Travel & Visitors Guide - May 7, 2008
Our writers' all-time favorite vacations
Since it's Travel Week on OnMilwaukee.com, the editorial staff shares its stories from its best travel experiences.
Tags: Europe, Italy, England, Central America, West Indies, Grand Cayman Island, travel

Movies - Oct. 23, 2006
"The Queen" should rule lists of movies to see
The 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death is on the way and a year in advance comes “The Queen,” one of the first movies to recount that week for the royal family in a way that isn’t overly serious.
Tags: the queen, england, tony blair, queen elizabeth, princess diana, helen mirren, michael sheen

Bars & Clubs - Feb. 9, 2006
Alcoholic drinks largely absent in Brew City bars
Brew City has lots of non-beer beverage options -- from fancy wine to rip-roaring Red Bull mixers -- but there are plenty of potent potables that, to our knowledge, are yet to sweat on Milwaukee bar tops.
Tags: von trier, africa, china, ireland, england, Absinthe, Amarula, Baijiu, Caipirinhas, Dawa, Guavaberry, Michelada

Movies - Oct. 29, 2004
Leigh's latest film "Vera Drake" hits hard
It would be easy to mistake the two-hour picture for a tender period piece about the tight-knit working class Drake family headed by its warm-hearted mother, but keen viewers will feel the undertow in the darkness of the early scenes.
Tags: Leigh, Vera Drake, abortion, England

Movies - Oct. 6, 2001
Frears' "Liam" offers grim, gripping view of 1930s England
With the grimly painted backdrop of Liverpool between the wars, acclaimed British filmmaker Stephen Frears offers up his latest film, which rides a pair of storylines on perpendicular tracks.
Tags: Stephen Frears, Ian Hart, Liam, Liverpool, England

Travel & Visitors Guide - May 7, 2008
Journey, Past and Present
 “I had traveled from the haven of my hopelessness, and I was still traveling; the journey was also conversation; it was present and past, memory and fantasy; it was not life for me, but it was movement...”  Elio Vittorini If my physical exterior mirrored my inner senti...
Tags: Travel, Europe, Paris, France, Eiffel Tower, England, London Eye, Surrealism, Dadism, Victoria and Albert Museum, Iceland, Jules Verne, Thors hammer, Napolian, Potsdam, Friedrich the Great, Versailles