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Oliva recalls South Side
Spending his adolescence manning his family's self-service car wash provided John C. Oliva with what he calls "his own little library" of unusual stories and anecdotes. This year Orange Hat Publishing in Milwaukee released Oliva's memoir "Washing Cars and Wasting Time: Misadventures at a Family-Run Car Wash." The book captures life (and work) on Milwaukee's South Side during the seven years Oliva spent at the car wash at 13th and Layton.
Outdoor dining
As few as 10 years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find a restaurant with outdoor or patio seating. Yet, these days, a restaurant without a patio is more the exception than the rule. But what makes a patio great?
Female hurlers
For 3,000 years, millions of people have played hurling, but a disproportionate number of players have been women. However, the Milwaukee Hurling Club (MHC) is working to change this.
Kruth's Orbison bio
Milwaukeeans who know erstwhile Brew City musician John Kruth, who has long since relocated to New York, will be entirely unsurprised that the multi-instrumentalist has written biographies of musicians as diverse as jazzman Rahsaan Roland Kirk, respected and troubled singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt and, in his latest book, Roy Orbison.