May 7, 2025
Top 4 Study Spots in Green Bay
There are plenty of places on and off campus that offer a great place to study with finals season fast approaching. Here are some of UWGB students’ favorite study spots in the Green Bay area. Good luck with finals and congratulations to all graduating students!
The Attic Corner
The Attic is a coffeehouse, bakery, and bookstore all in one! With options for indoor tables and outdoor patio seating, this is the perfect space for students to study and enjoy a treat.
Brown County Library
If you’re looking for a quiet place off campus to study, the multiple branches of the Brown County Library system are perfect for you. Each has reservable study rooms (and tables, if the study rooms are booked). They also have many resources useful for students through programs, digital materials, and large collections of books.
The Pawffe Shop
If you’re down for a little drive and love cats, this cat cafe located in Appleton, Wisconsin, is the purrfect place for you. Grab a sweet treat and make friends with the resident cats to relieve stress while you study.
Daily Buzz Espresso Bar
The Daily Buzz is another favorite cafe in Green Bay. Enjoy a cup of coffee while you study indoors or outdoors with patio seating.
Marinette & Manitowoc Study Spots
We asked our editors for great study spots in other UWGB cities:
A Place for Coffee (Marinette): Situated in a lovely former church, this disability-friendly coffee shop (pictured right) has a large space for you to hunker down with your laptop and a cup of coffee or tea.
Manitowoc Coffee: Located in the heart of Manitowoc, this sweet little shop offers breakfast and lunch, in addition to your favorite brewed beverages.
—Clover Cicha, Local Favorites Editor
The Green Bay Film Society at UWGB invites you to the Spring 2025 International Film Series, sponsored by the Neville Public Museum (it will continue through May then resume in the fall). The films are unrated and meant for a mature audience. All films are free and open to the public.On May 7, The Dinner (Italy 2014), based on Herman Koch’s novel, will be screened. The film follows a tense family dinner where two brothers confront shocking truths after a video surfaces of their children violently attacking a homeless woman. It raises questions about parental protection versus accountability. This screening is co-sponsored by the Italo-Americano Club.
In the world of books, it’s no exaggeration to say that a new Stephen King novel is always a major event. He has soared to the highest of highs over his 50-year career, and 2025 will continue this trend with his crime novel Never Flinch. Never Flinch is the fourth book in King’s Holly Gibney series and is set to feature the return of several iconic characters, suchas Holly and Sista Bessie. In typical King fashion, this book will surely leave readers on the edge of their seats, propelling them from page to page with his refined prose and masterful storytelling.
The Siene River is lovingly called “the only river in the world that runs between two bookshelves,” making it the perfect setting for this article’s inspiration novel, The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. The novel’s protagonist, Jean Perdu, owns a bookshop on a barge that rides the currents of the Siene River along the streets of Paris. If books were medicine, Perdu would be the doctor: he cures his customers’ ailments with carefully chosen novels.
Based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel, the movie IT (2017) is a horror film that takes place in the town of Derry, Maine, where children go missing every 27 years. This cycle starts again with the opening scene when Bill’s younger brother Georgie disappears after chasing his paper boat, which goes into a storm drain. Bill is determined to find out what happened to his brother and the other children who have begun to go missing. He does this with the help of the “Loser’s Club,” a group of friends who unite together against their common bully, Henry. The closer they come to uncovering the mystery, the more each member of their group becomes tormented by visions of their worst fears coming true.
Now that the highly anticipated season three has concluded, Yellowjackets (2021) is the perfect show to start for your next binge-watch. Yellowjackets follows a high school girls’ soccer team that crashes in the wilderness on their way to nationals. In a split timeline format, we watch the teens navigate a Lord of the Flies-style experience, facing the reality of being lost in the wilderness during the ‘90s. Through flash-forwards to 25-years later, we also see some of these characters forced back together when a mysterious postcard with their symbol from the wilderness is sent to each of them without a return address. Paranoia now running through them, they work together to figure out who knows the secrets they promised to keep about those dark 19 months.Right from the start, we get a cold open of one of the most iconic deaths in the show, immediately building anticipation and questions from the audience on who is “Pit Girl” and “Antler Queen.” Leaving fans itching for answers as they jump straight into the adult timeline that follows Shauna Sadecki (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa Turner (Tawny Cypress), Natalie Scatorccio (Juliette Lewis), and Misty Quigley (Christina Ricci), we learn that in these years back in society, Shauna is a stay-at-home mom who is secretly starting an affair, Taissa is running for state senator while struggling with the “other Tai” inside her, Misty is now a nurse, and Natalie is getting out of rehab again.
The third in a relatively unknown series, To Be Hero X is the most unique anime I’ve seen in a long time. First off, this is from a Chinese studio! There aren’t many popular Chinese anime, so it’s always a treat to see one. The main aspect of this anime that makes it stand out is how it switches between Arcane-like 3D animation and comic-book-like 2D animation. This style switch is really cool, and it adds a ton of rewatchability. I just can’t get tired of seeing it.
Go! Go! Loser Ranger! is coming back for another season! In case you haven’t heard of this example of peak fiction, here’s a quick rundown: monsters who lived underground, Dusters, have fought with humans for years. Dusters are fragile beings, but they don’t die when they incur too much damage. Instead, they dematerialize, turning to dust and rematerializing elsewhere. Due to this, humans developed weapons to kill them for good: Relics, held by “Keepers”. Similar to Power Rangers, the Keepers come in the colors red, blue, green, yellow, and pink. Each Keeper and their company take a special role in the ongoing war against the monsters. This war is exaggerated by the Keepers for entertainment, as they keep a select group of monsters hostage for their shows. While this has worked until now, one Duster has grown sick of it and wishes to bring down the Keepers from the inside: Fighter D.
Have you ever wanted to watch a simple slice of life Pokémonanime? So have I! One of the questions I keep asking myself is: why does Pokémon need to have some crazy adventure going on all the time? Pokémon Concierge tackles exactly this! Set on a Pokémon Resort, we follow a Concierge’s day-to-day life with Pokémon and their owners. Instead of intense battles, we have simple, everyday interactions with Pokémon and an insight into how life with these creatures looks! On top of all of this, it’s animated in a charming clay-/wool-mation style! This series is a must watch, and season two is just around the corner! Season one was only four episodes, with each episode around 15-20 minutes long. This is what we can expect for season two and while it’s a shame this series has to be so short, it’s still a fast, fun watch!
The fourth installment in the Madoka Magica series, Walpurgisnacht Rising is the sequel to Madoka Magica: Rebellion. Not much is known about this movie yet, but it most definitely revolves around a main antagonist in Madoka Magica: Walpurgisnacht. But first, what is Madoka Magica? Madoka Magica is a magical-girl anime, now taking the form of three (soon to be four!) movies. While many magical-girl anime are happy and upbeat, this one is not. Witches are responsible for things such as suicide and depression, and are a force magical girls must fight. These magical girls, granted powers based on the wishes they make, are not perfect, however. The girls struggle with depression, loneliness, homelessness, orphanism, and more. This series is a must-watch and definitely one of the greatest anime ever made. In addition to its unforgettable story, the art style is unique and has never been attempted since. The art style is rather hard to explain, switching between the usual anime style and a collage-like, almost paper animation. This art is surreal and unique to the animation troupe Gekidan Inu Curry.