Beer Here: Eisphyre from Capital Brewery Robin Shepard on Friday 11/06/2009 2:00 pm, (2) Comments, (4) Recommendations Just when the gales of November seem to come early, Capital Brewery takes its warm, malty Autumnal Fire to an entirely different level with the special release of a winter-hardy version named Eisphyre. This intensely malty, yet incredibly smooth doppelbock is capable of taking the chill off. >MoreAlder wants new downtown Madison library donors to pony up Joe Tarr on Friday 11/06/2009 3:19 pm Ald. Michael Schumacher, in a proposed amendment to the city's capital budget, tried to put the question of whether to fund a new library to the residents in a referendum. The city's Board of Estimates voted down that amendment. Now, Schumacher is trying a new tack. >More
Prof renews psychology controversy Paper charges that therapists are ignoring clinical research Josh Wimmer on Thursday 11/05/2009 Timothy Baker has a problem with psychology today. He thinks it bears a dangerous resemblance to the medicine of yesteryear: anecdotal, unscientific, as likely to hurt as help. "[D]espite compelling research support for the merits of specific interventions for specific problems, clinical psychology, as a field, has failed to embrace these treatments," writes Baker, a professor of medicine at the UW-Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health, in a paper that's generating national attention and controversy. >MoreThe Sounds' tenacity yields success The hardest-working band in Helsingborg Rich Albertoni on Friday 11/06/2009 The Sounds didn't just wait patiently for success. They've earned it through years of long, hard touring that most rock bands would never endure. >More
Oysy Sushi and Seafood Buffet is an exercise in abundance Piled high Raphael Kadushin on Friday 11/06/2009, (1) Recommendation Sushi is the kind of food you can't really, in good faith, dumb down. In an age when elitism has become the dirtiest word, it remains an unapologetically elitist specialty. And that's justified. Genuine sushi chefs, the kind who turn the tradition into an art form, train for years to do justice to one piece of perfect yellowtail sashimi. >MoreMadame Fromage: The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin is worth checking out Tenaya Darlington on Wednesday 11/04/2009 2:00 pm, (2) Recommendations I'm so impressed by The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), a new book by James Norton and Rebecca Dilley, I hardly know where to begin. >More
The Men Who Stare at Goats: Psychic spies Psychic spies Kimberley Jones on Friday 11/06/2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats is one odd duck. A title card reads "More of this is true than you would believe," but it's impossible to tell what's factual in this fictionalized take on Jon Ronson's book about Army experiments in the paranormal because it all sounds so deeply ludicrous. >More
SpongeBob SquarePants celebrates 10 surreal years God of the sea Dean Robbins on Friday 11/06/2009 It's official: Everybody loves SpongeBob SquarePants. You can tell by all the stars who line up for cameo appearances in the cartoon's 10th anniversary special, including Robin Williams, Pink, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Craig Ferguson, LeBron James and Rosario Dawson. >More
Log in