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Why the old entertainment model of Hollywood no longer fits the speed and habits of modern audiences
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1471+ words) Posted by Noria Doyle | May 13, 2026 Hollywood's long-standing instability has entered a new phase with the proposed $82. 7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. by Netflix, reflecting a broader shift in how audiences value entertainment and how global media ecosystems evolve. What once…...
Expat vs. Immigrant: The racial sorting and stigma hidden inside everyday migration vocabulary
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (909+ words) Posted by Noria Doyle | May 6, 2026 The words we use to describe people who cross borders are not neutral. In Milwaukee, where immigrant labor constructed the breweries, tanneries, and foundries that built the city, the vocabulary of migration still sorts people…...
Milwaukee hosts first official AAPI Heritage Month celebration as community marks 150 years
1+ week, 2+ day ago (584+ words) Posted by Lee Matz | May 4, 2026 Milwaukee held its first official Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration on Friday, May 1, an event organized by the city's AAPI Employee Resource Group (ERG) and sponsored by Alderwoman Sharlen Moore. The gathering…...
How Milwaukee's schools, universities, and industry reveal an overlooked connection to Taiwan
1+ week, 3+ day ago (517+ words) Posted by Staff Formosa | May 3, 2026 The relationship between Milwaukee and Taiwan does not announce itself. It does not appear in the headlines generated by cross-strait military tensions or semiconductor supply chain analyses. It is the first MPS program to offer…...
How Taiwan's local culture of design, food, and media reaches communities abroad
1+ week, 4+ day ago (389+ words) Posted by Staff Formosa | May 2, 2026 Tapioca pearls, the chewy balls that define Boba tea, are the top food import to the United States from Taiwan. That single trade statistic encodes a larger story about how a small island's food culture…...
Why Taiwan's geographic position influences regional security for Japan and the United States
2+ week, 1+ day ago (515+ words) Posted by Staff Formosa | Apr 28, 2026 Taiwan's significance to regional security is geographic before it is political. The island's location off the southeastern coast of China, between Japan to the north and the Philippines to the south, places it at a…...
Understanding Arirang: A Milwaukee photojournalist at the BTS concert in Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1774+ words) Posted by Lee Matz | Apr 17, 2026 I found myself in South Korea on assignment for "Milwaukee Independent" as BTS turned the historic Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul into the center of a global comeback event with Netflix. The BTS THE COMEBACK…...
What do we owe the future? Our urgent moral responsibility to safeguard generations to come
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (884+ words) Posted by Noria Doyle | Apr 3, 2026 What do we owe future generations? The question of what humanity owes to people in the future is no longer a matter of theoretical debate. It is a pressing, unavoidable moral imperative. As the modern…...
The flawed modern obsession with naming "voices of a generation" when they do not speak for everyone
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (891+ words) Posted by The Conversation | Apr 2, 2026 By Helen Kingstone, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Royal Holloway University of London Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and now Intermezzo, keeps being called "the voice of a generation." And she is just the…...
How experiences fuel extraordinary beliefs by giving emotional cues that outweigh scientific knowledge
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (991+ words) Posted by The Conversation | Mar 21, 2026 By Eli Elster, Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis On February 22, 2020, "Mad" Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket to the Mojave Desert and launched himself into the sky. His goal? To view…...