Kids & Family - Aug. 3, 2009
2009 kids' birthday party guide
Whether your kid is more bouncy or craft-oriented, there's a Brew City birthday party that can accommodate his / her wishes -- and hopefully your budget. Remember: the best part of the away-from-home birthday party is that you don't have to clean up after the festivities.
Tags: Chuck E. Cheese, Koz's, zoo, Build-A-Bear, public museum, Safehouse, Hoffer's, Schlitz Audubon, kids, party, children, urban ecology center, godsell farm, stonefire pizza

Dining - Oct. 10, 2008
Is my kid restaurant-friendly?
As a food writer and parent, my perspective is not so much is a restaurant kid-friendly, but more, "Is my kid restaurant-friendly?" Let's face it. We're all, with kids or without kids, paying the same price for the food and service at any given establishment, so why should it be any different for us if we have our 6-year-old with us?
Tags: kids dining, children

Kids & Family - Sept. 25, 2007
Kids food at the stadium
It'd be nice to think that a stadium that has a kids-focused food counter -- and clearly caters to families -- would offer a few decent things for the kiddies.
Tags: miller park, borchert, kids meal, children, stadium food, brewers

Dining - July 19, 2007
Kid-friendly food
Sometimes you just need to make food a little more fun to get the little ones to try it. I am including a few quick and easy kid-fun recipes here to get your small ones eating their vittles.
Tags: kids, children, recipes

Kids & Family - June 15, 2007
Where are the dads?
I'd like to think that by 2007 the myths of mom roles and dad role were just that: old stereotypes that die hard. But is it true?
Tags: parenting, dad, mom, children, kids, zoo, Father's Day

Kids & Family - June 26, 2009
Nails In The Fence
Nails in the Fence Lesson As I Remember It From Many Years AgoThere was once a little girl who had a bad temper. Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into t...
Tags: family, children

Milwaukee Buzz - June 25, 2009
Frogs
A number of frogs were traveling through the woods. Two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. They saw how deep the pit was; they told the two at the bottom that they were as good as dead.The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the ...
Tags: family, children

Milwaukee Buzz - March 19, 2009
Two Milwaukee Police Officers Gunned Down In Cold Blood
Officer Rosario Collura, 39, and Officer Leonard Lesnieski, 54, were shot and killed when they interrupted a drug deal while on patrol. They observed four men in an alley and stopped to question them. They had patted down three of the suspects and were patting down the fourth suspect when the man...
Tags: police, crime, children

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 12, 2008
Operation Joint Hammer Targets Child Pornography
Today, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, speaking after a joint United States and European Union (EU) ministerial meeting, highlighted “Operation Joint Hammer”—the U.S. component of an ongoing global enforcement operation targeting transnational rings of child pornographers. ...
Tags: police, crime, children

Music - Sept. 1, 2008
Rock N Roll N Concert For The Children
Just would like to tell everyone one about a Doo Wop N Rock N Roll N Fundraiser at The Pabst Theater Friday Sept. 12 2008 On the show is  Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners, from Detroit The Shades Of Blue, The Jarmels (A Little Bit Of Soap) The Fiestas(So Fine) Kathy Young, Milwaukee's o...
Tags: Events, oldies, doo wops, fundraiser, children