Three months ago, one of the region's largest jazz gatherings, The Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival, announced that it was ending its run, and yesterday brought more bad news from another one of the Milwaukee area's endangered jazz festivals. The Summer Sizzle Third Ward Jazz Festival is going on hiatus, the Historic Third Ward Association announced, citing the neighborhood's crowded summer calendar. ...

A new music lounge will open in the Third Ward this weekend. Anthony's on Jefferson, located in the former Hilo Martini Lounge space at 185 N. Jefferson, will host an opening celebration Saturday night beginning at 6 p.m. and featuring music from Big O and the Night Owls, a free appetizer buffet and champagne. Co-owner Rich D'Acquisto describes, a former Nashville session drummer, describes the lo...

 When Tracy Grundy came to Milwaukee’s Third Ward as a hair stylist, the area’s warehouses had only recently begun to buzz with renewed urban energy. In 2007, she opened her own studio, Yan. Despite

 In recent years the belowground space at the busy corner of Broadway and Buffalo Street in the Third Ward has hosted a café, a bakery, a bistro and a taco restaurant, but its latest occupant must be its most ambitious yet.

 Tulip (360 E. Erie St.) is the Third Ward’s sole full-service Turkish restaurant. It can be busy on weekends but seems under-appreciated throughout the weekdays. The comfortable setting includes sofas in front of an inviting fireplace

 2012 has been a very active year for local restaurants. As the year began, Braise Restaurant was the new place to go. The emphasis is on locally sourced produce and meats, which deserves to be called the Trend of the Year

 When the Milwaukee Ale House opened 15 years ago, the Third Ward was a very different place. Many of the buildings were half-occupied and the area wasn’t nearly as vibrant as it is today. In 2012, the Third Ward

Art unites two generations at Cardinal Stritch University’s Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery in the unique “Baylor Family Exhibition.” A. Helen Baylor, author of the book Her Own Patch of Rain: The Prayer of a Young Daughter