February 2000

February 2000

Fabruary 2000 Volume 25 Number 2   Features How They Met It may be direct or otherwise circuitous; unforeseen or strictly matter-of-course.  In the game of love, everybody’s got a mating story.  Here, some candid local couples share the goods on how they got together. By Edith Brin   Behind the Wall The Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary live a cloistered but joyful life in a self-sustaining Wauwatosa monastery, believing their contributions to society are best served by solitude and eternal prayer. By Kurt Chandler   Soul Surfers Surfing in the dead of winter sounds positively insane, but dudes…

Fabruary 2000

Volume 25

Number 2

 

Features

How They Met

It may be direct or otherwise circuitous; unforeseen or strictly matter-of-course.  In the game of love, everybody’s got a mating story.  Here, some candid local couples share the goods on how they got together.

By Edith Brin

 

Behind the Wall

The Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary live a cloistered but joyful life in a self-sustaining Wauwatosa monastery, believing their contributions to society are best served by solitude and eternal prayer.

By Kurt Chandler

 

Soul Surfers

Surfing in the dead of winter sounds positively insane, but dudes who do it in their spare time swear it’s like no other rush on earth.  Learn firsthand about this unusual sport from several local masters of the wave.

By John Blum

 

Rich, Black and Angry

Influential, outspoken, black businessman Jerrel Jones is distrustful of the city’s white power structure.  Read this and you’ll know why

By Joel McNally

 

Departments

Outfront

Paths of the offbeat

By John Fennell

 

Letters

The things readers say about us

 

Calendar of Events

How your time should be spent when you’re not busy bringing home the bacon.

Edited by Charlene Mills

 

The Insider

Slippery dance moves, cold-clime trivia, a New Yorker smitten with us and other brain good.

By The Editors

 

Pressroom Confidential

Eyebrow-raising journalism awards

By Peter Robertson

Where Are They Now?

Remember Marty Burns Wolfe? Catch up on the ex-newscaster’s whereabouts and other scuttlebutt.

By James Romenesko

 

City Slants

Something for everyone – beer, fashion, music, theater

Edited by Ann Christenson

 

Dining Etcetera

Grenadier’s new family, and Lincoln Avenue’s meat-cutting brothers.

By Ann Christenson

 

Health & Medicine

What unsuspecting women may have to look forward to before menopause

By Kathleen Winkler

 

Restaurants

Do yourself a favor and hang on to this fine culinary guide for future reference

 

Endgame

Why the “good enough” diploma isn’t good enough

By Bruce Murphy