November 2002
Volume 27
Number 11
Features
Us vs. Them
Mention “school choice” at your next dinner party and then cover your ears. Both sides of this dicey issue bring out all their verbal ammo.
By Kurt Chandler
The Other Side of Darkness
Heard this one before? Under-age female, victim of sexual assault by a male. What about adult female perpetrators and their boy victims? The lesser-known abuse.
By Pegi Taylor with Stanley Mallach
Best Places to Work: Small Companies
For many reasons, little start-ups are gaining prestige, while the big guys go belly up. Twenty of them may make you, well, a little jealous.
By Erik Gunn
The Rebirth of Modern
A home that manages to be warm and contempo-sleek at the same time.
By Colleen Heather Rogan
Departments
Out front
Issues that divide us.
By John Fennell
Letters
Disagree with us. We don’t mind.
This Month
Boxed items are our editors’ picks – events that have a spark or story behind them.
Edited by Charlene Mills
Insider
Ballsy people from Bay View to Chile to the cyber highways. And a resourceful modern muralist.
Edited by Natalie Dorman
Pressroom Confidential
Think much? The Shepherd’s “tense” error.
By Helen Pauly
Inside Views
Mark Twain-isms and Sans-a-belt slacks: six sets of eyes on very different sights.
Edited by Ann Christenson
Insider Travel
The blues in Chicago, an inn in Rural, a Frisbee in Dretzka Park
By Mario Quadracci
Dining Out
Milwaukee, foreign tongue capitol of the U.S. of A.
By Ann Christenson
Your Health
The itches you shouldn’t scratch
By Carolyn B. Alfvin
Dining Guide
Eat your way through town with this.
Endgame
Kids in our child welfare system get the short end of the stick.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
On The Cover
Teresa Germano (front), Jeff Young and Kristi Feuling, Creative Business Interiors Inc. Photographed by Kevin J. Miyazaki.
