The Story of Tricklebee Cafe—Urban Milwaukee (March 2025)
Women Uplifting Women: Milwaukee’s Tricklebee Café nourishes a community—TMJ4 (March 2025)
100% replicable: Pay-what-you-can at Tricklebee Café in Milwaukee—WUMW–89.7 FM (September 2024)
‘Everyone deserves good food’: Pay-what-you-can café combating food insecurity in Milwaukee—Spectrum 1 News (December 2023)
Christie Melby-Gibbons of Tricklebee Cafe—Cream City Dreams Podcast (December 2023)
Check out Christie Melby-Gibbons’ Story—Voyage Denver (November 2022)
Tricklebee Café: A pay-what-you-can community café—FOX6NOW (June 2022)
Tricklebee Café: Mission to provide food to anyone regardless of ability to pay–FOX6NOW (June 2022)
Tricklebee Cafe: The Best Food in Milwaukee is Pay-What-You-Can—CommonState (March 2022)
Commissioned by Milwaukee Opera Theatre in October 2021, Home Cooked Heroes is a spoken-word opera with text by Milwaukee poet Brit Nicole, and music by Milwaukee-based musician Ms. Lotus Fankh. Together, with staff and volunteers from Tricklebee Café, they explore what it means to operate a pay-what-you-can restaurant from the center of a food desert, revealing how simple acts of generosity can transform a neglected building into a thriving hive of connection and community.
Reflecting on Things That Made a Difference—ShoutOut Colorado (July 2021)
Pay-What-You-Can Cafe Serves More Than Food Amid Pandemic—TMJ4 (March 2021)
Pay-What-You-Can Vegan Cafe in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park Neighborhood Thriving Despite Pandemic—WUWM–89.7FM–(December 2020)
Christie Melby-Gibbons: Serving Community (and Healthy Meals) at Tricklebee—Shepherd Express (May 2019)
Food for Thought, Food for All—Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts & Letters (Spring 2019)
Founder of Vegan Soul specializes in meatless comfort foods for events—Journal Sentinel (April 2019)
Meatless in Milwaukee—Edible Milwaukee (Feb. 2019)
Meet the people preparing the Tables Across Borders series—Journal Sentinel (Feb. 2019)
Tricklebee Café offers volunteer opportunity for woman with Down syndrome—The Milwaukee Times (Dec. 2018)
Tricklebee’s Vegan Soul Food Lunch—Shepherd Express (Aug. 2018)
Milwaukee Bucket List: Tricklebee Cafe—OnMilwaukee (Aug. 2018)
Picturing Milwaukee—BLC Field School (2017)
Tricklebee Café Serves Vegetarian Meals (and a Side of Hope) in Sherman Park—Shepherd Express (Sept. 2017)
Tricklebee Cafe serves vegetarian and vegan dishes with a side of community—Journal Sentinel (June 2017)
Welcome to Tricklebee Cafe, Where Customers Pay What They Can —Milwaukee Magazine (April 2017)
Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant In Milwaukee Off To A Good Start, Pastor Says—Wisconsin Public Radio, The Kathleen Dunn Show (Feb. 2017)
Milwaukee Pay-What-You-Can Cafe Aims to Feed the Hungry—NPR’s Fresh Air (Feb. 2017)
Milwaukee restaurants hope to feed low-income people with ‘pay what you can’ model–Marketplace (Feb. 2017)
“A safe place to gather:” A new café is changing a neighborhood on Milwaukee’s north side–Fox6 (Dec. 2016)
New “pay-what-you-can-cafe” opens in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood—WTMJ-4 (Dec. 2016)
Pay-what-you-can café builds and feeds community in Sherman Park–Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (Dec. 2016)