Published Feb. 17, 2012
Keep your flash mobs, I prefer the idea of the Cash Mob. That's an event where folks get out and support local businesses by opening their wallets. Occupy Riverwest is going to "cash mob" (if that's a verb) two indie booksellers - People's Books Co-op, 2122 E. Locust St., and Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St. - today from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Published Sept. 13, 2011
Tapes were rolling when English avant garde guitarist Derek Bailey played at Woodland Pattern in Riverwest on March 31, 1983 and Bailey, a free improvisation troubadour used to sell tapes of the performance at gigs. Now, the live recording has gotten an "official" CD release by Incus Records, which has also fittingly issued the music on cassette.
Published Nov. 18, 2010
The Woodland Pattern Book Center in Riverwest has long stood as a sort of literary utopia. With so many indie bookstores drowned in the wake of big box competitors, the emergence of e-books, and the overall decline of literacy it's all the more reason to celebrate the venerable non-profit bookstore's 30th anniversary.
Published May 19, 2010
Just because things quiet down in the classrooms a bit at Marquette University in summer, don't think that the near West Side campus is lacking interesting diversions. At the university's Haggerty Museum of Art, it's just the opposite, thanks in part to events surrounding the current exhibition featuring Racine native Theodore Czebotar.
Published March 6, 2010
International human rights attorney Eric Sirotkin will present excerpts from his film, "Committing Poetry in Times of War," on Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at the Friends Meetinghouse, 3224 N. Gordon Pl. Sirotkin will lead a dialogue at Woodland Pattern Book Center on Saturday, March 20 at 2 p.m. Both events are free.
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