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Brown Deer Park, 7625 N. Range Line Rd., is hosting its own drive-through holiday lights experience called Winter Glow.
The mile-long park route was organized by Fever, a company that creates events in cities around the world, in partnership with Milwaukee County Parks. Some of Fever’s best-known events are “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” and the Candlelight Concerts series.
Winter Glow includes more than 100 holiday lights displays that visitors can experience from inside their vehicles with a curated soundtrack of seasonal music broadcast via the car radio.
For safety reasons, visitors must remain in their vehicles throughout the drive-through experience.
The family-friendly drive takes about 30 to 45 minutes
Winter Glow is up and running through Jan. 4.
A standard vehicle access pass admits one sedan, SUV or pickup truck up to 10 feet tall x 8 feet wide x 20 feet long range from $19.90 to $22.90, depending on the day of the week.
Timed tickets are available at winterglowexperience.com.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
