MILWAUKEE - Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin’s largest city among the nation’s most successful in tackling its 2008 murder rate. While New York and Chicago saw an uptick in slayings last year, other cities including…

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Move over Randy Price. There’s a new TV gay in town. Ryan Schulteis, a general assignment reporter with WHDH’s 7News and my latest on-air crush (sorry Anderson Cooper), comes out in the upcoming January/February edition of Boston Spirit Magazine.Scott Kearnan, a former colleague of mine at EDGE and the current arts editor at Bay Windows, interviews Schulteis for the GLBT magazine’s spotlight on Boston’s gay media.In the cover story, Schulteis chats with Kearnan about recently coming out to his f

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I went to Houston to visit a travel friend Joe for a few days. It was nice to get out of cold Wisconsin to warm Texas. Thursday, 12/25 - I caught a 5:30 am flight Christmas Day, arriving at 8:30 am. It was a warm 75 degrees. Joe’s neighbors came over for Christmas lunch in the afternoon and we had a nice time chatting a eating ham, turkey and assorted delicious side dishes. At night we went to see this house that won a contest for the best decorated house.Friday, 12/26 - It was a humid 78 d

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The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum is a wonderful museum at the end of Wisconsin Avenue overlooking the Milwaukee Art Museum and Lake Michigan. The space is big enough that there is room for the kids to play and climb and not have to wait in a line. The toddler area is enclosed and separate from the rest of the exhibits for the older kids so you don’t have to worry about the toddlers accidentally getting knocked over. There is parking underneath the museum so no need to go out into the elements

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Betty Brinn Children’s Museum in Milwaukee, WI

I received a letter yesterday that said I was accepted into the Midwest Season Prospectus show at the Center for the Visual Arts in Wausau. Stairs, a new photo that I took for my photo class to show them some digital applications, was the accepted piece. If you’re from the Milwaukee area, you probably know where I shot this photo. It is a good example of how I show movement and textures in my photos. I knew right away it was a strong image. Anyway, the show opens in Wausau Friday, Jan. 16 and

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Evadgelization Our Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Living Our Faith evangelization initiative has published an eight page supplement to today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It describes itself as a special edition of the Milwaukee Catholic Herald. It also seems to be the December 2008 Living Our Faith newsletter. And it’s “Volume 1, Number 1″, so perhaps we’ll see in in the morning paper again. In addition to its articles, there are quite a few ads, which presumably covered at least some of the co

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5K event included a run and fun walk. (Photos by Julie A. Jacob) By Julie A Jacob The overcast December sky and soft snowfall did not faze the thousand or so people who gathered at Racine Lutheran High School on Saturday for the 12th annual Racine Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk for Arthritis. The walkers and runners, many dressed in festive holiday clothing including antler hats, red bows and, yes, jingle bells, participated in the race around Island Park to help raise money for the Arthritis Found

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Here’s pics I took on a rainy day in autumn (same day as last week’s post). I left the aperture open on some to get some very cool and psychedelic autumn leaf effects. I hope you dig them and this weird autumnish rocking tune. So here’s the tune for free download… like all the tunes on the is blog: Scream and Breath the Wicked Man mp3 Fall/Autumn Psychedelic Trees and Leaves in Milwaukee Wisconsin during a light drizzle. Photos by Mike Fisk Catch some free Soul Amp tune

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Here’s some more Wisconsin Autumn pics (I’ll add links to all the autumn photos to each post at some point). These were taken on a rain day and so we have the Autumn Rain song to give you to listen to while you look at the pics. More autumn rain photos will be coming. I’ve just been so swamped these days it’s hard to get to all I want to do. First here’s the tune: Autumn Rain mp3 Hey, also check out the weird glass earth globe pics and a tune to go with from a week ago: http://soul-amp.blog

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my husband is just the sweetest. since i was feeling way homesick he bought me a ticket to go to wisconsin for halloween weekend. i missed scott’s guts like crazy, but it was SO, SO, SO good to see my parents. i was able to sleep in and get spoiled, go shopping, take in the milwaukee bucks’ home opener, get a pedicure, see some friends, have my own mini-thanksgiving, and most importantly hang out with my parents and max. all in all it was a great weekend and i am counting down until i get to go

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just what the doctor ordered