St. Kate – The Arts Hotel: Milwaukee, WI
Saint Kate is a four star, modern, boutique experience. Everything you’ll want to see is a short 15 – 30 minute walk. Inside feels like a living art museum. This isn’t a boring cookie-cutter hotel.
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Milwaukee: beer, brats & cheese curds
Reasons to Visit Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a Great Place on the Great Lakes. (official slogan). Fun for foodies, art. architecture, nature lovers, and don’t forget the many festivals. We suggest on your first day taking a food tour and sample some local delicacies. Besides, plan on indulging on fried fish, sausages, cheese shops, and maybe…
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Word of South Festival: Tallahassee, FL
Spring is a great time for a Florida road trip. The countless festivals, from music to fine arts, will give you even more reason to escape to the Sunshine State. Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism website, makes it easy with a one-stop resource, where events are posted by region and month. Check out the…
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BUY CHUBS FISH IN 2025
If you’re an expat from the Great Lakes region, you probably have fond memories of delicious Chubs. My parents would serve up a platter of smoked Chubs with farm fresh tomatoes and raw onion slices. Heaven. Something about the rich flavor and firm texture. Let us know in the comments your favorite preparation. We’re pleased…
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Remembering Gene Wilder: Tribute Doc
Remembering Gene Wilder opened the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, screened at the beautiful Castro Theatre. Side note: the SFJFF is the oldest Jewish film festival in the world. Through Interviews and archival footage we are given a back stage pass to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Pryor, Zero Mostel, Gilda Radner,…
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The CULT of KRINGLE
KRINGLE: WISCONSIN’S POORLY KEPT SECRETNo matter where you live there’s probably a favorite local food, a treat that expats wax rhapsodic about. Besides being America’s Dairyland, Wisconsinites, known as Cheese Heads, love their cheese (duh), beer, Chubs (fish), and bratwurst. Then there is the Kringle. WHAT THE HECK IS A KRINGLE?Step into the way-back machine…
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Ferry Across Lake Michigan
Frequent road-trippers heading to Michigan from Wisconsin know the hassle of driving through Chicago, Illinois almost any time of day. Weather permitting, Lake Express car ferry to the rescue, covering the eighty miles of Lake Michigan separating Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Muskegon, Michigan. Tickets are kind of spendy, but hey, convenience doesn’t come cheap. The one-way…
