Category Archives: Events

Thanks for the memories: The Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Milwaukee Organizing Committee, Viet Nam, the Draft, Race Riots, Assassinations, Music, Poetry, Sit-ins, Be-ins, Marches.

In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee embarked on a long-term, multi-departmental research project focused on the Avant Garde Coffeehouse, a local landmark and center of the folk/blues revival in Wisconsin from 1962 to 1968. There were places like this in other areas, but, in Wisconsin, none as important as the Avant Garde. It presented local […]

A wonderful dining experience… lunch with Tanya…

What more could one ask for? Warm sunlight… the company of one’s daughter… and Cafe Corazon serving delightfully fresh and flavorful food, wonderful service and and great value in a remarkable environment. This working class neighborhood also contains many memories… from my living in “Riverwest” as a student… and this being the neighborhood where my parents actually […]

Teach your youngsters: “No. Yell. Go. Tell.”

This past Friday evening Sophia and I spent an hour at Black Belt Leadership Academy. It was the third and last introductory class offered in cooperation with the neighborhood recreation department. Among other useful teachings Sensei Mark Weinberg taught the young students how to handle being approached by “strangers.” He recommended they remember four words, […]

Global Union 2012 – The dancers

Alverno College held their annual Global Union concert in Humboldt Park; on the south side of Milwaukee; this past Saturday – a gorgeous, hot, sunny, late summer day. The music, with its varied ethnic inspirations, always brings many to their feet and sets their bodies in motion. You can see many more of these dancers in […]

What are friends for?

Wendell Berry wrote, “Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as […]