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Secret ingredients abound in the Wis-Kino 2008 Spring Kabaret
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/17/08 at 4:00 pm | With a year of operations under its belt, Sundance Cinemas at Hilldale is showing increased support for the Madison filmmaking community, playing host to the Spring Kabaret held back in April by Wis-Kino back in April, a big departure from its regular monthly home at Escape Java Joint. Twice a year, this group focused on short films holds a festival in which participating filmmakers are challenged to create an original work over the course of a weekend. |
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Blaska's Blog: Dial 911, ask for The Kathleen
by David Blaska on 05/17/08 at 9:23 am | the issue is larger than the 9-1-1 center. The issue is our commitment level to
law enforcement itself. If we don’t build up our policing agencies, if we don’t
build the infrastructure to keep the bad guys off the streets, we can all be
tapping 9-1-1 madly on every cell phone and landline in creation. |
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The Planski: Dave Mahoney's immigrant policy makes this 'Doughface County'
by Ben Manski on 05/16/08 at 1:15 pm | Under Mahoney, the Sheriff's Office has reported upwards of 400 immigrants to ICE, the latest incarnation of the former INS (where do the feds come up with these acronyms, anyway? Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Operation Iraqi Liberation? Brilliant!). That's a substantial increase from the record of the previous sheriff, Gary Hamblin, for whom cracking down on undocumented immigrants was not a priority. |
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UW-Madison Chancellor finalists meet the press
by Erica Pelzek on 05/16/08 at 1:03 pm | As UW-Madison's academic year comes to a close, its future leadership is the focus of a Chancellor search that has been underway since February. The UW Board of Regents will pick a replacement for UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, who is leaving in September, at its meeting early next month in Milwaukee. On consecutive days this week, the final four candidates -- out of more than 50 applicants -- took part in meet-and-greets at Memorial Union. |
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Madison CDA takes over troubled Lake Point development
by Bill Lueders on 05/16/08 at 12:36 pm | The Madison Community Development Authority and the Milwaukee-based developer of a pivotal but floundering south-side Madison housing project have reached a deal wherein the CDA will take over. Percy Brown, city staff to the CDA, notified Lake Point Condo owners Friday morning that "we were informed [May 15] by the Rodmans that they are walking away from the project and handing the keys over to the Community Development Authority immediately. They are done. The CDA will be assuming management obligations. We will be getting back to you shortly with more details." |
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Wilmington on DVD: Ol' Blue Eyes
by Mike Wilmington on 05/16/08 at 12:11 pm | Frank Sinatra was, along with Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Ray Charles and Elvis Presley, our greatest pop singer: alternately romantic and cynical, tenderly sensitive and ring-a-ding-ding. But he could act up a storm at times too, and his dramatic prime came in the years including and following his Oscar-winning turn as Maggio in From Here to Eternity. |
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Madison Snaps -- May 16, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/16/08 at 11:26 am | Today's image is titled "Cajun Strangers" and was photographed by Philip S. Forsberg. |
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The Week[end]: May 16-18, 2008
by on 05/16/08 at 11:00 am | This is the last hurrah of spring in Madison, a blowout with more festivals and music than almost any other weekend of the year. The fun includes: Syttende Mai in Stoughton, Fitchburg Days, the final fiesta for Bike To Work Week, and the WORT Block Party; productions of The Nerd, Monty Python's Spamalot, and Pure Ballet; the Madison Poetry Slam Finals and Spin Cycle Improv; One-Two-Three-Go! At the Cypress Spray Park, T.L. Solien at MMoCA, and openings at two Paoli galleries; and live music featuring Bernie Taupin Night at the Wil-Mar Center, Blind Melon, The Von Bondies, Subtle, Tex Tubb & the Jokermen, The Junkers, The Moon Gypsies, Fareed Hague, and Asylum Street Spankers. |
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Madison Miscellany -- May 16, 2008
by on 05/16/08 at 12:00 am | The trial of three local peace activists, Brittany Zimmermann memories, Greta Van Susteren visits town, summer road construction season gears up, UW chancellor finalist Rebecca Blank, eating at Lucky 7, Nicaraguan coffee grower makes the Wisconsin java rounds, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County. |
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Mad Rollin' Dolls wrap up season four and focus on future of derby in Madison
by Melissa Faliveno on 05/15/08 at 11:07 am | As "senior year" for the Mad Rollin' Dolls came to a close last Saturday with the Quad Squad winning the championship, and as the fourth season of national-level play begins, it's clear that change is in the air. As a second-year skater, I've only seen a fraction of the growth that's occurred within both the league and the larger world of roller derby -- and even that small portion often seems monumental. |
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Madison Snaps -- May 15, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/15/08 at 10:15 am | Today's image is titled "Banaat al Jazira, Monona Terrace" and was photographed by Ken LaBarre. |
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Science teacher Ben Senson, singer Blake Thomas, and biodynamic wines in the May 16 edition of Isthmus
by on 05/15/08 at 7:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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Madison Miscellany -- May 15, 2008
by on 05/15/08 at 12:00 am | The Mark Staskal dilemna, Brittany Zimmermann's apartment is up for rent, PD's new policy priorities, UW chancellor finalist Timothy Mulcahy, Josh Ritter at the High Noon, Public Enemies and Johnny Depp wrap up in Columbus, Bo Ryan's "Soulja Boy" and the Macarena-zation of hip-hop, Wisco men's track heads to outdoor Big Tens and men's rowing to Eastern Sprints, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County. |
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Collecting MadVideos -- A trailer for The Miss Firecracker Contest by Strollers Theatre
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/14/08 at 4:35 pm | It's been a whirlwind of a spring for Strollers Theatre, an energetic company based at the Bartell Theatre that is marking a half-century of stagecraft in Madison this year. Slated to go on hiatus following a leadership controversy late this winter, the company reconstituted itself in early March and turned its focus to staging its final production of the year, the contemporary comedy The Miss Firecracker Contest. |
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Monty Python meets Broadway in Spamalot at Overture
by Amelia Cook on 05/14/08 at 2:22 pm | You can't help but laugh at Spamalot. Even those of you whose Monty Python knowledge is a bit rusty will be moved by this touring musical comedy, which is, according to the playbill, "lovingly ripped off" from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Mimes doing the Macarena, bad French accents, fart jokes aplenty -- honestly, what's not to laugh about? |
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Madison and Dane County officials sued over Zimmermann 911 call secrecy
by Bill Lueders on 05/14/08 at 1:10 pm | Hell hath no fury like journalists scorned. On Tuesday, four state media organizations filed a lawsuit over the refusal of public officials to release information regarding the 911 call made from the cell phone of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann shortly before her murder on April 2. |
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Chris Farley remembered at the Wisconsin Historical Museum
by Kenneth Burns on 05/14/08 at 11:37 am | At the Wisconsin Historical Museum exhibit Chris Farley Remembered, a monitor shows a loop of highlights from the Madison native's Saturday Night Live stint. Included, naturally, is a sketch featuring Matt Foley, the hopeless motivational speaker who was Farley's best-known character. In the uproariously funny skit, Foley tells skeptical youths how to avoid a desperate future -- a future that in fact is Foley's desperate present, a sad life of homelessness. Avoid drugs, Foley loudly suggests, or "You're gonna be doin' a lotta doobie-rollin' when you're livin' in a van down by the river!" |
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Madison police called it an overdose, mother thinks it was murder
by Nathan J. Comp on 05/14/08 at 10:41 am | Outrage over missteps in the murder investigations of Joel Marino and Brittany Zimmermann have shaken public confidence -- and re-opened the deep wounds Enid Haban-Megahed has lived with since her son Omar was found dead in his Monroe Street home in 1998. Authorities initially assumed that Omar, 28, died of a drug overdose, despite the insistence of friends and family that the intellectual property lawyer and avid bicyclist did not use drugs. |
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Madison Snaps -- May 14, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/14/08 at 10:23 am | Today's image is titled "Something fishy on the Square" and was photographed by Angela Richardson. |
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Madison Miscellany -- May 14, 2008
by on 05/14/08 at 12:00 am | New city zoning codes, UW chancellor finalist Biddy Martin, UW student Awais Khaleel declares Democratic superdelegate vote for Obama, Public Enemies with Johnny Depp shoots in Beaver Dam, a 100-mile food source map, gypsy moth spraying returns, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County. |
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Blaska's Blog: Missing brain tissue
by David Blaska on 05/13/08 at 9:30 pm | I want to walk you through the most incredible example of seeing the exact same thing but coming to completely different conclusions. It illustrates what happens when you let the important hunk of brain tissue, the corpus callosum, wither away. |
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MadTracks -- 'Divided States of the Absurd' by Awesome Car Funmaker
by April Williamson on 05/13/08 at 3:42 pm | E for Everyone, the new studio album from Madison mainstay Awesome Car Funmaker, is pleasantly paradoxical. Who could have expected such a mature, cleanly produced album from a group of four goofy guys known for their raucous, over-the-top live show? The band skillfully delves into deeper territory, exploring relevant issues like war and morality without betraying their rocker roots. |
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Semifinalists vie for spot on the 2008 Madison National Poetry Slam team
by Katya Szabados on 05/13/08 at 12:36 pm | Many of the city's top spoken word performers will compete for one of five spots on the Madison National Poetry Slam team on Friday at the Inn on the Park. This five-person team will go on to represent Madison and compete with more than 80 other teams that will converge in town for the 2008 National Poetry Slam in August. Dasha Kelly believes Wisconsin has a unique opportunity to help shape the spoken word landscape for the future. |
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Memories almost hold up at Tom's Red Pepper
by Linda Falkenstein on 05/13/08 at 11:17 am | Madison has an enviable number of ethnic restaurants, and some good Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian dishes. But foodies have long been wailing about the lack of a good Chinese restaurant in town. The China Palace on North Sherman, seen by some to be a decent stab in the right direction, recently closed. Prior to that, many favored Temple Garden, which decamped for Lake Geneva some years ago. |
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Win tickets to Martin Short at Overture
by on 05/13/08 at 10:40 am | 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: Blind Melon at the Majestic; Martin Short at Overture; an advance screening of The Foot Fist Way at Westgate; Sheryl Crow at the Alliant Energy Center, and more. |
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Madison Snaps -- May 13, 2008
by Kristian Knutsen on 05/13/08 at 10:18 am | Today's image is titled "MAMAs After Party" and was photographed by Dave Esmond. |
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Madison Miscellany -- May 13, 2008
by on 05/13/08 at 12:00 am | Two-alarm fire guts the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Langdon Street, UW chancellor finalist Gary Sandefur, New Monsoon at the Majestic, Public Enemies with Johnny Depp returns to Columbus, Luckenbooth Restaurant in Arena, Wisconsin track and rowing coaches give season-end press conferences, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County. |
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Sex isn't too sexy in Broom Street Theater's Multiple O
by Bruce G. Bradley on 05/12/08 at 3:47 pm | The phrase "Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you" is repeated so many times during Broom Street Theater's production of Multiple O that it's hard to know if this is to reassure the performers or if it's to remind the audience how they're meant to feel. Either way, the mantra should be supplanted with the observation that "Sex is really kinda funny." |
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Fringe Foods: Durian from Asian Midway Foods
by Kyle Nabilcy on 05/12/08 at 1:39 pm | There is a food item out there in the world whose reputation precedes it almost as far as the sense of it. It has been written about, legislated against, and spoken of in hushed tones from Far East to Midwest. Even I, having set about to consume local oddities for the benefit of strangers...well, it harrows me with fear and wonder. It is durian. And it is here. |
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On the Agenda: Madison bus routes on the chopping block
by Vikki Kratz on 05/12/08 at 12:27 pm | The Madison Transit & Parking commission will approve final changes to Madison Metro bus routes, to be implemented this August. Among the cuts: The last bus for Allied Drive would leave the Capitol Square at 10:15, not 10:45, thereby screwing anyone from the troubled neighborhood who has to work late downtown. |
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