April 1995
Volume 20
Number 4
Features
Speed
Excuses, excuses. Everybody’s got ’em when one of Milwaukee’s finest pulls you over for a speeding violation. Learn where the area’s stickiest speed zones are as well as how to avoid getting a ticket.
By Dennis Kois Jr.
The High Cost of Culture
Milwaukee’s arts groups have grown, they have run up big deficits and are spending their paltry endowments. Our writer wonders how much culture the city can afford and who’s watching the bottom line.
By Bruce Murphy
From the Arms of Russia
Glasnost is putting Russian children in the hands of loving American families. But perhaps not for long. Meet several Milwaukeeans for whom high costs and risks were not impediments to building a family.
By Kathy Mangold
Special Advertising Sections
1995 Home and Garden Show, by Scott R. Weinberger 37 Fashion: Signs of Spring.
By Nancy Mack
Departments
Outfront
Speed, the story.
By John Fennell
Letters
You write ’em, we print ’em.
The Insider
A call to arms, Tom and Tommy and poetry surveillance.
Edited by Stephen Filmanovvicz
Pressroom Confidential
The ax continues to fall at Journal Inc., and a new Sun may rise in Milwaukee.
By James Romenesko
The Watchful Eye
Jacquelyn Mitchard’s literary largess and other tales.
By James Romenesko
City Slants
9:00 fluff, alone and happy at Lucci’s and the convent gallery.
Edited by Bruce Murphy
Dining Etcetera
African Hut’s trip to bountiful and Camille’s Fattoria, a haven of beauty (oh, and food).
Endgame
Economic incentives: Is their power corruptive?
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Cover
Photograph by Dave Schlabowske.
M Magazine
Feature: Maestro Moves
Neal Gittleman: It’s easy being number two.
Main Events
A blues binge and leggy lifts.
Last Seen
Sweet surprises and reunion woes.
Sneak Peeks
World cinema is where it’s at.
Sound Bites
Barfly Bodean Sammy Lianas.
Rewind
Coming to a video store near you.
Restaurant Guide
Eat, drink, man, woman.
Food: A Pleasurable Pub
Great tavern chow at O’Danny’s.
