WHO WILL TAKE THE BAIT?
Above: From Katie Musolff: Drawn from Life at the Elaine Erickson Gallery
Police Decoy Vehicle Parked in Third Ward
and
Other Musings
By Michael Horne
The Milwaukee Police Department has parked a "bait car" somewhere in the Historic Third Ward, hoping to snare the criminals who have been breaking into parked vehicles in the area. The best way to make it conspicuous, officials say, is for drivers to make sure no valuables are in sight in their own vehicles. I don't know what goodies are in the car, but police usually load them up with portable goods with sufficient value to make their theft a felony. I'll keep an eye out for it Friday, October 17th, 2008, during Gallery Night when the Ward will be a-rockin'. My priority destination is the Elaine Erickson Gallery in the Marshall Building, 207 E. Buffalo St. where Katie Musolff will be showing her recent drawings, watercolors and paintings. Mussolf, a 2004 graduate of MIAD, where she is now an instructor, is the best draughtsman in the city. Her watercolors of fish, caught by her boyfriend and captured by her as they thaw on the kitchen table, are among the best studies of the sort, and are priced to sell in the low hundreds of dollars. You can tell by the tremendous number of works dated "2008" that this woman is a nonstop worker who never hurts for ideas and who has the talent to make every piece a gem.
While in the reinforced concrete confines of the century old building, I'll head down Milwaukee's steepest stairway en route to Light Ideas, a photo gallery in the basement right next door to the highly productive studio of Reginald Baylor. Out in the hallway, I'll listen to Sarah Kozar belting out tunes with the Squeezettes, Milwaukee's premier female accordion band. Perhaps I'll be able to convince tuba player Mike Chaltry to play some tunes from the 1982 University of Wisconsin Marching Band Hymnal. Anybody in the mood for "Yank My Doodle?" I'm afraid if Chaltry plays anything else from the book, the Squeezettes will be suspended for a couple of Gallery Nights.
Before emerging from the basement, I'll say hello to Dave Bernacchi of Light Ideas and tell him I'll be seeing him Monday, October 20th at the 41st Anniversary Party for Mike Murphy's Swingin' Door Saloon and Eatery, 219 E. Michigan St. The Door has been a popular hangout for years, and Bernacchi memorialized a moment this spring on April 22nd, when the tavern's regulars posed for a group shot replicating one taken in the bar in 1933, when beer first became legal again 75 years ago. The old and new photos are on display in the bar, along with another historic pairing -- that of an 1891 photo of the exterior of the Chamber of Commerce Building when the Swingin' Door was the office of Western Union, and when the Milwaukee branch was the first in the nation to employ bicycle messengers. I wrote about the picture in the August, 2008 Milwaukee Magazine, and it was accompanied by a 2008 photograph of the same scene, but this time with today's bicycle messengers, who find the place a comfortable hangout. You can compare and contrast the two, which also hang there, as do the messengers. ... Not too far away, in the 600 block of S. 2nd St., crews are painting the old Marchese produce building for the first time ever. The ungainly cinderblock structure is now the home of the Milwaukee Brewing Company. A coat of paint covers a multitude of sins, I always say. ... You wouldn't expect a place affiliated with the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to spray herbicide on its lawn, but that's what happened earlier this week at the little pocket park on the river just north of E. St. Paul Ave. Quite unnecessary. Also unnecessary is a campaign slogan for our 4th District Congresswoman, but I have one anyway: "Two Moore Years!"
Now, get out and do something before Cabin Fever strikes.
and
Other Musings
By Michael Horne
The Milwaukee Police Department has parked a "bait car" somewhere in the Historic Third Ward, hoping to snare the criminals who have been breaking into parked vehicles in the area. The best way to make it conspicuous, officials say, is for drivers to make sure no valuables are in sight in their own vehicles. I don't know what goodies are in the car, but police usually load them up with portable goods with sufficient value to make their theft a felony. I'll keep an eye out for it Friday, October 17th, 2008, during Gallery Night when the Ward will be a-rockin'. My priority destination is the Elaine Erickson Gallery in the Marshall Building, 207 E. Buffalo St. where Katie Musolff will be showing her recent drawings, watercolors and paintings. Mussolf, a 2004 graduate of MIAD, where she is now an instructor, is the best draughtsman in the city. Her watercolors of fish, caught by her boyfriend and captured by her as they thaw on the kitchen table, are among the best studies of the sort, and are priced to sell in the low hundreds of dollars. You can tell by the tremendous number of works dated "2008" that this woman is a nonstop worker who never hurts for ideas and who has the talent to make every piece a gem.
While in the reinforced concrete confines of the century old building, I'll head down Milwaukee's steepest stairway en route to Light Ideas, a photo gallery in the basement right next door to the highly productive studio of Reginald Baylor. Out in the hallway, I'll listen to Sarah Kozar belting out tunes with the Squeezettes, Milwaukee's premier female accordion band. Perhaps I'll be able to convince tuba player Mike Chaltry to play some tunes from the 1982 University of Wisconsin Marching Band Hymnal. Anybody in the mood for "Yank My Doodle?" I'm afraid if Chaltry plays anything else from the book, the Squeezettes will be suspended for a couple of Gallery Nights.
Before emerging from the basement, I'll say hello to Dave Bernacchi of Light Ideas and tell him I'll be seeing him Monday, October 20th at the 41st Anniversary Party for Mike Murphy's Swingin' Door Saloon and Eatery, 219 E. Michigan St. The Door has been a popular hangout for years, and Bernacchi memorialized a moment this spring on April 22nd, when the tavern's regulars posed for a group shot replicating one taken in the bar in 1933, when beer first became legal again 75 years ago. The old and new photos are on display in the bar, along with another historic pairing -- that of an 1891 photo of the exterior of the Chamber of Commerce Building when the Swingin' Door was the office of Western Union, and when the Milwaukee branch was the first in the nation to employ bicycle messengers. I wrote about the picture in the August, 2008 Milwaukee Magazine, and it was accompanied by a 2008 photograph of the same scene, but this time with today's bicycle messengers, who find the place a comfortable hangout. You can compare and contrast the two, which also hang there, as do the messengers. ... Not too far away, in the 600 block of S. 2nd St., crews are painting the old Marchese produce building for the first time ever. The ungainly cinderblock structure is now the home of the Milwaukee Brewing Company. A coat of paint covers a multitude of sins, I always say. ... You wouldn't expect a place affiliated with the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to spray herbicide on its lawn, but that's what happened earlier this week at the little pocket park on the river just north of E. St. Paul Ave. Quite unnecessary. Also unnecessary is a campaign slogan for our 4th District Congresswoman, but I have one anyway: "Two Moore Years!"
Now, get out and do something before Cabin Fever strikes.
posted by Michael Horne @ 4:28 PM
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The Milwaukee Police Department online crime maps were last updated in August and only have data displayed up until 07-28-2008. This might be worth investigating.
Keep up the good work.
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