Will Allen's
Growing Power operates urban farms. His first Milwaukee farm is three urban acres where he grows enough food to feed 10,000 people. An
interview by the Splendid Table's Lynne Rossetto Kasper in support of his new book.
Previously.
posted by shothotbot
on May 6, 2013 -
39 comments
150 U.S. city flags, ranked from best to worst. Top-rated flags are typically tasteful and abstract, like
that of Washington D.C. (#1) or subtly representational, like
Madison, Wisconsin's flag(#11), which is more or less a glyph of Madison seen from above. The bottom of the list has some that seem stuck in a briefly popular graphic style, like
Provo (#143), but most are timelessly
ongepotch like the
flag of Milwaukee (#147), which features a boat, a skyline, some smokestacks, some grain, County Stadium, a Native American,and a church. And then there is Pocatello (#150), whose flag
was memorably profiled on badflags. (Vexillology
previously on MetaFilter.)
posted by escabeche
on Apr 14, 2013 -
126 comments
Pavel Bernek had grand plans for his newly-refurbished, 34-foot sailboat.
"He schemed to cross the Atlantic, blow through the Strait of Gibraltar and drop anchor in the Mediterranean Sea, where he hoped his girlfriend would be waiting for him.
But here in reality - in Milwaukee - the wounded "Falcon" lies on its side, in shin-deep water, ravaged by more than a month's worth of wintry punches from an ornery Lake Michigan." [more inside]
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb!
on Dec 8, 2007 -
38 comments
Critical Mass in Milwaukee ran into some "problems" with police on the July 29th ride:
“I unfortunately chose to lock my bike with a friend and go see what was happening with the group who had been stopped at the yellow light. I ran down the street just in time to see police tackle a man on a bike who had a baby carriage attached to end of his bike. After he was pulled to the ground another officer violently pushed over his baby carriage with the baby inside,”
More coverage and
some photos.
posted by nTeleKy
on Aug 24, 2005 -
125 comments
Expensive clowns. Some Wisconsin senators want to "save Milwaukee's Circus Parade by giving $1.5 million in tax dollars to the Baraboo-based Circus World Museum."
posted by Tubes
on Dec 9, 2003 -
22 comments
Wisconsin strip club owner discovers art. A Milwaukee Common Council committee last week agreed to designate Club Paradise, a strip club in Walker's Point, as a "Center for the Visual and Performing Arts" based on the art collection displayed there. This would allow the club to admit underage customers.
posted by Durwood
on Oct 14, 2003 -
9 comments
