by Peter Schmidtke / photograph by Peter DiAntoni
A handmade guitar can require many hours to craft, especially if one wants it to play as sweetly as its cherry lacquer shines.
Locust Street
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Down by the River… Urban Fishing is Back!
by David Coles / photo by Andrew Stiff
The fish are biting again in our own backyard – the ever-improving Milwaukee River. Since the removal of dams at North Avenue and in West Bend in recent years, the river channel is narrower, the water temperature cooler, and the current more free-flowing. Though sewage dumping and other problems persist, there is much cause for optimism surrounding this precious resource. To a degree once unthinkable people and wildlife are returning to the river.
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August 2003
1 FRIDAY BREMEN CAFE: Desperate Measures String Band. 8 PM. $5. CIRCLE A: Rockin’-A Friday with Chuk Le Fuk. COA: Creative Playground: 2:30-6 PM for ages 7-10. KING LIBRARY: Read-to-me Story Time. 10 AM. LINNEMAN’S: Finch and Parduhn. MAC’S RED EYE: Geoff Lanton & The Wolfpack, WAMI nominee. 9 PM. $5. MAD PLANET: Retro Night. […]
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D’Amato On Development: “Reknitting the Urban Fabric”
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss / photos by Tess Reiss
D’Amato, a supporter of New Urbanism-style city planning, notes that problems can result if developers build without neighborhood or city input. On a driving tour of his district, he points out buildings, both good and bad, that have gone up under his tenure as alderman. Looking at a house on Warren Street with huge garage doors facing the street on the first floor, he says, “Buildings like this detract from the value of the neighborhood.”
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Riverwest Film and Video
by Kevin Flaherty / photograph by Peter DiAntoni
Xavier (“Xav”) Leplae opened his film and equipment rental store on Locust Street in the fall of 1998 after the film co-op associated with UWM’s Film Department folded. Listening to Leplae explain his motives, it’s clear his decision to open the store was less entrepreneurial than a desire to keep alive a creative, collaborative environment for film and video in Milwaukee.
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