Once a great park with a spectacular view of Milwaukee’s skyline, Kilbourn Park has been little-used and barely maintained for several years. Today, the north end of the park, known as Reservoir Park, is an eyesore surrounded by barbed wire fences.
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Layton School of Art, Riverwest, and the Changing Face of Milwaukee
Mark Lawson For many years Riverwest has had the reputation of being a neighborhood where many artists live and work. Why, out of all the many neighborhoods in the city, has Riverwest held an attraction for artists? How did such a large number of artists come to live and work in Riverwest? In the 1960’s […]
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School Choice: Uniting — and Dividing — a Nation and a Neighborhood
by Peter Reese
Should parents be able to choose where their children go to school? Should taxpayer money fund religious education? These are just two of many sometimes misleading questions used to sway voters’ hearts and minds in the battle over school choice.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Riverwest Churches: Neighborhood Offers a Wide Variety of Church Options
Bong! Bong! Bong! The bells of St. Casimir on Bremen and Clarke ring out twice every 60 minutes signaling the top and the bottom of the hour and at other times during the week signaling Mass. To many, this is just another of the thousands of sounds making up the rich aural tapestry of Riverwest, but to others, it is a reminder to take a few seconds to look upward and inward in quiet reflection.
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Beatnik Beat: Jazzin Up the Children
by William Morder Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears … -The Tempest In my dream, a white monster creeps behind me. Next, I am swallowed by inches. My head remains. Then I awaken in a sweat. Riverwest, my Storyville, crumbles at the edges. But the problem is much bigger. Radio is […]
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