On Friday, May 3, nearly 1,000 students involved in Climate Justice Edmonton and allied groups left their classes to march from Churchill Square down Jasper Avenue to a protest they had organized at the Legislature. Victoria School of the Arts and…

It’s been my goal as managing partner of ThirdCoast Digest to provide the kind of unbiased news coverage that allows readers to think for themselves. But news and opinion are not one in the same, and today TCD offers viewpoints from two very…

Recently I heard this revision of the popular “Diversity is Our Strength” slogan that is featured on yard signs all over Riverwest: “Diversity is Our Alibi.” I assume the intended point is that there’s a lot of white liberal backslapping about living…

Have you ever walked through a south-side neighborhood and had a sense of its history and mixture of new and old immigrant communities? Have you passed through Halyard Park and been startled to find ranch homes with large yards and few fences in the…

Documentary Captures Divisions, Frustrations in Anti-War Movement A Carnival of Dissent, a documentary on the Milwaukee anti-war movement as of last year, made its debut at the Green Gallery 801 E. Clarke St. on June 12. Produced by local activist…

Not at all like the superficial and often vindictive humor of many comic movies and plays that pertain to the Catholic Church, Late Nite Catechism has been described as reverent and even nostalgic for “the bygone days of Latin Mass.” “Nostalgia”…

Thomas Gaudynski and Steve Nelson-Raney perform at St. Michael’s Waiting Room, a Cafe that’s now the offices of Vital Source next to Bremen Cafe. On April 11, 1978, at Boox Books (the predecessor to Woodland Pattern in the Water Street Arts Center)…

Notes From the Bus Stop by Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle Waiting for the #14 on the corner of Holton and Burleigh, it comes to me. Buses crisscross this city. Past quaint bungalows, failing malls, high-priced condos, green boarded drug houses, fancy Pick &…

Once the poets resounded over the battlefield; what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age that is struggling on toward its careening future? And indeed it hardly requires the call, its own battle-din roars into song. But so far no-one…

The official buzz is in the streets. In mid-January Tom Daykin wrote a front page Sunday feature in the Journal Sentinel about Riverwest as an up-and-coming neighborhood. The story he told doesn’t really do justice to the deeper aspects of Riverwest…

All neighborhoods, including Riverwest, only exist in people’s imaginations, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real. What we each imagine helps make up the collective sense of place and identity for the whole community. What people imagine and…

“Harambee” is a Kenyan word. During Kwanzaa, each evening a candle with a special significance is lit by the leader of the ceremony. Then everyone says something about what the candle symbolizes–unity, for instance, on the first evening of Kwanzaa.…

The Journal Sentinel’s Crocker Stephenson was busy around 9-11, turning out a bunch of his short “snapshot” columns on people in New York City rather than his usual beat here in Milwaukee. There’s one on a 58 year-old Trinidadian violin player making…

What is “gentrification?” Unsurprisingly, this is a loaded, relative term. What gentrification means and whether it’s a curse, a blessing, or a mixed blessing depends on who’s talking about it. However, a few things about gentrification are pretty…

Many Riverwest residents may have agreed with Vince Bushell’s comments in the Currents when he responded to Commerce St. developer John Vetter’s soft-pedaling of gentrification. Vetter’s remark, “what’s not to like about [rising property values]”…