We do like to keep ourselves busy in Northeast Wisconsin. Perhaps its a coping mechanism that keeps us from fretting too much about the winter weather we know is coming. Although, if you have spent anytime outside lately, you know that Mother Nature has given us a very pleasant fall. The leaves are giving us READ MORE
I have to stay on a careful budget, but I can’t resist browsing in a bookstore; I could spend hours in Barnes & Noble! This week, though, I decided to check out some of our local bookstores and see what makes each one unique. I’m a regular at Half Price Books, so that seemed like READ MORE
An image can mean so many things. But when it comes to capturing the theme “Chic” for FOX CITIES Magazine’s place we call home photo feature, our reader’s like what Kim Thiel of Kim Thiel Photography in Appleton has to say. Thiel’s image, the dominant image above, garnered 47 percent of the votes this past READ MORE
The temperatures have moderated and the days are gradually getting shorter. We see all the signs that winter will be here soon. So what do we do? We throw a huge block party to celebrate fall and clutch to the remaining days we can spend the time outdoors. That’s right, it’s Appleton’s Octoberfest weekend. The READ MORE
It’s hard to believe it’s Thursday already. This has been a long week of deadlines here at FOX CITIES Magazine, and we’re eager to get to the weekend. One of the great things about the Fox Cities is that there always seems to be something exciting to do, no matter what your tastes. Now, if READ MORE
For this blog post, I decided to take hometown tourism to its simplest form and just walk around downtown Appleton, pretending I hadn’t spent the last twenty-one years doing just that. There seem to always be new and interesting businesses popping up on and around College Ave, so Sadie and I tried to mix investigating READ MORE
I cannot believe we’ve past the end of August. Summer vacations have ended, and so has my internship at FOX CITIES Magazine. Since joining the staff in January, I feel like I have learned quite a bit. It’s kind of like that old saying, “you can only truly learn something through experience”. It was fun READ MORE
FOX CITIES Magazine readers and fans have given the nod to Dan Frievalt’s interpretatin of “Risky” in our first Facebook poll for the “place we call home.” The voting was tight, with Frievalt’s image receiving about 33 percent of all votes cast. The other images were submitted by Amber Pfeifer, or Pheifer Photography in Appleton; READ MORE
My last stop around the Fox Cities was Appleton Memorial Park. Needless to say, I am insanely grateful that it didn’t feel like more than 100 degrees with humidity when I was there, like it has the past several days. I have to say, writing this blog has given me such an eye-opening experience of READ MORE
Saying goodbye is never easy. Today, FOX CITIES Magazine says goodbye to several of our interns here at FOX CITIES Magazine. We’ll miss them. We’ve seen them develop as writers and they have become important parts of the team. As they head back to school and look forward to new challenges, we’ve asked them to READ MORE
