City Beat – Urban Milwaukee

Marina Dimitrijevic. Photo from Marina for Milwaukee. [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b40cddb1-d574-42a6-a662-e29eeaa3b166.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/b40cddb1-d574-42a6-a662-e29eeaa3b166.jpg]Marina Dimitrijevic. Photo from Marina for Milwaukee. Milwaukee County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/marina-dimitrijevic] joined City Beat to discuss her time on the County Board, her run for the Common Council and her vision for a better city. Unlike past episodes of City Beat, we met on location instead of a studio. We sat down at Colectivo in Bay View [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bay-view] (2301 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) for a wide-ranging, 16-minute conversation. Dimitrijevic explains why she wants to trade the Courthouse for City Hall and her vision for development in Bay View. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/city-beat-episode-032.mp3 [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/city-beat-episode-032.mp3]Download the Episode [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/city-beat-episode-032.mp3]–Subscribe on iPhone/iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/city-beat-urban-milwaukee/id1445212636?mt=2]–Subscribe on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Itq5hc6phjfyz7yzj546fz5hcbu]–Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5guaEMaCGv0Rjpel7VmLjj]–Subscribe on Pocket Casts [https://playbeta.pocketcasts.com/web/podcasts/ea48ac70-d6ed-0136-3249-08b04944ede4]–Subscribe on Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/urban-milwaukee/city-beat-by-urban-milwaukee?refid=stpr]–RSS Feed [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/category/series/city-beat/feed]Subscribe to the podcast to get future episodes dropped right into your favorite podcast client. Underrated restaurant pick? El Senorial [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/businesses/el-senorial]. As with all candidate appearances on City Beat, Dimitrijevic’s appearance does not constitute an endorsement by Urban Milwaukee. Want to come on the show? Contact us.

Yield to Pedestrians. Photo by Graham Kilmer. [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/L1000232.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/L1000232.jpg]Yield to Pedestrians. Photo by Graham Kilmer. Michael Anderson [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/michael-anderson-2] and Angie Livermore [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/angie-livermore] of the Wisconsin Bike Fed sit down for a conversation about the MilWALKee Walks initiative and the role of safe streets in a healthy city. The two describe their work to establish a culture of safer streets through the use of “actions [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/04/28/we-want-protection-for-pedestrians/]” targeted at high-pedestrian traffic areas where vehicles and pedestrians can mix in sometimes dangerous ways. The two mobility advocates also share their thoughts on how Milwaukee can become a more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly city, including the addition of protected bike lanes. We also discuss the topic of the summer: scooters. Are they good, bad or ugly? https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-031.mp3 [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-031.mp3]Download the Episode [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-031.mp3]–Subscribe on iPhone/iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/city-beat-urban-milwaukee/id1445212636?mt=2]–Subscribe on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Itq5hc6phjfyz7yzj546fz5hcbu]–Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5guaEMaCGv0Rjpel7VmLjj]–Subscribe on Pocket Casts [https://playbeta.pocketcasts.com/web/podcasts/ea48ac70-d6ed-0136-3249-08b04944ede4]–Subscribe on Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/urban-milwaukee/city-beat-by-urban-milwaukee?refid=stpr]–RSS Feed [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/category/series/city-beat/feed] Subscribe to the podcast to get future episodes dropped right into your favorite podcast client.

NEWaukee Partners with Greater Milwaukee Foundation for On The Table MKE [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/j.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/j.jpg]NEWaukee Partners with Greater Milwaukee Foundation for On The Table MKE This week on Urban Milwaukee’s podcast, Kathryn Dunn [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/kathryn-dunn] and Laura Glawe [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/laura-glawe] join the show to discuss the work of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/businesses/greater-milwaukee-foundation]. Dunn, the foundation’s senior vice president of community impact, and Glawe, vice president of marketing and communications, discuss the foundation’s 103-year history and plans for the future. We discuss the organization’s involvement in Sherman Park [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/place/sherman-park-2] and the Sherman Phoenix food and market hall [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/building/3536-w-fond-du-lac-ave/]. Dunn and Glawe share GMF’s model for ensuring community buy-in and ownership of the foundation’s philanthropic support and lending capability. That model will be put to the test as the organization prepares to move to the former Schuster’s department store [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/03/26/eyes-on-milwaukee-100-million-will-transform-old-schusters/] on N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. The move, which will relocate all of the organization’s 55 employees from Schlitz Park [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/schlitz-park], will see GMF partner with the Medical College of Wisconsin [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/businesses/medical-college-of-wisconsin]to revitalize the first floor of the building. Royal Capital Group [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/businesses/royal-capital-group-llc] will develop the building’s top floors into apartments. The organization just held its first visioning session with residents from Halyard Park [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/halyard-park], Harambee [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/harambee], Brewers Hill [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhood/brewers-hill/]and Bronzeville [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bronzeville]. “We’re doing ‘with community’ instead of ‘to community’,” said Dunn. ON THE TABLE Dunn and Glawe also discussed GMF’s On The Table program, scheduled for Thursday, October 10th. The third annual program will see Milwaukeeans of all walks of live gather across the city to discuss affecting the city. For more information on where you can meet people to share a model, or to a host a table yourself, visit OnTheTable.org [http://onthetablemke.org/]. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-030.mp3 [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-030.mp3]Download the Episode [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/city-beat-episode-030.mp3]–Subscribe on iPhone/iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/city-beat-urban-milwaukee/id1445212636?mt=2]–Subscribe on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Itq5hc6phjfyz7yzj546fz5hcbu]–Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5guaEMaCGv0Rjpel7VmLjj]–Subscribe on Pocket Casts [https://playbeta.pocketcasts.com/web/podcasts/ea48ac70-d6ed-0136-3249-08b04944ede4]–Subscribe on Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/urban-milwaukee/city-beat-by-urban-milwaukee?refid=stpr]–RSS Feed [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/category/series/city-beat/feed] Subscribe to the podcast to get future episodes dropped right into your favorite podcast client.

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State Rep. Jonathan Brostoff before and after his hair cut fundraiser. Photos by Jeramey Jannene. [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/brostoff-haircut-1024x762.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/brostoff-haircut.jpg]State Rep. Jonathan Brostoff before and after his hair cut. Photos by Jeramey Jannene. Wisconsin Assembly Representative Jonathan Brostoff [http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/jonathan-brostoff] became easy to spot over the past year as his hair grew longer and longer. The Democrat had pledged to the disability rights community that he wouldn’t get his hair cut until a bill [https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/ab250] he sponsored, designed to increase the availability of American Sign Language interpreters, passed. That day finally came in late June and on July 1st, Brostoff was joined by supporters outside Have A Good Hair Day! Salon & Spa (1910 N. Farwell Ave.) for a long-awaited shearing. The salon, a deaf-owned business led by Kayleigh Kwasny [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/kayleigh-kwasny/], played host to a fundraiser for organizations that advocate for the hearing impaired, where supporters took turns cutting Brostoff’s hair. He last had his hair cut in February 2018, so there was plenty of hair to go around. With the politician now back to his standard close-shaved hairstyle, he joined Urban Milwaukee’s City Beat podcast to discuss what went into putting the bill together, why it’s important and why it took so long to get passed. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/city-beat-episode-028.mp3 [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/city-beat-episode-028.mp3]Download the Episode [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/city-beat-episode-028.mp3]–Subscribe on iPhone/iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/city-beat-urban-milwaukee/id1445212636?mt=2]–Subscribe on Google Play [https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Itq5hc6phjfyz7yzj546fz5hcbu]–Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/5guaEMaCGv0Rjpel7VmLjj]–Subscribe on Pocket Casts [https://playbeta.pocketcasts.com/web/podcasts/ea48ac70-d6ed-0136-3249-08b04944ede4]–Subscribe on Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/urban-milwaukee/city-beat-by-urban-milwaukee?refid=stpr]–RSS Feed [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/category/series/city-beat/feed] PHOTOS Kayleigh Kwasny Cuts Jonathan Brostoff's Hair [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4493.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/kayleigh-kwasny-cuts-jonathan-brostoffs-hair]Kayleigh Kwasny Cuts Jonathan Brostoff's Hair [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4504.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/kayleigh-kwasny-cuts-jonathan-brostoffs-hair-2]Hair Cut Fundraiser [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4511.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/hair-cut-fundraiser]Diana Vang-Brostoff Cuts Her Husband's Ahir [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4518.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/diana-vang-brostoff-cuts-her-husbands-ahir]Kayleigh Kwasny Cuts Jonathan Brostoff's Hair [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4539.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/kayleigh-kwasny-cuts-jonathan-brostoffs-hair-3]Brostoff Post Hair Cut [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/gallery/lower-east-side/thumbs/thumbs_img_4559.jpg] [https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/05/city-beat-jonathan-brostoff-finally-cuts-his-hair/nggallery/image/brostoff-post-hair-cut]Music –Light Corporate by Masteck Media – https://soundcloud.com/masteck_media. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported