November 1994
Volume 19
Number 11
Features
Warming Up Winter
Catered Comfort: How to make your next party a culinary smash. By Ann Christenson
Fun & Games: The pros who take entertaining beyond charades. By Carolyn B. Alfvin
Wine Savvy: Raising your wine IQ and finding the perfect bottle. By Dennis Kois Jr.
A Loss of Trust
Powerful business leaders who hoped to turn around the city’s public schools instead did a reversal of their won. Now they’ve turned Milwaukee into the nation’s leading city for private school choice.
By Bruce Murphy and Terrance Falk
Rush Limbaugh of the Left
Media critic Dave Berkman is bullheaded, blunt and brazen, and he promises to rankle the local media establishment to the end.
By James Romenesko
Special Advertising Section
Driving ’95: A look at the new car lines.
By Scott R. Weinberger
Departments
Outfront
The electronic connection.
By John Fennell
Letters
Arreola’s beef, Fabre puffery and an insult.
The Insider
Brain-powered nuns fighting Alzheimer’s, fooling around with fat and palatable job applications.
Edited by Stephen Filmanowicz
Pressroom Confidential
How The Journal plays ball with Bud Selig and conducts a mass interview with the archbishop.
By James Romenesko
City Slants
Broadcast McGee, hoppy ales and juvenile indoor amusement.
Edited by Bruce Murphy
Dining Etcetera
Roadhouse roughage and Greek goodies.
Endgame
Who are all those private consultants and why does Milwaukee County spend so much on them?
By Bruce Murphy
On the Cover
Photo/Chris Corsmeier; stylist/Chrissie Peters; jumpsuit/Olivers; glasses, tray/Fleischmann Supply Co. Inc.; model/Amy Verbick, Arlene Wilson Talent.
M Magazine
Main Events
A bayou queen, a Kentucky whittler and a U.K. stomp fest.
Feature: Unwelcome Walls
Those dreaded expressway sound barriers: ugly but necessary?
Last Seen
A critic reborn, or how the season openers opened.
Sneak Peeks
Monster Mania
Sound Bites
Grooving to Pearl Jam sheet music, courtesy of Hal Leonard
Restaurant Guide
A fowl holiday table, fluttering and shuttering and lotsa listings.
Dining: Low-fat Meals
Keeping the flavor intact
