August 2004
Volume 29
Number 8
Features
Stuck
For this single mom, being working poor means a daily struggle for survival, a lifestyle of uncertainty, a cycle of action and inaction. Walk with her through her life’s ups and downs
By Natalie Dorman
Full Circle
Six days and 1,100 miles. If you can spare both of them, our travel writer has the road trip for you: an adventurous drive all the way around Lake Michigan
By Mario Quadracci
Real Meat
Cutting it in the butcher shop business isn’t easy – not with the Pick ‘n Saves in town – but these local mom-and-pops prove they’ll never be antiquated.
By Jim Hazard
Departments
Outfront
A particular kind of impact gauge
Letters
We love feedback, positive or not
This Month
Zillions of outdoor and indoor things to do.
Edited by Charlene Mills
Insider
Dicey issues and the people facing them. Working up a sweat over jazz and table tennis.
Edited by Natalie Dorman
-Pressroom Confidential
TV news reporters invite viewers to share their personal health issues. Manipulative or
legitimate news?
By Peter Robertson
-Inside Views
Fashion, coffee, antiques, gravestones, cocktails.
Edited by Ann Christenson
Dining Out
Crazy-busy Maggiano’s Little Italy and the results of our annual Readers’ Choice Awards.
By Ann Christenson
Arts
UWM’s inova gallery is “outova.” What brought it down?
By Thomas Connors
Your Health
A very intimate look at brain surgery by a writer/cancer survivor who has undergone it herself
By M. Van Clief
Dining Guide
Browse our listing of area restaurants in the supplement in the center of this issue
Endgame
Out state has plenty of good business-women. So why are so few of them leaders?
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
