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At Linneman’s

Sunday evening again. Eudemon is walking with a friend down Locust Street. They spot the PIWO sign on the phone pole at the corner of Locust and Weil Streets. It is in front of Linneman’s Inn. Going inside they meet and greet the proprietors Jim and Marti. They find a seat in the small but […]

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Closet Classics

by Sonya Jongsma Knauss It’s hard to beat a good cup of coffee, but what if you could get a good cup of coffee and shop for funky clothes at the same place? Closet Classics Caffeine and Clothing on the corner of North and Weil offers both. Customers can grab a cuppa joe then wander […]

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Project Q

by Kevin Flaherty Kurt Dyer is a young man with a simple mission: don’t let other youth go through what he did when he came out as gay at age sixteen. When Dyer came out in his hometown La Crosse, he found bullying classmates and an unsympathetic family who kicked him out of the house. […]

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Riverwest Teenagers

How I spend my time by Monica Ledbetter (14) Time with friends after school is spent talking on the phone, listening to music, and most of all, doing my homework. Phone conversations are about boys and girls; who is going out with who and who was talking about who. There is a time out for […]

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Riverwest Teens

by Sonya Jongsma Knauss The place you grow up in influences forever how you see the world. Sitting in smoky Fuel Café one Thursday night, Kate Heimbach, 21, talks about what it’s like to grow up and live in Riverwest. Now she lives in Glendale, where she attended Nicolet High School, and she sees a […]