Drumming legend, state cheese, beer gardens Jordan Tilkens, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Happy Friday, Wisconsin.
We re bringing the cheese this week. This week s Be Wisconsin newsletter is just oozing with news about a new Culver s treat and how one city in Wisconsin wants to make a mark on the state with its most famous product.
Local personality
You ve probably never heard of his name. But he s left an indelible mark on music.
Clyde Stubblefield of Madison played the drums for James Brown, and his music has been sampled numerous times. One of his beats became the foundation of hip-hop. Prince described Stubblefield as one of his drumming idols. Stubblefield died in 2017.
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COLBY – JoAnne Peterson sent me an astonishing email a few months ago.
The Wisconsin state Legislature was considering making Colby cheese the state cheese, the 73-year-old Brookfield resident wrote. Make a push for that.
I took that to mean she wanted me to support Colby cheese, and, therefore, be a part of the advancement of good taste and official recognition of one of the most important discoveries in human history.
The shock wasn t that JoAnne assumed that I would have
any influence on statewide policy: I m lucky I get to decide what I eat for breakfast. What s inconceivable is Colby cheese isn t
Now add television personality to Stephanie Stanke s resume.
Stanke, who owns Wooster s Garage in Weston, never let hidebound perceptions or stereotypes stop her from pursuing a career in a male-dominated field. That determination to break the norms meant that she almost always stuck out in the car crowd. And she caught the attention of Drew Barrymore, who on Friday welcomed Stanke to her national talk show, which debuted in September.
Stanke grew up in Racine, where her grandfather was a car mechanic instructor. Her great-grandfather owned a repair shop in Michigan, and it also was called Wooster s Garage. She studied automotive mechanics at Northcentral Technical College, where she was one of a few women in the program when she began. She was the only woman to graduate in her cohort because the others dropped out.