August 1990
Volume 15
Number 8
Features
1990 Best Of Milwaukee
Drumroll please … It’s time again to proudly salute the best the city has to offer — the food, fun, great shops and values that receive our highest recommendations. Plus, new this year, our exclusive list of Milwaukee’s best-dressed men and women.
By Stephen Filmanowicz and Linda Piepenbrink
Parents Beware
Your choice of a high school for your child could determine whether she’s behind or ahead when she gets to the next level. But what a choice it is — based usually on outdated reputations, pet theories and wild speculation. Until now. Assembled here, for the first time anywhere, is a complete comparison of 31 college-prep high schools.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl with Elizabeth Hoffmann, Patricia Booker and Eric Johnson
Tom vs. Tommy
With the image-shapers and opinion makers already working at full speed, determining who stands for what in this fall’s gubernatorial election isn’t easy. What do the two Toms — Loftus and Thompson — really think about taxes, education and abortion? Our no-holds-barred election preview has the answers.
By Bruce Murphy
The Mexican Connection
From his seat in the stands of Brewers’ El Paso farm club, the author has seen the Milwaukee team become baseball’s top importer of Latin American talent. Is this ballclub-as-melting-pot a model for baseball in the ‘90s?
By Tom Tolan
Departments
Outfront
In search of excellence.
By Judith Woodburn
Letters
The monthly mail.
Insider
The tale of Dillinger’s eyebrows, a fly-by-night scam, the incredible reappearing lawyer, The Journal’s new mascot, Ask the Insider, reviews of performance artist Ann Carlson and OfficeMax and more.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Metroscene
The best in golf at the Greater Milwaukee Open, Les Miserable at the PAC, Dinamation Dinosaurs at the Public Museum and more.
By Dawn M. Behr and Christine R. Grant
Dining Guide
Let our comprehensive guide show you to your table. Plus a gardenside Serbian Meal of the Month.
Columns
The Milwaukee Reader
Milwaukee business guru Barry Eigen has written a business book that’s not for the heavyweights but for the rest of us. Its message: how to thing like your boss.
By Judith Woodburn
Restaurants
Mike and Anna’s and Steven Wade’s Cafe are bringing fine dining — some of the best in town — to two meat-and-potatoes neighborhoods.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
Is the governor’s race already over and done? Not so, says our prognosticator who, after analyzing the two candidates, handicaps the race.
By Bruce Murphy
On the Cover
Illustrations by Matthew Wawiorka.
Special Advertising Section
The 1990 Wisconsin Fall/Winter Leisure Guide. By Tina Lassen.
