Posted inFurther Down Stream

October 2003

Riverwest hosts all-city gathering potluck – Common Council news – Empty Bowls Project, MATC – Progress on Baby Park Makeover – Greens Fundraiser – National Latino Heritage Month – La Escuela Fratney expansion/renovation – DNR festival – Johnson Controls tests Weil-Auer lot – Picture Milwaukee Places – Mandel adds path from North Ave to bike trail to RiverCrest condo plan – Progress on plans for Reservoir – River Revitalization Foundation, Mayor and MMSD secure land purchase for Beerline Bike Trail – Proposals for Post-Teledyne Building

Posted inA&E Briefs

Local Sounds, Art Bits & Celebrations

Cleveland Miles – New Harmony Indiana – Taste Emcees – the Funky Art Man – Artists Needed at the Currents – Urban Artists House Party – Strive Media – Susanne Carter – Rhythms For A Nuclear Free World – Gordon Park Diversity Picnic

Posted inArts & Entertainment

Burning Snow Center

by Jeremy Berg

The Institute for Thought will also host a lecture at UWM’s architecture and urban planning department this fall, and Griswold has worked with the sheriff’s department, fire department, and mayor to make it safe and legal to practice spinning poi (two kevlar balls at the end of chains dipped in flammable liquid and spun around, unsurprisingly popular at a festival that climaxes with the burning of a 40-foot statue of a man).

Posted inMusic & Events

Strive Media Institute Hosts Brown Bag Tuesdays Independent Film Festival

Milwaukee-Strive Media Institute, 1818 N. Martin Luther King Drive in Milwaukee, will showcase a number of independent, non-fiction films through a collaboration with Listen Up and P.O.V. (PBS) There will be seven different independent films shown, one each Tuesday at noon, and viewers are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch for extra enjoyment of the passionate and powerful P.O.V. films….