Travel & Visitors Guide - Aug. 17, 2008
10 places we'd like to visit before we die
It's hard to imagine wanting to leave Milwaukee during the middle of the summer -- and we're not saying we do. But everyone has a list of places to visit before they leave this earth, and here's ours.
Tags: australia, japan, new zealand, cameron, vancouver

Travel & Visitors Guide - Feb. 17, 2008
World-traveling Aussie considers Milwaukee one of her homes
This writer first met Liz Headland while preparing to go on the Reitman and Mueller radio show in Sydney, Australia, during the 2000 Olympics.
Tags: liz headland, imb australia, reitman and mueller, 2000 olympics, marquette university, australia, antarctica

Bars & Clubs - Feb. 9, 2008
Featured bartender: Jess McCluskey of Burnhearts
Burnhearts has quickly become one of the go-to spots in Bay View. Maybe that's because all three owners all work behind the bar, and their passion for their business really shines through.
Tags: Jess McCluskey, burnhearts, nomad, australia, Tanya Bruski

Dining - May 15, 2007
Sprecher takes home three medals from Aussie beer awards
Glendale's Sprecher Brewing Company won three medals at the recently concluded Australian International Beer Awards.
Tags: sprecher, australia, beer

Marketplace - March 17, 2005
Riesling: A wine for all seasons
Quality Rieslings are appropriate in both the doldrums of winter as well as in the throes of a heat wave. That's right, there is a Riesling suitable for every season and occasion -- from an informal picnic to the most elegant dinner.
Tags: Riesling, Germany, Australia, vineyards, sweet wine, semi-sweet wine, dry wine, white wine, White Zinfandel, fermentation, grape ripening, wine pairings

Music - Nov. 19, 2004
Chatty, charming Chambers makes friends at Potawatomi
You can never expect performers to remember a gig, especially one from two years ago. So, when Australia's Kasey Chambers referenced a number of things specific to her previous Milwaukee gig, the audience couldn't help but be charmed.
Tags: Kasey Chambers, Holly Williams, Shane Nicholson, Australia, Potawatomi, Wayward Angel, The Captain, Barricades and Brickwalls

Arts & Entertainment - June 28, 2004
Area native pens acclaimed 'Milwaukee novel' in Australia
One of the most engaging novels ever to be set in Milwaukee is, ironically, not widely available here and was written, believe it or not, in Australia. We talked with author Emily Ballou, a Milwaukee native, about "Father Lands."
Tags: Ballou, MPS, desegregation, integration, Australia, Sydney

Arts & Entertainment - March 4, 2004
Racy Aussie origami makes Milwaukee debut
Perhaps it stands to reason that after the runaway success of "The Vagina Monologues," a couple of Aussie blokes would spring into action and explore ways to pump up the male genitalia.
Tags: puppetry, penis, vagina monologues, miramar, origami, Australia, Fringe

Music - Feb. 16, 2004
There's still plenty of work for Aussie singer Colin Hay
The former frontman for Men at Work has never stopped writing, recording and touring and his latest disc, "Man @ Work," which looks back over his long career brings him to Milwaukee Monday for a gig at the Miramar.
Tags: australia, miramar, hay, vegemite

Movies & TV - July 14, 2002
"Crocodile Hunter" lands good, clean fun
Low on angst and high on fanged things and fart jokes, "Collision Course" has Irwin's campy, spastic charm to run on, and for a movie with such admirably small ambitions as this one, it's enough.
Tags: Crocodile, Animal Planet, Australia, Outback