I need to get in shape. On a pleasant spring afternoon I rode with Paul Kjelland and Mike McGarry, two of the event organizers of RW24, along the route of the upcoming 24-hour Riverwest bike race. They wanted to check for potential kinks and checkpoint changes.
Posted inNeighbor Spotlight
Neighbor Spotlight • July 2008 • Jeremy Prach
By Jason Hart, Photo by Barbara Miner
Jeremy Prach has a huge backyard. It’s grassy and dotted with trees. There’s enough room here for a dozen or more people to sit and talk. Prach makes use of this space: he holds neighborhood watch meetings here (he’s the block captain), here is where planning takes place for the Riverwest 24- hour bike race (he’s the main organizer), and most importantly here is where he spends time with his wife, children, and neighbors.
Posted inNeighborhood News
GARFIELD AVENUE BLUES FEST
READ IT HERE • WEB ONLY ARTICLE Harambee Connection: Garfield Avenue Blues, Jazz, Gospel & Arts Festival Celebrates 11th Annual Event by Charlesetta Thompson On Saturday July 19 from noon to 8 pm, Garfield Avenue will be overflowing with an array of festivities from King Drive to 7th Street. The legendary Harvey Scales will be […]
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Harambee Juneteenth Day
“On Thursday, June 19, 2008 we proudly commemorate and celebrate the 140th Anniversary of Juneteenth Day!
Juneteenth Day is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the US. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19 that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with the news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. If one does the math it will become clear that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had become official January 1, 1863.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Eat The Mystery
by Jason Hart, photo Karina Schafer
“A modern gypsy curse,” says Paul Setser,
a founding member of Milwaukee Cabaret band Eat the Mystery, “would be something like –
‘May you wake up to find that Mitt Romney has been elected president.’”