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Emily's Post: McDonald's settlement, Ron Johnson outspends Russ Feingold
on 09/02/10 at 1:32 pm | What piques my curiosity is the fact that McD's waited two years between the city's initial payment of $56,000 in 2006 before filing a complaint that claimed $408,900 in damages. The difference between the two numbers is, quite frankly, startling. All of it stems from the fast food chain's contention that construction of the bridge disrupted the flow of drive-thru traffic and obstructed the view from the road of its big ol' golden arches. |
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Emily's Post: Scott Walker's new ad, Brenda Konkel's burden
on 08/31/10 at 9:32 am | Whoa hey, when did it get to be the last day of August already? Summer ain’t officially over, of course (I won’t let it be, dammit!) but change is definitely in the air. Herds of students wander the downtown area, at turns looking both confused and expectant. The slightest hint of a chill hangs behind the still warm air. People all across the state suddenly find themselves scrambling to pack in as much outdoor fun in the next couple of months as possible. |
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Music Theatre of Madison's Yours, Anne entertains despite problematic book and score
on 08/27/10 at 10:14 am | When you think of topics for musicals, I don't imagine that the Holocaust springs to mind. Other than the over-the-top satire of Mel Brooks' Springtime for Hitler from The Producers, few shows have succeeded at putting the absurdity and atrociousness of World War II to song. Yet that's just what Enid Futterman and Michael Cohen did when they wrote Yours, Anne, a musical originally staged in 1985 and based on the famous diary of Anne Frank. |
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Emily's Post: Willy on Jenifer and RoJo on religious freedom
on 08/26/10 at 1:07 pm | I fully support the addition of the driveway onto Jenifer Street -- as long as it's accompanied by further traffic easement plans and safety measures. I'm a little disappointed at how heated opposition to the plan has become by some neighbors, especially since I worry that any sustained stonewalling of co-op improvement plans could lead to the notion of it needing to relocate. |
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Emily's Post: Healthcare at Taycheedah, RoJo on Greenland
on 08/24/10 at 3:15 pm | It strikes me as a grave mistake that we (in Wisconsin, in the US) have seemingly allowed our prison system to become less and less about actual rehabilitation. We appear to have done everything possible to lessen the chances a former inmate has of making it on the outside – by making it difficult to find housing, meaningful work, or even civic engagement. |
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Emily's Post: Wisconsin Family Action is back with its tireless bigotry
on 08/19/10 at 10:18 am | When Wisconsin passed its domestic partner registry for same-sex couples back in 2009, Wisconsin Family Action was quick to cry lawsuit, alleging that said registry violated the state's 2006 constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. |
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Emily's Post: Journalism sans newspapers and the return of the Edgewater
on 08/03/10 at 2:12 pm | Less local coverage and more outsourcing tend to mean fewer readers. That can also lead to situations like the one in Bell, California where a major scandal goes unchecked for far too long because there weren't any professional journalists around to keep up with it. |
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Emily's Post: Clever bigots are still bigots
on 07/29/10 at 10:13 am | At the Madison rally, where pro-equality marchers outnumbered the NOM rally 8-to-1, NOM president Brian Brown and chairman Maggie Gallagher took turns shouting into their microphone about how "intolerant" their opponents were. They claim simply to want to be heard, and to be allowed to "protect the sanctity of marriage" -- all while crusading against the right of loving gay couples to themselves be heard and recognized as full and equal citizens. |
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The great outdoors
on 07/29/10 at 9:00 am | Madison doesn't lack for entertainment options during the warmer months. By the end of winter, a mass case of cabin fever makes us almost hyperactive when it comes to creating and finding activities as soon as the ground thaws. But most of the events that let us enjoy the great outdoors overwhelmingly take place during the day. What if you're a night owl, though, and want to find ways to socialize and take in the moonlight? As it turns out, a group hike with flasks isn't your only option. |
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Emily's Post: In a battle of backbones, Ron Johnson doesn't stand a chance
on 07/27/10 at 4:43 pm | Remember those Russ Feingold campaign t-shirts from several years ago that had a healthy spine printed on the back? It was all about how the junior Senator from Wisconsin was willing to stand up and be the often lone dissenting voice on the Patriot Act and a variety of other wildly important issues even when the loudest voices were calling him a traitor for doing so. |
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Cast gets extra-familiar with the audience at The Game Show Show
on 07/23/10 at 10:19 am | A smarmy host, attention-deficient celebrity guests, an oftentimes inebriated and flustered public, and a flashing applause sign can only mean one thing: It's a game show! Instead of a television studio, though, this particular contest takes place in the Bartell Theatre. The end result isn't entirely different. With The Game Show Show, WhoopDeDoo Productions and StageQ have teamed up to mix the oftentimes corny, surreal world of game shows with that oft-dreaded concept, audience participation, in a live theatrical work. |
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Emily's Post: Much ado about where Tammy Baldwin lives
on 07/22/10 at 1:05 pm | File this under People With No Awareness of Albeit Sad Realities: Chad Lee, candidate for Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District, last week issued a press release that accused incumbent Tammy Baldwin of not actually living in the district she represents. |
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Emily's Post: No peace for Lisa Link Peace Park
on 07/15/10 at 11:36 am | The renovation includes the addition of a large visitor’s center, and it’s the rules of conduct for entering and using that building that are currently coming under scrutiny. What’s so controversial about a code of conduct? |
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Madison alcohol rules need more consistency
on 07/15/10 at 9:00 am | Madison has a strange relationship with spirits. I'm not talking about ghosts, of course. I mean alcohol -- for better or worse a big part of our city's history and culture. Taverns and bars line our streets. Micro- and macro-breweries are as prevalent as cheesemakers in other parts of the state. The UW-Madison student union has a German-style drinking hall inside. |
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The Bartell celebrates itself with the Barties
on 07/15/10 at 9:00 am | Awards shows are notorious for being too lengthy, too self-reverential and too wooden. But the Bartell Community Theatre Foundation tried its luck with the Bartell Theatre Awards, or the Barties, and last Saturday's inaugural ceremony at the Bartell Theatre was a lighthearted, fun appreciation of the people who make community theater tick. |
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Emily's Post: Not a great week to be a political candidate in Wisconsin
on 07/13/10 at 11:20 am | Wannabe senator Ron Johnson finally released his campaign finance documents and revealed that he owns somewhere between $116,000 and $315,000 in BP stock. This is coming from the guy who has defended the oil giant since the spill by accusing the government of “circumventing the law” in its treatment of the company. Johnson has also claimed that it's “not the time to be beating up” on BP, all while supporting the idea of drilling in both the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and our very own Great Lakes. |
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Inaugural Bartell Theatre Awards celebrate highs and hardships of community theater
on 07/11/10 at 9:59 am | Awards shows are notorious for being too lengthy, too self-reverential and too wooden. Despite that less than attractive reputation, the Bartell Community Theatre Foundation decided to try its luck and created the Bartell Theatre Awards, or the Barties. To the organizers' enormous credit, the inaugural ceremony Saturday evening at the Bartell Theatre was less a too-serious industry night of back-patting and awkward jokes, and more a lighthearted, fun appreciation of the people who make community theater tick. |
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Winners of the 2010 Bartell Theatre Awards
on 07/11/10 at 9:58 am | The 2010 Bartell Theatre Awards, presented at the Bartell Theatre Saturday night, celebrate the work of the theater's resident companies. StageQ received 10 Barties, the most of any company. Next was Madison Theatre Guild, with eight nods. |
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Emily's Post: Choices don't get much clearer than Feingold vs. Johnson
on 07/08/10 at 12:34 pm | It's baffling to me that anyone would look at Feingold on the one hand and Johnson on the other and say to themselves, "You know, I'm tired of having a senator who routinely puts his neck on the line for regular citizens, doesn't take pay raises, isn't a multi-millionaire, has good political experience, and doesn't always toe the party line." |
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Emily's Post: Electronic cigarettes, Marty McFly, and internet detective-ry
on 07/06/10 at 12:20 pm | Are you tired of me prattling on about electronic cigarettes yet? I'm not! This rabbit hole just gets deeper and more fascinating and complicated by the minute. |
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Emily's Post: More on e-cigarettes plus gay marriage
on 07/01/10 at 10:03 am | I'm pretty sure my Tuesday piece on e-cigarettes has generated the most direct emails and comments of anything I've written since coming to The Daily Page. Aside from wondering why this issue seems to press people's buttons more than, say, the recession or elections or wars or oil spills, it's been interesting to read the various arguments for and against both what I had to say and the e-cigs in general. |
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Emily's Post: Why are Wisconsin newspapers shilling for e-cigarettes?
on 06/29/10 at 1:33 pm | Both the State Journal and Journal Sentinel articles dedicate the lion's share of text to what amounts to an elaborate press release touting Johnson Creek Enterprises and the glorious electronic cigarette. They list the delicious flavors on offer, as well as pricing, how to get them, and rattle off a litany of perceived positive aspects ("What appears to be smoke dissipates quickly, and there is no lingering smell. Matches and ashtrays aren't needed, and the cost is considerably less than traditional cigarettes."). |
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Emily's Post: The state of Mayor Dave plus budgets and more Ron Johnson
on 06/17/10 at 10:32 am | The mayor's speech Wednesday goes from praising the multi-million dollar city investment in the Edgewater to trumpeting the city's "ambitious efforts to encourage major infill development in the Capitol East Corridor." Now see, that's an actual TIF district and an area in serious need of investment. |
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Emily's Post: Memo to Wisconsin Dems -- Try harder
on 06/15/10 at 11:46 am | I'm not a member of the Democratic Party, nor is it likely that I ever will be. I've never had the desire to throw my lot in with any one political group. I like to shop around. |
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Emily's Post: Ron Johnson: Friend of Big Oil, foe of the glaciers
on 06/10/10 at 9:53 am | Because I'm a pinko commie liberal, I just got an official press release from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in my email lambasting Republican candidate for Senate, Ron Johnson, for his stance on the environment. |
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Emily's Post: Ron Johnson and Guns!
on 06/08/10 at 11:34 am | The GOP really knows how to pick 'em. I was as surprised as anyone when Ron Johnson sauntered into the Republican race for Feingold's Senate seat a week before the convention and then won the party's nomination. I can't say, however, I'm surprised by reasons since cited for the support shown him. |
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Emily's Post: Sheriff Mahoney's immigrant detention policy and high speed rail
on 06/03/10 at 12:53 pm | I swear, I leave town for a few days and all manner of crazy breaks loose: BP continues its epic (and thus far unpunished) fail in the Gulf, Israel raids an aid convoy and kills a bunch of activists, the Korean peninsula is on the brink of restarting its war, someone steals my bag, and the Madison City Council unanimously passes a resolution calling on the Sheriff to stop his policy of reporting all foreign citizens booked in country jail to ICE. |
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The pleasures of mountain biking south-central Wisconsin
on 05/27/10 at 9:00 am | When you think of the natural landscape of southern Wisconsin, what image first springs to mind? It's probably not mountains -- or much elevation of any kind, for that matter. So it might seem strange to discover that the sport of mountain biking is not only alive here, but thriving. |
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Emily's Post: Dissent within Republican ranks
on 05/25/10 at 12:40 pm | If there's one thing the Democratic Party knows well, it's dissent among the ranks. Where Republicans have, over the past few decades, nearly perfected the art of closing file and staying on message, Democrats tend to be all over the place. |
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Emily's Post: A skate park in Central Park and spreading around money
on 05/20/10 at 10:17 am | I can’t help but thinking, you know who won’t mind frequent trains running through Central Park? Skaters. One of the proposed features of the new space is a full-scale skateboard park, something that I still can’t believe Madison doesn’t already have (the tiny, hidden one at the Goodman Community Center doesn’t really count). |
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