I’ve been eating a lot of this lately. It is refreshing and forgiving. Use what vegetables and cheese you have in your fridge — my favorites are listed below. If you have never made a basic vinaigrette before, please try it. It is cheaper and healthier than bottled dressings.

The First Earth Battalion may sound like a role-playing card game popular with teenage boys. However, it’s actually a U.S. Military division and the basis for the film “Men Who Stare at Goats.” Released last Friday, the flick is about a group of psychic spies, called the New Earth Army in the film. It takes place in various time periods from the 1970s amidst the Vietnam War to the early 2000s during the Iraq war.

Milwaukee local business Alterra Coffee was recently rated by GQ magazine as one of the top ten coffee spots in the country, but Milwaukeeans seem to be remaining humble about the praise.

Chocolate. Coffee. Cream. Enough said.

Ten years ago, Dawn Scher Thomae, anthropology curator at the Milwaukee Public Museum, stood in the Latin American area on the third floor of the museum. She felt a cold sensation unlike any she had felt before. “It didn’t come from above, it came right through me,” Thomae said. “It’s a feeling you don’t readily forget.” This is a phenomenon often described by people who have experienced a haunted place.