Get ready for feasting on locally made goodies and merrymaking on the East Side. Milwaukee has a new summer festival: the Brady Street Artisan Food Festival. The festival, which will held Sunday, July 25, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., celebrates artisan, craft, and organic foods made by Wisconsin businesses. The fest, created by the […]
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A mix of craft, art, and science, with a lot of nuance…
“So drink the coffee, eat some food and meet your neighbors where the ragged but right sit betwixt the keen politico, the suited baron, the gartered bishop, the productive co-ed and all ‘finer persons’ that should chance to enter.” Thank you Matt and Marc…
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Sunny Side
When the sun is shining like it was on the day I visited Grava Gallery, it floods the 600-square-foot space at 1224 E. Brady St., sending a wave of warmth through the south facing windows. If you arrive when proprietor Michael Wavra is opening his art gallery and framing business, usually around 10 a.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, you’re likely to catch him greeting the morning by positioning an American flag out front of the colorfully painted Victorian-era space.
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Proposed “Green” Development to Overlook the River at E. Kane Place
A one-and-a-half lot, city-owned parcel on E. Kane Place could soon be home to a small, “sustainable, green building” development including a unique “strawbale” house. Julilly Kohler, Brady Street developer and community activist, is hoping to buy the property at 1152-1158 E. Kane because she’d like to live there.
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New Goth Store Brings Back “old School” Brady Street
Wailing Banshee
Jenny Gibson occasionally gets customers still seeking the head shop that once occupied 932 E. Brady Street. Why is unclear — it’s been gone for ten years — but they have at least still come to a place of alternative culture. Just one slightly different than what they were expecting.
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