January/February 1983
Volume 8
Number 1
Features
The Joy of Jukeboxes
Gather up some spare change and join us for a musical tour through Milwaukee bars that includes everything from punk rock to Polish polkas.
By Deborah Miles-Ogrodzinski
The 83 Most Interesting People In Town
Last year’s collection of 82 interesting people generated so much discussion that we have assembled another group of fascinating Milwaukeeans.
By the Editors
The Ordeal
The police needed someone to convict for rape and murder, and Francis Hemauer made a perfect suspect. As it turned out, he was innocent – but that would be proven only after he spent nine years in jail.
By James Romenesko
First Annual Silliness, Chicanery and General Buffoonery Awards
As a way of bidding farewell to the year no is sorry to see the last of, we’ve collected the comic high points of life and times in the Milwaukee area during the past twelve months.
Compiled by the Editors
Money in the Bank
A consumer’s guide to savings, checking, certificates of deposit and other services offered by local banks and savings and loans.
Compiled by Jane M. Dretzka
Departments
Letters
Inside Milwaukee
The long-awaited results of November’s “What Does The Mayor Do All Day?” contest. . . a rash of Woody Allen lookalikes. . . and what a one-time Journal reporter had to say about his former employer in a recent article for a professional journalists’ magazine.
Sure Things
How to stay busy during winter: Go to a computer school, or sit back and enjoy some authentic Wisconsin folk music.
By Judith P. Woodburn
Calendar
Compiled by Molly Malloy
Restaurants Listings
Milwaukee Classified
Columns
Out Front
Restaurants
Chatting with dolphins and eating lion at the Natatorium.
By Willard Romantini
Nightbeat
Chasing spirits in the night.
By Perry M. Lamek
The Fine Arts
Two approaches to community theater — the Sunset Playhouse and the Waukesha Civic Theater.
By Bruce Murphy
Endgame
What’s wrong with the Wisconsin Republican Party, and how to fix it.
By Richard G. Klein
ON THE COVER
Four of the 83 Most Interesting People In Town (clockwise from top left): Jazz singer Penny Goodwin, Federal Judge Terence Evans, Father John Naus, S.J., and ballerina Michelle Lucci; photographed by James Schnepf.
