May 2005

May 2005

May 2005 Volume 30 Number 5   Features Restaurants of the Year The few, the proud, the 25. Our dining bright lights join four notable new places and three chef dynamos. A package deal. By Ann Christenson   A Fall From Grace Former Ald. Jeff Pawlinski spent seven months in prison for embezzlement. With Pawlinski’s life irrevocably changed, what’s left for him? By Kurt Chandler   The Lesson Two elementary schools, one valuable lesson about the achievement gap between white and African-American kids. By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl   On the Cover Roots Restaurant & Cellar’s seared scallops. Photographed…

May 2005

Volume 30

Number 5

 

Features

Restaurants of the Year

The few, the proud, the 25. Our dining bright lights join four notable new places and three chef dynamos. A package deal.

By Ann Christenson

 

A Fall From Grace

Former Ald. Jeff Pawlinski spent seven months in prison for embezzlement. With Pawlinski’s life irrevocably changed, what’s left for him?

By Kurt Chandler

 

The Lesson

Two elementary schools, one valuable lesson about the achievement gap between white and African-American kids.

By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl

 

On the Cover

Roots Restaurant & Cellar’s seared scallops.

Photographed by Kevin J. Miyazaki

 

Departments

Outfont

The folks who bring you the stories.

 

This Month

Leaping ballerinas; plays, plays and more plays; profound strings; a last performance.

Edited by Charlene Mills.

 

The Insider

Cop complaints, Calatrava now, a Latino force and “ The Mil,” our new monthly column.

Edited by Natalie Dorman

 

Pressroom Confidential

A bozo move by a star Journal Sentinel columnist.

By Peter Robertson

 

Critical Eyes

Skee-ball, burger tees, teen angst and the meeting of wine and art.

 

Savvy City

Home

20th century foxes.

 

Real Estate

The going rate to own “Up North.”

 

Style

Urban-chic kids’ wear.

 

Travel

Housboat or B&B?

 

Sports

Brewers owner Mark Attanasio: wooing us from L.A.

By Daniel Libit

 

Your Health

The painful truth about back pain. And a new way to end it.

By Janine S. Pouliot

 

Dining Guide

Antigua’s Downtown breakfast tops the monthly best bets. Our restaurant listings are more than 300 strong and growing.

 

Nightlife

Poetry and pretty people.

 

Endgame

We elected Scott Walker to reform the county pension system. So why didn’t he do it?

By Bruce Murphy