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City Life Culture Cultures Your Own Stories
January 26, 2025January 26, 2025

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who endured unimaginable horrors as a Jew under the Nazi regime, once said, “There may be times when we are

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A place of despair: A Madison man’s memories from inside prison
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A place of despair: A Madison man’s memories from inside prison

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025

A loud “clack” sound awakes me.  The locks on the bars are released as I open my eyes and my nostrils are rushed with the

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A new kind of teen scene: If I could buy East Towne Mall…
City Life Culture Sport & Leisure Your Own Stories

A new kind of teen scene: If I could buy East Towne Mall…

January 14, 2025January 15, 2025

On the busiest road in Madison, in the cut, sits East Towne Mall. This place was built in 1971 with plenty of stores. Now it

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The places that shape us: Looking for people “like me” in Milwaukee and Madison 
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The places that shape us: Looking for people “like me” in Milwaukee and Madison 

January 9, 2025January 14, 2025

“Milwaukee born and Madison raised” is one way to describe me today. My earliest memory was me as a toddler in a home with white

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