November
2011
Volume 36
Number 11
Features
Setting Sail
A
“cascading” roof, Idaho quartz walls and hemlock ceilings. No, you’ve never
seen a house like this one before.
By Kurt
Chandler
The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class
Since the
1970s, there’s been a widening wealth gap between the haves and have-nots.
What’s to blame? Technology? The dissolution of unions? Or is it tied to
workers’ diminished access to stock options?
By Erik Gunn
Cheesehead Confidential
Greatest
Packers quarterback of all time? Most despised opponent? In our first-ever
online Packers poll, we don’t pull any punches. Neither do our readers.
Edited by
Evan Solochek
Me and the Mob
Ned Day
eschewed “dull.” Breaking his connections with Milwaukee’s Mafia, this
hard-living former ‘Stallis boy became a muckraking reporter. And the drama
didn’t end there.
By Tom
Matthews
Departments
Editor’s
Letter
Something
Happened
By Bruce
Murphy
Mail
Don’t be
lax. Send a letter.
Events
UW-Milwaukee’s
new dance chair bridges Latin American and Midwest cultures. And you get your
calendar out because our arts critics are talking.
Insider
Lead
The strange
saga of a Milwaukee company and a blood red river in El Salvador.
Vignettes
Backyard
beehives and pawn shop parables.
Reviews
Engrossing
little reads.
The Mil
Notable,
quotable and totable.
Home
Living with
less—much less.
Style
Fur for
fall.
The Observer
Squabbling
has turned the Wisconsin Supreme court into a national joke. Its mediator, a
man criticized and misunderstood.
By Bruce
Murphy
Dining
Delafield’s
substitute for Sicily. And Asian cravings? Try Mejj.
By Ann
Christenson
Point of
View
Our new
Q&A column probes Rishi Tea founder Joshua Kaiser
By Cristina
Daglas
