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
