Beginning Monday night – on the eve of the start of the Milwaukee Brewers' 2023 postseason Wild Card series against the Arizona Diamondbacks – a number of Brew City buildings will be illuminated in the team's blue and yellow colors.
These area structures will be lit up from dawn to dusk:
- City Hall
- The Pabst Theater
- Hoan Bridge
- 833 East
- 600 EAST Café & Business Center
- Schlitz Park
- Lakefront Brewery
- GRAEF
- MGIC
- Milwaukee Domes
- The Pfister tower
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Milwaukee County Historical Society
- U.S. Bank Center (which opened 50 years ago today, incidentally)
- Northwestern Mutual
- Potawatomi Casino Hotel
City Hall and the Milwaukee Public Market will also be adorned with banners emblazoned with the team's postseason rally cry, “Brewed for Battle,” and a number of sites will sport digital billboards in support of the Crew.
Those include all branches of Associated Bank, Miller High Life Theatre, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Summerfest's gates, The Riverside's marquee, Wisconsin Center District and The Avenue.
It's the perfect way to wed World Architecture Day – Monday, Oct. 2 – with the hometown squad's success.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He can be heard weekly on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories.
