Michael Horne
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Urban Milwaukee
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 23, 2026
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How Two Clay Pots In Milwaukee Became A Test Case For Restitution For Enslaved Artists (opens the original)
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The deal over David Drake’s ceramics could shape how museums treat the work and heirs of enslaved artisans nationwide. The Dave Project, installation view. Image by Jim Wildeman, courtesy of the Chipstone Foundation I wonder where is all my relations Friendship to all—and every nation — Inscription on an 1857 ceramic pot by David Drake The Milwaukee Art Museum announced Monday that it had reached an arrangement to return two pots in its collection to the descendants of enslaved potter David Drak
Award-Winning Legend Larry’s Comes to Milwaukee (opens the original)
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From Sheboygan corner bar to nationally recognized chicken wings. A visit to Buffalo is as likely to include an order of chicken wings as a trip to Milwaukee is to include beer. Twenty-five years ago, the inaugural National Buffalo Wing Festival was held in the “Queen City of the Lakes.” That same year, Legend Larry’s opened in Sheboygan as a corner bar with fresh—not frozen—chicken wings bathed in homemade sauces. The 2026 event drew about 30,000 people to Buffalo. More than 20 restaurants comp
Donald Baumgartner Remembered In Music, Dance And Laughter (opens the original)
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A 300-guest memorial at the art museum mixed Puccini, Les Mis and family stories of generosity and adventure. Donald and Donna Baumgartner at the Florentine Opera Company Grammy Party in 2012. The Milwaukee Art Museum was the site Tuesday of “A Celebration of the Life of Donald Baumgartner,” the ebullient business executive, philanthropist and arts benefactor who died in his River Hills home at 95 on July 11. At the time of his death, he remained chairman of Paper Machinery Corporation, which co
Plenty of Horne: Juneau Park Will Finally Get Its Sword (opens the original)
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The Spirit of Service monument, created in 1920s, lost its sword in 1940s. A replacement is being fabricated. Spirit of Service. Photo courtesy of Juneau Park Friends. There is a curious granite cube in Juneau Park. Its appearance is not monumental, like its towering neighbors, the statues of Solomon Juneau and Leif Erickson. What with its inscriptions in Gothic script and rusticated surfaces, it appears funereal. Furthering the tombstone analogy, it even bears a date: August 1926. That’s when t
Dominique Paul Noth Gets Theatrical Sendoff (opens the original)
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Longtime journalist, theater and movie critic gets first-class celebration of his life. Celebration of Life for Dominique Paul Noth. Photo by Michael Horne. The landmark 1882 Turner Hall Ballroom was a fitting setting for a memorial to Dominique Paul Noth, 1942-2026, who, for six decades, was a journalist and critic. For the past decade his theater reviews have appeared in Urban Milwaukee. In 60 years he never missed a show until late May, when he called his editor, Bruce Murphy, from a hospital
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