May Issue

May Issue

Features The Last Flight Talking cookies and the “Best Care in the Air” – and cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet – a Midwest Airlines captain flies us home. To the Midwest burial plot in the sky. by Dave Phipps Top Dining The bee’s knees. That’s what these 25 restaurants – and promising newcomers – are. Also, brandish your pen for our latest, greatest Readers’ Choice dining survey. by Ann Christenson The Weight of Water Milwaukee’s rep as an international leader in water technology sounds impressive, but is it legit? by Barbara Miner Departments Outfront What’s the buzz? by…

Features
The Last Flight

Talking cookies and the “Best Care in the Air” – and cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet – a Midwest Airlines captain flies us home. To the Midwest burial plot in the sky. by Dave Phipps

Top Dining
The bee’s knees. That’s what these 25 restaurants – and promising newcomers – are. Also, brandish your pen for our latest, greatest Readers’ Choice dining survey. by Ann Christenson

The Weight of Water
Milwaukee’s rep as an international leader in water technology sounds impressive, but is it legit? by Barbara Miner

Departments
Outfront
What’s the buzz? by Bruce Murphy
Mail A letter never languishes.
Events Shelby Lynne in the flesh, an exhilarating octet, and a local dancer steps into Peter Pan .

Insider Game on for the Brew Crew (it’s a head thing), the blonde in the Cadi, and the amazing, life-altering BeltSword.
First Person A young violin virtuoso.
Pressroom The Milwaukee County Board’s navel-gazing.
Reviews A luv potion, 200 high-tech amusements, and more.
The Mil Fame merits a few lines here.

Savvy Home Tools for making your garden grow.
Shopping Quality over quantity.
Real Estate A national homebuyer study likes our “stability.”

Health Torn cartilage equals an automatic trip to the operating room? Not necessarily. Physical therapy might be the ticket for some injuries. by Erin O’Donnell
Dining A guide to local restaurants? And how. edited by Ann Christenson
Endgame What might Gov. Doyle’s legacy look like? by Marc Eisen