On December 7, the Riverwest community surrounding St. Casimir’s Church on Bremen and Clark Street will be “lighting up” the neighborhood. The intention is to bring our neighborhood into light, a symbolic action to “ignite” neighborhood safety, community, future restoration projects, and activities to come. Neighbors will not be in the dark; we will be lit in action.
Christmas
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Riverwest Resale Reopens for Business
by Peter Schmidtke
“There are certain things you probably should buy new, but for other things, you should definitely come and take a look here, because either we have it, or we will have it.”
Riverwest residents Trent Hanson and Angela Botka stepped out for a bite of Mexican food and returned home the proud co-owners of a thrift shop.
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Eudemon Visits Nessun Dorma: ‘None Shall Sleep’
Eudemon stopped in at the new place on Weil and Hadley, Nessun Dorma, to check it out. It is another Riverwest corner bar that has gone through changes over the years. Eudemon thought of earlier versions, recently the Stork Club, a gritty bar with lots of characters. The Gordon Park Pub, with a palette of music ranging from Voot Warning, the Violent Femmes, to the Ghostly Trio with their translucent red Christmas album of ghostly carols.
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by Tess Reiss Tis the Season to sprinkle holiday cheer by your generous patronage of local shops, crafts, and global fair trade products in Milwaukees hometown neighborhoods. On New Years Eve try a round robin with friends at local bars while sampling the live music, food, party favors, and champagne toast at midnight. Merry & […]
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I Got It At Fischbergers!
Maybe it was the approaching holidays that seemed to wash the little variety store on Holton St. with the muted nostalgia of the 1950s that golden time of peace and stability when the wealthiest Americans paid 90 percent of their income in taxes by Jan Christensen Fischbergers Variety store does harken back to another time. […]
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