Amateur and semi-professional performers – BOTH ADULTS & CHILDREN – are encouraged to get in the act – singers, jugglers, poets, musicians, comedians, drummers, belly dancers, performance artists, etc. Do you do something that is just plain weird? Then we want YOU. There will be two shows – a Family Show and an Adult Show. […]
by Janice Christensen, Editor Emerita First let me say how pleased and proud I am, at the glorious age of 98, to be asked to write an editorial for this Mid-Century 48th Anniversary Edition. I guess Madeleine and Abneris and Bodhi and the rest of the gonzo-kid journalists over at the Riverwest Currents decided I […]
By the late 1990s, after over a century of industrial usage, a stretch of vacated properties waited as silent sentinels along Commerce Street, watching over the frontier between the Riverwest neighborhood and points south. In 1999, the city of Milwaukee Redevelopment Authority (RACM) requested a plan to revitalize this blighted area along the river. The […]
by Janice Christensen It seems like everybodys talking about the bamboo grove planned for a public plaza in the Third Ward. What will become the plaza is currently a patch of asphalt at the end of Erie Street near the end of the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers. Its classic Milwaukee: the Polish moon of […]
Story and photo by Tim Lambrecht Four years ago, Kirk Thomsen found himself in his mid-thirties, not really doing what he wanted with his life, so he decided to make some changes. While driving down Kinnickinnic Avenue in Bay View, he saw The Boulevard Theatre. I was working for a printing company at the time. […]
