May 1987

May 1987

May 1987 Volume 12 Number 5   Features Pick of t h e Crop A special book excerpt in which our erstwhile restaurant critic sorts the wheat from the chaff and reveals his favorite dining spots for 1987. By Willard Romantini   Milwaukee in the Year 2020 Once again, our metropolitan psyche undergoes therapy, this time as part of an international contest to design the Milwaukee of the future. By Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck   The Education of Danny Katz Is Dan Katz the enfant terrible of Downer Avenue? The big bad landowner shafting the peasantry? Or is he just a…

May 1987

Volume 12

Number 5

 

Features

Pick of t h e Crop A special book excerpt in which our erstwhile restaurant critic sorts the wheat from the chaff and reveals his favorite dining spots for 1987.

By Willard Romantini

 

Milwaukee in the Year 2020

Once again, our metropolitan psyche undergoes therapy, this time as part of an international contest to design the Milwaukee of the future.

By Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

 

The Education of Danny Katz

Is Dan Katz the enfant terrible of Downer Avenue? The big bad landowner shafting the peasantry? Or is he just a young businessman who made some mistakes? Judge for yourself.

By James Romenesko

 

Interior Motives

The well-tempered bath: No longer merely functional, today’s bathrooms have become as fashionable as any room in the house.

By Victoria Vaccarello

 

Departments

OutFront

 

Letters

To Mil Mag, with love and loathing.

 

The Insider

Some self-reportage on the editorial shake-up at MilwaukeeMagazine, the traitor of the month, George Mitchell’s battle with the Milwaukee Public Schools and more, more, more.

By the Editors

 

Special Advertising Section

Our annual guide to dining out in Milwaukee.

 

Misc.

A sourcebook for the gastronomically adventurous.

By Victoria Vaccarello

 

Metroscene

Nothing so merry as the month of May.

Edited by Daum M. Behr

 

Columns

Business

Big changes in the city’s economy mean big changes in who leads Milwaukee. Some say it means better decision-making.

By Helen Pauly

 

Books

A Wisconsin author’s best-selling new biography of King Henry VIII suggests that maybe old Hank wasn’t such a bad guy after all.

By Jocelyn Riley

 

Fine Arts

For a little museum, the Haggerty Museum at Marquette University is stirring up a lot of controversy.

By Bruce Murphy

 

Restaurants

Two American-style restaurants come back from the dead and play to standing-room-only crowds, by Willard Romantini

 

Art

Intimidated by artwork? Having trouble telling which end is up? Check out this consumer’s guide to bad art.

By Tom Bamberger

 

Endgame

In its heady quest to build a better highway, has the Department of Transportation forgotten about the people who will be driving on it?

By Bruce Murphy

 

On The Cover: Photography by Huibregtse Photography.