June 1999
Volume 24
Number 6
Features
10×10
One hundred ways to put the town in your back pocket – from shopping and dancing to eating and festival-hopping.
By The Editors
Summer Nights
This luscious essay of images is the stuff of songwriters, poets and photographers.
Photographs by Tom Bamberger
Legends, Myths and Tall Tales
Do you believe in the bestial Hodag, the Little People, the Ridgeway Ghost? Whether you do or not, you’ll understand why these state stories are still kept warm by the fire.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Time Honoring
We don’t eat hot ham and rolls for the heck of it or go Up North just for kicks. There’s something spiritual and life-affirming about these familiar local traditions.
By The Editors
Wind in Your Sail
Maybe you’ve never sailed before or maybe you’ve sailed a million times. You’ll still want to get your hands on this when-where-how guide to boating in local waters.
By Michael H. Drew
Milwaukee Made Easy
Meteorological tidbits, financial factoids and other figures that make this town ours and ours alone.
By Sarah Salp
Insider
Quirk City
Wacky places that lay the character on real thick.
By Dan Murphy
Brew Tours
The torch has been passed to the little guys.
By Jim Hazard
Walking Easy
The best local walks for a variety of moods.
By Peter Robertson
Departments
Outfront
The value of urban life.
By John Fennell
Special Delivery
Health update: a guide to the influx of specialty care centers.
By Kathleen Winkler
The Learning Track
College majors of the moment and other trends in higher education.
By Janine S. Pouliot
Events & Attractions
Usher in 2000 and celebrate the city with reckless abandon.
Restaurant Guide
Summer brings many dining gifts and you can only read about them here.
Endgame
One scribe’s happy marriage with Milwaukee.
By C.J. Hriba
On the Cover
City image with sign by Tim Evans
Alternate cover photo by
Dave LaHaye, Department of City Development
