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“Here is what I say to people who tell me that I have to accept Donald Trump: I accept that Trump is the president. But I condemn his unabashed bigotry, and his hateful comments about women, Muslims, Hispanics, and other marginalized groups. I condemn him for welcoming white supremacists into his administration, and for running a campaign based on division and for lying to the American people.” – Seth Millstein The Milwaukee Coalition Against Trump (MCAT) hosted a mass march on January 20, the inauguration day of President Trump. The public gathering was held at Red Arrow Park in...

A reading from the Museum of Advice was held on January 14 at the Woodland Pattern Book Center to a crowd of almost one hundred in attendance. A dozen of the original 26 experts, from the Milwaukee Fringe Festival, attended the public recital to read aloud their favorite responses to the problems people shared at the August event. Exactly 423 individual questions were collected at the Advice Tent, where curious people were encouraged to pose questions that ranged from the serious, to the vague, to the absurd. The free advice was retained and archived by the project creator Anja...

The Midwinter event has grown in popularity over the past 17 years to offer a full gaming convention experience in Milwaukee every January. From custom combat gaming (CCG) to role-playing games (RPG), to table-top miniatures, and other trends in gaming, the Midwinter Gaming Convention has become a destination for publishers and fans who want to put down screens and pick up dice. These images from January 12 highlight the thriving game culture that still prefers human interaction to the individual isolation of technology during Milwaukee’s long winter. © Photo Lee Matz Read the article and view the photo essay...