‘Twas but one day after Halloween when I had my first glimpse of the holidays-to-come in a department store. The costumes had orange clearance stickers on them, and the Christmas trees, sparkly decorations, and more, were peeping out of cardboard boxes. In the air was a feverish hum as employees scrambled to shift the inventory from goblins and ghosts to Hanukkah and Christmas. Thanksgiving, it seemed, was to be but a bump between Halloween and the shopping frenzy ’til year’s end.
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Giving an Old Building New Life
Nobody had any idea how much work would be necessary on the Holton Street house. Since RIC obtained the property, members have gutted it, hauled away more than five dumpsters’ worth of debris, roofed it, and drawn up a game plan to complete the rehab. In order to pay for future improvements, the RIC board of directors applied for a loan, another undertaking which required far more work than anyone predicted. That work paid off, with a $105,000 buiding construction loan approved by Lincoln Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation in late August.
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Arts & Entertainment Briefs for August 2004
You too can view film after VHS film on your own time. As many as you want, but you must return them on a weekly basis. There must be a catch. Nope. The Milwaukee International Film Festival 2004 is looking for hawk-eyed viewers to screen submissions and be part of the programming process. Their office […]
Posted inNeighborhood News
On Oakland Avenue
Oakland Avenue is in for a change this fall: according to Mike Loughran, the city’s project engineer for bike lane projects, Oakland Avenue will go down to two lanes of car traffic (one each way) with bike lanes to be built before the end of the year. Oakland Avenue joins Water Street, Center Street (soon […]
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This Weekend in Riverwest
SPLASH PAD, GORDON PARK, 11AM-5PM DAILY, weather permitting. FRIDAY, JULY 23 ONOPA, Center & Fratney, 5PM-2AM Friday Fish Fry at The Bistro, plus MADE IN MILWAUKEE Art & Music Fair with work by 12 local artists; also vendors including Lotus Land Records, UPROC, Lady Like Wonderwear. Music by: The Rusty Ps, The Tropics, The Mistreaters, […]
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