Posted inNeighborhood News

FOLLIES

What Happens at the Follies stays at the Follies.

Riverwest. It’s a place like no other, ain’a? Where else in the world could youbegin your Saturday family adventure with Mass and end up at the Art Barwith the Squeezettes and some of the funniest polka dancers on the planet?
And in between you can watch your friends and neighbors entertain and amuseyou in a neighborhood talent show and eat supper from the local food co-op andparish kitchen. If your busy evening of entertainment allows, you could fit in a trystat Milwaukee’s newest make-out bar, Two. Might be crowded at intermission, though– it only holds 38 very friendly customers.

Posted inFurther Down Stream

Further Down Stream April 2008

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The winter of 2007- 2008 went on record as the snowiest of the century when 12.4 inches of snow fell from 6 am on Good Friday, March 21 until Saturday at 4 am. It’s the second highest total in Milwaukee with 96.9” – just behind the top spot of 109.8” in 1885-86.

All of the previous snow had just melted down when the city got socked again on the second day of Spring. If this keeps up, number one is just around the corner!

Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business Spotlight

20 Years of Lakefront

RIVERWEST has found another excuse to raise a glass of its self-titled beverage. This year is the 20th anniversary of the beer that made a neighborhood famous: Riverwest Stein. Towards the end of 1987, commercial production began at the Lakefront Brewery, an operation that Ann Pogorelc of Tony’s Tavern in Walker’s point still refers to as “the Klisch boys from Riverwest.”

The Klisch boys are the brothers Jim and Russ, a cop and a chemist, both born and raised in Brown Deer, who found themselves as young adults sharing a house at 2951 Bremen Street in the early 80s. 

Posted inMusic & Events

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, […]