* Featured image: The Ascension, detail from the “Speculum Humanae Salvationis” (15 c.), Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Today, as advertised, we are cele...
In today's Gospel, the disciples are together again. Jesus is not there, but a lot of them sense His presence. The Risen Christ has been seen more than once sin...
You go to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre when you want the real thing. What you can't find in Milwaukee you will get in Jerusalem. This is the place where t...
He was born in 1836 in Nantes, one of the four pillar-cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany, to a rich cloth merchant and his wife. Brittany is, to this day, ...
It starts when you drive down National Avenue. You enter the mists of time.
The strip of National from 76th to 59th looks like 1991.
Or 1987. Even 1962.
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What do you do to make soup cool?
You blow on it.
Or: you serve it in a cramped cellar on the Lower East Side with fewer tables than customers, do it unti...
They talk about "waves" in coffee culture.
First wave: Folgers or Maxwell House.
Second wave: Starbucks, which didn't arrive in Milwaukee until the late 9...
To be able to feel like the very definition of the dernier cri in hipsterdom, to feel luminary and gastro-culinary and worldly wise, but to do it with friendlin...
Some of us know the joy of traveling in Italy, land of art and culture, couture and cuisine... and, not coincidentally, stronghold of the Church and home of sai...
If you want to discover the South Side, do what the Europeans do and take a walking tour. It’s a wild mix, with 19th-century churches and warehouses and working...
