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The Community Voice of Milwaukee's Left Bank
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Selected Stories and Articles, 2002

  • Does it Take a Village? Thoughts on Community Parenting

    • Some of us are ‘hood’ mommas and papas. You know, we’re positively nosey…constantly in other families’ business. It’s natural for us. I look out for and after my neighbors’ children and expect them to do the same for mine. I’m quick to inquire and to reprimand. And yeah, if I see it, I’m going to tell it! My teenage neighbors know this all too well.

  • Of Abandonment and Anger

    • If I contemplate the issue of the recent beating in this light, I am the man who was beaten to death. I am the one who gathered the gang of kids, telling them what objects to pick up and use as weapons. I am the kid who came home with blood on his Nikes.

  • Brewzerkus

    • “All entertainment is fleeting,” [Captain Stupid] explains. “Audiences are always looking for the next thing… that’s why our performances are aimed at the shocking… otherwise they wouldn’t be truly amazing…” In his quest to shock and amaze, Thomas has evolved from stilt walking, to fire eating, to laying on a bed of broken Corona beer bottles, to eating broken glass (usually from light bulbs).

  • Neighbor Spotlight: Nancy Centz
  • One Brief Shining Moment?
  • History of Garden Park, Part 1
  • History of Garden Park, Part 2
  • Gentrification: Yuppies and Artists Working Together
  • The Burning and the Trembling: Reflections on a House Fire and the Nature of Community
  • Free Boxers: Protesting Corporate Waste and Living Off the Urban Landscape
  • A Riverwest Rambler
  • Milwaukee Spring Drawing - Lessons - St. Casimir's - For All a Baby Knows
  • Riverwest Teens
  • What's Not to Like About That?
  • Me On Gentrification
  • Neighborhood Commerce
  • Who Said the Spirit of the 60s and early 70s Is Dead?
  • The Mythos of Eudemon


    • “Thank God I love foreign movies! I picked up your paper at the Oriental Theatre… I have fallen in love with Riverwest because of the wonderful people and businesses… Your staff may be underpaid, you probably need better equipment, but you love what you’re doing… that’s why I love the Riverwest Currents.”

    -- Ralph Bronner, Menomonee Falls, vice president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps

    “The January 2003 Riverwest Currents just arrived and I hungrily sat down to read it. Thanks to all for the good work of creating this wonderful paper. I have lived in Riverwest for 16 years--and I love it now more than ever. Keep up the good work!

    -- Larraine McNamara-McGraw, former 3rd District Alderwoman

    “I can’t believe how often Riverwest Currents comes up in my conversations. I always knew Riverwest was a vibrant, “happening” part of town, but your paper shows me things I didn’t even know about. You connect me to my neighborhood. Thanks.”

    -- Jackie Reid Dettloff, Pierce St. resident

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