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• Braun expected at Brewers On Deck

  17-01-2017 22:06 via mlb.mlb.com
  Ryan Braun, who's been the subject of trade rumors, is scheduled to attend the Brewers' annual fan fest later this month, along with other starting position players and Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Rollie Fingers.
  
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• Trump and "Disgraced" open on the same day

  17-01-2017 21:40
  It could hardly be more appropriate to our times that The Milwaukee Rep unveils a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Muslims in America the very week that we are getting a new president who has made Muslims a target of his vitriolic political campaign. The show is "Disgraced," the first play written by Brookfield Central graduate Ayad Akhtar and the one that earned the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for best drama.
  
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• Milwaukee Talks: WISN meteorologist Jeremy Nelson

  17-01-2017 16:58
  Last week, we sat down with WISN meteorologist Jeremy Nelson for a Milwaukee Talks interview as he prepared to say goodbye to Brew City. After more than seven years on the air in Milwaukee plus more time in TV in Madison, where he graduated from the University of Wisconsin Nelson's last day on air here, before leaving for a job as chief meteorologist at Channel 12's sister station WJCL in Savannah, Georgia, is Friday.
  
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• Watch HOF announcement coverage live, 4 CT Wednesday

  17-01-2017 15:00 via mlb.mlb.com
  Wednesday is the big day. The National Baseball Hall of Fame announces its Class of 2017, selected in a vote last month by the eligible members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
  
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• 3 Dishes: Tony Kora and JJ Lert of Rice N Roll Bistro

  17-01-2017 12:13
  What's in a restaurant? In this series, we ask chefs around the city to describe their restaurants in their own words and recommend three dishes that embody the best of what they offer. In this edition, we talk with Chefs Tony Kora and JJ Lert of Rice N Roll Bistro on Milwaukee's East Side.
  
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• 12th District neighborhood selected for 2017 Block Build MKE

  17-01-2017 07:33
  A neighborhood in the 12th Aldermanic District has been selected for the Revitalize Milwaukee 2017 Block Build MKE - a "major win" for the property owners and residents in the area, Alderman JosA© G. PA©rez said today. The 2nd Annual Block Build MKE will take place on May 19-20, 2017, and on that weekend, hundreds of volunteers and community partners will come together to transform - for free - more than 30 homes in the Clarke Square neighborhood on S. 17th St. between W. Mineral St. a
  
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• DownBeat names two Milwaukee jazz venues among the world's best in 2016

  17-01-2017 02:57
  
  Here's some music for Milwaukee jazz fans' ears: DownBeat released its Jazz Venue Guide - a compilation of the year's top clubs from around the globe, whether they're new innovators, established legends or somewhere between - with two Milwaukee locales making the grade: The Jazz Estate and the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. For this year's edition, the longtime Chicago-based jazz and blues magazine named 195 clubs to its global guide - with the newly reopened East Side landmark and the divers
  
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