May 1988
Volume 13
Number 5
Features
1988 Dining Guide
Where prominent Milwaukeeans dine when they’re all alone, Willard’s Greatest Hits, plus Milwaukee’s most complete restaurant listings.
By Willard Romantini
Who Killed Jacobus Park?
Parts of Jacobus Park, one of Milwaukee’s two original parks, nearly had the life stamped out of them when condos were built right at the edge of the park’s bluff. Who’s to blame? The developer? The county? The environmentalists themselves?
By James Romenesko
The Hired gun
Todd Robert Murphy has dazzled politicos with is suddenly giant p.r. empire and now they’re scrambling for his strategic wisdom. But is Murphy’s kingdom for real, or is it (ahem) just p.r.?
By Perry M. Lamek
Milwaukee Indoors & Out
Summer’s nearly here and it’s time again to start contemplating home and garden. We’ve got the round-up on what the experts have to say about redesigning your life. Plus, where to go for the best antiques.
By Ann Stratton
Departments
OutFront
An investigative tradition.
By Judith Woodburn
Letters
You, too, could get published in a major metropolitan monthly.
The Insider
Why international graduate students, who UWM said couldn’t speak English well enough to teach, were still allowed to teach; what’s become of the Italian Community Center’s Coachyards project; and the FBI’s missing Milwaukee files. Plus Pressroom Confidential and more.
Edited by Simon N. Dumenco
Dining Guide
Can’t decide where to eat? Just turn to Milwaukee Magazine every month.
Misc.
State-of-the-art “plants,” what to do when you can’t stand your couch, and the case of the bare-chested armoire.
By Victoria Vaccarello
Metroscene
The Milwaukee Art Museum’s centennial continues, the PM Ballet swats to Swan Lake, Theatre X presents a revisionist History of Sexuality.
Edited by Dawn M. Behr
Columns
Wisconsin, D.C.
So where have all the really good candidates gone?
By Louis Barbash
Business
How do we cultivate a sense of ethics in a business world full of Boeskys and Iacoccas?
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Performing Arts
Is his corps de ballet really ragged or does the PM Ballet’s Robert Weiss just have a different idea of how his dancers should dance?
By Bruce Murphy
Restaurants
The family that runs a restaurant together stays together.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
Who really won last month’s elections?
By Bruce Murphy
On The Cover:
Photography by Tom Fritz.
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