November 2006

November 2006

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…

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

 

Mail

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