Gordon Park
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Civic Graffiti: David Middlebrook’s “Tip” at Gordon Park

by Editor
article and photos by Tom Bamberger

It just isn’t that easy. Art it is not a just some symbol that we make up to represent something else. If it were, then we could a make a logo for truth and beauty and be done with it.

How bad is this art? Think of movie Spinal Tap without a sense of humor; imagine Liberace imitating Thelonious Monk. You get the picture. This is pretentious monstrous kitsch. David Middlebrook has given meaning a bad name and produced a three-dimensional brochure. It’s infotainment.

…Surely there are other ways to spend $50,000 to wreck this park less.

Posted inNeighborhood News

On Oakland Avenue

by Editor

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 […]

Posted inRNA News

Riverwest Neighborhood Association Report — July 2004 Meeting

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Presentations Carrie Lewis, Superintendent, Department of Water Works, provided an update on the Reservoir. Currently there are two studies in process: one is research on ways to “mitigate the curve” on North Avenue, for which there is at least $300,000 in federal money available. Engineers are also developing a 3-D display and perspective drawings of […]

Posted inNeighborhood News

The Missing Link

by Editor

Riverwest’s long-awaited bike trail, which would run south from Gordon Park along the old railroad right-of-way, may be in jeopardy if action isn’t taken soon to launch the project…

Posted inRNA News

RNA General Meeting Minutes, July 13, 2004

by Editor

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, August 10, 7PM Riverwest Neighborhood Association General Meeting Minutes, July 13, 2004 Center Street YMCA/CDC In Attendance: Michele Morris, Devon Wichelt, Kara Sebach, Tim Vertz (Board Member), Tim Carpenter (Candidate for Congress), Tracey Golden, Zachary Knutson, Donald Sargent (Riverworks), Stephen Servais, Ellen Servais, Nancy Certz (Board Member), Mark Lawson, RoseMary Oliveira, Sonya […]