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.
