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David Mark Zimmerman

Nicholas Pipitone

I couldn’t find it at first. I had the address, I was on the right street, but something wasn’t right. There was a huge warehouse in the distance; I’ll drive back there and take a look. It’s 10 AM on a Saturday, and there aren’t a whole lot of people around. The parking lot of the huge warehouse was empty except for one car, and as I got closer I noticed the stickers littering the car’s back window. They were clearly the work of David Mark Zimmerman, AKA Big Shot Robot. Found it.

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5/17/20 9:39am

Wisconsinites sound off on Coronavirus: How is it affecting you?

Livia Peterson • Milwaukee

The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically altered our lives. From unemployment to the frontline employees providing the necessities, the pandemic is taking a toll on our physical and mental health. It has individually and collectively impacted our well being. Until a vaccine or an effective treatment is available, we will endure a slow and steady recovery.

11/13/18 2:44pm

A note on the first snow

Kia Namin • Milwaukee

Last Sunday, we woke with our bodies’ natural rhythms, but the clocks said it was earlier than it felt. Then, the sun sank early. On Monday, when we left...

3/07/18 3:30pm

Love is Love

Sophie Pipitone • Milwaukee

To love is a spectrum. I’ve recently started visualizing this spectrum in the grade school science class way—the electromagnetic spectrum way.

2/02/18 10:35am

Halfway home, a stop at Ruby Roasters

Kia Namin • Wisconsin

By the time Kendall said something, we’d already missed the turn. It was Friday afternoon a couple of days before New Year’s Eve and the roads and skies and fields were indistinguishable greys...

1/31/18 10:28am

To mug, with love

Caitlin Knudsen • Milwaukee

There is one thing I hate more than winter: shitty mugs. I’m a mug snob. I’m not ashamed to admit that. As a young(ish) person who recently breached year 30, born and raised in the Midwest, appropriate dishware for combating the winter blues is paramount.

1/19/18 11:54am

Discovering the uncommon at Commonplace

Nicholas Pipitone • Milwaukee

Zach pointed out a few of the product designers in the store when I visited; Kinto from Japan, Most Modest out of San Francisco, Good Thing from Brooklyn. And, if you want to see a pair of Raen sunglasses or a TOPO Designs backpack in person, Commonplace is your spot.

1/08/18 10:45am

In the studio with the Wooldridge Brothers

Nicholas Pipitone • Milwaukee

I was standing in the recording room at the Exchange Recording Complex on National Avenue, with Brian Wooldridge. He’s pulling his Epiphone Coronet out of its case and I’m salivating at the sight of it; the Coronet has always been one of my favorite guitars, double cutaway, the iconic Epiphone “E” on the pickguard, the grit.

1/01/18 10:30am

Theorizing about Orange Theory Fitness

Nicholas Pipitone • Milwaukee

I’m 51-years-old and have worked out my whole life. I enjoy it. I’ve belonged to every club you can imagine. Getting my 45 minutes to an hour of exercise on a regular basis is important to me. I pretty much work out to maintain my dad-bod and stoke my fake sense of confidence that I have a semblance of fitness.

1/01/18 8:23am

I was going to write about the cocktails at Kindred

Nicholas Pipitone • Milwaukee

Have you met Steve Landish? He’s the guy who runs the bar at Kindred on Kinnickinnic Ave. By all accounts, at least in the three or so times I have talked to him, Steve is kind of brilliant. He talks about ingredients, how they work together, and generally is hush-hush about exact quantities he puts into the drinks. Go with it.

1/01/18 6:30am

Welcome to Commonstate

Joseph Salvatori • Milwaukee

Welcome to Commonstate, a tribute to the creative thinkers in every community who believe that a culture of creativity is a better culture for all. These are the innovators and people who see the world differently and for the better, who through the movement of a pen, or the stroke of a brush, the click of a shutter or a singular vision for business are fearlessly themselves. Commonstate celebrates them all.