December 2000

December 2000

December 2000 Volume 25 Number 12   Features Home for the Holidays Take a peek at an East Side home so festive you’ll think Colonial Williamsburg just moved to Milwaukee By Colleen Heather Rogan   No-Nonsense Restaurants Fifteen bucks burning a hole in your pocket?  Poof – 15 budget-minded places to dine. By Ann Christenson   Undercover Nice job if you can get it. Huh? One day, savvy special agent Eric Szatkowski poses as a hitman; the next, he’s a teenage boy Web-surfing for sex. By Kris Radish   A Moment of Faith The mosaics of St. Sava Serbian Church…

December 2000

Volume 25

Number 12

 

Features

Home for the Holidays

Take a peek at an East Side home so festive you’ll think Colonial Williamsburg just moved to Milwaukee

By Colleen Heather Rogan

 

No-Nonsense Restaurants

Fifteen bucks burning a hole in your pocket?  Poof – 15 budget-minded places to dine.

By Ann Christenson

 

Undercover

Nice job if you can get it. Huh? One day, savvy special agent Eric Szatkowski poses as a hitman; the next, he’s a teenage boy Web-surfing for sex.

By Kris Radish

 

A Moment of Faith

The mosaics of St. Sava Serbian Church capture the essence of churches built long ago and far away

By Judy Ramazzini

 

High Drama

Scene-stopping elegance for evening

By Florida Perry Smith

 

Milwaukee Snapshots

Eleven local personalities seen and heard in a new light

By Mindy Benham

 

Departments

Outfront

Experiencing city life

By John Fennell

 

Letters

You’re reading us and it shows

 

This Month

Time flies when you’re having fun at the Rep, Potawatomi Bingo and Centennial Hall

Edited by Charlene Mills

 

The Insider

O.D.ing on Candy Cane Lane, a mural of money, plus hands that mold plaster and write fiction

Edited by Natalie Dorman

 

Pressroom Confidential

A respected MU teacher gets sacked. And Crocker’s coup

By Peter Robertson

 

Where Are They Now?

Ira Robins, in the after-Bambi years

By Dave Daley

 

Inside Views

Where we get in the thick of local things – stuff that makes Milwaukee Milwaukee

Edited by Ann Christenson

 

Lives

So this is the season of giving.  Read why it shouldn’t be just a once-a-year thing.

By Carolyn B. Alfvin

 

City Beat

Bras! Ask anybody with boobs what it’s like picking out a good bra and she’ll get wistful about the “girls” at Marshall Field’s

By Susan Lampert Smith

 

Your Health

Think you’re ready for liposuction? Read this first

By Janine S. Pouliot

 

Dining Guide

Do you think about eating as much as we do? Visit our comprehensive restaurant listings and you won’t be able to tear yourself away!

 

Endgame

The last outpost of old-fashioned sportsmanship on the outs? Say it ain’t so.

By Bruce Murphy