September 2008
Volume 33
Number 9
Features
Where I’m From
Oprah, Gene Wilder, Tony Romo, Peter Straub. All successful people with local roots. Learn how Wisconsin shaped them, along with 29 others.
By Julie Sensat Waldren
S is for Stakeout
What fella or doll wouldn’t want to be a gumshoe? Staking out crime scenes as thick with drama as the smoke around a lit Pall Mall. But a glamorous life? Hmm.
By Kurt Chandler
Center Stage
Our annual Fine Arts Guide helps you decide which performances look tops this season, plus a peek at the challenges facing arts groups right now.
By Paul Kosidowski
Fashion
Fierce fall looks incorporating fur and leather
By Nicole Weresch
Departments
Outfront
Beginnings
By Bruce Murphy
Mail
Thoughts, opinions, perspectives
Events
Wild Space in a wild space. Andre and Andreas, Lombardi on stage and other best bets.
Insider
Blasting a bronze rebirth, tagging twisters.
First Person
Life’s a kick for this coach
Pressroom
What took down MKE
Reviews
Five Milwaukee “snapshots.”
The Mil
People get their paragraph of fame
Savvy
Home
Your throne – er, bed – awaits
Shopping
Fairy food, back-to-school cool.
Real Estate
A pliable Parade
Health
Robotic surgery and virtual therapy. What’s next?
By Christine Gardner
Collecting
A what’s hot/what’s not list for antique buffs
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Dining
Brady’s eye for Thai, Third Ward’za and a Parisian pick-me-up.
By Ann Chistenson
Endgame
The state legislature seems to want restaurants to keep their ashtrays.
By Kurt Chandler
