July 1998
Volume 23
Number 7
Features
25 Great Summer Dates
Has the mundaneness of life with your honey bunny gotten you down? You don’t need a therapist, you just need to get out more.
By Peter Robertson
Pains and Needles
Desperate after modern medicine failed to heal her broken back, a writer finds relief in an ancient form of therapy – acupuncture.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Sunday Drive
There’s nothing easy about it. NASCAR racing is hard and risky – and packing the stands at State Fair Park, site of the Milwaukee Mile.
By Perry M. Lamek
Tree of Life
Reporter Paul G. Hayes writes of his visit to Costa Rica with Milwaukee Public Museum researchers as they gather specimens for a new exhibit.
At Home: Summer
Bringing the inside out for top-notch entertaining.
By Colleen Heather Rogan
Departments
Outfront
Voices of summer.
By John Fennell
Letters
The responses to what we do.
Calendar
A month of to-dos, plus what we love the most.
Restaurant Guide
Flip over here when you’re hungry.
The Insider
Selling fuit, saving Amtrak, banding together and simply acting.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Pressroom Confidential
The Point: morning radio at its best or worst?
By Peter Robertson
City Slants
The biggest variety of voices and viewpoints.
Edited by Bruce Murphy
Inside Buys
Let’s talk about discounts, a lively topic.
By Colleen Heather Rogan
Health & Medicine
The well-balanced woman.
By Carolyn B. Alfvin
Dining Etcetera
Why we love West Allis and Tosa and…
By Ann Christenson
Endgame
When Tommy’s bad, he’s very bad.
By Bruce Murphy
On the Cover:
Photograph by Tim Evans.
Styling: Mary Kay Matthiesen
Shoes courtesy of DSW
