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The need to read
Do you spend the weekend on a lawn chair with a book? Or do you cram every minute full of festivals and corn dogs? With mke’s micro-fiction stories, you can do it all.
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Paul Eddie Davis, 38, of Milwaukee, is a professional visual artist, writer and muralist who likes to read micro-fiction. This photo was taken at Alterra on the Lake. Photo illustration/C.Taylor.

downtime
A thrilla for Scylla Milwaukee’s women’s rugby club is celebrating a winning season.
Threeview Fujiyama gives you lots of options for Asian cuisine — including a show with your meal.
Convention stirs artful spillover African-American culture gets attention as the NAACP convention comes to town, as two exhibits demonstrate.
Paul Feig proves the geeks shall inherit the book deals Paul “Freaks and Geeks” Feig is visiting Milwaukee to promote his book, "Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin."
Greek Fest After the food, it’s the architecture that gives the Greek Family Festival its identify. Plus more fest info.
Heavy pedal An insider’s guide to the annual “Superweek” bike races, which hit local streets soon.
Meet the bartender Mary 'Teri' Regano of Regano's Roman Coin .
Exposure Summerfest, Summerfest fashion, and more.

how we live
Wonder walls Some creative ways to spice up those drab apartment walls.

in the know
The aging process The NAACP is working to educate and recruit greater numbers of young adults.
Profile: Courtney Hunt Courtney Hunt’s work with the Boys & Girls Clubs started with a coat drive. Then she noticed kids needed lots more.
When I was 30: Jerry Ann Hamilton At 30, the woman who now runs the local NAACP had drive — but had just learned to drive.
A few ways to squeeze out some extra cash this summer Strategies for stretching your summer dollar.

online exclusives
Summer fugitives MKE chose four local festival lovers to help guide you through the summer. Meet them.
Festivals abound MKE has opened the summer festival floodgates with two special online sections that include photo galleries, maps, schedules and surprises.
Summerfest 101 MKE has opened the summer festival floodgates with two special online sections that include photo galleries, maps, schedules and surprises.
MKE Exposure Archives of all of our past exposure photo galleries, plus a bunch that were never in print.
MKE blogs
MKE blog directory: 1000 voices