Advoken's Blog
Just another WordPress.com weblog
Category: Neighborhoods
-
How about re-establishing the Mitchell Park Domes as the city’s icon? For years, it had been used to symbolize Milwaukee, only to be deposed by the Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum and its spreading wings on the lakefront. Yes, the Domes are in need of serious and costly repairs, but the dramatic geodesic structures are more…
-
Many of us have looked for removal of Sheriff David Clarke from office, not only for his outlandish views on matters like gun violence (arm yourself citizens, he once urged), immigration abuses (round ‘em up and ship them back) and policing (I’ll clean up city neighborhoods better than Milwaukee police), but also because of his…
-
There was a time when you could tell by your nose where you were in Milwaukee. When you felt the sour, sweet odors of animal renderings impregnate your senses you knew you were likely crossing the old 6th Street viaduct; scattered across the acres under the bridge and to either side stood Milwaukee’s thriving packinghouse…
-
A Review: “Time & Place ‘In the life of B and K,’” by Khalil Coleman. Publisher: Changing Lives Through Literature, PO Box 76169, Milwaukee WI 53216, $13.00. 40 pages. Still in his early 20s, Khalil Coleman is determined to change the fortunes of young male African-Americans, and he’s turning to literature to help make it…
Advoken's Blog 