Today, Harry Houdini would have turned 140 years old. Because of his legendary escapes, one might half-expect him to crawl out of his grave, proving to be immortal. Alas, until then, he remains immortalized through accounts and pictures of his amazing performances. As many Appletonians know, after his family emigrated from Budapest, Hungary in 1878, the READ MORE
The Appleton Boychoir will celebrate more than three decades of success when they perform their 35th Spring Concert on May 3. Monday afternoon, the group’s Ambassador Choir gave a short preview of the event during a short performance at the Trout Museum of Art. The choir worked through a shortened program featuring several songs that READ MORE
So much for the first day of spring! That’s right, today is the Spring Equinox, and the days are supposed to get gradually longer – and warmer – until late June. I think Mother Nature missed the memo. It’s a blustery mid-30s today and the weather does not look much better through the weekend. It READ MORE
The hot topic today starts out with a simple “hello.” As we first reported on the FOX CITIES Magazine Facebook page Thursday afternoon, the hot broadway show “The Book of Mormon” will highlight the 2014-2015 season at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. Fresh from the minds of the creators of “South Park”, the musical READ MORE
Name: Mary Safranski Age: 22 Hometown: Neenah, WI University: UW-Oshkosh Favorite thing about the Fox Cities: I will always have a soft spot for Kimberly Point in Neenah, its gorgeous year-round and still one of my favorite places to run. The Dirt… Favorite Quote? I have many, but there is something about Dr. Suess quotes READ MORE
Did the Fox Valley host French royalty? For decades following the founding of the Fox Cities, there was a mystery at hand: was Eleazer Williams, the Episcopal priest from New York, really the son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI? Was he the rightful heir to the throne of France? And did his descendents in READ MORE
This week mark’s Daylight Saving Time in most of the U.S.—don’t forget to adjust your clocks forward one hour. The shift to DST traces its roots back World War I, when the Axis powers implemented it in 1916 as a cost saving measure. The U.S. adopted it in 1918, though Benjamin Franklin had extolled its READ MORE
