While not quite as packed with content as New Year’s Eve, the Milwaukee holiday season is just as festive, if a little more obscure. To help you plan out your holiday experience, the UWM Post offers this nifty guide to late-December Milwaukee culture. ‘Tis the season!

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The Haggerty Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “The Truth is Not in the Mirror,” is a rare example of an art event that is equally thought provoking and accessible. The exhibition, which features the work of 23 high-profile photographers, is an exploration of the perceived truth in portraiture today.

The UW-Milwaukee Union is home to a few lesser-known assets that seem to slip by students’ awareness every year, and it’s a shame considering a significant portion of student segregated fees goes to such causes. One of those assets is UWM’s Studio Arts and Craft Center. Tucked away in a humble little hallway (one that [...]

Endgame, Frank Brady’s most recent and complete biography of chess champion Bobby Fischer, argues that Fischer, despite the paranoia and hatred he displayed, should be viewed through his mastery of the game.

In 1910, American humorist and writer Samuel Clemens died leaving a mountainous transcript coupled with a handwritten note forbidding the comprehensive publication of the book until a hundred years after his death. Clemens, of course, is the birth name of Mark Twain, and the recently published manuscript is Volume 1 of his autobiography.

The largest exhibit of ancient mummies and artifacts is traveling around the world, and it has finally made its debut in our city.

So this is Christmas. Christmas break that is. The holidays fly at us faster every year it seems: decorations and bell ringers, Santa Claus, free gift wrap, and that barrage of holly jolly and sugary tunes that takes over the radio.

Finals will soon be over and UW-Milwaukee students will find themselves car-pooling home, curling up on the sofa, and waiting for spring semester to dictate how their time is used. The free time during winter break allows for catching up on sleep, old friendships, and critic’s choice lists from the previous year. This list offers five books that may have gone unread, but seem worth the time that winter break allows.

Make room on the shelf for Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom.