Helen Scaife is the kind of woman you point out to your kids. “Look at her,” you’d say. “She realized that she couldn’t do much without a high school diploma and went back to school when she was 56 years old.”
September 2004
Posted inBrady Street Beat
Angelo’s Piano Lounge 1686 N. Van Buren St.
Maybe Old Blue Eyes didn’t have Angelo’s Lounge on his tour schedule, but the place pays homage to Frank and his friends nonetheless. The decor befits a cozy piano bar, not a high-end nightclub, and it’s comfortable. The drink prices aren’t high-end either, and that’s good because $12 martini bars seem to be sprouting up all over the place.
Posted inEditorials
A Farewell
Dear Readers,
This is my last month as editor of the Riverwest Currents, so this is a goodbye of sorts. I’m not leaving the city or the neighborhood, but I am moving on to new editorial challenges and opportunities.
It is not without sadness that I leave the Currents, even though working on it has been a wild ride at times. Helping plan this publication in December of 2001 with Vince Bushell, we were full of ideas about what we wanted to accomplish and who we might tap to write articles….
Posted inHarambee Connection
Dreams for Sale
The right proposal and $50,000 could get you a historic, cream-city brick mixed-use building at the corner of North and Sixth Streets. Constructed in 1886, this classic building at 540 W. North Ave. could become the gateway to the African American Cultural and Entertainment District proposed for the area between N. Martin Luther King Drive and N. 7th Stree
Posted inHarambee Connection
Two Centenarians on the Move in the Harambee Community
102 years young and still going strong, Claretta “Mother Freedom” Simpson was born Nov. 29, 1901 in Smedes, Mississippi. In her honor, the City of Milwaukee renamed the 2900 block of North 10th street “North Mother Simpson Way,” on August 6. Several elected officials, neighbors and other well-wishers joined the community at a block party on August 14 to celebrate the event.
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