by Catherine Jozwik, photos by Jan Christensen
What began as the East Kane Street Food Co-op in 1970, a small store completely owned and staffed by volunteers, became Outpost Natural Foods, Milwaukee’s main place to buy local, organic foods and other goods. With three store locations in Riverwest, Bay View, and Wauwatosa, Outpost has thrived and become an important community fixture.
In a January, 2003 article for the Currents, “Where is Riverwest? ” Dan Knauss wrote that Riverwest is “in-between space—porous, amorphous, and not as fixed in its identity—or as rigid—as some other neighborhoods” with “an interesting future that you can help create.” As students living here at RiverView, we feel that we are also in […]
We are all mesmerized by the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly. Equally awesome, but somehow underappreciated, is the transformation of the world’s flowers into the seeds and fruit that we – along with the rest of the animal kingdom – depend on.
Appearing this month instead of the usual editorial essay and reader letters, is an open letter from Nancy Vogel regarding her resignation from the Riverwest Neighborhood Association (RNA) board and a response from the RNA board. Vogel is the fifth board member to resign this year.
On June 11, Locust Street Festival turns 30 years old, making it one of the longest running neighborhood festivals in the city. The festivities started as a celebration of neighborhood triumph. City engineers had a plan to widen Locust Street into a Boulevard, bulldozing fifteen businesses and displacing over fifty families and individuals. In anticipation […]
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