FROLIC AT THE FOLLIES! Be amused and amazed by your neighbors at the Riverwest Follies – in celebration of six years of chewy news from the Riverwest Currents. See it all on Linneman’s vast stage: circus acts with a man eating chicken, belly dancers, Insurgent Theater, Eat the Mystery, and more on Sat, March 1. Only six bucks; doors open at 7PM; show at 8PM. See you on the stage or in your seat! Ciao Meow!
Commerce St.
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20 Years of Lakefront
RIVERWEST has found another excuse to raise a glass of its self-titled beverage. This year is the 20th anniversary of the beer that made a neighborhood famous: Riverwest Stein. Towards the end of 1987, commercial production began at the Lakefront Brewery, an operation that Ann Pogorelc of Tony’s Tavern in Walker’s point still refers to as “the Klisch boys from Riverwest.”
The Klisch boys are the brothers Jim and Russ, a cop and a chemist, both born and raised in Brown Deer, who found themselves as young adults sharing a house at 2951 Bremen Street in the early 80s.
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Connector or Divider?
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 […]
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October 2005
1 SATURDAY ART BAR: Artist Party! One Drum 5:30pm ARTWALK: See page 3 for details. BREMEN CAFE: Edie Carey w/ Brice Woodall $10 CIRCLE A: Alive at 8 w/ Bean Hoy 8pm CLUB TIMBUKTU: Drum Making Workshop w/ Jahmes Finlayson2-4pm. King Solomon 9pm CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM: Volunteer Garden Work Day. Open to all gardeners. […]
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This Weekend in Riverwest
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 DEMONSTRATION AGAINST BUSH AGENDA, NOON-1:30PM South of I-94’s 84th St. Exit, across from State Fair Park Entrance, at 84th & Schlinger St. in West Allis. More info: George Martin, Peace Action, 964-5158. THE BISTRO AT ONOPA, Center & Fratney Friday Fish Fry at The Bistro. LAKEFRONT BREWERY PALM GARDEN, Commerce St. Friday […]
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