by Peter Schmidtke / photo by Peter Di Antoni
Sometimes, life can be hard to figure out. Former Riverwest residents Melissa and Matthew Karpowicz were confronted with that reality last year when Melissa’s aunt and uncle, Constance and Gary Kadlee, passed away less than two months apart, leaving behind three school-aged children.
The number of Riverwest establishments offering a rack to park your bike is growing. Erik Peterson recently installed bike racks at Falcon Bowl (2), Riverwest Artists Association, Click, 2565 N. Fratney — an office/storefront lower, currently under construction and looking for a tenant, Woodland Pattern, and R-Evolution Bookshop and Cafe. He will be putting bike […]
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss Rare Earth Farms, a Community Supported Agriculture farm in Belgium, WI, will use the River-west Co-op on Clarke and Fratney as a place to drop off produce for area subscribers this summer. Farmer Steve Young decided to use the co-op as a drop-off point because other drop-off points were becoming crowded. […]
story by Jason Hart, photo by Renato Umali The Jody Monroe gallery was packed with people wearing suits and dresses, anticipation was high, and the conversation buzzed with speculation as the fifth annual Umali awards began July 22 on Center Street in Riverwest. Renato Umali, a Milwaukee-based artist, musician, and self-described obsessivecompulsive record keeper, started […]
