November 2006
Volume 31
Number 11
Features
The Soft Revolution
Stores look like houses. Libraries look like homes. A mushy formlessness has taken over newer suburban architecture, with weird results.
By Tom Bamberger
Catholics in Crisis
One of the nation’s most Catholic archdioceses is hurting bad. Can new outreach programs and a super-salesman archbishop win back people’s trust?
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Little Big House
Great interiors: How an Elm Grove family turned a 44-room house into a cozily designed home.
By Colleen Heather Rogan
Departments
Outfront
Catholics at a crossroads.
By Bruce Murphy
Envelopes unleashed.
Events
The dance of sports, the contortions of romance and addressing legal issues with a quilt.
Insider
A Harvard con man, the midwives’ triumph and a star chef drives a tractor.
Pressroom
The McBride media matter.
First Person
A mouth that paints, speaks.
The Mil
A lights-up ticker of notables.
Reviews
Good like candy.
Savvy City
Home
Tabletops explode.
Where to Shop
Bayshore Town Center unmolds.
Real Estate
Four stories and the neighborhood scolds.
Travel
Remaking your man in Kohler
By Mario Quadracci
Profile
Can Sue Black’s outspoken, take-charge style save Milwaukee’s once-spectacular parks system?
By Susan Nusser
Dining
Racine’s Yellow Rose and gentrified Caribbean food, with reviews on the side and bottomless listings.
Endgame
How to end the war between Milwaukee and Madison.
By Bruce Murphy
