November 1990
Volume 15
Number 11
Features
Are We Driving Ourselves Crazy?
Traffic is set to explode all around us. Beating it may require us to change not just the way we drive, but the way we build our towns. A special report.
By Judith Woodburn
Away for the Weekend
A trip for every taste. And with ideas — 10 of them — ranging from country sojourns to urban shopping safaris, we’ve got something even more important: a trip you’ve never tried before.
By Lucy Saunders
The Last Days of the Struggle
Like a lot of people, Sterling Daniels was a couch potato. His trial showed he also was the kingpin who oversaw a vicious gang that blanketed Milwaukee’s North Side with cocaine.
By James Romenesko
The Most Ambitious Woman in Wisconsin
After knocking on doors day after day to get an assignment from the male-dominated newspapers of her time, Zona Gale became a legend in Milwaukee newsrooms and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama.
By Jocelyn Riley
The Look
What a few notable Milwaukeeans are wearing this fall. Plus the newest in hats and retro jewels.
By Christine R. Grant
Departments
Outfront
Getting around.
By Judith Woodburn
Letters
An earful from our readers.
The Insider
Talking race walking seriously, a look inside the city’s boards, our own 15,000-mile checkup on some area auto service departments, the mystery “pesticide” on the county links, Updates, Pressroom Confidential, Insider Reviews and more.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Metroscene
The American Indian Dance Theatre at the Pabst, photographer Robert Adams at Dean Jensen Gallery, Penn & Teller’s “Refrigerator Tour” at the Riverside and Richard Lippold sculpture at the Haggerty.
By Christine R. Grant and Dawn M. Behr
Dining Guide
Restaurants galore, plus news from area kitchens and a zesty Szechuan Meal of the Month.
Columns
Business
Have all those fantastic deals the Milwaukee Redevelopment Corporation put together in the early ‘80s just given it bigger laurels on which to rest?
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Performing Arts
Like proverbial prophets, the Fine Arts Quartet gets little recognition at home, but abroad they’re acknowledged as one of the best chamber groups at work today.
By Bruce Murphy
Restaurants
Dinners from hard-working, creative chefs aren’t always expensive. For proof, try Brookfield’s Continental Cafe and Ken Elliot’s Downtown.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
The moment for gun control has passed. That’s just the latest tragedy.
By Judith Woodburn
On the Cover
Photograph by Dave Schlabowske.
