy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flash Fiction Thursday: Escape The theme for this month’s temporarily renamed Flash Fiction Thursday is Escape. This month's local Flash Fiction writer is Simon A. Smith, reading his piece "Home Videos Don't Lie," which originally appeared in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 1/25/12 - Full Episode On the eve of the State of the State address, we hear competing views of the path the state is on. Then, a group of Wauwatosa residents bands together to oppose a new power line project. Later, Daily Show correspondent John Oliver... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whither Wisconsin? Ahead of the State of the State address, we hear two differing views on where the state’s future is headed. Jack Norman is the Research Director at the Institute for Wisconsin's Future; George Lightbourn is President of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tosa Power Lines Challenged We hear about an effort to fight plans to build power lines through a parkway corridor in ‘Tosa. Willie Gonwa directs the group Preserve Our Parkway which is working to fight proposed transmission lines along... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Oliver's Twist on Political Humor The Daily Show’s John Oliver talks about stand-up, political comedy, and the presidential campaign. Oliver is a comedian and Senior British Correspondent at the Daily Show on the Comedy Central network.  He's also... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Woodland Pattern Holds On To Its Niche Woodland Pattern Book Center gears up for a marathon of poetry. Karl Gartung, Anne Kingsbury, and Chuck Stableton of Woodland Pattern Book Center spoke with Ed Makowski The shop’s annual Poetry Marathon begins this Saturday... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 1/24/12 - Full Episode As Wisconsin's primary approaches, an advocate for the rights of disabled people worries about the possible impact of the state's new voter ID law on the people she serves. Then, the state of Wisconsin wants to enhance its... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Concerns for Disabled Voters Barbara Beckert is the director of the Milwaukee office of Disability Rights Wisconsin. She spoke with Mitch Teich. The group is offering a hotline for people with disabilities who experience difficulties with the voting process,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking to Vietnam Ben Brancel is secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection. He spoke with WUWM environmental reporter Susan Bence and others in a conference call with journalists last week, shortly after... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Please Mr. Postman Lake Effect essayist Barry Wightman considers the changes in how we communicate in a post-postal world. Wightman is a writer, voice-over artiste, and sometimes rock musician who lives in Elm Grove. We recently sent him - through... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Around the Corner debuts Lois Mauer is a producer and director for Milwaukee Public Television, John McGivern is an award-winning actor and local celebrity. The first episode of their new show, Around the Corner with John McGivern, airs on MPTV Thursday... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 1/23/12 - Full Episode A GOP consultant explains what the South Carolina results mean for the rest of the Republican primary process. Then, political satirist Will Durst has some strong opinions about why some of the candidates might never break... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South Carolina Primary Recap A veteran strategist and consultant weighs in on the results from Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina. Hollis “Chip” Felkel is the founder and CEO of the consulting firm, The Felkel Group, and is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dose of Durst Lake Effect’s political satirist Will Durst joins us to talk about the nastiness and the GOP primaries. Durst is a writer, comedian, and Milwaukee native who now lives in San Francisco. You can get acquainted with all things... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Putting it Together - Sondheim at Marquette Forty years of Stephen Sondheim archives have taken up permanent residence at Marquette University. Paul Salsini is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He currently teaches a survey course on American Musical... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Postmortal Sports writer and blogger Drew Magary makes a turn to science fiction with a novel about a potential cure for aging – and how it would be a disaster. Magary’s novel is called The Postmortal. It’s published by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 1/21/12 - Full Episode Lake Effect Weekend's news analyst Bruce Murphy has a few ideas of who might run against Gov. Scott Walker in the recall election. Then, new research out of UWM is at the forefront of a nascent subset of childhood studies; we talk... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: Jobs Numbers, Recalls, Photo ID News analyst Bruce Murphy leads off the show with an update on the recall elections, this month’s disappointing state jobs numbers, and the Milwaukee Common Council’s response to the law requiring photo ID to vote.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Research into 'Middle Childhood' A groundbreaking study examines an often overlooked portion of childhood: the years between infancy and adolescence. Ben Campell is an associate professor of anthropology at UW-Milwaukee. He edited – and wrote several... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Close Encounters of the Burlington Kind We hear a first-hand account of, well, something in the skies over Burlington, Wisconsin. Mark O’Connell’s article, “Close Encounters,” is in the current issue of Milwaukee Magazine. He writes about UFOs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death & (After) Life of Post-Industrial Milwaukee We learn about a remarkable effort to study the decline – and rise of post-industrial America, starting in Milwaukee. Michael Carriere is an Assistant Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. David Schalliol is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 1/20/12 - Full Episode We'll have the latest on the coming winter storm, plus hear about volunteers collecting rain and snowfall data for the Weather Service. Then, a futurist explains the difficulty of being believed. Later, the Milwaukee Public... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snowy Day We get updated information on the latest shot of winter weather making its way through Wisconsin. Mike Westendorf is the director of operations for Innovative Weather, located on the campus of the University of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network Volunteers are helping the National Weather Service to collect snow and rain data. Brian Hahn is a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan, and he’s also the state coordinator for a network known as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Work of Futurists Learn about the science that underpins the work of futurists. Bob Chernow is a financial analyst in Milwaukee and a member of the board of directors of the World Future Society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debut Novels Debut novels abound this spring – our monthly books segments highlights which ones to anticipate. Jacki Potratz is the fiction selector for the Milwaukee Public Library. She spoke with Stephanie Lecci. The "Which Book... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show Up, Look Good The protagonist of Mark Wisniewski’s new novel finds out that people in New York are not always what they seem. Milwaukee native Mark Wisniewski’s latest novel is called Show Up, Look Good. It’s published by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 1/19/12 - Full Episode A local organization is working to increase the number of women in the executive suites and boardrooms of the top 50 Wisconsin companies. Then, a Madison-based expert illuminates what's on the horizon in electric lighting. Later,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Measuring Change A report released in November shows that while there are more women board member and executives, the numbers are still wanting. Lynn Sprangers is chair of Milwaukee Women Inc.; Phyllis King is the associate vice chancellor for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let There Be Light We get an illuminating look at the next generation of light bulbs. Rodney Heller is the lead lighting designer at Energy Performance Lighting, based in the Madison area. He's been a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music and Madness We find out how learning about music helps medical students become better doctors. Dr. Richard Kogan is a psychiatrist and Juilliard-trained concert pianist based at Cornell University in New York. Kogan is one of the co-creators... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rise Up Singing Janis Joplin would have been 69 years old today, and a local author writes about her difficult legacy for a younger set of readers. Ann Angel’s most recent book is the award winning Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, a biography... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 1/18/12 - Full Episode Some groundbreaking work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and other institutions is shedding important new light on what comes in between childhood and adolescence - so-called middle childhood. Later, a course aims to help... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Research into 'Middle Childhood' The journal Human Nature devoted an entire issue to new research being done on what’s called “middle childhood.” The issue was edited by Benjamin Campbell, who is an associate professor of anthropology at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Veterans Re-Entry Writing Workshop Veterans returning from the front lines often have difficulty expressing what they’ve been through – a course offered this upcoming semester hopes to change that a bit. Rikki Clark is a senior lecturer in the UWM... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Sammy There’s an often overlooked link between strep infection and some forms of mental illness in children. Beth Maloney is the author of Saving Sammy: A Mother’s Fight to Cure Her Son’s OCD, published by Crown.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A UFO in Burlington? We get a first-hand account of, well, something in the skies over Burlington, Wisconsin. Mark O’Connell’s article, “Close Encounters,” is in the current issue of Milwaukee Magazine. He writes about UFOs on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 1/17/12 - Full Episode As the petition signatures are delivered to the Government Accountability Board today, we'll have an update on the attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker and four Republican state senators. Then, a new collaboration between the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recall Organizers To Turn in Rumored Million Signatures - What's the Next Step? Organizers of a petition drive to force recall elections against Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and several Republican state senators say they will turn a total of more than a million signatures in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safe Haven Foster Program Helps Pets Escape Domestic Violence A new program will help domestic violence victims leave their situations without leaving their pets behind. Carmen Pitre is the co-director of Sojourner Family Peace Center, which offers resources, shelter and advocacy for victims... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nohl Fellowships Meet the newest crop of Nohl Fellows. Polly Morris is the creator and administrator of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, which is administered by the Bradley Family... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Toaster Project How exactly do you build a toaster from scratch? We find out! Thomas Thwaites is the author of The Toaster Project: or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch, published by Princeton Architectural Press.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 1/16/12 - Full Episode On the day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we'll look at the key issues likely to drive African American voters to the polls this year, plus we'll hear from Representative John Lewis, describing the scene at the 1963 March... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Issues Key to Black Community Nearly 44 years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two journalists reflect on the issues that still disproportionately impact the Black community. Eric Von hosts the Morning Magazine at 1290 WMCS; Thomas Mitchell is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering the March on Washington A few years back, we spoke with Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Like Martin Luther King, Lewis was instrumental in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In fact, Lewis helped plan and was a keynote speaker at the March on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee PEERS Helps Autistic Teens Kids with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders often face problems relating to their peers, beyond those of the average teens. But research is going on at Marquette University that intersects biology with the development of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photos Detail Rise & Fall of Post-Industrial America We learn about a remarkable effort to study the decline – and rise of post-industrial America, starting in Milwaukee. Michael Carriere is an Assistant Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. David Schalliol is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 1/14/12 - Full Episode News analyst Bruce Murphy returns with an examination of the latest news in the effort to recall Governor Walker, the continuing controversy over state supreme court justice Michael Gableman, and safety issues on the county buses.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: Recall Update, Supreme Court Justice, County Buses Our weekly news round-up examines the latest news in the effort to recall Governor Walker, the continuing controversy over state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, and safety issues on the county buses. Bruce Murphy is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Dervish Tackles Family & Faith A coming-of-age novel follows a young Muslim boy's introduction to faith and love. Milwaukee native and first generation Pakistani-American Ayad Akhtar's debut novel is American Dervish, published by Little, Brown and Company.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trews Take Their Sound South The Canadian band The Trews is out to take the United States one club at a time.  The band is lead singer Colin MacDonald, his brother John-Angus on lead guitar; Jack Syperek on bass and Sean Dalton on drums. You can listen... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 1/13/12 - Full Episode How healthy are the Milwaukee River and its tributaries? We'll a scorecard for the health of the Milwaukee river basin. Then, our sports contributor wonders about the undercurrent of fear around this weekend's NFL playoff game.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Group Will Compile River Reports A local organization will collect data on the health of a local river system. Cheryl Nenn is the riverkeeper for the organization called Milwaukee Riverkeeper. She spoke with WUWM environmental reporter Susan Bence. The group... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NFL Playoff Preview We get a preview of this weekend's NFL playoff game. Howie Magner writes the Sports Nut column for Milwaukee Magazine’s website, and he’s associate editor of the magazine. He’s also our regular sports... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fortuna the Time Bender vs. The Schoolgirls of Doom!...the Opera Want to see an opera...about superheroes? Jason Powell is the composer of the superhero opera Fortuna the Time Bender vs. The Schoolgirls of Doom! Jil Anna Ponasik is the artistic director of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre, which is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet Wisconsin's Poet Laureate Westfield’s Bruce Dethlefsen is Wisconsin’s State Poet Laureate. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci. Dethlefsen will perform at Woodland Pattern Book Center this Sunday afternoon, along with Lake Mills poet Mark Kraushaar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 1/12/12 - Full Episode WUWM's environmental reporter Susan Bence gives us an update on the debate over the future of mining in Wisconsin. Then, as banks add new fees for using your own money, our personal finance contributor suggests ways to protect... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mining in Wisconsin The future of mining in Wisconsin is up for debate. WUWM's environmental reporter Susan Bence describes what’s at stake and who’s pushing for what after a hearing yesterday in Hurley, WI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit vs Debit Janet Tierney is a financial educator, loan manager at Waukesha-Ozaukee-Washington county regional office of Ways to Work, and a Lake Effect contributor. She talked with Mitch Teich about changes in the nature of debit and credit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Natural Evan Solocheck gives us a profile of world class skateboarder – and Bay view native – Greg Lutzka. Solocheck is associate editor for Milwaukee Magazine. His article The Natural, about Bay View native and skateboard... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Written Gift This first, forecasted major winter storm of the season has been a long time coming. We all, of course, have different attitudes towards the snow - you might see it as a nuisance, or you might be like Lake Effect essayist Judy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trews The Canadian band The Trews is out to take the United States one club at a time. The band is lead singer Colin MacDonald, his brother John-Angus on lead guitar; Jack Syperek on bass and Sean Dalton on drums. The Trews will... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 1/11/12 - Full Episode We break down the results of last night's NH primary with NPR's political editor Ken Rudin. Then, Milwaukee native and Pakistani-American hits the big time with a coming of age novel set in Milwaukee. A one woman show at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romney Takes New Hampshire Primary What do we take from Mitt Romney's win at the New Hammpshire primary? Ken Rudin is NPR’s political editor – he joined us from NPR’s New Hampshire bureau in Manchester. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Dervish Tackles Family & Faith Milwaukee native and first generation Pakistani-American Ayad Akhtar's debut novel is American Dervish, published by Little, Brown and Company. He's also an actor, playwright and screenwriter. Akhtar now lives in New York City and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One-Woman Show Neat A one-woman show – but with dozens of characters – also speaks to the universal. Marti Gobel stars in the Renaissance Theatre production of Neat. The play opens this Friday at the Studio Theatre in the Broadway Theatre... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What the Duck Milwaukeean Aaron Johnson is the writer and illustrator of the syndicated comic strip called What the Duck, which is available online and in publications around the world. His new book – the third collection of What the Duck... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 1/10/12 - Full Episode The Journal Sentinel's Meg Kissinger explores what's been missing in developing mental health policy in the last four decades. Then, a Marquette grad describes the reality of life as a war correspondent. Later, the City of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Mental Illness Meets Violence We examine the crossroads of mental illness and violence. Meg Kissinger is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She'll be one of the speakers at a community forum on mental health treatment at Marquette University Law... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War Correspondent Details Time as Libyan Captive War correspondents deal with a different kind of imminent danger as well. Journalist and Marquette alum James Foley was captured and held captive in Libya for 45 days during that country’s revolution last spring. He returned... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Approach to Foreclosures We learn how the city of Milwaukee manages property foreclosures due to non-payment of property taxes. Clifton Crump is Milwaukee's Real Estate Project Manager. Sam Leichtling is the city's Housing Rehabilitation Manager. They... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windowsill Gardens Gardens aren’t just for your backyard; they can also fit quite nicely on your windowsill. Melinda Myers is the author of numerous books on gardening, including Month-by-Month Gardening in Wisconsin. She’s also the host... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dear Reader Lake Effect essayist Ellen Airgood reflects on the art of letter writing. Airgood is a writer, baker, and diner owner who lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her novel is called "South of Superior." And to refresh... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 1/9/12 - Full Episode One of Milwaukee's last inner-city hospitals faces an uncertain future. We find out what could be in store for Aurora-Sinai. Then, we learn about the role of an ombuds in an academic setting. Later, a doctor shares the story of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aurora-Sinai Hospital Future Uncertain Aurora-Sinai Hospital has had financial challenges in the past; so what has changed that makes its future uncertain? Corri Hess writes about the economics of healthcare for the Business Journal of Milwaukee. Her most recent piece... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Champ Sometimes getting access to medical care is only one part of the battle, as Lake Effect essayist Dr. Bruce Campbell learned. Campbell is a head and neck cancer surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and writes about his... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical School Ombuds Fields Complaints The Milwaukee area’s only medical school makes some changes to how it handles internal complaints or disputes. Dr. Peter Layde is the new ombuds at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was appointed to the position late... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sun We haven’t had many of them this season, but one blustery day inspired poet Drew Blanchard. The Milwaukee-based poet reads his poem, "Sun." Blanchard’s work has appeared in Best New Poets, Notre Dame Review,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website They Might Be Awesome They Might Be Giants reflects on decades in the music business and appealing to old and new fans alike. John Linnell and John Flansburgh form the core of the New York-based band. Marty Beller played drums when they visited the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 1/6/12 - Full Episode The Journal Sentinel's Dan Bice gives insight into yesterday's developments in the John Doe investigation involving aides to Scott Walker. Then, the remodeling industry looks to bounce back to its level five years ago. Later, our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Doe Investigation Expands, Charges Filed New developments in the John Doe investigation involving aides to Scott Walker resulted in an arrest and new charges. Dan Bice writes the No Quarter column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Watchdog unit. You can read his... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's in Store for the Remodeling Industry While construction has struggled in a sluggish economy, home remodeling has actually increased. We take a look back at 2011 and into 2012 in the home improvement industry. Diane Krueger is the immediate past President of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Traveler's Roundtable: Mountains & Wildfire Our Traveler’s Roundtable segment visits Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. Rob Bundy is editor of TCD Traveler at Third Coast Digest and our Traveler’s Roundtable contributor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu A Whitefish Bay woman will share her infectious enthusiasm for healthy Indian cuisine in a new TV series. Alamelu Vaivaran is the host of “Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu,” a 13-part series which premieres... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 1/5/12 - Full Episode A Milwaukee-based organization is developing the country's next generation of community leaders. Then, a new Milwaukee publication spotlights complementary medicine and services in the area. And we hear the story of a date gone... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everyone Leads The CEO of Public Allies makes the case for finding new community leaders in unusual places. Paul Schmitz is the CEO of the Milwaukee-based Public Allies, a national organization that seeks to develop the next generation of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Magazine Focuses on Alternative/Complementary Medicine A magazine that’s new to Milwaukee spotlights alternative and complementary medicine. Gabriella Buchnik is the owner and publisher of the Milwaukee Natural Awakenings magazine. It's distributed in print form throughout... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunch Counter: The Bad Date When was the last time you went on a date to a grocery store? That’s actually a romantic night for some couples, but maybe not for the subject in our next Lunch Counter storytelling series, curated by contributor Ed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 1/4/12 - Full Episode We get an account of last night's Iowa caucuses with a reporter on the ground there. Then, a journalist ponders who Milwaukee will look to for a new crop of civic leaders. Later, a Milwaukee native fictionalizes his experience as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Iowa Means for the Big Three We take a look at what the Iowa caucus results mean for the 2012 election cycle. Craig Gilbert is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He spoke with Mitch Teich by phone from Iowa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Local Leadership A journalist discovers that some people in Milwaukee are concerned about the state of future local leadership. Kurt Chandler is senior editor at Milwaukee Magazine. His article, The Hot Seat, about civic leadership in Milwaukee,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Mining for Gold in El Salvador A few weeks ago, we featured an interview with Milwaukee Magazine’s Matthew Hrodey and a lawyer for a Waukesha company, about the company’s controversial gold mine in El Salvador, and its lawsuit to force the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tengo Sed Milwaukee native Jim Fleming moved to New Mexico to become an ER doctor – he paints a dark picture of life as an ER resident in his new novel. Jim Fleming is a Milwaukee native who is now an emergency physician in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chester Marcol's Journey Through Football, Addiction & Life A former Green Bay Packer kicker talks about his difficult life after the final whistle. Chester Marcol was a kicker for the Green Bay Packers and Houston Oilers from 1972 to 1980. He’s now a drug and alcohol counselor in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 1/3/12 - Full Episode The survivor of a traumatic brain injury talks about the profound changes people like him face. Then, we hear about the challenges of finding qualified foster parents in Milwaukee, in the face of a growing need. And later, an... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life After Brain Injury We get a first-hand account of the uncertainty that accompanies life with a traumatic brain injury. Mark Warhus is the Executive Director of the Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin.  Gary Zimmermann suffered a brain injury... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Searching for Foster Parents Foster parents can provide much needed love and care to kids. But there just aren’t enough qualified adults to help all the children who need foster care. Melissa Dombrowski-Boling is foster care services coordinator for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alliance Francaise Steps In We learn how one group is trying to off-set challenges to foreign language instruction in local schools. Anne Leplae is the Executive Director of l’Alliance Francaise de Milwaukee, and Rob Shaw is director of the French... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Art Meets French-Canadian Form The Quebecois hip-hop artist Webster talks about the intersection of languages and cultures that meet up in his story and his music. Webster – who’s given name is Aly Ndiaye – is a hip-hop artist from Quebec... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 1/2/12 - Full Episode We hear the remarkable story of two Iranian-born doctors who developed a strategy for dealing with AIDS there, but were then imprisoned by a repressive regime. Then, a Milwaukee native is the world's leading expert on Judy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian Doctors Fight AIDS, Political Repression We meet Iranian-born physicians who developed a strategy for dealing with Iran’s AIDS problem, but after significant success, were imprisoned by the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused of conspiring with the US... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judy Garland: A Legendary Film Career Milwaukee native John Fricke’s new book is called Judy: A Legendary Film Career, published by Running Press. Fricke is considered the world’s leading authority on the career of Judy Garland. He spoke with Bonnie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2011 So we’re into the second day of 2012. Before we completely forget what happened in 2011, Lake Effect political satirist Will Durst is here to cement the year in our memory. Durst is a writer, comedian, and Milwaukee-area... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Kitchen Counter Cooking School Writer and chef Kathleen Flinn talks about how some fairly basic changes to our cooking habits can make a much more profound change in our lives. Flinn’s latest book is called The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, published by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 12/30/11 - Full Episode t's our annual all music show - some holiday-themed, some not... We have tunes recorded for us during the past year in our performance studio from local musicians like The Jason Seed Stringtet, Vic & Gab, organist Ted King,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show Part 1 Jason Seed Stringtet - In Red Vic & Gab - Blue Christmas Marge Eiseman & John Muchin - This Night, Next Night Milwaukee Hot Club - Djangology They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show Part 2 Lake Effect's Dan Harmon recorded Ted King, sub-organist for the Cathedral Church of All Saints, who played: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Swiss Noel with Variations Greensleeves In dulci jubilo O Come, All Ye Faithful Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show Part 3 Yid Vicious - Odessa Bulgar Carmel Mikol - Creature Vitrolum Republic - Willow Song Grace Weber- Baby It's Cold Outside Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 12/29/11 - Full Episode It's an encore edition of our live "Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval" broadcast, recorded this month at the Pabst Theater. We'll examine what the momentous 2011 meant to Wisconsin and what people expect the Wisconsin of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee Rebroadcast: Panel Discussion, Part 1 Our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series looked at the events of the past year – from the budget repair bill to controversial legislation, to the ongoing recall efforts. In front of a studio audience at Cudahy's Irish... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee Rebroadcast: Panel Discussion, Part 2 We continue our rebroadcast of our live panel discussion on the legacy of the past year in Wisconsin politics, from Cudahy's Irish Pub at the Pabst Theater. To close out our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series, we speak... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee Rebroadcast: Panel Discussion, Part 3 We conclude our rebroadcast of the Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval panel discussion with a look at what the future of Wisconsin should be. Our panelists weigh in - they are: Hedy Eischeid, Fond du Lac public school teacher;... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 12/28/11 - Full Episode Three psychologists take on the challenge of being a male in our society today. Later, dining critic Ann Christenson has some year-end eating thoughts... Plus, writer and illustrator Craig Thompson, on his new graphic novel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Socialization of Males Today William Seymour and Ramel Smith are psychologists at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Hector Torres is a psychologist based at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. They spoke with us in October about their burgeoning... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Year-end Dining Thoughts Ann Christenson is dining critic and senior editor at Milwaukee Magazine, and a regular Lake Effect contributor. She spoke with Dan Harmon about some year-end dining trends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Playlist Lake Effect essayist Christi Clancy teaches creative writing at Beloit College. She lives in Milwaukee. She shared “Playlist,” her essay about her life list of favorite songs - her favorite song of all time is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fantastic World of Habibi Award winning graphic novelist Craig Thompson's latest book is Habibi, published by Pantheon. His previous work includes Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, and Carnet de Voyage. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci. Thompson, who grew up... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aging Baby Boomers See Themselves in "Gray Matters" Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler are the creators of “Gray Matters,” a comic strip they recently launched on the internet. They’re both former Journal Sentinel employees – Carlson was editorial cartoonist... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 12/27/11 - Full Episode Tuesday on Lake Effect: We'll go behind the scenes at the state crime lab, and see how it stacks up against its more cinematic brethren on shows like "CSI." Then, the impact social media is having on civil litigation - how... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investigating the Crime Lab Freelance writer Mario Quadracci’s article on what makes the Wisconsin State Crime Lab tick is in the current issue of Milwaukee Magazine. He spoke with Mitch Teich. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Incident in Sherman Park Lake Effect essayist Alex Runner shared his story of a murder scene in his Milwaukee neighborhood. Runner is a writer and editor, who lives in the Sherman Park neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Facebook, Twitter, and Civil Litigation Jackie Nuckels and Jon Groth are attorneys with Groth Law Firm in Brookfield. Nuckels has written extensively about social media and the law and presented on the subject to groups such as the Wisconsin Bar Association. They... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snowmobiling '11 (if we ever get any snow) Mark Savage is the editor of American Snowmobiler magazine, published by Kalmbach in Waukesha. He’s also our regular automotive contributor. He spoke with Dan Harmon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a Material World: Dave's Pot Lake Effect contributor Gianofer Fields is a student in material culture at UW-Madison. Her project, called It’s a Material World, is funded through a grant from the Chipstone Foundation.   Her feature today was... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 12/26/11 - Full Episode Israel and Palestine... Northern Ireland... On the next Lake Effect, finding solutions to seemingly impossible conflicts. Later, Milwaukee's drop-out crisis - one at-risk student talks about the importance of a change of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Five-Percent Solution Peter Coleman is associate professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, and on the faculty of Teachers College and The Earth Institute... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Graduate: NOVA School Jalon Cross and Javaris Bradford are seniors at Northwest Opportunities Vocational Academy, or NOVA. James Campbell is co-director there. They all spoke with independent producer Joanne Williams as part of our co-production with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Joy of Friendship Bread Darien Gee is the author of several books, including the new novel, Friendship Bread, published by Ballantine Books. She was in Milwaukee this spring for an event at Next Chapter Bookshop, and stopped by our studios to speak with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark Side of Friendship Bread Lake Effect essayist Paul Heinz www.paulheinz.com/ is not such a fan on friendship bread. He’s a Milwaukee area native who now lives and writes in Illinois. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitchard Takes on a Delicate Topic Wisconsin writer Jacquelyn Mitchard’s latest novel is called Second Nature, published by Random House. Our interview first aired in September. You can find all things Jackie Mitchard at her website, plus you can hear her... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 12/24/11 - Full Episode It's our annual all music show - some holiday-themed, some not... We have tunes recorded for us during the past year in our performance studio from local musicians like The Jason Seed Stringtet, Vic & Gab, organist Ted King,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show part 1 Jason Seed Stringtet - In Red Vic & Gab - Blue Christmas Marge Eiseman & John Muchin - This Night, Next Night Milwaukee Hot Club - Djangology They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show part 2 Lake Effect's Dan Harmon recorded Ted King, sub-organist for the Cathedral Church of All Saints, who played: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Swiss Noel with Variations Greensleeves In dulci jubilo O Come, All Ye Faithful Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Music Show Part 3 Yid Vicious - Odessa Bulgar Carmel Mikol - Creature Vitrolum Republic - Willow Song Grace Weber- Baby It's Cold Outside Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 12/23/11 - Full Episode We look at Milwaukee's dropout crisis through the voices of at-risk students and a school that seeks to help them. Later, the ancestor of an escaped slave talks about why it's important to visit sites along the underground... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Graduate: Project Stay As part of our American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen co-production with Milwaukee Public Television, we learn about Project Stay, an MPS school serving dropouts and kids at risk of dropping out. Independent producer Joanne... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Underground Railroad Connection Kimberly Simmons is the director of the Detroit River Project, which seeks to increase the visibility of Underground Railroad sites in Michigan and Ontario. Her great-great-great grandmother, Caroline Quarrls, escaped her life of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goats and Landscape Management WUWM environmental reporter Susan Bence spoke with Cherrie Nolden, who is researching how goats can be better used in managing land.  Nolden lives in Prairie du Sac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Convergence of Movies and Astronomy Lake Effect's Dan Harmon spoke with two show contributors: Film contributor Dave Luhrssen talked about what's on the big screen this holiday season.  He's arts and entertainment editor at the Shepherd Express newspaper. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 12/22/11 - Full Episode A noted political pundit and political scientist reflects on how even when there is no overt racism in public discourse, race is often a subtext. Then, we look back on the year in astronomy with contributor Jean Creighton, and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race and Politics Melissa Harris-Perry is a Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, and the Founding Director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She's also a regular commentator on MSNBC. Her... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Year in Astronomy Jean Creighton is the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee and our regular astronomy contributor. This month we looked back at the year of the solar system and other notable events in astronomy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unwanteds New York Times-bestselling author Lisa McMann's lisamcmann.com/latest book is The Unwanteds, the first in a fantasy series for young readers, published by Aladdin. The second book of the series, The Unwanteds: Island of Silence,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website False Floors Chris Koza spoke with Trapper Schoepp. Koza and his band, Rogue Valley,www.lostinroguevalley.com/ are based in Minneapolis. Their winter album is called False Floors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 12/21/11 - Full Episode How engineering education is changing to reflect bigger shifts in the world... Later, a farmer's market struggles - one organizer says the iconic growing power let the farmers down, but growing power founder Will Allen says... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Engineering Education Bob Bishop is the Dean of the College of Engineering at Marquette University. The school’s new facility is open along Wisconsin Avenue – there’s a link to a virtual tour here.  Bob Bishop spoke with Lake... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crop of Complaints Jason Cleereman is an attorney and head of the Walker Square Neighborhood Association. Michael Horne is the author of the story, Crop of Complaints, which is in the December issue of Milwaukee Magazine.   They spoke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Rebuttal Will Allen is the founder and CEO of Milwaukee-based Growing Power, which supports and promotes urban agriculture efforts around the country.  He spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich and responded to the complaints of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last Minute Gifts - Books Jason Kennedy is a book-buyer for Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee.  He talked with Mitch Teich about some last-minute unique books for your holiday gift-buying.  And as promised, you can access the complete list of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 12/20/11 - Full Episode There are forecasts of a doctor shortage in Wisconsin. We'll find out why when we speak with the President of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Then, a new biography of the Renaissance artist Caravaggio paints a new picture of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doctor Shortage in WI Doctor John Raymond is the President of the Medical College of Wisconsin. He spoke with Mitch Teich about a recent report by the Wisconsin Hospital Association forecasting a significant doctor shortage in the state. You can find... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane World renowned British art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon is the author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, published by Norton. He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph. Graham-Dixon has also presented numerous art... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Games for the Whole Family James Lowder is our resident game expert, and the editor of Family Games: The 100 Best and Hobby Games: The 100 Best, both published by Green Ronin Publishing. He's also the editor of the recently released anthology Triumph of The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Cheap Trick Miles Nielsen's second full-length CD is called Miles Nielsen presents The Rusted Hearts. Nielsen hails from Rockford, Illinois, which is also home to his dad's rather well-known band, Cheap Trick. Miles Nielsen spoke with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 12/19/11 - Full Episode Monday on Lake Effect: A new poll shows Wisconsinites' views are conflicted on many aspects of healthcare reform. Later, how the Salvation Army is updating its Red Kettle campaign in an increasingly spare change-less era. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People Speak Poll: Health Care Rob Henken is president of the Milwaukee-based Public Policy Forum, and Corri Hess covers health care for the Business Journal of Milwaukee. They joined us as part of our monthly Down to Business collaboration with the Business... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Kettles for the Digital Age Major Roger Ross is the Milwaukee County Commander for the Salvation Army – there’s more information about their annual red kettle campaign here. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Horticulturally Happy Holiday Season Melinda Myers is the author of numerous books on gardening, including Month-by-Month Gardening in Wisconsin. She’s also the host of Melinda’s Garden Moments on television, and she’s our regular gardening... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taryn Simon: Truth and Photography Lake Effect's Bonnie North spoke with photographer Taryn Simon while walking through the artist's exhibit Taryn Simon: Photographs and Texts, which is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum through January 1st. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 12/17/11 - Full Episode It's the conclusion of Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval. First, a panel of journalists gets together for a wide-ranging conversation about the meaning of the last 12 months in Wisconsin politics. Then, we air the second part... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Panel Answers Audience Questions About 2011 Members of a studio audience posed question to our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval panel about what happened in 2011 and where we might go from here, Friday morning at the Pabst Theater. Our panelists were: Milwaukee County... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 12/16/11 - Full Episode On our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series, we've been exploring the lasting impact of the big policy changes made in Wisconsin this year. As we wrap up the series, we hear from lawmakers and some of the groups most... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwauke: Live Panel Discussion, Part 1 All this week, as part of our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series, we’ve been trying to digest the events of the past year – from the budget repair bill to controversial legislation, to the ongoing recall... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwauke: Live Panel Discussion, Part 2 We continue our live panel discussion of the legacy of the past year in Wisconsin politics, live from Cudahy's Irish Pub at the Pabst Theater. To close out our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series, we speak with: Hedy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwauke: Live Panel Discussion, Part 3 We conclude our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval live panel discussion with a look at what the future of Wisconsin should be. Our panelists weigh in - they are: Hedy Eischeid, Fond du Lac public school teacher; Mary Isbister,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 12/15/11 - Full Episode On today's Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval, we're asking a big question: What was the course Wisconsin was on before 2011 - and what effect did the year have on that course? We'll start with a short feature asking what... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: It's a Wonderful Wisconsin? Over the past week, our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series has explored what the impact of the past year’s contentious political happenings has had on Wisconsin. We’ve identified winners and losers of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Future of Wisconsin Is Debatable We get two very different takes on where Wisconsin was heading before 2011, and where it’s going now. Jack Norman is the Research Director at the Institute for Wisconsin's Future; George Lightbourn is President of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Questioning ALEC's Influence The Center for Media and Democracy in Madison says the group ALEC has too much secretive influence on legislation. Mary Bottari is the Director of the Madison-based Center for Media and Democracy’s Real Economy Project and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Forward Wisconsin on Spurring Economic Growth How has Wisconsin’s business climate fared in 2011? Mark Erhmann is an attorney with Quarles & Brady, LLP in Madison, and the Chairman of the Board of Forward Wisconsin, a non-profit organization created in 1984 to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 12/14/11 - Full Episode Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval continues its exploration of winners and losers from the past year in Wisconsin politics. First, the head of the corporation that replaced the state's Department of Commerce talks about the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Business Wins, But Struggles In taking office, Scott Walker declared that the state is now open for business. But it’s a mixed bag for business - employment is stagnant at best, and though unemployment has fallen slightly of late, the number of jobs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Did WI's Arts Lose Out in 2011? This past year saw a major reorganization for the Wisconsin Arts Board – which lost its agency level status and was absorbed within the state’s Department of Tourism. George Tzugros is the Executive Director of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Reach Out Wisconsin Brings Respect Back into the Conversation While religion and politics have always been difficult subjects to broach in mixed company, politics has been especially troublesome. Conservative Scott Grabins and liberal Katie Songer are the founders of Reach Out Wisconsin, a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Two State Senators on a Bipartisan Mission As our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series continues to identify winners and losers of the past year, we’ll meet the two legislators who aren’t about to let civility die in Wisconsin’s legislature.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 12/13/11 - Full Episode Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval continues - Milwaukee County Exec Chris Abele talks about tight budgets and new tools. Later, education analyst Alan Borsuk discusses how 2011 affected the world of public education. Then,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: County Exec Weighs in on Impact of Gov. Walker's Policies As part of Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval, we’re identifying winners and losers of the past year. But in the case of county government, it’s hard to tell where it falls. Chris Abele is the Milwaukee County... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Education - A Winner or Loser in 2011? Our conversation about the complicated nature of winners and losers in 2011 takes a look at education. Alan Borsuk is a senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette University Law School, and writes education op-ed columns... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Political Participation for the Win Political activism was definitely a winner in Wisconsin in 2011. We’ll talk with the directors of two policy organizations for our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series. Scot Ross is the executive director of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Labor Leader Says Unions Lost Rights, Gained Solidarity A local union leader weighs in on how organized labor came out of this historic political year. Sheila Cochran is the Chief Operating Officer and Secretary/Treasurer of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO. She spoke with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 12/12/11 - Full Episode We kick off our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series with a look back at a seemingly unprecedented year in Wisconsin politics. First, a panel of journalists gets together for a wide-ranging conversation about the meaning of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Media Reflect on a Turbulent Year Our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval series features a roundtable discussion with journalists of all political bents analyzing the past year’s political events. That panel includes: Bruce Murphy, editor of Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: A Historical Precedent for an Unprecedented Year? We try to figure out whether a seemingly unprecedented year in Wisconsin actually does have a historical precedent. Historian John Gurda is the author of nineteen books, including The Making of Milwaukee and Cream City Chronicles.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project Milwaukee: Attorney & Blogger Tracks Gov. Walker's Rise Our Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval coverage continues with Milwaukee attorney and conservative blogger Rick Esenberg, and his take on the meaning and the legacy of the past year. Esenberg is the president and general counsel... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 12/10/11 - Full Episode MPS students again have some of the lowest math and reading scores in the nation. News analyst Bruce Murphy weighs in on that, plus teacher union re-certifications and the racial disparity found in Milwaukee's traffic stops. Then,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: MPS Scores, Teacher Unions, Traffic Stops Education dominates the first part of our news roundup this week, starting with a report that MPS students have again scored lower that most of the rest of the country on standardized math and reading tests. Then, most of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artifacts of Life A new novel combines mysterious artifacts, an import shop...and yoga? Mary Dally-Muenzmaier's debut novel is called Artifacts, published by Cerebral Bends Productions. That's a creative services company Dally-Muenzmaier... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book App Astrojammies Blasts into Hardcover A children's book application that's led the charge in combining literature and technology gets a hardcover edition. Stacey Williams-Ng is the author and illustrator of the interactive children's book Astrojammies, which is now... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 12/9/11 - Full Episode We'll have a preview of our special Project Milwaukee series, State of Upheaval. Our audio snapshot of the past year should whet your appetite for the series that begins on Monday. Then, losing loved ones during the holidays can... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Year in Review: Wisconsin Politics of 2011 From Journal Sentinel reporter Craig Gilbert to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, our montage of voices from the past 12 months previews our next special series, Project Milwaukee: State of Upheaval. It starts Monday on Lake Effect... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grief During the Holiday Season For those grieving the loss of a loved one or caring for a sick or dying family member, the holidays can be an especially challenging time. Kayla Waldschmidt is the Bereavement Coordinator at the non-profit Horizon Home Care &... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rep's Next to Normal Puts Music Centerstage The Milwaukee Rep tackles a new musical that's also a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Mark Clements is the Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Rep, and the director of Next to Normal. Danny Henning plays Henry and Tim Young plays Gabe. Next... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flash Fiction Friday: Media Our local writer is Riverwest resident George Fluharty. He read his piece "Mnemosyne's Disease." His short stories and poetry have been published online and in print magazines, and he has taught Research for Writers, a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 12/8/11 - Full Episode We hear the remarkable story of two Iranian-born doctors who developed a strategy for dealing with AIDS there, but were then imprisoned by the country's repressive regime. Then, you would think scientists would agree on a concept... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian Doctors Fight AIDS, Political Repression We hear what two Iranian-born physicians hope Americans can learn from the story of their work, their arrest, and their freedom. Kamiar and Arash Alaei are Iranian-born physicians. They developed an internationally recognized... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Blogger, Astrophysicist Takes on Time Time may not seem all that controversial, but to scientists it’s a debatable topic. Adam Frank is a professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester in New York and a regular contributor to Discover and Astronomy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jessie Torrisi and the Please Please Me The Austin-based band Jessie Torrisi and the Please Please Me is finding a Midwestern following. The band will play Saturday night at the Riverwest Public House Cooperative. Torrisi was joined in Lake Effect’s Studio C1 by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web-exclusive: Jessie Torrisi mini-concert In a web exclusive, listen to all four songs Jessie Torrisi and the Please Please Me performed in WUWM's Studio C1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 12/7/11 - Full Episode The Arab League sends observers into Syria - will it stop the bloodshed there? An analyst gives his take. Then, did you ever wonder why the Midwest has so many co-ops? Author Eric Dregni says you can thank the Scandinavian... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arab League Takes on Syria The Arab League is taking steps to quell Syrian violence – an analyst gives his take. Dr. Arthur Cyr is the Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College in Kenosha. He’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vikings in the Attic A new book explores the lasting legacy of Scandinavians in the Midwest. Minneapolis-based writer Eric Dregni's latest book is Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America, published by the University of Minnesota Press. He's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee Kickers Bring New Life to Youth Soccer The Milwaukee Kickers try to keep youth sports on the map even during the winter. Michael King oversees several programs, including camps, for the Milwaukee Kickers youth soccer organization. Sarah Teegarden is director of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meet the Milwaukee Ballet's Wardrobe Mistress We go behind-the-scenes at the Nutcracker and hear the story of a longtime Milwaukee Ballet employee whose work you don’t hear much about. Mary Belle Potter has worked for the Milwaukee Ballet for 39 years. She is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 12/6/11 - Full Episode We hear excerpts from a special video broadcast called "A Serious Conversation about Milwaukee's Graduation Problem." Panelists tried to determine what's going wrong. Then, author Rebecca Skloot discusses the history of informed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Serious Conversation about Milwaukee's Graduation Problem We present excerpts from a special online broadcast last week called "A Serious Conversation about Milwaukee's Graduation Problem” that tackled Milwaukee’s high dropout rate. It's part of a joint initiative... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks We learn how one woman’s cells changed the course of medicine. Rebecca Skloot is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, published by Crown. She'll be the keynote speaker tomorrow at "An Evening to Promote... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retirement Home, Art Museum Collaborate An art museum and a retirement home have created a unique collaboration. Donna Spars is the Director of Life Stream at Saint John’s on the Lake, a continuing care retirement community on Milwaukee’s East Side. Graeme... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 12/5/11 - Full Episode We'll talk recall politics as the signature period continues for a potential gubernatorial recall. Plus, a Milwaukee-based national organization tries to connect people with poor credit to reliable transportation. Writer Martin... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What (and Who) Is Driving the Recall Efforts? Recall politics are heating up in Wisconsin, as opponents of Gov. Scott Walker's policies try to get enough signatures to force an election. Barry Burden is a Professor of Political Science at the LaFollette School of Public... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ways to Work A local program is helping people with credit problems to secure affordable car loans. Janet Marie Tierney is the loan manager for the Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington County district of Ways to Work, a Milwaukee-based national... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Spirited History of Milwaukee Brews and Booze Milwaukee's claim to brewing fame extends beyond just beer. Martin Hintz is the author of more than a hundred books, including the new book, A Spirited History of Milwaukee Brews and Booze, published by The History Press. He spoke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reclaiming His Music Twin Cities-based guitarist Billy McLaughlin spoke with Lake Effect's Bonnie North. McLaughlin relearned to play the guitar left-handed after the neurological disease focal dystonia caused him to lose fine motor control over his... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 12/3/11 - Full Episode Our latest episode of Lake Effect Weekend begins with our news analyst Bruce Murphy wrapping up the top stories of the week. We hear about a plan to charge Wisconsin Capitol protestors for clean-up and security and much more.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: Capitol Protestors, County Exec vs. the Sheriff, Poor Students Our weekly news roundup returns this week, after a brief hiatus for the holidays, with news from Madison that protesters will now be charged by the government for the privilege. Perhaps not surprisingly in the wake of the recent... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 12/2/11 - Full Episode More parents in Wisconsin are seeking to exempt their children from vaccinations - one area hospital hopes to turn that trend around. Then, Judy Garland died 42 years ago - but a Milwaukee native helps keep her story alive around... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vaccinations in WI Doctor Marilyn Ranta is director of physician affairs at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and leads the hospital’s immunization efforts. She spoke with Mitch Teich about Children’s Hospital’s efforts to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judy Garland: A Legendary Film Career Milwaukee native John Fricke’s new book is called Judy: A Legendary Film Career, published by Running Press. Fricke is considered the world’s leading authority on the career of Judy Garland. He’ll sign copies... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calling All Dawns Christopher Tin won two Grammy awards for his first album, Calling All Dawns. He spoke with Lake Effect's Bonnie North from his studio in California. The Concord Chamber Orchestra, along with the Milwaukee High School of the Arts... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irish Music from the Lumber Camps Twin cities-based singer and guitarist Brian Miller, along with his band Two Tap Trio and special guest Randy Gosa of the Milwaukee band Myserk, will perform Irish Music from the Lumber Camps this Sunday at 1pm at the Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 12/1/11 - Full Episode One Milwaukee grass-roots organization is successfully working with banks to stem the tide on foreclosures in the city. We talk with members of Common Ground. Then, an area psychologist offers insight into, and coping strategies... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Ground Keisha Krumm is the lead organizer for Common Ground in Milwaukee. She spoke with Mitch Teich in October, along with Common Ground members Toni Wagner, who is with the Sherman Park Neighborhood Association and Reverend Jean Dow... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping with Holiday Stress Dr. Michael Jorn is a clinical psychologist at Healthcare Psychology Consultants in Shorewood. Jorn and his de-stressing tips are part of the free holiday event "Stop, Shop & Restore," hosted this Saturday by the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Ethnic Dining Ann Christenson is senior editor and dining critic for Milwaukee Magazine and our regular dining contributor as well. She spoke with Dan Harmon. Her story, Best Ethnic Dining, is in December issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heroes Richard Halverson, Dan Mooney and Robert Spencer star in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of Heroes. The show runs through December 18th at the Broadway Theatre Center in the 3rd Ward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 11/30/11 - Full Episode Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele has come through his first budget process - he won some and lost some, but thinks the county is now set for an even better result next year. Then, Jean Creighton notes how astronomy has... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee County Budget Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive. He spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich about his first complete budget process, which saw him veto 23 provisions in the budget, only to have 18 of them overridden. Still, he’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astronomy in Popular Culture Jean Creighton is the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee and our regular astronomy contributor. This month we chatted about the ways in which astronomy has made its way into popular culture – from car... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Killed Santa? Who Killed Santa? is written and directed by Neil Haven. Haven, along with puppet creator Dan Katula and actor Amy Geyser, who plays Tiny Tim, spoke with Lake Effect’s Dan Harmon. Who Killed Santa? begins its run Thursday... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kodachrome Christmas John McGivern stars as Earlene Hoople in A Kodachrome Christmas, which was written and directed by Pat Hazell. The show runs through the end of December at the Marcus Center’s Vogel Hall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 11/29/11 - Full Episode We have an update from United Wisconsin on the effort to force a recall election against Governor Scott Walker. Then, the case for, and against a bike and pedestrian lane on the Hoan Bridge. A Milwaukee organization looks to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recall Update Meagan Mahaffey is Executive Director of United Wisconsin, a statewide group leading a petition drive to force a recall election of Governor Scott Walker, and also four Republican members of the state senate. The drive has until... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hoan Bridge Bike Lane WUWM’s environmental reporter Susan Bence reports on the efforts to create a bicycle/pedestrian path on the Hoan Bridge. The DOT’s feasibility study can be found here. The public can weigh in on the plan until 5pm on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fostering Foster Parents Melissa Dombrowski-Boling is foster care services coordinator for St. Aemilian-Lakeside in Milwaukee. The organization provides training, services, and support for foster parents. There's a link to information about the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales of the Grape Harvest Ray Fister produces the Life Between the Vines podcast and wine blog. He's also the owner of 5th Floor Recording Company and our regular wine contributor. Life Between the Vines and Fister were recently featured in the Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speed Skating Hales Corners native Aly Dudek is a member of the US Short-Track Speedskating team. She'll compete this month in the next events on the World Cup tour, this weekend in Japan and the following weekend in China. When she's not... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 11/28/11 - Full Episode The former head of national intelligence in the US is working to equip other countries' militaries to transition to democracy... we'll talk with retired Admiral Dennis Blair. Then, a new study from UWM says that swapping... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of the Military in Transitional Democracies Retired Admiral Dennis Blair was director of National Intelligence in 2009 and 2010. Before he retired from the Navy, he was commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Command. He currently consults for the Washington-based Council... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Gender Roles Noelle Chesley is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her study on changing gender roles in the home and in the workplace is published in the October issue of the journal, Gender and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids in Kenya Fund Amy Hufnal co-chairs the Kids in Kenya Fund – Wisconsin chapter.  She’s been making trips to Kenya every other year since 1987. She’s also done projects in Costa Rica and Peru. If that weren’t... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Brass Rooster John and Kate McLaughlin are the owners of The Brass Rooster in Bay View, a shop specializing in men’s hats and accessories. Kate’s other job is as a milliner in the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre’s costume shop. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 11/26/11 - Full Episode College students are big users of social media, but should medical students who are treating real patients be on Facebook? We learn about social networking's ramifications for medicine. Later, a former commercial fisherman says a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Networking Poses Medical Ethics Questions We consider whether doctors and med students should be on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Dr. Arthur Derse is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Without Fish A former commercial fisherman asks us to consider a world without fish. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky wrote World Without Fish: How Kids Can Help Save the Oceans, illustrated by Frank Stockton and published by Workman... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attempting to Broaden My Lexicon Building a better vocabulary is harder than it seems. So says Lake Effect contributor Paul Heinz, who is a writer and musician in the greater Chicago Area. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finger-Pickin' Good Gareth Pearson was 14 when he first began playing the guitar. Born and raised in Wales, Pearson is barely out of his teens now but he’s already considered a virtuoso. The finger-style guitarist records on Milwaukee’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 11/25/11 - Full Episode NPR's Steve Inskeep goes to Pakistan and finds a story he explains he might never fully comprehend. Then, Larry Watson's new novel American Boy portrays the roller coaster of adolescence with warmth and subtlety. Later, a new... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR's Inskeep Reports on Life and Death in Karachi NPR’s Steve Inskeep charts Karachi’s explosive growth in a new book. Inskeep is the co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. His first book, Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, is published by Penguin. He spoke to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Watson Returns With American Boy Author Larry Watson returns to the Midwestern setting of his previous work in his latest novel called American Boy. It's published by Milkweed Editions. He spoke with Mitch Teich. Another one of Watson's novels, Montana 1948,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids' Series Explores How to Treat Animals, Secondhand Smoke's Impact on Pets We meet the author – and the canine subject – of the new kid’s book Wilson Gets Adopted! Award-winning artist Susan Castriota is the author and illustrator of the new children's book series, Wilson’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flash Fiction Friday: Unresolved Resolutions November’s Flash Fiction Friday theme is unresolved resolutions. Our national writer this month is Greg Gerke, with his piece "Senseless." Based in Brooklyn, New York, he's been published in numerous journals and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 11/24/11 - Full Episode Former MTV news correspondent Gideon Yago talks about the uphill battle he had in covering hard news at an entertainment channel. Then, an American college student is in Barcelona this semester - which means she'll miss... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News or Entertainment? The blurred line between news and entertainment gets blurrier every day. We speak with the director of Digital from the Onion and a former news correspondent for MTV. Gideon Yago was born in Madison, but raised in New York. He... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanksgiving Poem Lisa Calderone-Stewart shares her very unique Thanksgiving poem. She is the founder of Tomorrow's Present, which became the youth leadership ministry of Milwaukee's House of Peace and the Leadership Center of Cardinal Stritch... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Cool for Thanksgiving Many countries celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday. But the fourth Thursday in November is a uniquely American Thanksgiving. That makes the day a conflicted experience for Americans living abroad, like Lake Effect essayist Kirsten... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patchouli in Concert The Wisconsin duo Patchouli is Bruce Hecksel and Julie Patchouli. The duo currently resides in both Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, and in Chicago. Their first live album is called Patchouli: Live at the Mabel Tainter Theater. Our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 11/23/11 - Full Episode A Journal Sentinel reporter takes us to zip code 53210, where the rates of infant mortality are shockingly high. Then, a local hospital ups its efforts to reduce infant deaths in Milwaukee. Later, Milwaukee native Mark Wisniewski... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MKE Zip Code Faces Shocking Infant Mortality Rate Nowhere in the city is the problem of infant mortality more pronounced than in a single zip code – 53210. John Schmid documented the crisis there recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he is an economics... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbia-St. Mary's Opens New NICU One local hospital is trying to play a larger role in reducing infant mortality in Milwaukee. Julia Means is a parish nurse with Columbia-St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee; Dr. Mario Powell is a neonatologist there. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show Up, Look good Milwaukee native Mark Wisniewski’s new book is called Show Up, Look Good. It’s published by Gival Press. Wisniewski, who now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley, will talk about the book tonight at Boswell Book... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Appeal of the Hunt As if you needed reminding, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. And while for many, this season means turkey, for a lot of Wisconsinites, this season also means time in a deer blind. Lake Effect essayist Denice Ryan Martin has struggled... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Movie Releases Film contributor Dave Luhrssen shares his thoughts on some new releases for the Thanksgiving weekend. Luhrssen is the arts and entertainment editor at the Shepherd Express weekly, and author of its ‘I Hate Hollywood’... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 11/22/11 - Full Episode We talk with a key figure in Milwaukee's civil rights movement - Father Matthew Gottschalk. He remembers a formative trip down south in the '50s. Then, putting it together, bit by bit, former Journal Sentinel reporter Paul... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflecting on Milwaukee's Civil Rights Past A prominent figure from Milwaukee's civil rights movement in the 1960s reflects on whether the city's come far enough in terms of racial equality. Father Matthew Gottschalk is a Capuchin friar and co-founder of the House of Peace... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marquette Opens Stephen Sondheim Collection, Thanks to Local Fan Stephen Sondheim is one of the most important figures in American musical theatre, and a local collector donates 40 years of material to Marquette. Paul Salsini is a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He currently... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Books to Be Thankful For Thankfulness is on our minds this week, and it’s on the minds of this month’s book contributors as well. Lanora Haradon is the owner of Next Chapter Bookshop in Mequon; Dave Mallmann is head buyer there. They spoke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shoot Down the Moon We get an in-studio performance by the Wauwatosa band Shoot Down the Moon. The members are: Zach Ihlenfeld - Drummer, Matt Flanagan  – Rhythm Guitar and Vocals, Jon Taglienti - Bass, Justin Cohen – Lead Rhythm,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 11/21/11 - Full Episode While mining's future in Wisconsin is debated, a Wisconsin company fights charges that its Salvadoran mine is an environmental hazard. Then, our science essayist explains what the hullabaloo is over gold. Later, Waukesha college... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waukesha Company's Mine Faces Uncertain Future We learn about a legal battle being waged between a Waukesha mining company, environmentalists, and the government of El Salvador. John Machulak is a lawyer with the Milwaukee firm of Machulak, Robertson, and Sodos. He’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Element 79 What’s the big deal with gold, anyway? Lake Effect chemistry essayist Judy Steininger gives us the scientific answer. Steininger is a Professor Emerita at the Milwaukee School of Engineering where she has taught chemistry... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carroll University Students Study Water Students at Carroll University are spending a year studying water in a variety of ways. Environmental reporter Susan Bence explains why. You can see photos from Carroll University, plus find a link to our interview with Charles... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can You Buy A Strictly American Car Anymore? What does it really mean to “buy American” these days? Is there such a thing as a truly American car any more? Our automotive contributor weighs in. Mark Savage writes about cars for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Short Car Story The origin of her car was the least of the concerns on the mind of Lake Effect essayist Cari Carlson. For her, it wasn’t who built the car, so much as who is going to keep it running. Carlson is a freelance writer, outdoor... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 11/19/11 - Full Episode Recall efforts to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began earlier this week. We'll hear from the Governor himself in an interview with NPR's Tell Me More. Then, an analyst explains that money is a key factor in predicting the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journalist Sheds Light on Sub Culture The education policy world got a shock when a new memoir of a former substitute teacher revealed how teacher absenteeism is affecting kids' education. Freelance writer and journalist Carolyn Bucior is the author of Sub Culture:... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sweetback Sisters The Sweetback Sisters weave their honky-tonk charm in our performance studio. The band is Emily Miller, Zara Bode, Ross Bellenoit, Jesse Milnes, Stefan Amidon and Peter Bitenc. Their most recent album is called Looking for a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 11/18/11 - Full Episode Achievement pressure has always been an issue in kids, but a local pediatric psychiatrist says it's happening at an increasingly younger age. Then, a new meteorological theory could make long-range forecasting easier. Later, an... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doctor: Younger Kids Feeling Pressure to Achieve A local doctor says achievement pressures are affecting young adolescents in some concerning ways. Stephanie Eken is pediatrician and psychiatrist and Medical Director of the Child Center at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meteorologists May Have New Tool for More Accurate Forecasts A local meteorologist says a recent theory should allow for much more specific and accurate forecasts. Jeremy Nelson is a meteorologist with WISN-Channel 12. He’ll talk about what he thinks the LRC forecast model tells us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exhibit Explores Truth in Photography The curator of a major photography exhibit on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum explains that even though photographs present a real-life scene, elements of truth may be missing. Lisa Hostetler is the Curator of Photographs at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Avett Brothers Keep Americana Fresh We talk with one-half of a band that’s at the forefront of a resurgence of Americana music – the Avett Brothers. Musician Scott Avett is half of the Avett Brothers, along his brother Seth. The Avett Brothers play sold... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 11/17/11 - Full Episode Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he thinks the recall effort against him isn't really about collective bargaining rights. Then, the ancestor of an escaped slave talks about why it's important to visit sites along the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gov. Scott Walker Responds to Recall Effort Two days after recall efforts to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began, we hear from the Governor himself in an interview with NPR’s Tell Me More and host Michel Martin. Thanks to the producers of that program for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Descendant of Underground Railroad 'Passenger' Preserves Its History Before the Civil War, one route of the Underground Railroad traveled right through Milwaukee. We meet one woman whose great-great-great grandmother took it to freedom. Kimberly Simmons is the director of the Detroit River Project,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Present Music Gives Thanks Present Music gives its Thanksgiving concert this Sunday. Kevin Stalheim is the founder and artistic director of Present Music; Sharon Hansen is the founder and music director of the Milwaukee Choral Artists. Present Music’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit's Heidelberg Project We meet the creator of an art installation that not only takes up 2 inner city blocks in Detroit – it’s become those 2 blocks. Tyree Guyton is the creator of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project; Jenenne Whitfield is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 11/16/11 - Full Episode We'll speak with two Journal Sentinel journalists about Hermain Cain's fateful discussion about Libya with the paper's editorial board. Later, we talk with two fun guys about the fungi you don't want to find in your home: mold.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Herman Cain-Journal Sentinel Interview We talk about Hermain Cain’s fateful meeting in Milwaukee, with two of the members of the Journal Sentinel editorial board. James Causey is an editorial writer and columnist, and David Haynes is editorial page editor and a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mold, the Fuzzy Scourge Mold is bad for your bread, but it’s a bigger problem for your attic. We learn why winter, homes, and mold make for an especially bad combination. Mark Meiling is the president of ForeSight Home Performance of Wauwatosa.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3 Photos on Milwaukee's Music Scene Three distinctive views of the Milwaukee music scene make up a new photography exhibit now on view. Lake Effect's Bonnie North spoke with local photographers Peggy Howe, Anita Burgermeister and Jennifer Shoenholtz on site at the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A History of the World in 100 Objects A curator explains how 100 objects tell the story of human history. Neil MacGregor has been the the Director of the British Museum since 2002. His new book, A History of the World in 100 Objects, is published by Viking-Penguin.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 11/15/11 - Full Episode The recall campaign against Governor Scott Walker is underway. We discuss what previous recall successes and failures predict about this effort. Then, we talk with a sociologist about how historic kitchen gardens can connect us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gubernatorial Recall Effort Underway We learn how the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker is informed by recalls that have already succeeded and failed. Joshua Spivak is senior fellow at the Hugh Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College, in New... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living History Comes Alive A Milwaukee researcher explains the academic importance of “living history.” Jennifer Jordan is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She's the author of Structures of Memory:... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last-Minute Yard Work Before It's Too Late Gardening guru Melinda Myers says a little light work this winter can prevent a lot of hard work on your garden next spring. Myers is the author of numerous books on gardening, including Month-by-Month Gardening In Wisconsin.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting Cultures With Music, Dance, and Food The 68th annual Holiday Folk Fair International celebrates cultures around the world and in our backyard. Jim deNomie is the chairman of the International Institute of Wisconsin, which produces the annual Holiday Folk Fair... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 11/14/11 - Full Episode A new educational initiative from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation promises no quick fixes. Then, poet Lucy Rosenberg talks about the Great Depression, great-grandchildren and rap music. Later, we get an essay on endings, but... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GMF Unveils Education Plan to Close Achievement Gap The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has unveiled a plan called “Milwaukee Succeeds”, which it touts as a community-wide initiative aimed at taking kids “from cradle to career.” Ellen Gilligan is the President... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perspectives - Poetry of a Lifetime A poet, child advocate and great-grandmother reflects on her life and changing times. Lucille Rosenberg is a poet and memoir writer. Her latest chapbook is called "Perspectives." She is a former pediatrician and child... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ending of It All Winter may just be beginning, but Lake Effect essayist Paul Heinz feels there are just too many conclusions in life. Heinz reads “The Ending of It All.“ He’s a writer, musician, former Wisconsinite and Brewers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants first connected with audiences in the 1980s and 90s – then connected with those audience’s children. They’re back with a new CD for grown-ups, and they play for us in Studio C. John Linnell... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 11/12/11 - Full Episode Our news analyst summarizes some of the week's top news stories, including student debt and why the state is poised to drop 65-thousand people from Medicaid. Then, sports contributor Howie Magner says victims are being forgotten... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-Up: Student Debt, Medicaid Cuts, Christmas Trees This week’s roundup of some of the top news stories finds college students awash in school debt and the state poised to drop 65000 people from Medicaid. Our news analyst Bruce Murphy weighs in. Bruce Murphy is editor at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons from the Penn State Scandal The on-going sex abuse scandal at Penn State has many of us rethinking the role of sports in college communities, including our sports commentator. Howie Magner writes the Sports Nut column for Milwaukee Magazine's website, and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alternative Healing Offers Options Complementary and alternative medicine have become a part of many of our health regimens. We speak to an area practitioner. Jean Reddemann is an indigenous healing practitioner in southeastern Wisconsin. She's one of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee Urban Entertainment Alliance Targets Underserved Market A local group organizes events for an underserved demographic: young, black professionals. Tony Reese and Kwabena Nixon are the co-founders of the Milwaukee Urban Entertainment Alliance. Nixon is also the co-founder of the group... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 11/11/11 - Full Episode Our Down to Business segment looks at the impact the NBA lockout has already had on Milwaukee and wonders how soon it will end. Later, a Wisconsin writer spotlights what he believes are overlooked: the peaceful aspects of Islam.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Down to Business: NBA Lock-out's Local Impact Even if the NBA lockout ends, and teams take to the courts, do the Bucks have an uphill battle? Steve Costello is President and CEO of the Bradley Center; Mark Kass is editor of the Business Journal of Milwaukee. They joined us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Islam' Means Peace A new book – by a non-Muslim – focuses attention on the nonviolent aspects of Islam. Amit Pal is the Managing Editor of the magazine, The Progressive, and author of the book "Islam" Means Peace:... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Vietnam Veteran's Story For Veterans’ Day, Lake Effect contributor Ed Makowski brings us a special edition of our Lunch Counter segment. Last weekend's parade saw an influx of retired veterans visiting downtown Milwaukee. While at his post as... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MillerCoors' Sustainable Brewing WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence visited the MillerCoors plant to find out how deeply “sustainability” runs through the 156-year-old brewery's veins – both in terms of building employee loyalty and in its... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inheritance Cycle Comes to a Close One of the latest sensations in young adult fantasy fiction has come to a close. Christopher Paolini comes to Milwaukee this weekend in support of the last book of his Inhertitance cycle. Christopher Paolini’s latest book,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 11/10/11 - Full Episode The disappearing middle class - we hear a lot about it today, but writer Erik Gunn says it's a trend that was set in motion a long time ago. Then, reporter Abe Lubetkin of Chanel 12 tells us the story of Dan Crews, the 28-year-old... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Disappearing Middle Class We explore Wisconsin’s shrinking middle class and how much smaller it is today. Erik Gunn's article, "The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class," is the cover story in the current issue of Milwaukee Magazine. He spoke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should Illinois Man Be Granted His Wish to Die? The right to die is at the center of a story airing tonight on Channel 12. Abe Lubetkin is a reporter for WISN-TV, channel 12 . His story on Dan Crews will air tonight during the station’s 10 PM newscast. There will be a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Children's Author James Howe Fights Bullying with Books Acclaimed children’s author James Howe continues his crusade against bullying, in his latest book, Addie on the Inside. James Howe is the author of the new middle-grade book Addie on the Inside, a companion novel to The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carrie Melton and the Minor Fall Take on The Who, Neil Young Wisconsin band Carrie Melton and the Minor Fall give us insight into their unique sound, and even cover The Who's "Baba O'Riley". The band is Carrie Melton, Guitar & Lead Vocals, Tara Tzimopoulos - Harmony Vocals... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 11/9/11 - Full Episode We talk with MMAC president Tim Sheehy about the organization's latest push to close Milwaukee's education gap. Plus, we hear from one of the key organizations involved in the effort, Schools That Can Milwaukee. Later, we meet a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MMAC Takes on the Education Achievement Gap The MMAC unveils a new plan to bring economic vitality to the city, including a major education component. Tim Sheehy is president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC). The organization will present its new... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflecting on a Medical Education Lake Effect essayist Brittany Bettendorf is a resident in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and our newest contributor. She's also a Resident Associate in the college's Medical Humanities... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changes in the Kitchen, Changes in Life Writer and chef Kathleen Flinn talks about how some fairly basic changes to our cooking habits can make a much more profound change in our lives. Her new book is called The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, published by Viking.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Craft Meats Movement One local company is making a name for itself making artisan… salami. Bolzano Meats owner Scott Buer spoke with Lake Effect's Ed Makowski. The company will be among the presenters at Wine and Dine Wisconsin which takes... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 11/8/11 - Full Episode A noted political pundit and political scientist reflects on the racial questions posed by Herman Cain's candidacy and the role of the "black vote" in politics. Then, as a fourth accuser comes forward, our media contributor weighs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confluence of Race and Politics Gets a New Look We look at the intersection between race and politics in America and the role black women play, and are expected to play, in society. Melissa Harris-Perry is a Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, and the Founding... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee Urban Entertainment Alliance Targets Underserved Market A local group organizes events for an underserved demographic: young, black professionals. Tony Reese and Kwabena Nixon are the co-founders of the Milwaukee Urban Entertainment Alliance. Nixon is also the co-founder of the group... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Packer Chester Marcol's Journey Through Football, Addiction & Life A former Green Bay Packer star talks about his difficult life after the final whistle. Chester Marcol was a kicker for the Green Bay Packers and Houston Oilers from 1972 to 1980. He’s now a drug and alcohol counselor in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contributor: Herman Cain's Campaign Fumbling Harassment Accusations Our media contributor Tim Cuprisin has some stern words for the way Herman Cain has handled accusations of sexual harassment. Cuprisin writes about media for onmilwaukee.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 11/7/11 - Full Episode Finding solutions to political stalemates can seem impossible: think Israel and Palestine, or Northern Ireland. We speak with the director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution about how to find... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KingPenZ Mixes Space-Age Sounds, Genre-Bending Rap We meet the brainy boys behind Milwaukee hip-hop duo KingPenZ: Real McCoy (aka Darrell Garrett) and C-Nova, otherwise known as (Reginald Alston II). They've released their first EP called "Space Bounce," and they'll be... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts Conflict resolution is never simple, but some conflicts, like those in Northern Ireland or between Israel and Palestine, seem impossible to solve. We hear about ways to mediate the most difficult conflicts. Peter Coleman is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Milwaukee Was Farmland We remember when Milwaukee was far less urban and had a lot more hay. John Gurda is the author of nineteen books, including The Making of Milwaukee and Cream City Chronicles. He’s also our regular history contributor. He... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pen Pals Humans have always craved communication, and we have invented many ways to accomplish it when we couldn’t simply talk with each other face to face. The telephone, the telegraph and the computer are some of the means by which... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 11/5/11 - Full Episode Our weekly news wrap-up tackles lawyers, guns and money. Then, a local organization helps ex-felons find work. Later, the life and lessons of Milwaukee artist Della Wells go onstage in a new production at First Stage Children's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-up: Lawyers, Guns & Money Lawyers, guns and money top the news this week, making us feel like we’re in the middle of the Warren Zevon song. From legislation that caps lawyers’ fees and creates a new, elected position of Milwaukee County... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee-born H.V. Kaltenborn Inducted into Radio Hall of Fame Before Walter Kronkite was the most trusted man in America, there was Milwaukee-born radio pioneer H.V. Kaltenborn - who will be inducted this weekend into the country's only Radio Hall of Fame by NPR's Susan Stamberg. Radio... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 11/4/11 - Full Episode One county office seeks to reduce the unemployment rate among the veteran population here. Then, an essayist asks people to stop counting the "Latino vote." Later, we learn about an important book and author in Salvadoran history... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website County Office Helps Vets Get Work We talk with the director of Milwaukee County's veterans’ services office about what role municipal government plays in meeting vets' needs. Jim Duff is acting director of the Milwaukee County Veterans Services Office. The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Latino Vote The 2012 Presidential election is one year from Sunday. Many of the would-be contenders have talked about the need to reach the “Latino vote.” Lake Effect essayist Alvaro Saar Rios says, well, good luck with that. Rios... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seminal Salvadoran Book Gets First English Translation We learn the little-known, but important history of the Salvadoran author Salarrué. Dr. Nelson López Rojas is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Marquette University. He is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth-Graders Celebrate Day of the Dead The Day of the Dead was actually earlier this week, but that’s not stopping the Latino Arts Center from celebrating it this evening. Sophia Banaszak and Manuel Macias are sixth graders at Bruce-Guadalupe Community School;... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pistolera Mixes Latin-Alt Folklorico Genres While the actual Days of the Dead were Tuesday and Wednesday, local Day of the Dead celebrations wrap up this evening at the Latino Arts Center on Milwaukee’s near South Side. The New York City-based Pistolera will play a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 11/3/11 - Full Episode An Assembly bill would make it easier not to hire a felon in the state of Wisconsin. But one Milwaukee group is trying to make it easier for former prisoners to find jobs. Then, the star of Florentine Opera's Turandot knows she... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Project RETURN Helps Ex-Cons Find Work A local organization is trying to spread awareness of the challenges returning felons already face when looking for a job. Wendel Hruska is the Executive Director of Project RETURN. Ed de St. Aubin is a psychology professor at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keeping Opera Fresh The star of the Florentine Opera’s Turnadot talks about the need to keep an 85-year opera fresh. Soprano Lise Lindstrom will sing the title role of Turandot this weekend. The Florentine Opera's production runs Friday and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bad Moon Mixes Abductions, Moon Landings & Mystery Journalist-and-mystery writer Todd Ritter talks about how one job informs the other. Ritter is the author of the new mystery Bad Moon, published by Minotaur Books. His first novel was Death Notice. He is also a journalist at The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ha Ha Tonka's Death of a Decade It was a barn in New York where the Ozarks-inspired band Ha Ha Tonka chose to record its latest album, Death of a Decade. They recorded it outside New Paltz, New York – but when they’re not on the road, they can... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 11/2/11 - Full Episode We look back at Ned Day, Jr., a unique character in Milwaukee - and Las Vegas - journalism. Then, an essayist critiques mining plans in northern Wisconsin. Plus, we have an interview that is longer than many of the films it's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Back on Ned Day, Jr. "Me and the Mob," about the late Ned Day, Jr., is Tom Matthews' feature story in this month's Milwaukee Magazine.  Day grew up in Milwaukee, the son of a bowling icon, but later made his name in investigative... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do Proposed Mines Pose a Threat to Northern Waters? We hear a critique of proposed mining projects in northern Wisconsin. Milwaukee author and Lake Effect contributor Eric Hansen is a nationally recognized conservation essayist. He's also the author of Hiking Wisconsin and Hiking... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Films, Medium-Length Interview Get an insider’s look at the Milwaukee Short Film Festival – we promise we won’t be long-winded. Ross Bigley is the president of The Milwaukee Independent Film Society, which sponsors the annual Milwaukee Short... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jess Klein - Music Coming Out of a Tough Year A difficult period in Jess Klein’s life inspires a new CD and her career in music as well.   Klein will play this evening at Café Carpe in Fort Atkinson on a bill with David Freund.  Her new CD is due... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 11/1/11 - Full Episode Businesses have a big decision to make about weapons in the workplace, now that the state's concealed carry law has gone into effect. Later, we get the story of the world's first building with a thermostat in every room - the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Businesses and Concealed Carry A local lawyer analyzes the implications of concealed carry on Wisconsin’s business community. Frank Gumina is a Human Resources Law attorney with the Milwaukee law firm Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek. He spoke with Stephanie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Praise of the Humble Thermostat We learn Milwaukee’s role in pioneering the electric thermostat, and some living history just down Wisconsin Avenue. Ken Wirth is Head Archivist for Johnson Controls, speaking with Lake Effect contributor Ed Makowski in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mercy Lily Tackles Death with Dignity A new novel for young adults takes on some very adult topics – terminal illness and the right to die. Muskego writer Lisa Albert's debut young adult novel is Mercy Lily, published by Flux. She's also written three... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly The subject matter behind the new production at First Stage Children’s Theater is important for all ages. Lake Effect's Bonnie North spoke with Milwaukee visual artist Della Wells, playwright Y York, and director Mark Lutwak... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 10/31/11 - Full Episode At least one analyst is optimistic about the health of Milwaukee's housing market - we'll find out what he sees in it that ranks it so highly in a national survey. Later, how climate change's impacts in the south might affect... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Housing Market: Healthy? Jonathan Smoke is executive director of research for Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, which does market analysis and also publishes magazines such as Builder and Remodeling. The media and publishing company ranked Milwaukee 14th... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change: Weather and Wallets George Stone is a Natural Sciences instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College, and an occasional contributor to Lake Effect in issues related to climate change. He spoke with Mitch Teich. One of the subjects they... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Resurgence of Zombies, Metaphorically Speaking Writer and zombie enthusiast James Lowder is the editor of the anthology Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen published by BenBella Books - it comes out tomorrow. He's also the editor of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writer M.T. Anderson: Zombies Are Not Really the Topic of This Interview M.T. Anderson is the author of books for children and young adults, including Feed and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party, which won a National Book Award for Young People. His latest novel is... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 10/28/11 - Full Episode Here in Wisconsin, most of us rarely think about our supply of freshwater. We speak with journalist Charles Fishman, who contends that's a key reason why a water crisis looms in many parts of the country. Then, we catch up with... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Thirst Charles Fishman is a journalist from Philadelphia. His book is called The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.  He spoke at Carroll University’s opening convocation this year as the Waukesha school... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Off the Opinion Pages, but Still Opinionated Award-winning journalist Gregory Stanford is a former reporter, columnist and editorial writer for the Journal Sentinel. He currently blogs for Milwaukee Magazine and at his personal blog. He spoke with Stephanie Lecci. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Quinn - Back in Wisconsin Racine native Ryan Quinn stars in the Milwaukee Rep's production of "Yellowman", which runs through November 13th. He and his wife currently make their home in New York City. He spoke with Bonnie North. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Musical Comedy in Camouflage Fred "Doc" Heide is the co-founder of Door County's American Folklore Theatre. He and veteran Folklore Theatre performer Lee Becker wrote the book and lyrics for "Guys and Does", which first played up nort' in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 10/27/11 - Full Episode Journal Sentinel reporter Gina Barton writes about police officers who have broken the laws they're supposed to uphold. Then, our astronomy contributor wraps up our tour of the solar system in the Kuiper Belt. Later, a volunteer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Law Breakers An investigative series explores what happens when members of law enforcement become the law breakers. Gina Barton is an investigative reporter with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her three-part series on police officers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last stop: The Kuiper Belt We reach the end of the line in our year long tour of the solar system - The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. Jean Creighton is the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee, and our astronomy contributor. She... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reunited: Lost Dogs Colleen Duero is the media representative and a caseworker with the all-volunteer organization, Lost Dogs of Wisconsin. She spoke with Stephanie Lecci. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock for Recovery Rock music has certainly seen its share of addiction, but a new effort to combat the problem is music to many ears. Mark Shurilla and Elvis Thao are two of the musicians who will be part of Saturday night’s Rock for Recovery... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 10/26/11 - Full Episode An international water forum held in Milwaukee yesterday puts the spotlight on water stewardship. Then, we get a tour of the new children's wing of the Vision Forward Association. Later, film contributor Dave Luhrssen shares... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working Toward a Water Stewardship Standard Almost exactly one year ago an international group that combines businesses and environmental organizations – called the Alliance for Water Stewardship – announced it would make its North American home in Milwaukee.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vision Forward Eyes Bridging Gap in Serving the Blind The Vision Forward Association opens a new wing of its campus to serve kids with severe vision problems. It’s the result of a merger between the former Badger Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired, and the Center... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Film Reviews for the Price of One Our movie critic Dave Luhrssen offers reviews of three upcoming films. Dave Luhrssen is the Arts and Entertainment editor of the Shepherd Express newspaper and writes the paper’s I Hate Hollywood blog. He’s also our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ballet Sinks Its Teeth into Dracula Lake Effect's Bonnie North chatted with the Milwaukee Ballet's artistic Director Michael Pink and composer Philip Feeney at the Ballet's rehearsal studio on National Avenue and South 5th street. The Ballet's production of Pink and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 10/25/11 - Full Episode Lake Effect looks at some local research on gender roles. First, three psychologists explain what cultural and societal expectations inform how men behave. Then, a study by a UWM sociologist shows that changing up traditional... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Socialization of Males Three area psychologists are trying to get out the message that outmoded views of masculinity affect not only boys and men, but society at large. William Seymour and Ramel Smith are psychologists at Children's Hospital of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Impact of Switching Gender Roles A UWM study that examined what happens to men and women when they swap traditional roles in the home. Noelle Chesley is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her study on changing gender... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunch Counter Conversations: Michelle Lentzner We sit down at the Lake Effect lunch counter for a chat with Riverwest resident Michelle Lentzner. Michelle Lentzner lives in Riverwest with her corn snake, Pip. She spoke with Ed Makowski over mai tais at the Foundation Tiki Bar.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Olson's New Songs Leave the Barn Recording in a barn brings decidedly different acoustics than a traditional recording studio – so learned musician Dave Olson. He’s a singer-songwriter based in Minnesota's Twin Cities. He spoke with Lake Effect's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR's Inskeep Reports on Life and Death in Karachi We take a deeper look inside the growth and violence in Pakistan with NPR’s Steve Inskeep. He’s the co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. His first book, Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, is published by Penguin. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UPAF's New President The new president of the United Performing Arts Fund, aka UPAF, has a new vision for growing arts funding. Deanna Tillisch begins her tenure as the next president of Milwaukee's United Performing Arts Fund on November 14th. She... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auto Add-Ons There are more options than ever on new cars – our auto contributor tells us whether they’re worth your while. Mark Savage is the automotive contributor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the editor of American... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scottish Soul Food Our roving traveler goes in search of Scottish soul food, which decidedly does not mean McDonald’s. Robert Bundy edits TCD Traveler for Third Coast Digest and he's our Traveler's Roundtable correspondent. He spoke with Mitch... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hitch Getting around an unfamiliar place can be a daunting challenge – last-minute bus tickets purchased, a mad-dash to an airport. Or the technique Lake Effect essayist Cari Carlson employed. Carlson is a freelance writer,... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 10/22/11 - Full Episode Lake Effect Weekend news analyst Bruce Murphy says police chief Ed Flynn - who was just reappointed to a second four-year term this week, is part of a national movement in crime fighting. Later,the former US National Intelligence... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lake Effect Weekend's Weekly News Round-up This week's top news stories included in our weekly round-up are Badger Guns giving up its license, more state money woes, and the reappointment of Milwaukee police chief Ed Flynn. Bruce Murphy is editor at Milwaukee Magazine, and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fmr Admiral Says US Intelligence Must Be More Efficient Retired Admiral Dennis Blair explains why he thinks the overall US intelligence effort could be made more effective. Blair was director of National Intelligence in 2009 and 2010. Before he retired from the Navy, he was... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aldo Leopold's Shack A new children's book explores how famed conservationist Aldo Leopold worked alongside his family to preserve a Wisconsin farm - and form his theories on land ethic. Wisconsin writer Nancy Nye Hunt's first book is Aldo Leopold's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 10/21/11 - Full Episode As countries, like Libya, transition to democracy, what role should military forces play? Former US national intelligence director Dennis Blair weighs in. Then, a local doctor and specialist explains why emergency rooms have seen... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Nat'l Intelligence Director on Military in Democracy Building Retired Admiral Dennis Blair was director of National Intelligence in 2009 and 2010. Before he retired from the Navy, he was commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Command. He currently consults for the Washington-based Council for... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CDC: Kids' ER Visits Up 60 Percent for Concussions There’s been a huge increase in ER visits by kids with concussions – is that because of increased awareness or rougher sports? Dr. Kevin Walter is a specialist in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racine Symphony Orchestra Celebrates 80 Years The Racine Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Pasquale Laurino is the Music Director and conductor of the Racine Symphony; Bonnie Prochaska is the Executive Director. They spoke with Bonnie North. The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flash Fiction Friday: The Voyeur Flash Fiction Friday brings you some of the best new short fiction you can hear on the radio. Our international writer this month is Christopher Allen, with his piece, "The Pain Taster." Allen lives in Munich, Germany... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 10/20/11 - Full Episode A new study reveals the level of skepticism the 'millennial generation' has regarding the future of programs like Social Security. Then, a local foundation helps women in Africa who are suffering from breast cancer. Later, our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Study: Millenials Think Social Security Won't Exist For Them Most young adults believe social security won’t exist for them. What are the implications of that attitude? Dave Wegge is a professor and Executive Director of the Strategic Research Institute at St. Norbert College in De... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breast Cancer Group Reaches Out to African Women We meet the founder of Courage to Dare, a local foundation that works to help women dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis. Juliet Aguwa is the founder and CEO of the Courage to Dare Foundation. She spoke with Stephanie Lecci.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MATC Cooking Up Chefs Milwaukee is known for its love of good food, but should also be known for the quality of its culinary training. Ann Christenson is senior editor and dining critic for Milwaukee Magazine, and she’s our regular dining... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Italian Community Center Redefined Third Ward Learn the history of the Italian Community Center in the Third Ward. Dave Spano is the current president, Bill Jennaro is the past president. They spoke with Stephanie Lecci. The Center will be presenting the Italian teen trio Il... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Very Short Story of a Recovering Biscuit Lake Effect essayist Linda Benjamin-Lincoln is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in the Milwaukee area. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 10/19/11 - Full Episode Can government deficits be reduced while ensuring short- and long-term economic growth? Wednesday on Lake Effect, highlights of Debt and Deficit Reduction: Time for Action, recorded before a live audience at the UW-Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forum - Part One Our first two presentations on the subject of deficit reduction and economic growth were from Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist at the Concord Coalition and author of the blog economistmom.org; and Alan Viard, resident scholar at... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forum - Part Two Our second two presentations at Debt and Deficit Reduction: Time for Action were from George Lightbourn, president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute  and former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forum - Part Three In the final segment of today’s show, the four panelists field questions from the audience at the UWM Lubar School of Business and from moderator Mitch Teich. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web Exclusive - More Q&A Our forum was edited slightly in order to fit Lake Effect's time format.  We're making the final portion of the question and answer session and the final remarks available in this web exclusive segment.  You can also... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 10/18/11 - Full Episode A grassroots Milwaukee organization has success in bringing large banks on board in its efforts to alleviate the foreclosure crisis - we'll learn why they have succeeded where other efforts have failed. Later, our books... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Ground Takes on the Foreclosure Crisis - One Bank at a Time A grassroots organization is finding success in confronting banks over the foreclosure crisis. Keisha Krumm is the lead organizer for Common Ground, in Milwaukee. She spoke with Mitch Teich, along with Common Ground members Toni... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pretty Books Need a book recommendation? We got a few for you. Contributor Lisa Baudoin is the owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc. She talked with Mitch Teich about a variety of books which look and feel as remarkable as their content.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Final Words Dr. Bruce Campbell is a head and neck cancer surgeon at the Medical College of Wisconsin. he writes about his experiences on his blog, "Reflections in a Head Mirror." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LGBT Film/Video Festival Learn about some highlights at an upcoming LGBT film fest. Carl Bogner is the organizer of the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival. He spoke with Dan Harmon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 10/17/11 - Full Episode Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum analyzes the city and county budgets. Then, a new book for kids about Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold is told from his daughter Nina's perspective. Later, acclaimed author Catherine Gilbert... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reviewing the New Budgets The Public Policy Forum today issues its review of both the proposed city and county budgets. Rob Henken is president of the Milwaukee-based non-partisan organization. The forum has been critical of local municipalities in the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aldo Leopold for Kids A new children's book explores how world-renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, his wife and their five children all worked endlessly to restore a desolate and stripped parcel of farmland. Wisconsin writer Nancy Nye Hunt's first... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Wisconsin Icon in an Iconic Play Wisconsin icon and tireless actress Ruth Schudson is appearing in her 65th production at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Ruth Schudson appears in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s current production of Driving Miss Daisy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catherine Murdock and Wisdom's Kiss Writer Catherine Gilbert Murdock has shifted between genres throughout her career, but returns to fantasy and fairy tales in her latest novel. It’s called Wisdom's Kiss, published by Houghton Mifflin. She'll talk about the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 10/15/11 - Full Episode On the next Lake Effect Weekend, our news analyst Bruce Murphy fears Wisconsin is in a new era of permanent recalls, and we get some good news about the teen pregnancy rate in Milwaukee. Then, the National Weather Service says a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Recap: Teen Pregnancy Rate Drops Our wrap-up of the week's top stories include a look at budget proposals and new recall efforts. Bruce Murphy is editor at Milwaukee Magazine, and Lake Effect Weekend’s regular news analyst. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Nina Could Mean Another Bad Winter - Or Not Are our fears of another bad winter justified? Perhaps, but maybe not, say meteorologists. Jeff Craven is the Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin. He spoke with Mitch Teich about... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milwaukee's Beerline Trail Milwaukee's Beer Line Trail Loop is an example of local efforts to restore accessibility to the city's river north of downtown. WUWM environmental reporter spoke with Kim Gleffe with the River Revitalization Foundation, based in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Fielding A Wisconsin native's first novel about baseball and life has scored a home run with literary critics. Racine native Chad Harbach is the author of the novel The Art of Fielding, published by Little, Brown, and Company. He joined... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 10/14/11 - Full Episode Foreign affairs analyst Art Cyr examines the current state of the global war on terror and whether the European debt crisis might make its way across the pond. Then, the new Villard Avenue branch library opens tomorrow with public... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Analyst Explores European Debt Crisis, US-Pakistan Relations We go around the world in a wrap-up of global news. Dr. Arthur Cyr is the Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College in Kenosha. He’s also the Director of Carthage’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Villard Street Library Features Public Art Tomorrow marks the grand opening of the brand new Villard Street library branch - we talk with the architect and the two artists who created the building’s vibrant public art. Nicholas Lampert and Paul Keeland are Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Six Acres of Spectacular Sculpture We visit a metal sculptor and his 6 acres of work in Merton. Sculptor Paul Bobrowitz’s workspace can be seen in the town of Merton, just off County Line Q and Dieball Roads, marked by the SPECTACULAR SCULPTURE signs. Paul's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Man of Iron We learn about one of Milwaukee’s finest practitioners of decorative metal work, Cyril Colnik. Alan Strekow is a founding member of the Friends of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and is the author of Cyril Colnik:... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thu 10/13/11 - Full Episode Our planet's human population is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050. A new study recently released says we can feed everyone - if we're smart about it. Then, writer Marie Rohde profiles Peter Iseley, working to hold the Catholic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feeding the World A new study says it’s possible to feed more than 9 billion people if food is grown and produced sustainably. David LeZaks is a postdoctoral scientist at UW-Madison’s Center for Sustainability & the Global... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SNAP's Peter Isely Out to Help or Hurt the Catholic Church? We hear a profile of Fond du Lac native Peter Isely, the leader of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Marie Rohde is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer, who covered the church abuse scandal as a reporter for the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Festival Connects Children's Book Authors and Kids A Sheboygan festival this weekend connects authors with the kids, and their parents, who read their books. Jo Ann Dent and Karin Menzer are co-chairs of the Sheboygan Children's Book Festival steering committee. The festival runs... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arcas String Quartet We get an in studio performance by Milwaukee’s Arcas String Quartet. Joel Boyd is a Milwaukee based singer and composer. Violinists Ilana Setapen and Margot Schwartz, violist Jenny Snyder Kozoroz and cellist Peter Thomas are... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 10/12/11 - Full Episode NPR's Michele Norris will keynote the annual summit on Race, Families & Milwaukee this week. Norris talks about her own family's conversation on race, which she explores in her memoir, The Grace of Silence. Later, a Milwaukee... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michele Norris Explores Race, Families A familiar public radio name takes on race and family history in her latest book. Michele Norris is the host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Her memoir is called The Grace of Silence; it’s published by Pantheon.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legacy Letters A new project seeks to help people’s personal wisdom live on for the ages. Writer Leah Dobkin is the founder of Legacy Letters. She's also a former reporter for Milwaukee Magazine, and author of the book Soul of a Port: The... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making the Most of a Fall Garden We find out how to make the most of your garden this fall. Melinda Myers is the author of numerous books on gardening, including Month-by-Month Gardening in Wisconsin. She’s also host of Melinda’s Garden Moments on... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Brown Paper Bag Lake Effect essayist Denice Ryan Martin lives and writes in Genesee. She shared her piece, "The Brown Paper Bag." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lorine Niedecker, A Poet's Life Award-winning biographer Margot Peters is the author of Lorine Niedecker, A Poet's Life, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. In additional to her numerous biographies, her poetry has been published in such collections... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tue 10/11/11 - Full Episode We'll recap the latest chapter in the Brewers' post-season drama, and then we'll find out what's happening in our brains as we watch the ebb and flow of a pennant race... Plus, can you ever be sure the time is right to invest? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The NLCS, So Far The Brewers lost Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, 12-3, to the Cardinals last night. We recap what's happened and look forward to what might be next with sports contributor Howie Magner, who writes the Sports... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mind of a Sports Nut Doctor William Cullinan is director of Marquette University’s Integrative Neuroscience Research Center and dean of the school’s College of Health Sciences. He spoke with Mitch Teich about what’s happening in our... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evaluating Your Tolerance for Risk Miles Goodwin writes the blog WallStreetSmarts.org, and he’s an occasional Lake Effect contributor. He talked with Mitch Teich today about the book The Nature of Risk; Stock Market Survival and the Meaning of Life, by... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working for Kids in Milwaukee - and Kenya Amy Hufnal co-chairs the Kids in Kenya Fund – Wisconsin chapter. She’s been making trips to Kenya every other year since 1987. She’s also done projects in Costa Rica and Peru. If that weren’t enough, she... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meeting Red Fox Lake Effect essayist Mark Siegrist is a television producer in Milwaukee. He waxed philosophical today about the latest addition to his neighborhood - a red fox that's gaining fans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Champion Team from Wisconsin Caitlin Hagness and Jake Newborn of the Milwaukee Bike Polo Club spoke with Lake Effect’s Ed Makowski. This weekend you can watch live bike polo tournaments as the Midwest Open takes place in Washington Park on 40th and... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mon 10/10/11 - Full Episode Photo IDs are now required to vote in Wisconsin. A new report says that, and a number of other voting law changes around the country, could keep many Americans from the polls. Then, it's been 10 years since the wings first opened... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impact of Voting Law Changes A new report details how voter laws have been changing across the nation, including right here in Wisconsin. Keesha Gaskins is Senior Counsel in the Democracy Program at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, based at New... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art Museum Celebrates 10 Years of Wings The Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of getting its “wings” with a new exhibit. Dan Keegan is the director of the Milwaukee Art Museum; Brady Roberts is the Chief Curator.  Building a... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Home for Next Act Next Act Theatre is settling into its new home in the 5th Ward – we stop by for a chat. David Cecsarini is the Producing Artistic Director of Next Act Theatre; Charles Kakuk is the Managing Director. Bonnie North chatted... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kohler Goes with the Flow Improvements in toilet technology flush away critiques of low flow design. Ben Miller is the Manager of Sanitary Product Engineering, Mike Marbach is the Product Manager for Toilets and Bidets, and Rob Zimmerman is the Manager of... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sat 10/8/11 - Full Episode Our weekly round-up of news takes on concealed carry, new numbers on the local economy, and possible toll roads in Wisconsin. Then, Congressman Paul Ryan makes the case for repealing health care reform and means testing for Social... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Round-up: New Local Economy Numbers Our weekly round-up of news takes on concealed carry, new numbers on the local economy, and possible toll roads in Wisconsin. Bruce Murphy is editor at Milwaukee Magazine, and Lake Effect Weekend’s regular news analyst. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heirloom Murders A new novel sets a murder mystery at Old World Wisconsin. Writer Kathleen Ernst lives in Middleton. Her latest book is called The Heirloom Murders, published by Midnight Ink. She also writes children's historical fiction for the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fri 10/7/11 - Full Episode A local health care advocate questions whether states like Wisconsin will get health care exchanges for un- and under-insured people and businesses up and running before a federal deadline. Then, the Urban Ecology Center breaks... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website States, Including Wisconsin, Behind Deadline on Health Care Exchanges A local health care advocate says the clock is ticking for states to health care exchanges that would pool together people who aren't already covered by Medicare or Medicaid or big employers to get insurance. David Riemer is the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Ecology Center Opens New Menomonee Valley Branch We head out to the Menomonee Valley next to visit the site of the newest outpost of the Urban Ecology Center. Laura Bray is the Executive Director of Menomonee Valley Partners and Ken Leinbach is the Executive Director of the... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die Coping with the death of a pet is a difficult process - we get some perspective on how to handle the grief from two animal advocates. Anne Reed is the executive director of the Wisconsin Humane Society and a regular contributor to... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Mangione & The Union Singer/songwriter Mike Mangione, along with violinist Kristina Price and cellist Patrick Hoctor, played for us in Lake Effect’s performance studio. The whole band, Mike Mangione & The Union, will perform tomorrow night... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wed 10/5/11 - Full Episode Congressman Paul Ryan explains why he believes means testing for Social Security is better than raising taxes on the wealthy. Then, it's time for the 'best of' list from Milwaukee Magazine - they've been making their lists for 30... Listen |