So give me the dish on the neighbourhood...I've only been living there since Jan, and have only been employed (read: able to afford more than rent and ramen) for about a month, so I kind of feel like I just moved in.

The shorter version:

*Jazz in the Park, Thursday nights most of summer. go early, it's crowded, but if you don't want to actually go to the Park you will probably still hear it from your apartment. The park is 2 blocks west of Cass, between Kilbourn and Wells.

*Food: EE Sane Thai, on Farwell across from Pizza Shuttle. Terrible service, excellent food, get takeout.
Comet Coffee(also on Farwell but farther north) has excellent funky sandwiches; vegan chili on weekends. Very smoky though; sit outside if you're a nonsmoker.
Landmark (downstairs) for drinks etc. - major UWM hangout so you might know that one already.
Von Trier for exotic beers, corner of Farwell & North Ave. Sometimes they do tastings, there may be a cover for those.
Blue Dawg bagles (across from Shank Hall & the clinic with all the protestors); we used to go there for breakfast a lot on the weekends.
Velvet room on Third (? I think) street, just a few blocks north of the mall. Very swanky, little old men play live jazz on the weekends sometimes. they are awesome.

I love Milwaukee... this is making me homesick!

I'll have to check out the Landmark, I've never heard of it. I didn't know there was a Thai place on Farwell, either...good to know!

Also the AleHouse in the Third Ward... Water Street south under the bridges to the highway. Also there are galleries & some cool furniture/thrift stores down there. Excellent brews and food.

Blue Dawg is within 6-8 blocks, go straight up farwell... EE Sane is a little farther up, probably about 1 - 1.5 miles.

Or take the bus, the bus system in Milwaukee is excellent; I didn't have a car for 4 years and I only missed it to go to Target, which is way out in the 'burbs. If you do the bus thing, buy books of tickets - they don't expire forever and you get them cheaper than if you pay cash. Plus they don't give change, so if you don't have exact you are SOL.

www.kopps.com

mmmmm.... custard.

I recently moved to Green Bay from Milwaukee. Dewgirl you checked out my apartment! Totally forgot all about that. HOw Funny! I totally miss Blue Dawg bagels, too. They were amazing.

As far bars, restaurants in your immediate vicinity. There aren't too many. I always went to Points East Pub (Just on the other side of Pick 'n Save...corner of Jackson and ??) It's a small little corner bar but they have quite a few beers on tap and the regulars are pretty funny. To-die-for chicken wings.

There's also Why not II about a block up from Points East. Wierd place. All the liquor is served out of little airplane bottles. Again, good people watching. Free popcorn. I went to a poetry reading there once by Jim Carroll (Basketball Diaries)

Hey, what do you guys think of the re-done art museum? Do the locals love or hate it? I saw Chihuly and O'Keeffe there last year, my family has a membership. ('rents live near Oshkosh)

(Living in MKE for my 5th, going on 6th year. Currently living near North Ave, but moving out when my lease expires at the end of the month.)

Another favorite Milwaukee thing - gallery night. All the art galleries on the East side and third ward are open and free (and sometimes serve goodies!) It's wonderfully hip and trendy.

I haven't gone to anything in Riverwest, although many of the places you all mentioned sound familiar and have been recommended to me before. I get scared going over there though - I stick to the East Side, downtown (although not Marquette) and Walker's Point.

Wow! I never knew there were so many people from Milwaukee here! Maybe we'll have to have our own DigsMeet

Edited to ask: Jessicazee, where do you bartend (I saw in your profile)? (if you don't mind my asking) (too many parentheses) When I first moved up here I bartended in Walker's Point at Zin's, which is now Shaker's.

Also, I can't even tell you how many times I've been to Bryants and gotten brainbusted. Although, I believe it's on 9th and Lapham. There's a similar place on the south side of town - that I'm totally drawing a blank on. It's even more kitschy.
And you can order a tiki love bowl.

I have also worked at: the Stork Club (recently closed), Franklin Place and before that I was a cook at Pandl's, then Calderone Club, then Benjamin Briggs (closed, too...hm, I'm beginning to see a pattern here 0

Just started my gardening summer job this week. Yay tulips!

That gas station on MLK & Locust is sort of scary, but I go there once in a while and it's just a place to get gas and a candybar to me now.

Did you go to Marquette? You said you lived on campus.

What're you doing now? I wonder if we know each other IRL... that would be creepy.

(what an obnoxious run of questions... sorry!)

[edited to delete redundant questions that were already answered in her post]

I went to visit friends at Marquette when I was a freshman, first & only time I got into a bar as an 18 yr old with a regular ol' under-age i.d.

ooh gawd that was a long time ago.

Ok, I have to say that one time I got stuck out on that crazy road that stretches out over the harbor with no exits for miles. That is one crazy road. SCARY.

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Originally posted by Dewgirl:
The sad part is I had a mental block creating this topic on how to spell the name of my state. I think I need to go home from work!

Anyway, anybody here from Wisconsin? Milwaukee specifically? I've seen mention of locals here and there on the board, but I don't know who all is still around

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