This Photo Essay presents highlights from the 4th annual Dragon Boat Festival that featured races across the lagoon of Veterans Park and activities that strengthening intercultural relations and celebrated diversity in the community.
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Community leaders from the Milwaukee-area and their families spent the evening of July 30 at Discover World in celebration of the science and technology center’s ten year anniversary as an important innovation destination along the Milwaukee Lakefront.
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CITY.NET Café hosted a public recording session of the Essential Voices series, with host and local broadcast legend Eric Von on July 27. Von is an acclaimed broadcast journalist and commentator, with a questioning style that enlightens listeners by getting to the heart of issues. A radio industry veteran spanning three decades, his Essential Voices series is a conversation between Von and people who he thinks members of the community should know about. “These are individuals I find interesting, and once people get to know them for more than just the things that are popular in the media about...
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These images show two days of the mural being painted by the internationally-renowned street artist MTO, and the Black Cat Alley Gala that was a fundraising event for the September mural festival.
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NEWaukee’s Night Market has become a vibrant melting pot of all that Milwaukee has to offer, since it began taking over a section of Wisconsin Avenue in 2014 for one night each month during the summer.
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Editor’s Note: The Milwaukee Independent was given access by The MRD Group to document the last stage of the site’s demolition. Full safety gear was worn on the location with supervised escort, because the area remains off-limits to the public and is very dangerous. The facility and its land are private property, and entering the grounds is illegally trespassing. In addition to being contracted for the demolition, The MRD Group also provided asbestos abatement, which cleared the buildings of cancer causing fibers that can be easily inhaled. Demolition has come to the popular urban spelunking site, one of the...
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