Uniquely Milwaukee Podcast
1) Making the scene: How DIY artists and venues get down to business
Every DIY scene needs its supporters. In Milwaukee, Bay View’s Cactus Club is a big one. This beloved music venue is one of the scene’s most revered spots, and headlining there is a dream for bands fr...Show More
2) Day jobs and late nights: The DIY lifestyle of Milwaukee musicians
Milwaukee is a place filled with creatives, especially in the city’s music scene. We’re home to dozens of independent artists and bands who’d rather do it their way than rely on a mainstream framework...Show More
3) A feast for the real ones: How Friendsgiving joined the holiday calendar
As the holiday season begins, we’re honoring the roots of Thanksgiving while also celebrating the traditions we’ve created along the way. "Friendsgiving" is one of the latter. Although its history do...Show More
4) The cemetery that literally changed the course of Capitol Drive
Right along West Capitol Drive in Wauwatosa, history hides in plain sight — a time capsule to the city’s past, just off North 119th Street near the northbound I-41/45 ramp. It’s a quiet corner many ha...Show More
5) Fruition Cafe feeds body, soul as part of Near West Side resurgence
Everybody needs nourishment. It’s at the top of the list for survival. But it’s not the end of the list. Tiffany Miller was well aware of that as she made plans for what would become Fruition Cafe. L...Show More
6) AfterDark gives Milwaukee’s storytellers a place to shine
The driving force behind Uniquely Milwaukee is storytelling. Most of the time, it comes in the form of a news-style piece. But this episode breaks from that while still putting at its center the stori...Show More
7) Ghost stories: The spirits inside Café Corazón and Radio Milwaukee
Do you believe in ghosts? With Halloween followed closely by Dia de los Muertos, we’re right in the middle of spooky season — the perfect time to explore and answer that question. In this episode, w...Show More
8) There’s a Third Space for the city’s art community in Merrill Park
The outside of Third Space Collective MKE is hard to miss: a black door with vibrant colors streaming down, as if the paint was striving desperately to spill out onto the sidewalk. The goal of Third ...Show More
9) The women blazing a trail through Wisconsin’s tech landscape
October is Wisconsin Tech Month, and an upcoming Oct. 23 event specifically highlights an underrepresented group in tech: women, who make up only about 30% of the industry's workforce. In this episod...Show More
10) Public-media funding has officially stopped. How are stations coping?
This fall marks a turning point for public-media outlets across the country. As of Oct. 1, federal funding for PBS, NPR and their local stations stopped. This $1.1 billion cut — a directive from the T...Show More