November 1987
Volume 12
Number 11
Features
The City Revisited
A “before and after” photographic essay about the changing face of Milwaukee.
Edited by Tom Bamberger
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Willam Proxmire didn’t just announce his retirement, he ran for it. And therein lies one of the keys to understanding Prox and his politics.
By Louis Barbash
Comic Relief
Princeton, Wisconsin, publisher Denis Kitchen is out to prove that comic books aren’t just for kids anymore.
By Kelli Peduzzi
Wisconsin By Mail
Catalog shopping may well be this decade’s biggest consumer trend. Here’s how you can shop Wisconsin without leaving your easy chair.
By Anne Stratton
Interior Motives
Chairs worthy of distinction as four-legged art, news in wallcoverings and hand-crafted plasterwork for your home.
Departments
OutFront
To cook a cat.
Letters
To Mil Mag, with devotion and dismay.
The Insider
Our biggest Insider ever, with the inside scoop on the pals behind the politicians, Crazy Lenny’s price codes, obscure Wisconsin inventions, and the new Review Page — capsule evaluations of the good, the bad and the funny events and offerings of recent weeks, which should prove once and for all that just about anything is reviewable.
By The Editors
Misc.
Some puzzling “who-done-its” to solve, a deck of cards for art lovers and more.
By Victoria Vaccarello
Metroscene
A preview of the Segel photography collection, the Art Museum’s most important acquisition this decade; the work of black photojournalist Moneta Sleet Jr. at the Public Library and more.
Edited by Dawn M. Behr
Dining Guide
Milwaukee’s most complete restaurant listings.
Columns
Business
What fuels Wisconsin Energy Corporation’s Charlie McNeer? A most revealing portrait of the men behind Milwaukee’s civic renaissance.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Wisconsin, D.C.
Marquette University’s Jim Sankovitz lobbies to keep the taxation hounds at bay.
By Louis Barbash
Performing Arts
The Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra’s Stephen Colburn gets a lesson in being a super conductor.
By Bruce Murphy
Film
First-rate fantasy in The Princess Bride, and a peek behind the curtain of confusion of Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance.
By Michael Wilmington
Restaurants
Two area dining spots where comfort is the key to quality.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
What the mayoral candidates really were debating about.
By Bruce Murphy
On The Cover:
Milwaukee City Hall circa 1936 by Murdoch Photographing Company, and 1987 by Tom Bamberger.
