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Madison Snaps -- November 21, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/21/08 at 11:00 am | Today's image is titled "Overture lights" and was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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The Week[end]: November 21-23, 2008
by on 11/21/08 at 6:00 am | Start your Thanksgiving merry-making early with the Holiday Art Fair at MMoCA and the Madison’s Women’s Expo at Monona Terrace. Simply want to sit back and take in some live music or theater? This weekend brings shows by Low vs Diamond, Susan Tedeschi, The Hussy, Pelican, Pale Young Gentlemen, Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, Dub Trio, and JJ Grey & Mofro, as well as productions of The Gingerbread Man, The Snow Queen, Over the River and Through the Woods, Madame Butterfly by the Madison Opera, a new show by Kanopy Dance, and the UW Dance Fall Faculty Concert. |
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MadTracks -- 'Thinking About You' by Meteorade
by Jessica Steinhoff on 11/20/08 at 5:53 pm | Meteorade calls bands such as Weezer, Cake and the Pixies their main influences. While this isn't unusual for a band composed of 35-year-olds, Meteorade's members, all of whom are UW students, weren't even in preschool when Doolittle was released, so perhaps this fascination is somewhat unconventional. |
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Isthmus asks consumers to shop local this holiday season
by on 11/20/08 at 3:47 pm | Isthmus is urging readers to spend at least $100 of their holiday money this fall at locally owned stores in Dane County -- a move that could pump more than $15.9 million into the urban economy during this recession-plagued season. |
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Yahara River Grocery Cooperative in Stoughton gets revamp with help from Willy Street Co-op
by Linda Falkenstein on 11/20/08 at 12:00 pm | The Yahara River Grocery Cooperative opened in Stoughton in March, 2008, having been in the planning since July, 2006. However, the fledgling coop had run through most of its start-up funding by the end of October. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 20, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/20/08 at 11:00 am | Today's image is titled "frame" and was photographed by Jason Joyce. |
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Giving, Bob D'Angelo, and community theater in the November 21 edition of Isthmus
by on 11/20/08 at 8:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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Beer Here -- Alt from New Glarus
by Robin Shepard on 11/19/08 at 3:00 pm | New Glarus Brewing is out with a brand new beer. Owners Deb and Dan Carey say their latest creation -- a German altbier -- is an early holiday present, “a thank you” to their customers. Last winter, the Careys asked their fans to make suggestions online for what brews they would like to see, and the alt style was one of the most recommended. |
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3 in 10 public-records requests in Wisconsin not properly fulfilled
by Bill Lueders on 11/19/08 at 1:00 pm | A statewide public records audit found that one in 10 requests for basic documents were denied or ignored by local governments. Another two in 10 requests were fulfilled only after records custodians required the requesters to identify themselves or explain why they wanted the documents, in violation of state law. |
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Madison Etsy explorations: Whimsy House
by Megan Larson on 11/19/08 at 12:00 pm | Recycled and vintage pieces have found a home at the Whimsy House. Aptly named, Molly Bernier's online store carries a wide array of jewelry that embraces your lighthearted side. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 19, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/19/08 at 11:00 am | Today's image is titled "thaddaway" and was photographed by Beth McConnell. |
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Ryland Bouchard quietly thrills small audience at The Project Lodge
by Craig Cady on 11/18/08 at 3:18 pm | Ryland Bouchard graced Madison Friday evening with a small and intimate performance at The Project Lodge. No longer releasing albums as The Robot Ate Me, the one-man experimental music project that made him known, Bouchard seemed more balanced in his manner, more mature since playing Club 770 in 2006. |
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Mayor Dave weekly whereabouts: A late autumn breather
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/18/08 at 3:00 pm | With the months-long process of determining the 2009 Madison budget now in the rearview mirror, the schedule for Mayor Cieslewicz this week is a bit more mundane. |
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Win tickets to Guys on Ice at the UW Mitchell Theatre
by on 11/18/08 at 12:00 pm | The Isthmus Guest List is back with another round of free tickets to amazing concerts, shows and more fun events around Madison. This week's contests include tickets to: a monster show featuring Low vs. Demand, Rose Hill Drive, Barcelona, Colour Revolt and Paper Route, and JJ Grey & Mofro at the Majestic; Guys on Ice at the UW Mitchell Theatre and more. |
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The Greeks: Madison Rep and UW theater department join forces
by Bruce G. Bradley on 11/18/08 at 11:13 am | What is not in doubt is the impact that the myths that grew out of the Trojan legacy have had on succeeding generations. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 18, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/18/08 at 11:00 am | Today's image is titled "Men who cook" and was photographed by Angela Richardson. |
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Blaska's Blog: A guided Mistele is on target
by David Blaska on 11/18/08 at 8:45 am | Will Nancy Mistele get a fair shake from the Madison establishment media? Already, my hosts here at Isthmus are dragging out the long knives. |
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Apocalypse Mistele
by Marc Eisen on 11/17/08 at 2:46 pm | You have to wonder about Nancy Mistele: She's turned a political victory into a personal defeat, and she has no one to blame but herself. |
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Nancy Mistele a pistol
by Bill Lueders on 11/17/08 at 2:01 pm | Nancy Mistele’s opening shot in her planned challenge against County Executive Kathleen Falk was unusually harsh for local elective races but not out of character for her. |
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Broom Street artistic director Callen Harty suffers heart attack
by Amelia Cook on 11/17/08 at 1:38 pm | Friday's opening performance of Broom Street Theater's Dancing With My Other ended with an ambulance. Callen Harty, Broom Street's artistic director and father of the show's director, suffered a heart attack. |
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On the Agenda: Dane County 2009 budget, dog parks and a troubled bar
by Vikki Kratz on 11/17/08 at 12:23 pm | The County Board takes up the $450 million budget for 2009. Here’s guessing it won’t be quite as contentious as the Madison Common Council’s two-day budget battle last week. The county’s budget includes funding for the troubled 911 center, three new social workers for Child Protective Services and a cost-of-living increase for social service agencies. |
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Terry Tempest Williams: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
by David Medaris on 11/17/08 at 10:00 am | Terry Tempest Williams has established herself in that vanguard of North American environmental essayists and socio-cultural critics alongside such esteemed predecessors as Edward Abbey and Aldo Leopold. In an email interview in anticipation of her appearance in Madison, she addresses the genesis of her new book, its central mosaic metaphor, Barack Obama's potential as a transformative figure, the significance of prairie dogs and the importance of knowing the names of the flora and fauna where you live |
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Madison Snaps -- November 17, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/17/08 at 8:00 am | Today's image is titled "Well attended Anti-Prop 8 rally" and was photographed by Nataraj Hauser. |
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The Week: November 17-20, 2008
by on 11/17/08 at 6:00 am | Winter really only gets started in Madison with the Holiday Fantasy in Lights, which opens for the season at Olin Park on Wednesday. This week also offers live music by No Age, Ingrid Michaelson, Matt Nathanson, and a performance by Luna Negra Dance Theatre. |
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Blaska's Blog: Where's the body?
by David Blaska on 11/16/08 at 9:25 am | In the previous post I marveled at the UW-Madison’s ability to find jobs for out-of-work liberals. I noted that Louis Butler, twice unseated by the voters of Wisconsin after two gubernatorial appointments to the Supreme Court, got a nice gig at the Law School. Time to mention that Paul Soglin also sinks his jowls into the UW’s feed trough. |
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Madison joins nationwide protest against Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage in California
by Emily Mills on 11/15/08 at 4:11 pm | Early Saturday afternoon, amidst the throngs of red-clad game day Badgers fans, a river of rainbow colors wound its way up State Street to the Capitol. Hundreds of people gathered as part of a nationwide day of protest against the passage of Proposition 8, the measure repealing the recently granted right of gay marriage in California. |
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Vinyl Cave -- The Bridge in Blue by the Bridge
by Bob Koch on 11/15/08 at 8:00 am | Loudon Wainwright III finds himself recasting the spare voice and guitar arrangements of songs from his first few albums amidst a more fleshed out band setting in his new album Recovery. After a random purchase at the St. Vincent de Paul record sale last week, I discovered that this concept had been undertaken years before -- in 1972, when the songs were new -- on the obscure final album by The Brooklyn Bridge. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Hellboy 2, The General, Budd Boetticher, The Clone Wars
by Mike Wilmington on 11/14/08 at 10:00 am | Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is one of my so-far favorites of this year's flood of big, splashy action-fantasy movies. In many ways, it's more fun, more magical, more delightfully characterized, more splendiferously imagined and more stunningly visualized than the others. Director-co-writer Guillermo del Toro is obviously a genius at this kind of unbuttoned fairytale horror story. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 14, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/14/08 at 8:00 am | Today's image is titled "Last Saturday of Outdoor Farmers' Market 2008" and was photographed by Bo Mackison. |
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Blaska's Blog: Don't know much economy
by David Blaska on 11/14/08 at 7:09 am | This recession came home to Madison very forcefully with the announcement of a $5 billion “revenue shortfall” for the upcoming state government biennium. Madison immune from recession? Methinks not. |
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