by Nik Kovac, photo Vince Bushell If your living room wont fit 75 people, but you need to host a party that big, one local option since 2002 has been the pavilion in Gordon Park, just west of the river and south of Locust Street. That first year, recalled Riverwest County Supervisor Willie Johnson, it […]
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Milwaukee and Morogoro, Tanzania now officially related
by Jackie Reid Dettloff This is a story about connection: connection between two places on opposite sides of the globe. It has to do with the announcement early last month that Milwaukee has adopted Morogoro, Tanzania, as its sister city. On May 8, Alderman Joe Davis, Chair of the Sister Cities Committee, called a press […]
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New Urbanism on Downer: Ready Or Not, Here It Comes
by Adam J. Lovinus The new-urbanism aesthetic envisioned two decades ago by former Mayor John O. Norquist a city of densely populated, self-supporting neighborhoods, diversely zoned with lots of green space and walking-distance amenities has come to life in Milwaukee. It shows in the new high-rise luxury condos on the Lower East Side […]
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Locally grown: Feeding our hunger for a and knowledge about a local food
by Belle Bergner Its hard to pick up a newspaper anywhere in the U.S. these days and find an article about how healthy and well fed people are. Milwaukee is no exception. How can that be? In the third wealthiest country in the world, how is it possible that we could have undernourished children? Or […]
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Condo Development Removed from Shorewood Master Plan Pending Completion of Land Use Study
by Jean Scherwenka The Master Plan for Shorewoods redevelopment along Oakland Avenue south of Capitol Drive and west to the Milwaukee River received a public hearing at the Village Boards July 10 meeting. After comments and discussion from citizens and Village officials, some changes were made in the Plan, whereupon it received Board approval. The […]
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