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Madison Snaps -- November 23, 2009
by on 11/23/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Dam blockage” was photographed by Craig Wilson. |
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The Selfish Gene grabs Isthmus Band to Band Combat 2009 title
by Kenneth Burns on 11/20/09 at 12:04 pm | Sleek, solemn rock trio The Selfish Gene prevailed last night at the Frequency in the final round of Isthmus Band to Band Combat, the local-music contest staged by your favorite Madison alternative newsweekly. The runner-up was The Midwest Beat, the quartet whose brisk pop songs are drenched in Mersey Sound jangle. The winner was chosen by club patrons, who cast votes. |
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Top Wisconsin beers to pair with your Thanksgiving meal
by Robin Shepard on 11/20/09 at 12:00 pm | Beer and Thanksgiving are intrinsically linked in the settlement of this country -- the Pilgrims had beer on the Mayflower -- so why not serve local beers on your holiday table? Granted, it can be a challenge to find just the right beer(s) to go with the cornucopia of flavors found in a Thanksgiving feast, but try breaking down the meal with several beer options. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 20, 2009
by on 11/20/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Skate this way....” was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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The Week[end]: November 20-22, 2009
by on 11/20/09 at 6:00 am | Get the holidays rolling early this weekend. The calendar includes: the Holiday Art Fair and Madison Women's Expo; the Wis-Kino Fall Kabaret; productions of The Little Match Girl, 1 SW33T R1DE, and the UW Dance Fall Faculty Concert; a book reading by Chris Newbold; Funk Out Cancer!; and, a bumper crop of live music by Carrie Newcomer, Modern Skirts, the MSO, Cougar, Haley Bonar, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Band from TV, Mason Jennings, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, and more. |
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A Book A Week: Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
by Becky Holmes on 11/19/09 at 6:00 pm | Popular fiction is a genre that is distinct from literary fiction, though the boundaries are fluid. I like to think of these categories as either ends of a ruler, with most books falling somewhere between the two ends. A lot of the books I read fall right around the middle of the continuum between popular and literary fiction. |
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Blaska's Blog denounces Комунизъм and its apologists
by David Blaska on 11/19/09 at 4:43 pm | That bothersome old Communist Clarence Kailin is finally being stuffed into the ground. Dead, you know. |
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MadTracks: 'Hold On' by Former Ghosts
by Bob Koch on 11/19/09 at 12:00 pm | Madison's Nika Roza Danilova has been very busy with music the past couple years. She has released solo recordings as Zola Jesus, and another album featuring Danilova appeared in October on London's Upset the Rhythm label: Fleurs by Former Ghosts. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 19, 2009
by on 11/19/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “North Fairchild Street” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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Scott Walker, the MSO, turkey day buffets, and Giving in the November 20 issue of Isthmus
by on 11/19/09 at 6:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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Blaska's Blog has regulation fatigue
by David Blaska on 11/18/09 at 2:45 pm | Stopped by the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission hearing Tuesday night at the Verona Senior Center to testify against the so-called Dane County Waterbody Classification Project. |
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Madame Fromage: Baked Miniature Pumpkins with Blue Cheese recipe
by Tenaya Darlington on 11/18/09 at 2:00 pm | One of my favorite combinations at the Thanksgiving table is baked squash with some sort of savory stuffing. This year, I'm planning to adapt a Deborah Madison recipe that calls for cream, a leaf of sage, and a spoonful of Gruyere baked inside a mini pumpkin; instead of using Gruyere, I'm going to combine blue cheese with the cream, and a few cranks of black pepper. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Gone With the Wind, The Exiles, Star Trek, My Sister's Keeper
by Mike Wilmington on 11/18/09 at 10:00 am | Like the flawed but spectacular Margaret Mitchell novel from which it derives, the movie Gone With the Wind has never lost its power to enthrall and bewitch. Producer David O. Selznick's phenomenal film, can still, like Mitchell's saucy and unconquerable heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, seduce or bulldoze almost all before it. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 18, 2009
by on 11/18/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “rowing at sunset” was photographed by Monique J. Isham. |
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Win tickets to Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Ari Hest, Natty Nation, and more!
by on 11/17/09 at 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: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Step Afrika!, and Grease at Overture; The Books, Boombox, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and James Otto with Jimmy Wayne at the Majestic; Haley Bonar, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Ari Hest, Natty Nation, and Taylor Hicks at the High Noon; Band to Band Combat at the Frequency; and more! |
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Madison Snaps -- November 17, 2009
by on 11/17/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Wingra Dam” was photographed by Jon Tanke. |
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Madison Eats Agenda: Master Cheesemakers, Holiday Art Fair, Ruby Nouveau
by Andrea Parins on 11/16/09 at 4:00 pm | This coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach. |
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Emily's Post: Tom Barrett, Justice Gableman and that blowhard Blaska
by Emily Mills on 11/16/09 at 2:55 pm | Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett antes up, Gableman’s down and dirty tactics endorsed by panel, and would it be repetitive to mention that Blaska is up in arms over nothing again? |
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Madison Music Scene and Heard: Daniel and the Lion, Funk Out Cancer!, Ironworks Cafe
by Bob Koch on 11/16/09 at 12:00 pm | Folk-rockers Daniel and the Lion have built a local following in less than a year, and they will offer an opportunity for fans to put their audience skills to use at a live DVD filming at the High Noon Saloon on Tuesday, Nov. 24. |
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Blaska's Blog: The Stately Manor is besieged by control freaks!
by David Blaska on 11/16/09 at 11:00 am | To the ramparts! Prepare the boiling oil! Even Ruben Mamoulian has been released from the dungeon for active duty. Stately Blaska Manor, historic and gracious seat of the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm, is in the gun sights of the collectivists. |
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Handful of standout pieces in Kanopy Dance Company's fall concert Autumn Heart
by Susan Kepecs on 11/16/09 at 10:47 am | Autumn Heart, the late fall concert by Kanopy Dance Company at Overture's Promenade Hall last weekend, was predictably inconsistent. Three standouts rescued the eight-piece program from the dustbin of unmemorable Madison dance performances. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 16, 2009
by on 11/16/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “honk for college” was photographed by Beth McConnell. |
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The Week: November 16-19, 2009
by on 11/16/09 at 6:00 am | Believe it or not, but this is actually the last complete work week of the month, given the big holiday a week from Thursday. The calendar includes: appearances by Erica and Richard Halverson, Peter Yarrow, and James Norton with Rebecca Dilley; and, live music by Digital Leather, MV & EE, Vagabond Opera at Mad Toast Live, Two Fresh, Randy Weeks, and Brother Ali. |
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University Theatre's Blood Wedding is sheer poetry
by Amelia Cook on 11/15/09 at 10:54 am | Going to the theater is risky. Theater tickets are investments in the unknown. So often we leave our seats disappointed, thinking that a few pints would have been a better use of the night. Saturday night, as I headed into the strangely balmy air after University Theatre production of Blood Wedding, I felt just the opposite. |
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Sir James Galway goes for laughs with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
by John W. Barker on 11/15/09 at 9:43 am | For its 50th anniversary concert, Saturday night in Overture Center's Capitol Theater, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra presented three works of the twentieth century, and one not. |
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Vinyl Cave: The Spoils by Zola Jesus
by Bob Koch on 11/14/09 at 6:00 pm | Nika Roza Danilova is creating quite a buzz in the music blogosphere with her musical alias/one-woman band, Zola Jesus, including a stack of "best of 2008" lists and a recent mention by comics writer/king of all media Warren Ellis. |
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Broom Street Theater's McBeth brings Shakespeare's king to the corporate world
by Katie Reiser on 11/14/09 at 9:21 am | Broom Street Theater brings its 40th anniversary season to an end with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which artistic director Callen Harty has twisted and turned into McBeth, an allegory of corporate greed. |
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A Book A Week: A Long Finish by Michael Didbin
by Becky Holmes on 11/13/09 at 6:00 pm | When I heard in 2007 that Michael Dibdin had died, I remember thinking, "Oh darn, I never got around to reading any of his books." What a weird thought, as if the Head Librarian would now be taking all his books off the shelves. |
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Madison asks residents to help maintain ice rinks
by Joe Tarr on 11/13/09 at 12:39 pm | Madison Parks Division is moving ahead with plans for an "adopt an ice" partnership to help maintain the city's ice rinks. The city is currently asking residents to help commit to doing maintenance at the city's eight rinks, at Tenney, Vilas, Elver, Olbrich, Warner, Westmorland, Garner Park and Goodman parks. |
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Beer Here: Hop Harvest from Central Waters Brewing
by Robin Shepard on 11/13/09 at 10:00 am | Did you catch a glimpse of the harvest moon a few weeks ago? Well, the brewers at Central Waters must have been basking in the moonbeams as they celebrated the release of their latest seasonal creation: Hop Harvest. Brewery staff did more than brew the beer -- they even harvested the hops. |
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