December 1992
Volume 17
Number 12
Features
A Feast of Old Milwaukee
‘Tis the season for throwing your arms around the world. Read on for a holiday meal (recipes included!) as diverse as life outside your back door.
By Willard Romantini
The Longest Wait
For thousands of people needing heart transplants, only a precious few organ donors are available. The voices in our story tell tales of courage and express enduring petitions for help.
By Carolyn Bucior Alfvin
Mr. Saturday Morning
Being dubbed the “Luke Perry of the literati” is no small feat, even when you’re the greatest thing to hit public radio airwaves since Garrison Keillor. Seven years ago, an ex-nerd named Michael Feldman debuted his “Whad’Ya Know?” show on American Public Radio. Now all of America is tuning in.
By Perry M. Lamek
Endangered Species
With many first-rate exhibits and a covetous national reputation, the Milwaukee Public Museum is light-years ahead of museums in other cities. So why might it be inching toward extinction?
By Bruce Murphy
Death in the Stationhouse
Amid the cultural clashes of Italian immigrants 75 years ago, a bomb exploded at the Milwaukee Police Department’s Central Station, resulting in 10 casualties. Step back to a time when a suspicious-looking box wasn’t enough to raise an MPD eybrow.
By Michael Horne
Departments
Outfront
Taking to heart readers’ comments, gripes and (eureka!) kudos.
By John Fennell
Letters
Cheers and jeers for witches, and Bradley Commission blows off steam.
The Insider
The family that knows no limits, gifts that keep on giving, shoes that last, furry friends saved for posterity, Pressroom Confidential and The Insider Review.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Metroscene
A forgotten artist, a to-die-for chocolate fest, dancing dames, wild jazz, Bucks mania and ways to merrily celebrate the holidays.
Edited by Ann Christenson
Dining Guide
A trattoria-in-the-making, oodles of Thai food and gobs of restaurants to suit your fancy.
Columns
Architecture
Third Ward streetscaping: Was simplicity sacrificed for invention’s sake?
By Judith Woodburn
Restaurants
For inexpensive lunches and dazzling, back-to-basics dinners, try one of the city’s newest upscale haunts: The Central Grill.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
Now that the election is over and the baby boomers are in charge, will this new generation lead or dwell deeper in the land of self-help books?
By Charles J. Sykes
On the Cover
Photograph by Huibregtse Photography. Pictured: the Olive Tree Café’s Silvestros Sotiriadis with Challah from Miller’s Bakery.
