By Damien Jaques Senior Contributing Editor Published Jun 07, 2011 at 8:05 AM

Not to be outdone by Cathedral Square, Schlitz Park is going to have its own weekly visit from a group of food trucks and street vendors. Take-out Tuesdays begins today.

The trucks and mobile vendors will be open for business from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Cherry Street between Rivercenter Drive and 2nd Street. Confirmed for today are Satellite Crepes, Tigerbite Asian fusion, Pita Brothers wraps, Streetza Pizza and the Fast Foodie.

More than 4,200 persons work in the immediate vicinity of Schlitz Park, so this could be fertile territory for the expanding corps of food vendors on wheels. Cathedral Square hosts Food Truck Fridays during the summer and fall.

Damien Jaques Senior Contributing Editor

Damien has been around so long, he was at Summerfest the night George Carlin was arrested for speaking the seven dirty words you can't say on TV. He was also at the Uptown Theatre the night Bruce Springsteen's first Milwaukee concert was interrupted for three hours by a bomb scare. Damien was reviewing the concert for the Milwaukee Journal. He wrote for the Journal and Journal Sentinel for 37 years, the last 29 as theater critic.

During those years, Damien served two terms on the board of the American Theatre Critics Association, a term on the board of the association's foundation, and he studied the Latinization of American culture in a University of Southern California fellowship program. Damien also hosted his own arts radio program, "Milwaukee Presents with Damien Jaques," on WHAD for eight years.

Travel, books and, not surprisingly, theater top the list of Damien's interests. A news junkie, he is particularly plugged into politics and international affairs, but he also closely follows the Brewers, Packers and Marquette baskeball. Damien lives downtown, within easy walking distance of most of the theaters he attends.