by Lee Gutowski Jo Yanish is a wife, mother (to sons Edward and Sam), artist, jewelry designer/maker and businesswoman whose company, Flattery Works, sells unique, fun, and elegant jewelry made from “alternative and classic” materials. For our interview, Jo invited me to join her at her home on Weil Street in Riverwest. We had a […]
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Neighbor Spotlight: Barry Lewis (September 2022)
by Ellen C. Warren Travel east on Wright Street, cross the torn-up Humboldt Blvd, and slope down the hill for a brew at The Gig. If you want to meet our man-of-the-hour, Barry Lewis, make sure it’s a game night. Depending on the time of year, that could be a Brewer’s game, Packer game, Buck’s […]
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NEIGHBOR SPOTLIGHT: Kaytee Luke, James Melchoir
NEIGHBOR SPOTLIGHT: Kaytee Luke, James Melchoir
and the Bremen Community Garden
by Lee Gutowski Remember the “polar vortex” of the winter of 2017/2018? Of course, Wisconsinites do, but for Kaytee Luke, who moved to Riverwest that February from California, the weather was especially disconcerting. “I thought, oh no, what have I done? I mean, Mount Shasta would get weather and storms, but nothing like the polar […]
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Neighbor Spotlight -Emily Sutnick – August 2021
by Ellen C. Warren Nineteen years earlier, she had lost her job and found her way into a bartending gig at the newly established Nessun Dorma, where she learned all about whiskey, the mixing of a cocktail, and the front of the house.In the meantime, she had married her husband, had kids, was in the […]
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Neighbor Spotlight – Paul Drucke -June 2021
By Ellen C. Warren In the land of creativity that some would identify as Riverwest live a plethora of artistic styles, motivations, modalities, licenses and worlds. Some have names … like orchestrating, painting, sketching, photographing, poesy, belly dancing. And some are just garbage. Garbage so good the New York Times placed it on their list […]
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