If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, or perhaps I should say experiencing, Claire Moore, maybe you caught the Art Cart Race at last month’s Center Street Daze. Claire was one of those pink-shrouded lovelies cavorting on and around the “Pink House” cart, doing their best to thwart their opponents’ progress at the turn, with high-spirited leg lifts and other siren-like movements.
Center Street
Sex Sells Part II
by Jean Scherwenka, photo by Kurt Johnson Exactly a year ago, the March 2005 issue of the Riverwest Currents carried an article featuring a lovely and elegant addition to the Center Street business district the Tool Shed, owned and operated by Riverwesters Eilis OHerlihy and Molly Cassidy. Before the sex shop for women opened, […]
Dr. Chow
“I’m totally entertained by the whole thing,” says Frank between chuckles. He’s talking about the Center Street Daze Annual Cart Race, which he’s emceed for the last five years. “I enjoy the ‘Born Losers’ who always lose.”
When Artists Are Your Neighbors
On Saturday, November 12, the Marcus Center will be hosting a second “Performance Art Showcase” featuring local talents in Vogel Hall at 8 pm. This show simply wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for Riverwest.
A View From the Back of a Push Cart
As I looked down at my teammate dragging along underneath our cart, the skin on his back experiencing up close and personal every inch of Center Street’s rough asphalt surface, I wondered, “What brought us to this point?” Quickly shaking off this bout of introspection, I snapped out of it and yelled down to the grimacing lad, “Quit goofing off, get up and push!!”

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