Eight candidates are competing to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerald D. Kleczka, who is not seeking re-election. The 4th District includes all of Milwaukee, Cudahy, St. Francis, South Milwaukee, West Milwaukee, and part of West Allis. Riverwest Currents and storyhill.net asked 4th Congressional District candidates to respond to questions about issues relevant to Milwaukee-area voters. The questions and candidates’ answers will run in August and September Currents and on the storyhill.net website. Republican and Democratic primaries will be held September 14; the general election is November 2…
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An Open Discussion about Diversity in Riverwest
Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle and Suzanne Zipperer, both regular contributors to Riverwest Currents, discussed the nature of ethnic relations in Riverwest. The views expressed here are their own. They are not representing their ethnic heritage communities.
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Fancy This
You’re standing inside a giant kaleidoscope. The year is 2004, and the site is the Milwaukee Art Museum where you’ve come to indulge yourself (through June 20) in 200-plus items comprising “American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840.”…
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Book Review: Banana Republicans
There’s a This Modern World cartoon on the front cover of Banana Republicans and chapter titles like “Pumping Irony,” but it’s not a remotely funny book. Perhaps it was intended to be so, but its authors ended up on quite a different track…
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Spin City
The final issue of Art Muscle magazine was published in the summer of 1997. As publisher/editor, I made the decision to devote our farewell to the “art of criticism.” Four well-known writers were given space to correct the common misunderstanding of the word “criticism,” i.e. that it does not mean to hammer an artist relentlessly…
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