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Civic Graffiti: David Middlebrook’s “Tip” at Gordon Park

It just isn’t that easy. Art it is not a just some symbol that we make up to represent something else. If it were, then we could a make a logo for truth and beauty and be done with it.

How bad is this art? Think of movie Spinal Tap without a sense of humor; imagine Liberace imitating Thelonious Monk. You get the picture. This is pretentious monstrous kitsch. David Middlebrook has given meaning a bad name and produced a three-dimensional brochure. It’s infotainment.

…Surely there are other ways to spend $50,000 to wreck this park less.

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Perseid Meteor Shower

Enjoy the Perseid Showers this August!

No I’m not talking about rain. The Perseid showers happen every year in August and offer a wonderful display of “shooting stars.” The term shooting star is a misnomer in that the brilliant lights traveling across the night sky are not stars, but comet dust. As comets revolve around the sun, dust is left behind in their orbits…

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Milwaukee Connector

Light rail is much more expensive to build and operate, while the guided tram system [chosen for the Milwaukee Connector project] offers the same convenience at half the cost…

Posted inTelling Our Stories

smalltown, USA

1951. I was in my fourteenth summer in smalltown, U.S.A. Somewhere in the future an H-Bomb would explode in The Pacific, George Jorgensen would morph to Christine, and Elizabeth would be crowned England’s queen. The wars Korean, Viet Nam, and Desert storm were yet to be fought. The Twin Towers, Mad Cow disease, and the beheading of a man named Berg were as yet unthought. Reagan was still among the living…