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Monday, Nov. 19, 2012

Gutkind’s Engaging ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up’

Guide offers tips for writing creative nonfiction

By Heather Zydek
  No one knows exactly who coined the term "creative nonfiction," though author and writing teacher Lee Gutkind staked his claim on the phrase when he founded a literary journal by the same name in 1993. In fact, Vanity Fair
2012 Summer Guide
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

2012 Farmers' Market Guide

By Heather Zydek
Area farmers' markets are one of the best perks of Milwaukee's mild, sweet summers. These grassroots outdoor markets feature the area's freshest local produce along with artisan meats and cheeses, delicious prepared foods, locally roasted coffees...
Books
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

'Druggist of Auschwitz' Recounts Nazi Horrors

Schlesak mixes fact with fictional narrative in gripping tales

By Heather Zydek
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” For this reason and others, readers continue to seek out books recounting tales from Nazi Germany's mass extermination of Jews, the Romani (gypsies), homosexuals and other groups in Europe in the 1930s and '40s. One of the latest...
Books
Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011

Alan Arkin: An Improvised Life (Da Capo Press), by Alan Arkin

Book Review

By Heather Zydek
The title of Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin's new memoir, An Improvised Life, is slightly misleading. The book isn't so much about Arkin's life as it is about improvisation, a theatrical art form he encountered upon landing a gig at the nascent Second City in Chicago. It's clear that Arkin is, well, smitten...
Books
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010

By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime Mystery Stories of the Year (Tyrus Books), Edited by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg

Book Review

By Heather Zydek
2009 was a landmark year for the mystery genre, according to the introduction of By Hook or By Crook. It was the 80th anniversary of the publication of the first installment of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon in Black Mask magazine. It was also the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. And it was a year...
City Guide 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010

Farmers’ Markets

Live local, eat local

By Heather Zydek
Over the last 15 years, the number of farmers’ markets in the United States has tripled. This growth spurt has occurred in Milwaukee as well, where more than half of the farmers’ markets currently operating have opened within the last decade and a half. Farmers’ markets are essentially about food...
Dining Out
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010

Cosmos Café’s Mediterranean on the Quick

New dining addition to Wauwatosa’s North Avenue

By Heather Zydek
Another eatery opened its doors on North Avenue in East Tosa in November, joining Daymaker Café and Café Hollander as Wauwatosa's newest restaurants. The a la carte menu at Cosmos Café features a balance of traditional Greek and American cuisine, with a couple of...
Dining Out
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

Homemade Food at Tosa’s Daymaker Café

SHORT ORDERS

By Heather Zydek
A new restaurant in Tosa is serving up classic diner fare with a gourmet touch. At Daymaker Café (7225 W. North Ave.), the food is homemade with fresh ingredients. Signature dishes include the Reuben sandwich, made with slow-roasted corned beef slathered with sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese, and a grilled tofu Philly...

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