FROM: Shawn Smart, RNA Co-Chair =============================== Neighbors: Attached is the final draft in content of our bylaws approved on March 11, 2003. Editors able to detect and correct glaring grammer and spelling errors appreciated. Voting privileges, election of officers; creation of a board were controversial issues. I suggest to neighbors in disagreement with the final […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Barnstorm 2003
by Eryn Moris
More than 200 connoisseurs of culture from ages six to 60 crowded one of Riverwest’s more unique converted living spaces for Barnstorm 2003, on Friday, Feb. 15. The event was organized by former MIAD students Anne Bisone and Gina Kelly in conjunction with Nick Frisby, a resident of “The Barn,” a renovated rental property at 2630 N. Humboldt Blvd. The historic building is a remnant from a time when Riverwest was just farmland west of the river.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Becoming “Successfully Gentrified”
In recent years, Riverwest has been primed for gentrification. Higher property values near Brady Street to the south, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee area to the east, and the booming Brewers Hill neighborhood to the southwest are causing an increase in housing demand in Riverwest and driving up housing costs and property taxes.
Posted inEditorials
If You Pave It, They Will Come
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss
If you haven’t heard much about the proposed freeway expansion for Milwaukee County and surrounding environs, I’m not surprised. Local media has done an abysmal job of covering this issue.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Taste Emcees: “In it for the Art”
by Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle
For real! Say the words Hip Hop and most of us are struck with negative images. Guns and thugs…gyrating, half-naked females…forty ouncers and drugs…black youth acting the fool in the streets. Our media is saturated with and perpetuates these images. How could we think any other way?
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