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The Urban Garden: Canyons in the City

March may seem early to think about gardening in Wisconsin, but soon Tulips and Daffodils will be blooming. It is a good time to plan for planting your yard. What follows is a story about an area that most folks do not consider garden space — that unusual space in the city landscape: the canyons in the city. I am talking about the space between homes. That narrow corridor, separating one multi-story domicile from the next, is one of my favorite garden spaces.

Posted inAsk the Inspector, Columns

Old Gas Light Piping

Many of the homes in Riverwest were built before electric lighting was common, and people used Kerosene lamps and candles. Then along came manufactured gas, derived from coal. Piping was installed in the homes around the turn of the last century (1900) for gas lighting. At night people would turn a valve at the light fixture to ignite the light.

Posted inCommentary & Opinion

Fact-Finding Missions

by Thomas Durkin

In February, the Milwaukee community welcomed a distinguished guest, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a man of great integrity who has worked tirelessly in the name of justice for people throughout the world. Archbishop Tutu, in town to accept an honorary award from Marquette University, spoke before a standing room only crowd at Gesu Church. And, as expected, Tutu did not shy away from addressing the possibility of war.

Posted inBusiness Briefs

April 2003

Lakefront Brewery Cattail Ale, Ring of Fire Gallery move, Locust Street Festival Vendors, Riverwest Yogashala grand opening, 3rd Annual St. Patrick’s Beer Walk.

Posted inCommentary & Opinion

Suicide and War

[quote]Once the poets resounded over the battlefield; what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age that is struggling on toward its careening future? And indeed it hardly requires the call, its own battle-din roars into song. But so far no-one has succeeded in singing an epic of peace. What is it about peace, […]