Culture
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‘The Warehouse Club’: Feeling seen and safe in a big box store
Many of us have places that make us feel comfortable, at peace. Perhaps it’s a bookstore or a bar. For author and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire English professor David Shih, […]
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‘Evergreen’: Contemplating mortality — and the trees — on the family land
Profound loss has a way of never going away. Writer Amy Fleury moves through her grief on her family’s land, where she often thinks about her late son, her own […]
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‘Hope Floats’: Humanity restored with message in a bottle
Sending a message in a bottle has been romanticized for centuries. People have even cast bottles for scientific purposes. And as author B.J. Hollars tells us, it helped one Wisconsin […]
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Milwaukee composer debuts album inspired by Wisconsin landscape
Alicia Rytlewski composed “When We Were Bears” across Wisconsin over the course of eight years, starting in 2016 when she was an artist-in-residence at a farm in Campbellsport.
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Wisconsin county creates rural task force to make social connections, address loneliness
Portage County is one of 40 Wisconsin counties improving social connections for older adults through a statewide grant program funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
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Rose City Band’s Ripley Johnson explores light and shadow on fifth album, ‘Sol Y Sombra’
Ripley Johnson sat down with WPR’s “BETA” resident musicologist Steve Gotcher to talk about the group’s newly released fifth album, “Sol Y Sombra,” the collective unconcious, and Ripley’s ability to lean in to his influences to create something new.
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The king of rock ‘n’ roll, a severed head and a small-town scandal
Maclain and Chapman Way are the brothers behind the Netflix documentary “The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga.” Hear from the creators of the docuseries.
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Resilience or recklessness? The risks of rebuilding where disaster strikes
Urban planner Brian Stone Jr. is the author of “Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World.”
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Zorba Paster: Better nutrition starts in the home
Zorba Paster offers his own take on eight rules proposed by author Karen Le Billon about encouraging better eating.
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Marveling at the return of a once endangered bird at Bald Eagle Watching Days
People flocked to Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin in mid-January for the annual Bald Eagle Watching Days. As Christina Lieffring tells us, it was just one opportunity for people to see […]