Mike Curkov

Milwaukee

Morning News Anchor at WDJT-TV (Milwaukee, WI)

Emmy-winning, pro-wrestling morning news anchor at @CBS58. former @blizzardbrawl GLCW tag team champion (seriously). https://t.co/zOAFmXji4c

Articles

97-year-old Gene Wagner never misses a shift

2 months ago | kesq.com | Mike Curkov

By Mike CurkovClick here for updates on this story OZAUKEE COUNTY, Wisconsin ( WDJT) - Gene Wagner turns 98 next month. Born in 1927. And he still takes the ice twice a week at the Ozaukee Ice Center. On Tuesdays and Fridays, Wagner and the rest of the 'Bald Eagles Hockey Club' drop the puck. "For everybody that skates with us." said Bald Eagles co-president, Mike Isme.
Oral History: 30 Years since the end of The Bowling Game on TV 58

May 31, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

The Bowling Game - George Zagel 2 I was on the Bowling Game twice, and both times we bowled against ladies: matchups were based on overall team averages. I won both my matches and received a car wash and potato chips and a bowling towel, which I still have in my bag. I don’t roll the rock much any more, but there were many good times shared on the lanes back then. George Zagel - Glendale WIThanks much. You can see the towel in my hand on the January 1993 screen shot of the show.
Wisconsin a 'Melting Pot' of Pool Cue Makers like McDermott Cue

May 10, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Add pool cues to the list of things Wisconsin makes best. Did you know that Badger State is home to at least five of the top cue makers in the country? CBS 58 Morning News anchor Mike Curkov got a behind the scenes look at McDermott Handcrafted Cues in Menomonee Falls as the company closes in on its 50th anniversary. A pool cue looks like a stick. A simple sporting good. But it's a lot more than that.
'It's kind of wonderful to be able to do this for a living': Costume creator finds niche with fantasy footwear

Apr 7, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) --- "I am most known for making hoof shoes."Blair Ondrla-Arends makes them with her team at Chaos Costumes in a warehouse in Racine and ships them all over the world. "Recently I just fulfilled an order to Japan," she said. "To France, to Italy..." Her hoof shoes are basically high heels, but with no heel. An attached animal toe and sometimes some fur. "If you can walk in stilettos, you can walk in my shoes." said Ondrla-Arends. She's just come out with a flat version too.
Hoof shoes: One-of-a-Kind and Wisconsin-made

Apr 5, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) --- "I am most known for making hoof shoes."Blair Ondrla-Arends makes them with her team at Chaos Costumes in a warehouse in Racine and ships them all over the world. Recently I just fulfilled an order to Japan," she said. "To France, to Italy..." Her hoof shoes are basically high heels, but with no heel. An attached animal toe and sometimes some fur. "If you can walk in stilettos, you can walk in my shoes." said Ondrla-Arends. She's just come out with a flat version too.
Final Act: New Berlin Theater-Themed Home For Sale

Feb 9, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Zillow Gone Wild is a social media account highlighting the strange, odd, and strangely-oddly-wonderful Zillow home listings around the county. The account just highlighted one that went on the market at the beginning of the month. It's a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom ranch at 3240 S. Hickory Rd. New Berlin, WI with a surprise inside. John Dolphin's home is far off Broadway but then all the world's a stage.
MKE Influencers: Jake Daggett helps students and parents decode literacy

Jan 31, 2024 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Jake Daggett is one of the biggest influencers there is...for the 6-7-year-olds in his first grade classroom at Underwood Elementary School in Wauwatosa. Daggett speaks passionately about the science of reading, and word decoding, and phonics, and phonemic awareness. "If I show you, play. If you sound it out…p-l-a-ya." explains Daggett, or Mr. D as he's known to his students. " It's going to sa say playa. But if I know that that sound is 'ay,' then I can say p-l-ay. Play.
MKE Influencers: Hula-hooping and fire-eating draws an audience for Taylor Flows

Dec 20, 2023 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Hula-hooping and fire-eating is Taylor Flows (real name - Taylor Duffrin) only job. She's influencing people around the world from her home in Milwaukee as a Patreon-based hula hoop instructor. "That means I teach people how to hula-hoop." Flows explained from her practice space at House of Rad in Milwaukee. It is very different from what you may have learned in gym class.
Police give people living at Holt Ave. Park and Ride 24 hours to leave

Dec 1, 2023 | cbs58.com | Mike Curkov

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Just after midnight Friday morning, Milwaukee Police Department squads swooped into the Holt Avenue Park and Ride lot where a large group of people have been living out of their vehicles for months. CBS 58 was there when it happened. Our crews saw officers giving out tickets and placing tow warning stickers on vehicles. Residents we spoke to said they were being given 24 hours to leave before their vehicles would be towed.
Craig Counsell Park sign outside Milwaukee defaced after Counsell is hired by Cubs

Nov 7, 2023 | cbsnews.com | Marshall Harris |Mike Curkov |Bryant McCray

WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. (CBS) -- Some Milwaukee Brewers fans are not taking the news well that Craig Counsell left to become the new manager of the Cubs. It may sting a little more since Counsell grew up in the Milwaukee area and played for the team. His dad, John Counsell, was even the Brewers' director of community affairs.