Milwaukee Buzz - June 20, 2008
Counterculture remembers Ballsieper
Local public relations ace -- and former documenter of Milwaukee's late '60s and early '70s counterculture -- Mark Goff sent a note recently to let me know that long-standing Kaleidoscope magazine photographer Gary Ballsieper passed away on May 14 at age 60.
Tags: ballsieper, reitman, goff, avant garde, kaleidoscope, irish fest, summerfest, sam mccue

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 6, 2006
Milwaukee Talks: Bob Reitman 2006
An era ends next week when the local legend retires after more than 25 years as part of the morning team at WKTI (94.5 FM). Reitman, who turns 65 soon, isn't leaving radio forever; he'll start a new weekly show on WUWM early next year.
Tags: bob reitman, wkti, milwaukee talks, wuwm, wzmf, gene mueller, amy taylor, avant garde

Milwaukee Buzz - July 12, 2006
Milwaukee Talks: Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen is a major player in the world of comics; that’s the world of R. Crumb, Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman and others. And he’s a Milwaukee boy. He returns home to collaborate with MAM and we took the opportunity to catch up with him.
Tags: Denis Kitchen, Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Baroques, comix, comics, graphic novel, Velvet Whip, Reitman, MAM, Will Eisner

Music - Dec. 29, 2005
The Velvet Whip tore through musical conventions
The Velvet Whip grew out of a desire to fuse classical instrumentation and contemporary music and quickly became one of the hottest acts on the counterculture scene, playing at the Avant Garde Coffee House and other venues in the second half of the 1960s.
Tags: Velvet Whip, Avant Garde, Baroques, Ruppenthal, Dan Ball, Steinfort, The Richard, Bussian, Negative Movement, Dennis Kitchen, Chuck Reitzner

Milwaukee Buzz - March 1, 2005
Avant Garde inducted many into local counterculture
The Avant Garde Coffeehouse, upstairs in the French Moorish building at 2111 N. Prospect Ave. shone bright for six years, providing a home for musicians, poets and artists. After six years, it rocked a little too hard for some neighbors, who helped shutter it in '68.
Tags: Avant Garde, Reitman, beatnik, hippie, Goff, Strohmeier, counterculture, poetry, folk, Velvip Whip, Baroques, Dylan, Bob Watt, Kaleidoscope, Bugle American