December 2005
Volume 30
Number 12
Features
Cheap Eats
Scenario: You’ve got great taste but don’t want to spend a lot of dough. Done, 40 times over.
By Ann Christenson
School of Song
It’s like painting pictures and learning long division. Writing a good song takes work. That’s one of the first things musician/ songwriting swami John Sieger’ll tell ya.
By Perry M. Lamek
Under Fire
There’s no predictability to the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent decisions. A longtime court watcher examines the justices, the cases and the climate.
Departments
Outfront
We’ve redecorated
By Bruce Murphy.
Letters
The thoughts that truly count.
Events
Swanky jazz, dance fever, traipsing Coward, a medieval Christmas and many more.
The Insider
Frosty welcomes, a Downey tribute, an FBI guy and Marshfield’s major player.
Pressroom
What will WISN Radio do without Steve “The Homer” True?
By Peter Robertson
Reviews
Wheatgrass juice, rhapsodic poems.
Gossip
Dropping names – Laurel Prieb to Edie Falco.
Column: In Public
If Mitchell International Airport is visitors’ first visual introduction to our city, then eek!
By Tom Bamberger
Column: Murphy’s Law
Orville wants less; Pier Wisconsin keeps costing more.
By Bruce Murphy
Savvy City
Home
Furnishings from Tibet, India, Ethiopia.
Where to Shop
Like truth, the perfect gift is out there.
Real Estate
Bucolic, charismatic cottages.
Dining Guide
Getting better by the minute: mini reviews to use, news from the trenches and restaurants – oh boy, have we got restaurants.
Endgame
Before Milwaukee can be a great city, it needs an enlightened transit plan.
By Kurt Chandler
