That’s right, it’s a whole new year and all that, and what do we have here for you at The Barhopper? Another column full of hazy recollections about what some guy wrote on the bathroom wall. Yeah, we wouldn’t have it any other way either. This month: The Uptowner and Hop Back Inn
January 2004
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Stitch by Stitch, Bead by Bead
by Jackie Reid Dettloff
Anne Kingsbury is known to many Riverwesters as the founder and director of Woodland Pattern Book Center. But what people may not know is that Kingsbury is a visual artist extraordinaire, “one of Wisconsin’s more accomplished but under-hyped artists,” according to one critic. This fall, her hand-stitched creations have been on exhibit at the Peltz Gallery at 1119 East Knapp Street.
Posted inNeighborhood News
City of Milwaukee Cleaning Up Its Act
The target this time is brownfields, a term coined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to define “abandoned, idled, or under-utilized industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.” The term brownfield was first used to distinguish developed land from unused suburban and rural land, referred to as “greenfield” sites.
Posted inColumns
Encouraging People to Drive Less: EcoBucks at the Urban Ecology Center
by Jim McGinity
Do you know anyone who gets paid to ride their bike to work? Last October the Urban Ecology Center initiated an idea that has been brewing since last winter. How can we get people to drive less?
Posted inCommentary & Opinion
Why Same Sex Marriage Equality Matters
by Patrick Flaherty
No sooner had the dust settled on a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down laws criminalizing sex for gays and lesbians than a new decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Court came out: lesbian and gay couples could not only “get it on” in the privacy of their own homes without worrying about Big Brother, but they may soon go down to the local courthouse and get hitched.
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