March 2002

March 2002

March 2002 Volume 27 Number 3   Departments Outfront Word power. By John Fennell   Letters Need a pen?   This Month The Trojans are coming, as are drawing Germans and even a dancing German. Plus (a big plus) a bra like you’ve never seen worn. Edited by Charlene Mills   Insider Sheboygan’s whorehouse past, Daron Sutton’s wide-eyed enthusiasm, an art school’s future. Edited by Natalie Dorman   Pressroom Confidential Memo to all media: Beware of lawyer-dads. By Peter Robertson   Q & A Two Shorewood filmmakers – but not the Zucker brothers. By Natalie Dorman   Inside Views Gator…

March 2002

Volume 27

Number 3

 

Departments

Outfront

Word power.

By John Fennell

 

Letters

Need a pen?

 

This Month

The Trojans are coming, as are drawing Germans and even a dancing German. Plus (a big plus) a bra like you’ve never seen worn.

Edited by Charlene Mills

 

Insider

Sheboygan’s whorehouse past, Daron Sutton’s wide-eyed enthusiasm, an art school’s future.

Edited by Natalie Dorman

 

Pressroom Confidential

Memo to all media: Beware of lawyer-dads.

By Peter Robertson

 

Q & A

Two Shorewood filmmakers – but not the Zucker brothers.

By Natalie Dorman

 

Inside Views

Gator boots ($715!), gardens (ready!), wienies and coffee (together?) and, yes, more.

Edited by Ann Christenson

 

Inside Travel

Wright country, water rides, wolves – yep, it’s still winter.

By Mario Quadracci

 

Your Health

The fascinating, amazing fluid called blood.

By Carolyn B. Alfvin

 

Dining Guide

Fine dining, dining on the cheap, dining with friends or long-lost relatives. Restaurants for every occasion are here.

 

Spin City

The skinny – positive or negative – on some prominent local folks.

By Bruce Murphy

 

On the Cover

Photograph by Kevin J. Miyazaki

 

Features

The Ivory Tower: A New Take

Behind the “Milwaukee Idea” is a spunky cheerleader named Nancy Zimpher. The energetic UWM chancellor is in a Catch-22 – her biggest fans are also her biggest critics. And it’s not because of her wild stockings….

By Kurt Chandler

 

THE SOUP CHANNEL

Which came first – the bowl or the spoon? Let’s ponder that question over lunch. You choose from 19 hot places.

By Ann Christenson

 

ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL

How Tom Ament and his cronies slipped the pension plan past everyone. Why Ament did it. And what the Journal Sentinel knew but didn’t report.

By Bruce Murphy

 

HOME FROM AFAR

Exquisite treasures from far-flung places inspire the renovation of a historic East Side relic.

By Colleen Heather Rogan