If you’ve been to the Riverwest Co-op, you’ve seen Mary Germain. She’s the young lady with the dark-brown-andpink-and-blue hair.
East Side
Posted inEditorials
Help Wanted: Young and ambitious workers for summer employment
Summer is over but we should start thinking about next year now. It’s not just Riverwest that has problems when teens don’t have anything to do during summer break.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Brophy Declares Bankruptcy
Two years ago, landlord Tim Brophy hid under one of his tenant’s beds, hoping the police wouldn’t find him. They did. The city was after him then — and still — because of unpaid property taxes and outstanding fines relating to code violations on his vast collection of rental units in Riverwest, Harambee, Brewers Hill, and the East Side, which during its peak included more than 100 properties.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business Spotlight
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The Drink and Draw Social Club, Milwaukee Chapter
Once a month, I meet with a group of like minded people. You’ll recognize our table. It’s covered in sketchbooks, pencils, pens, kneaded erasers, pints, and pitchers of beer. It’s called the Drink and Draw Social Club, and it’s cheaper than therapy. Cartoonists and illustrators practice an often solitary craft, long, lonely hours at the drawing board.
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