Call for Candidates:Riverwest Co-op Board of Directors! The Riverwest Co-op isn’t just a grocery store-it’s a community. It feels like a general store: you probably know the cashier or the volunteer washing dishes. You’ve sat on the Philosopher’s Bench in the summer, danced with the kids at our Spaghetti Dinner, or cheered on our softball team, […]
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Posted inGreen Spaces Briefs, Neighborhood News
Dam Decision – Remove It
Photo and story by Vince Bushell You can’t make everybody happy. The common good should determine resource management. Resources include public land and water, and public finance. Science is not opinion. Some aspects of best use in the public arena are opinion. The above aphorisms are criteria I use to make a judgement on […]
Posted inNeighborhood News
Affecting the Ivory Tower
By Kris Purzycki By now, you know about the governor’s proposed budget cuts. You will likely have been bombarded by talking points that have been used to support any number of conceits for or against public education. If you are connected in any way to anyone paying attention to the proposal and the impact on […]
Posted inA&E Briefs, Arts & Entertainment
Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon 2015
Set for Saturday January 31 10 AM – till 1 AM February 1 For the past two decades, on the last Saturday of January, hundreds of poets, writers, and lovers of the arts make a pilgrimage to Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for the Woodland Pattern Book Center Poetry Marathon & Benefit. The next Marathon, the […]
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September 2014 Calendar
SEP 4-SEP 7 YELLOWPHONE MUSIC CONFERENCE (yellowphonemke.com) SEP 6-SEP 27 CHAIN REACTION 926 E Center, EXHIBIT at the Jazz Gallery SEP 19-OCT 5 SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE 158 N. Broadway, OPERA: Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella) skylightmusictheatre.org SEP 25-OCT 9 MILWAUKEE FILM FESTIVAL mkefilm.org (see ad PAGE 2) 1 MONDAY LABOR DAY LABORFEST MILWAUKEE Summerfest grounds Live […]
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