As I looked down at my teammate dragging along underneath our cart, the skin on his back experiencing up close and personal every inch of Center Street’s rough asphalt surface, I wondered, “What brought us to this point?” Quickly shaking off this bout of introspection, I snapped out of it and yelled down to the grimacing lad, “Quit goofing off, get up and push!!”
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August 2005
1 MONDAY BREMEN CAFE:Open Mic 9pm CLUB TIMBUKTU:Live Jazz. Ian Duerr Trio. 7-10pm LINNEMANS:Poets Monday 7:30pm, Sigmund Snopek 10pm MIRAMAR THEATRE:Comedy Open Mic 8pm ONPOPA: The Mirrors, Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones, Mildew 2 TUESDAY BREMEN CAFE:Mat Hendricks Experience 9:30pm CIRCLE A:Savage Jook JukeBox Challenge-Win drinks MIRAMAR THEATRE:Spoken Word Open Mic 8pm $2 3 WEDNESDAY ART […]
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Lindsay Severtson
After Lindsay Severtson had her first child four and a half years ago, she went through a period of post partum depression. Severtson, an easygoing woman with a ready laugh, attributes her depression to isolation from other young families and lack of community support. “When you’re isolated as a mom, you’re not capable of being a good mom,” she says. “Community is essential.”
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Justice for Jude
On February 10, about 100 people gathered to protest the beating of Frank Jude, Jr., a black man who witnesses say was beaten by white off-duty police officers in October 2004. The beating has become a potential powder keg of city race relations and police misconduct after a Journal Sentinel story featured Jude’s beating February 6.
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Warrior When Necessary
Alderman Michael McGee, Jr. is cutting his teeth on the hard tack of city politics in a district that is as diverse as Riverwest, but may be even more challenging.
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