Blaska's Blog flunks the school for Leftists David Blaska on Wednesday 03/10/2010 4:45 pm Miss Emily Mills, fearless sifter and winnower that she is, is aghast that a respected University of Wisconsin political scientist would oversee public opinion polling for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute -- a "partisan" organization. Unclean! Unclean! >More
UW abusing eminent domain? Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 4:00 pm Should UW's right to eminent domain be restricted by the legislature? Do we want eminent domain to be a political issue every time it comes up? >More
Feingold on earmarks Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 2:34 pm How will the GOP use Feingold's opposition to earmarks? Will the Republican candidates break from their principle and accuse Feingold of neglecting the state's needs? >More
Cookbook cues: The Art of Eating In by Cathy Erway Linda Falkenstein on Wednesday 03/10/2010 2:00 pm, (1) Recommendation Brooklynite Cathy Erway definitely has something right. Americans do not cook their own dinners often enough and when we do, it's too often an indifferent, hurried effort. No wonder eating out seems like a better idea. >More
Cap Times loses open records battle Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 1:20 pm, (1) Comment The decision might have been legally sound, but what are we going to do to check the power of the governor to withhold records whenever it suits him? >More
Brunch Links Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 10:00 am, (1) Comment A run-down of the top local news accompanied by a delicious display of a local delicacy. >More
Willy Street Co-op plans to open second store in Middleton Linda Falkenstein on Tuesday 03/09/2010 4:24 pm, (3) Recommendations The Willy Street Co-op has finally released its long-awaited plans for a second store. The second site chosen is in Middleton, at the corner of University Avenue and Park Street, in a pre-existing shopping center. The store would move into the end space vacated by Walgreens, which built a new free-standing location some blocks east on University Avenue at Branch Street. >More
Welcome to The Sconz... Again! Jack Craver on Tuesday 03/09/2010 3:40 pm, (3) Comments Introducing The Daily Page's brand new political blog, The Sconz, which focuses on issues relating to the campus, city and state. >More
Blaska's Blog conjures a new enemy: private insurance! David Blaska on Tuesday 03/09/2010 3:07 pm, (1) Comment, (1) Recommendation One would think portraying insurance companies as inglorious basterds would be a tough sell in a place like metro Madison, WI, home to American Family, National Guardian Life, CUNA, General Casualty, and others. But that is what our current President is trying to do to breathe life into his moribund ObamaCare. >More
Emily's Post: Poll dancing with WPRI and UW-Madison Emily Mills on Tuesday 03/09/2010 2:15 pm, (6) Comments, (1) Recommendation Here's the question for today: Should a public university that prides itself on intellectual honesty and vigorous sifting and winnowing in order to discover truth join forces with a partisan organization to conduct public opinion polls? >More
Trappist beers paired with fusion barbeque at forthcoming Haze dinner Linda Falkenstein on Tuesday 03/09/2010 2:00 pm, (1) Recommendation Real Trappist beers, from the abbeys of Belgium, will be the unifying theme of an upcoming dinner at The Haze on Sunday, March 21. The idea for the event came from Madison author Madeline Scherb, whose book A Taste of Heaven, published last August, is a guide to some of the best foods produced by monks and nuns in the U.S. and Europe. >More
Great Performance Fund moves on from Madison Rep Forward Theater, Milwaukee Rep can apply for theater grants Jay Rath on Tuesday 03/09/2010 10:47 am Qualifications for applying to Overture's Great Performance Fund have loosened up considerably. Beginning this fall, grant money once set aside exclusively for Madison Repertory Theatre will be available to any professional theater company in Wisconsin. The change was announced March 4. >More
Win tickets to Danu, Shidara, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and more! on Tuesday 03/09/2010 10:00 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: Eric Church at the Orpheum; Danu, Shidara, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, One Republic, Four Bitchin’ Babes, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at Overture; B*itch at the High Noon; and more! >More
Tierney Sutton to headline the 2010 Isthmus Jazz Festival Dean Robbins on Monday 03/08/2010 4:03 pm The Tierney Sutton Band will headline the 2010 Isthmus Jazz Festival on Saturday, June 5, at the Wisconsin Union Theater, featuring Sutton's unique approach to jazz singing. The festival also features free performances by regional jazz bands the weekend of June 5 and 6 at the UW Memorial Union Terrace. >More
Blaska's Blog turns up the heat on City Hall David Blaska on Monday 03/08/2010 11:45 am, (12) Comments, (2) Recommendations The squire of Stately Blaska Manor, clad in a black velour smoking jacket, entered the Karl Rove Study of the Stately Manor, now hushed for the midnight hour. There he encountered Ruben Mamoulian, his bibulous manservant, in his customary state of dishabille, face-down in a bowl of punch. >More
Madison Snaps -- March 8, 2010 on Monday 03/08/2010 8:00 am Today's image titled “Winter Festival - Girl And Ice Sculpture” was photographed by Dana O'Shea. >More
The Week: March 8-11, 2010 on Monday 03/08/2010 6:00 am Spring is right around the corner, and everything seems to be warming up this week. The calendar includes: the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival; talks by Warrington Colescott, Catherine Malabou, V.S. Ramachandran, John Milton Cooper, and Mary Beard; and, live music by Vetiver, Matias Aguayo, Deadstring Brothers, Laarks, Umphrey's McGee, Eroica Trio, and Tally Hall. >More
Oscars 2010 live blog with Isthmus film critic Kenneth Burns on Sunday 03/07/2010 4:00 pm, (1) Recommendation When you settle in to watch the Academy Awards Sunday night, don't forget your laptop. Kenneth will be blogging along, live, and you're encouraged to log in and share your thoughts and questions here. >More
Zola Jesus is in colossal voice at intimate Project Lodge show Sally Franson on Sunday 03/07/2010 11:38 am, (1) Comment, (1) Recommendation Zola Jesus celebrated the release of her new EP, Stridulum, last night at theProject Lodge. The show marked the UW-Madison’s student’s return to playing in her hometown after a year’s absence, and based on the raucous admiration from the audience, she was sorely missed. >More
A Book A Week: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Becky Holmes on Saturday 03/06/2010 6:00 pm, (1) Recommendation I avoided Kathryn Stockett's The Help for a while. I was afraid it was going to be exploitative, opportunistic, manipulative, a cheap bid for attention. In some ways it is those things, but not in the ways I expected. >More
Li Chiao-Ping Dance concert features four new works, and gym socks Katie Reiser on Saturday 03/06/2010 10:07 am I came away from Li Chiao-Ping Dance's opening of eVOLUTION, Friday night at Overture Center's Promenade Hall, liking Li's sensibility as a dance maker and appreciating her qualities as a dancer. But my favorite piece of the night wasn't her choreography, and she didn't perform in it. That was the smart and funny "Press," from choreographer Lionel Popkin, which opened the program. >More
Vinyl Cave: A Lovely Sight by Pisces Bob Koch on Saturday 03/06/2010 8:00 am, (1) Recommendation For as long as record collectors of all genres have been digging for forgotten material, those few who go the next step and begin reissuing material commercially have maintained a sort of cottage industry mining the many, many ignored side roads of music history. >More
Beer Here: Belgian Barleywine from the Great Dane and Capital Brewery Robin Shepard on Friday 03/05/2010 3:00 pm, (5) Recommendations The Great Dane Pub and Brewery just released the highest-alcohol beer it has ever made. The downtown Madison brewpub has finally put its Belgian Barleywine on tap after more than a year of fermenting and conditioning. >More
Madison Music Scene & Heard: Simon and Garfunkel at the Kohl Center Bob Koch on Friday 03/05/2010 1:58 pm They've been performing music together for more than five decades, but the duo of Simon and Garfunkel has never made a stop in Madison. That situation will be rectified this spring, as the legendary folk rockers have announced a concert stop at the Kohl Center on Sunday, May 9. >More
Blaska's Blog confirms Dane County RTA vote won't be binding David Blaska on Friday 03/05/2010 1:30 pm, (9) Comments, (2) Recommendations The Wisconsin State Journal got it wrong. "RTA board agrees to binding referendum," reads today's headline. Except the resolution passed by the RTA at its first meeting late Thursday afternoon is not binding. >More
Why The Badger Herald ran that Holocaust denier's ad Nick Penzenstadler on Friday 03/05/2010 12:49 pm, (17) Comments Running a newspaper in Madison, or in any city, comes with a responsibility to readers. A current controversy involving a hateful advertisement in the UW-Madison student paper, The Badger Herald, where I serve as publisher, has raised questions about what that entails. The answers, I submit, are more gray than black or white. >More
The Week[end]: March 5-7, 2010 on Friday 03/05/2010 6:00 am March opens with a roar thanks to Literacy 24/7 and a barrage of live theater with productions of Dueling Divas, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Help Wanted, The Wake of Liam Doherty, and Seussical. The calendar also includes: International Festival and a Mad Rollin' Dolls bout; The Music of Cole Porter and a Wisconsin Early Autism Project benefit; and, more live music by Gomez, Zola Jesus, G. Love & Special Sauce, and Via Audio. >More
MadTracks: 'I-94 Blues' by the Cash Box Kings Jessica Steinhoff on Thursday 03/04/2010 2:30 pm, (5) Recommendations There are numerous reasons I-94 might give you the blues, whether it's 5:00 gridlock or the recently announced resurfacing project that's bound to create headaches this summer. For Joe Nosek and the rest of the Cash Box Kings, I-94 is the highway to love gone wrong. >More
Save the date for the Isthmus Green Day Wedding: Saturday, April 17 on Thursday 03/04/2010 2:00 pm Get ready to celebrate when Kelly Starr-King and Mike Drake declare their love for each other -- and Mother Earth -- in a "sustainable" wedding ceremony at Isthmus Green Day, Saturday, April 17. >More
Emily's Post: Wisconsin's overcrowded prisons aren't rehabilitating inmates Emily Mills on Thursday 03/04/2010 9:04 am, (1) Recommendation The U.S. has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. Even taking into consideration those countries that don't properly report the number of people it locks up, the numbers in America are staggering. Prison overpopulation has become a very real, very urgent problem in most states, so I can't say that it's a surprise to hear about it happening right here in Wisconsin. >More
Shot fired in the air during disturbance in Willy St. parking lot. MPD
What's going on with the library? Alders want to know! Brenda Konkel
"Don't blink, you'll miss it. The new/amended TIF and land use applications for the Edgewater may fly by in 9 days." Brenda Konkel
Madison resident Benjamin Nelms takes out full-page ad in Hattiesburg paper calling for Brett Favre to return to Vikings. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Why is there no development in the East Washington corridor? Brenda Konkel
The cutting and slashing at ABC News is bound to happen here in Madison. Tim Morrissey
Shit, I agree with a Wisconsin State Journal editorial. Brenda Konkel
"Cimino's seemed to be a jumping joint even in the middle of a rainy/slushy night. People came in to grab take-out pizza most of the time we were loitering at their tables. Having not had comparative fare, we're happy to know that there's at least decent pizza in Waunakee." Eating in Madison A to Z
Quick question: why is Madison Metro allowed to run its operations so sloppily that this overtime problem even happens? Tim Morrissey
A report on the Madison Plan Commission discussion on the waterfront setback ordinance change for the Edgewater Brenda Konkel
"Frustration over a lack of city action will greet the proposed Edgewater Hotel renovation when it arrives at the Madison Plan Commission for review on Monday" Paul Snyder
A report on the Monona City Council meeting on February 1 Doug Wood
"New UW-Madison agronomist leads international corn-breeding project" UW Comm.
"Edgewater: We don't agree on anything! (This project and process is a mess!)" Brenda Konkel
"Wisconsin should follow Cali on open source software" Lukas Diaz
"What's with the open water on Lake Wingra?" Peter Patau
"After venturing out on Lake Monona one chilly Friday morning, I learned that braving the elements to provide a meal for your family is about as gangster as it gets" Rob Franklin @ 608 Magazine
Blaska's Blog conjures a new enemy: private insurance! David Blaska on Tuesday 03/09/2010 3:07 pm, (1) Comment, (1) Recommendation One would think portraying insurance companies as inglorious basterds would be a tough sell in a place like metro Madison, WI, home to American Family, National Guardian Life, CUNA, General Casualty, and others. But that is what our current President is trying to do to breathe life into his moribund ObamaCare. >MoreBlaska's Blog turns up the heat on City Hall David Blaska on Monday 03/08/2010 11:45 am, (12) Comments, (2) Recommendations The squire of Stately Blaska Manor, clad in a black velour smoking jacket, entered the Karl Rove Study of the Stately Manor, now hushed for the midnight hour. There he encountered Ruben Mamoulian, his bibulous manservant, in his customary state of dishabille, face-down in a bowl of punch. >More
Emily's Post: Poll dancing with WPRI and UW-Madison Emily Mills on Tuesday 03/09/2010 2:15 pm, (6) Comments, (1) Recommendation Here's the question for today: Should a public university that prides itself on intellectual honesty and vigorous sifting and winnowing in order to discover truth join forces with a partisan organization to conduct public opinion polls? >MoreEmily's Post: Wisconsin's overcrowded prisons aren't rehabilitating inmates Emily Mills on Thursday 03/04/2010 9:04 am, (1) Recommendation The U.S. has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. Even taking into consideration those countries that don't properly report the number of people it locks up, the numbers in America are staggering. Prison overpopulation has become a very real, very urgent problem in most states, so I can't say that it's a surprise to hear about it happening right here in Wisconsin. >More
Brunch Links Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 10:00 am, (1) Comment A run-down of the top local news accompanied by a delicious display of a local delicacy. >MoreCap Times loses open records battle Jack Craver on Wednesday 03/10/2010 1:20 pm, (1) Comment The decision might have been legally sound, but what are we going to do to check the power of the governor to withhold records whenever it suits him? >More
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