by Elizabeth Vogt Here we are in Milwaukee—Smallwaukee, Killwaukee, a city of festivals, industrial rebirth, and lakeside marvels, a city of gun violence and segregation—our city. We all have our rounds here: work, play, people, and places. Some of the turf is so tough that it’s poisonous, but not for everyone: brothers Darren and Vedale […]
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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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Neighbor Spotlight – Andy DiMezza
by Nick DiMarsh, photo by Alice M Waraxa December 13, 2010, Andy arrived in Milwaukee in a blizzard. He parked in the Growing Power parking lot in the middle of the night and fell asleep. Andy came to work there as an intern. He was already shoveling goat manure by noon, the day he arrived. […]
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ACLU: Guardians of Our Galaxy of Civil Rights
If it weren’t for organizations like the ACLU of Wisconsin, we citizens of the United States likely would be victims of far more attempts to subvert or even destroy the unalienable rights guaranteed to each of us by the US Constitution. Entities who want to advance their own agendas – whether corporations, politicians or governmental […]
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Neighbor Spotlight – Jan Christensen
It’s hard to talk about both urban agriculture and Riverwest without Jan Christensen’s name coming up. When I suggested that she be the Neighbor Spotlight, Jan looked at me quizzically, put her head on her desk, and laughed. But no one in the Currents office could deny that it did made sense to feature her […]
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