December 1993
Volume 18
Number 12
Features
Help for the Holidays
With a million and one things to do to get ready for the holidays, who has time to enjoy them? But don’t fret: Our guide will help you find local services to clean the house, get a party off the ground, run errands and even get the kinks out of your back so you don’t spend the holidays feeling and looking like Ebenezer Scrooge.
By Ann Angel
The Agitators
Local activists are the forces behind a bilingual school, a thriving job-training center and a crime-busting neighborhood group. While they don’t wield the power of our most notable leaders, these uncelebrated advocates are fighting for some of the city’s most critical concerns.
By Steve Watrous
Feng Shui
To skeptics, it’s just hocus-pocus. But to proponents, feng shui, the Chinese art of arranging objects to improve productivity and prosperity, is serious business. Even conservative Milwaukee has its own guru who’ll sitr up positive energy where it’s most needed.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Rise and Dine
Today’s brunches are no longer just bacon and eggs: They’re salads and sandwiches and grilled meats and sateed pastas – ad infinitum. With your list of 11 places to eat, you can easily make the first meal of the day the best meal of the day.
By Ann Christenson
Departments
Outfront
Responding to the “yes, but” queries.
Letters
Milwaukee doesn’t need to compete with Hollywood or New York for charm.
The Insider
Wacky holiday customs from the creative fringe, an ambulatory architecture historian, guitar great Les Paul, reviews and Pressroom Confidential.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Archictecture
The new Broadway Theatre Center’s combination of Baroque architecture and artsy sight gags lavishly reminds theatergoers that they are indeed part of the show.
By Judith Woodburn
Dining Etcetera
Oodles of noodles, two frisky fish fries, Blue Mound ribs, a pub by the lake and vittles for vegans.
Endgame
Legislators want to build more highways, though trains may be a better option.
Special Advertising Section
Sports medicine: Getting back on track.
On the Cover
Photograph/ Mike Huibregtse; model/ Jillian Andersen; styling and makeup/ Cindy Bindrich, Studio 890; Lauren Siegel from Specialty Shoppers; Kurt Bartel from David J. Frank Landscape Contracting Inc.; chair/ Phoenix Design Ltd.
M Magazine
Main Events
Eclectic dance, music to soothe the holiday Grinch and an African-American theatrical premiere.
Calendar Listings
Events in music, theater and the arts – right at your fingertips.
Sneak Peeks
Julia Robert’s cinematic return, a 1993 Cannes Film Festival winner and the last Apache.
Sound Gossip
On the rock-music radio dial, Milwaukee is behind the times.
Restaurant Guide
A guide for all seasons, a Chi-town cheap eat and the latest restaurant gossip.
