SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Moving Sale going on NOW May 28,29,30 Gallery 218 is moving out NOW. We lost our lease due to the sale of the property.We have been at this location for 14 years. A Rummage/Moving sale is takingplace now thru Monday. We have an antique wood and glass display case, three stages, tables, a […]
Locust Street
Posted inMusic & Events
Great Lakes Improvisation Project Festival
June 2004 – Two Sundays, Two Concerts Audiotrope Electro-acoustic improvisations by Hal Rammel (invented instruments), Steve Nelson-Raney (saxophones & cornet), Thomas Gaudynski (midi-guitar & synth) Presented by Great lakes Improvisation Project June 6, 2:00 p.m. $4 Woodland Pattern, 720 East Locust Street Milwaukee, WI 53211 414.263-5001 http://www.woodlandpattern.org/ – http://my.execpc.com/~penumbra/news.html Two Duos Steve Nelson-Raney (tenor saxophone) […]
Posted inFurther Down Stream
May 2004
Riverwest’s summer outdoor music concerts, Gordon Park Grooves, may be canceled this summer. The series, while popular with the neighborhood, has not made enough to cover band and equipment costs. Organizers of the concerts — The Tracks, Linneman’s, and Lakefront Brewery — are looking for sponsors to help underwrite these costs. Interested organizations, corporations, businesses, […]
Posted inNeighbor Spotlight
Lorraine Jacobs
by Peter Schmidtke
A Dalmatian, a file chock-full of Urban Ecology Center materials, a formidable pile of sociology books, and several hardwood shelves laden with scrap booking paraphernalia. These are what catches the eye as Lorraine Jacobs sits at her dining room table in her light-green, walk-up home on the 2400 block of Dousman and talks about her life after retiring this past September. She worked a combined 30 years with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and Milwaukee Public Schools.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
Soapies Laundromat
by Kevin Flaherty
Not many people would consider buying and operating a business open 15-plus hours a day, seven days a week, to be “retirement,” but Earnie Daniels and his wife Lue do. Earnie had worked 27 years at American Linen Supply on 10th and North, ran Aurora Health Care’s laundry facility for another 15 years, and wrapped up his career at Goodwill Industries.
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