Molly Snyder

1 week ago | onmilwaukee.com | Lori Fredrich |Molly Snyder

This week, Chef Vanessa Rose made a significant, but unexpected, turn in her efforts to establish a queer-led third space. X She’d had her sights set on the former Company Brewing space in Riverwest. But a twist of fate led to a signed lease on both the ground floor and second floor of the Historic William C. Kneisler Building, the White House, at 2900 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. The lease will also give Rose access to both the 16-car parking lot and patio gardens adjacent to the building.

1 week ago | onmilwaukee.com | Molly Snyder

The Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) announced that the first-ever WAMI Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented jointly to Claire and the late Michael Sardina, the duo behind the band Lightning and Thunder. For many years, the Sardinas performed at Wisconsin State Fair, Summerfest and more as the Neil Diamond/Patsy Cline/ABBA/Blondie tribute act Lightning & Thunder.

1 week ago | onmilwaukee.com | Molly Snyder |Michail Takach |Bobby Tanzilo

Alton Brown – chef, television personality, writer, food scientist and videographer (he directed R.E.M.’s 1987 music video for “The One I Love”) – says his 10th and newest book was “a happy accident.” The first of 39 essays that would later appear in “Food For Thought: Essays and Ruminations” emerged while Brown was repairing one of his manual typewriters. "I sat down at my typewriter and noticed it had a sticky J," says Brown.

1 week ago | onmilwaukee.com | Bobby Tanzilo |Lori Fredrich |Molly Snyder

According to a social media post on Tuesday, the Crossroads Collective Food Hall at 2238 N. Farwell Ave., on the East Side will close on May 8. The food hall opened in the former Oriental Drugs and Twisted Fork space in 2018. "Since opening, we’ve had the honor of hosting passionate vendors, welcoming thousands of guests, and helping launch businesses that have gone on to grow in big ways," the post noted.

1 week ago | onmilwaukee.com | Lori Fredrich |Molly Snyder

It was 1993 when Founder and Co-owner Eric Resch established the very first Stone Creek Coffee cafe in Whitefish Bay in December of 1993. It was the same year that the founders of Alterra (now Colectivo) began roasting and selling coffee at a kiosk in Bayshore Mall. The cafe would serve the Whitefish Bay community for 27 years before closing in spring of 2021 and then (happily) reopening as a bigger, better Stone Creek Coffee + Kitchen just two years later in 2023.