Mar
08
The Agile Architect
Aisha Motlani CityscapeNo wonder so many architecture students fail to go the distance, or if they do manage to drag themselves through the minimum 7 years it takes to qualify with a few shreds of their ego still intact, eventually decide to surrender themselves to a less painf
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Jun
12
Tackling the Triangle
Aisha Motlani CityscapeSome of you may be aware of plans to improve the 5th Ward/ Walker’s Point area that were outlined in a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal’s Cue section. I went along to 5th Ward Development Association on Tuesday night at the new Café Lun
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Feb
29
Green is Good...Greening is Better
Aisha Motlani CityscapeIn response to Jim Draeger's comment, it would seem people are gradually becoming aware that the idea of out with the old, in with the new is not always a viable option for greening our enviroment (though many continue to believe it's cheaper to start fr
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Mar
06
Picasso at the Petlz
Aisha Motlani CityscapeEven a modest selection of his work shows the range of expression of which Picasso was capable. Take the collection of his etchings, lithographs, aquatints and linocuts on display at the Peltz Gallery through March 15.
Though informally arranged on the w
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Mar
12
New Developments in Park East
Aisha Motlani CityscapeI was in the Park East neighborhood today to check out a couple of new developments: The almost complete Flatiron building on the corner of N. Jefferson and Water, and Convent Hill, also on N. Jefferson.
The former is a rather snazzy structure which
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Mar
07
Long Live Shadows
Aisha Motlani CityscapeWhat in Mies' name can explain our obsession with glass? Ever since the God of Detail himself began wrapping his buldings with the stuff it seems to have retained a vice-grip on the designer's imagination. At best its proliferation in new buildings exhibi
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Oct
15
Gallery Night Openings
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Here are a few gallery openings which we weren't able to include in the print issue of the paper.
Here's a link to the print listings.
Paper Boat Gallery and Boutique
2375 S. Howell Ave.
Prints by
Kimberly Weiss (Milwaukee)
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Mar
02
Holy Cow!
Aisha Motlani CityscapeWhimsical: Capricious, fanciful, subject to erratic, unpredictable behavior. The result of an unrestrained imagination. A word which, I believe, is applied to art that we neither like nor understand but which we're nontheless afraid of criticizing. It's k
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Feb
26
Continuity Vs. Change
Aisha Motlani CityscapeOn Thursday Historic Milwaukee held the second in a series of four discussion panels about urban development in Milwaukee - this time concerning Milwaukee’s historic districts. Though it began as a somewhat dry presentation on how a district qualifi
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Nov
30
Hotel Hopping Part One: The Iron Horse
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
By its very nature the hotel conjures
up an especially rich and often contradictory set of associations: openness and
intimacy, public engagement and private pursuit, permanence and transience,
business and pleasure, glamour and seediness. N
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Come Join Trafficking Ends with Action for Fall 2008 Human Trafficking Awareness Week. Monday Dec. 1st "Trafficking in South East Asia." Tuesday Dec. 2nd "Human Trafficking: Two Sides of the Same Coin." Thursday Dec. 4th "Gina Allende Speaks on Human Trafficking in Wisconsin." All events will be held in the UWM Fireside Lounge starting at 7pm an
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Although separated by an ocean and multiple time zones, the Australian Outback bears remarkable resemblance to the American West. Both encompass mesas towering over rocky, dusty deserts shimmering like a mirage under unforgiving sunlight. Whip-snapping co
It can't touch Harry Potter for scope of popularity but in some pockets of pop culture, the Twilight series has reached Beatlemania in intensity. The "young adult" novels about a handsome teenage vampire boy and the mortal girl who loves him have sold 17
No, we didn't ask for an album featuring another recording of "Breathe," leading into "Time," leading into "Breathe (Reprise)," as happens on tracks two through four on Live in Gdansk. But Pink Floyd completists (we are legion) will want it anyway. Howeve
Jorge "El Guero" Hernandez may be the best-known regional Mexican artist with Milwaukee roots. Most of a decade has passed since he and brother Rogelio moved to San Antonio, but El Guero's Banda Centenario still nurtures a unique take on the often-manic D
The last decade has not been kind to Milwaukee’s German restaurants, as names like Ritter’s Inn, the Bavarian Wurst Haus and even the venerable John Ernst have all closed their doors. In fact, only two of the old-timers remain: the oldest, Mad
If you’re not from Waukesha, you’ll want to check MapQuest for directions, but it’s worth the ride. The Rochester Deli (143 E. Broadway, 262-522-9611), wedged within the labyrinth of downtown Waukesha across from the Freeman offices, is
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