by Lee Gutowski Recently, a friend walked into the Uptowner after getting bad news about a job. Turns out, the friend had been fired, and stopped into the bar to blow off a little steam. The friend started relating his job woes to Bob Ellquist, the bartender working that afternoon. Bob and my friend had […]
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Neighbor Spotlight – Dale Jones
by Lee Gutowski Dale Jones sat on a porch in Riverwest recently for an interview with the Riverwest Currents. Porches are his natural element at the moment; from this porch, Dale can point out more than one that he’s built or worked on right on this very block. And if you happen to be passing […]
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Mike Fredrickson: Practicing the Pursuit of Sanity
by Laurie Hertz I met with Mike Fredrickson at the Uptowner with the intent of writing a profile on him. He’s lived in Riverwest for years, is an accomplished artist and musician, and is without a doubt the most prolific person I know. I had intended to write the article with the angle of “local […]
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Neighbor Spotlight March 2019 Thom Ertl
by Ellen C Warren Thom Ertl is working on a piece. It’s one of his Tommie Squares. The ashtray that makes up the large part of the background had broken along the perfect demarcating lines. You read “San Francisco” and “Tea Garden” etched between cracks. There is an engraved heart, a miniature faux marble Holy […]
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July 2016 RAA Artist Profile
Xav and Martin: Radio Connects Community text by Elizabeth Vogt photo by John Ruebartsch People talk. We talk to, with, and for each other. We tell tales of experience and fantasy, spout emotional diatribes, sing out of longing and of pleasure. And we did it long before written language and telephones: millennia around the campfire […]
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