The Dudek Abides

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editor Martin Kaiser is leaving the paper in February, the paper announced Tuesday. 

His successor will be George Stanley, managing editor. The changes occur prior to the merger with E. W. Scripps.

The news was announced to the Journal Sentinel newsroom Tuesday afternoon.

Kaiser, 64, who has been with the paper for 20 years, is the former editor of the Milwaukee Journal and a Milwaukee native. During his tenure the paper won three Pulitzer Prizes and was a finalist for six others.

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Timothy Winslow, one of the “414s”

Michael Volman, the Milwaukee Film Festival 2013 filmmaker in residence, will present his documentary short about Milwaukee computer hackers, at the Sundance Film Festival next month this week.

The film “The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers,” is about Milwaukee teenagers who broke into high profile computer systems in 1983, including Los Alamos and Sloan Kettering, “resulting in a media frenzy that terrorized the nation,” according to the Sundance catalog.

The film was produced by Chris James Thompson, another former filmmaker in residence, who directed “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files.”

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Local ratings for Monday night’s Green Bay Packers game against the feisty Atlanta Falcons on WISN-TV (Channel 12) were almost twenty points lower than the Green and Gold’s prime time laugher against the Chicago Bears in November.

Last night’s ratings for the game on WISN were 34.4, compared to 54.2 for last month’s prime time Bears game.

However WISN was carrying ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” telecast, which earned a 16.8 rating for the cable channel.

When the two ratings are combined they are only slightly less than the November Bears game, which was carried exclusively by NBC affiliate WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced it was trimming two sections, in notes to readers Tuesday.

The affected sections are Health and Opinion.

The action is likely the first shoe to drop at a time of newsroom cutbacks and prior to a merger with E. W. Scripps.

Tuesday marked the last Health section, according to the note. National and local health stories will continue to appear “in  other parts of the newspaper.”

Philip Chard’s “Out of My Mind” column will move to Sunday Tap; the Pulse column will appear online; and the new CDS column moves to the daily Tap section.

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There are no injuries, but after the avalanche hits it’s all downhill for the picture postcard perfect family on a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps in the Swedish language film “Force Majeure.”

If relationships are fragile eco-systems, few are more so than a marriage. And how the two spouses reacted to the heart-stopping but ultimately benign act of God – the title is also the term for how such an act can void a legal contract – changes the way they feel about each other and themselves, and poisons every minute they spend with their children.

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“Citizen Koch,” a documentary that explores the Supreme Court ruling allowing unlimited contributions to political campaigns, through the lens of the 2011 budget protests in Madison, Wisconsin is one of fifteen films competing for the five Oscar nominations in the category, .

The film had its local premiere at the Milwaukee Film Festival in 2013, before released here in June of 2014.

It was directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, directors of the Hurricane Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water.”

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