by Charles Nevsimal, Mark Brautigam | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Jerry and I walk west from Charles’ studio down Lincoln Avenue through the rubble of a road under construction. We pass beneath a rail bridge and climb over a blaze-orange polypropylene safety fence, treading carefully over jackhammered sidewalks and loose piles of...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
I could feel a draft moving through Milwaukee’s Broadway Theatre Center’s rehearsal hall that snowy January afternoon. The artistic directors from Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Forward Theater Company leaned back in their folding chairs. “Whenever you are ready,”...
by Kathryn Gahl | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Foggy water. Watery fog. It enveloped the Alaskan ferry until the boat’s Chief Engineer, Miles Gopon, saw more than fog. He saw sheets of lace. Pink lace. Panties. They landed like soft light on the pilothouse floor, the last piece she removed before lifting one foot,...
by Shirley S. Abrahamson | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
In “Visible Prisons / Invisible People” (Wisconsin People & Ideas, Summer 2011) Sister Esther Heffernan posits that “[w]e are in the middle of a crisis,” with prisons “more visible today than ever before,” but filled with a large “invisible” population. According...
by Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When Bernard Gilardi died in 2008 at the age of 88 he had made nearly four hundred oil paintings. The fruits of a more than forty-year effort, these works were tucked away in the basement studio of his Milwaukee home, neatly stacked amongst files of preliminary...
by Ronnie Hess | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Readers who remember Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden’s joint memoir, A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), and The Walnut Cookbook (Ten Speed Press, 1998), written by Jean-Luc Toussaint but translated and...
