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Madison Snaps -- November 13, 2009
by on 11/13/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Forever 21 has taken over my mall” was photographed by Katie Hebble. |
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The Week[end]: November 13-15, 2009
by on 11/13/09 at 6:00 am | Late autumn in Madison doesn't really get any busier than this weekend. The calendar includes: Kids Expo, the Winter Art Festival, and the opening of Holiday Fantasy in Lights; Bioneers; productions of Sesame Street Live, Blood Wedding, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, McBeth, and Room on the Broom and performances by Kanopy Dance, Jason Petty, and the Smothers Brothers; appearances by Sir James Galway, Mukoma wa Ngugi, and Jonathan Patz; and, an avalanche of live music. |
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Blaska's Blog hears the fat lady singing
by David Blaska on 11/12/09 at 4:35 pm | It is over for the Democrats in Wisconsin. The report card is in on the Jim E. Doyle-Mark Pocan-Mark Miller state budget. The Pew Center for the States, as disinterested party as you can find, puts Wisconsin among the 10 states whose government is in the worst budgetary shape. |
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The Midwest Beat and The Selfish Gene are your Band to Band Combat finalists
by Jason Joyce on 11/12/09 at 12:44 pm | After four rounds of online balloting from over 1,400 voters, The Midwest Beat and The Selfish Gene have emerged as the 2009 Band to Band Combat finalists. That means they'll perform in front of a live audience at The Frequency on Thursday, November 19 for a bushel of prizes including studio time, gift certificates and CD dubbing services. |
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MATC's Ahedo receives the Athena Young Professional Award from Madison's Business Forum
by on 11/12/09 at 12:04 pm | Tina Ahedo and her children are active volunteers in the community, serving meals at local food pantries and working with Habitat for Humanity. Accepting the award, Tina attributed her success to “the best teachers, mentors and friends who have inspired, taught and challenged me to do my very best.” |
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Vicki McKenna, University Theatre, Whitney Mann, Opa in the November 13 issue of Isthmus
by on 11/12/09 at 12:00 pm | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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Blaska's Blog battles Rhamnus cathartica
by David Blaska on 11/12/09 at 9:03 am | My hands are bloodied and bruised for I have been engaged in a pitched battle here at the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm with my arch-enemy. No, not Bicycle Boy. Something far more sinister (if possible) and fecund: Rhamnus cathartica. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 12, 2009
by on 11/12/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “protesters” was photographed by Beth McConnell. |
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MadTracks: 'Moving On' by Flame Shark
by Bob Koch on 11/11/09 at 1:00 pm | Justin Jahnke came to the Madison area from Louisiana, so Flame Shark's sound has always had some Southern roots. This time around, the band took the extra step of recording the basic tracks for Raw Flowers live during a 20 hour session at Piety Street Recording in New Orleans. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Up, Wings of Desire, holiday classics, The Ugly Truth, Mamma Mia!
by Mike Wilmington on 11/11/09 at 10:00 am | Up flies us right up into those magical realms of sky, flight and fantasy that Judy garland's Dorothy traveled, in her Kansas twister ride to Oz, and that little Pascal Lamorisse was whisked off to by his air force of Parisian balloons at the end of The Red Balloon. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 11, 2009
by on 11/11/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “ready for cold weather” was photographed by Ron Wiecki. |
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Scrambling for slices at Pie Palooza 2009
by Linda Falkenstein on 11/10/09 at 3:00 pm | Pie Palooza, the celebration of local ingredients as reconceived residing atop a flaky crust, is not just all about the pie. It's also a benefit event for the REAP Food Group, and it completed its most successful turn this past Sunday at larger digs in the Goodman Community Center. |
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MadTracks: 'Dark Surf' by Helliphant
by Jessica Steinhoff on 11/10/09 at 1:00 pm | Madison metal-rockers Helliphant aren't shy about their love affair with Glenn Danzig. Their song "Dark Surf," the third track on their new disc Powdered Tusk, dives into the guts of the best stuff by the musician's legendary metal band and finds a bit of shrapnel from the Misfits as well. |
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Win tickets to Room on the Broom, Digital Leather, In This Moment, Haley Bonar, and more!
by on 11/10/09 at 12:00 pm | 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: Band to Band Combat at the Frequency; In This Moment at the Annex; Quarantine, Digital Leather, Haley Bonar at the High Noon; The Fiery Furnaces, The Books, and Boombox at the Majestic; Room on the Broom and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Overture; and more! |
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Madison Snaps -- November 10, 2009
by on 11/10/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Milkweed” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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Madison eats agenda: Dining Out for Life, turkeys, Renaissance Xmas, and A Choral Feast
by Kristian Knutsen on 11/09/09 at 5:00 pm | The coming week, with events that get to your heart through your stomach. |
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Blaska's Blog is polarizing
by David Blaska on 11/09/09 at 4:45 pm | Even my wife was appalled. Friday morning I used the publicly subsidized airwaves to good purpose. I called for Gov. Jim E. Doyle to mobilize the National Guard and deploy it in Milwaukee’s public schools. Joy Cardin, the gracious host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Week in Review program commented, "We’ll just leave that one alone" and moved on. |
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Madison Music Scene and Heard: Patrick Peterson, Band to Band Combat, Madison County
by Bob Koch on 11/09/09 at 12:00 pm | Whitewater musician Patrick Peterson has played or worked at benefit shows for numerous causes. Now Peterson could use a helping hand himself. |
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Emily's Post: Disturbing the peace
by Emily Mills on 11/09/09 at 9:58 am | What a glorious weekend! All of that unexpected sunshine and warmth made it exceptionally difficult to sit indoors with a laptop and hash out a proper blog post, but for you, sweet readers, I have persevered. After all, I can’t well let Blaska have the only word on this site. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 9, 2009
by on 11/09/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “November Moon” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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The Week: November 9-12, 2009
by on 11/09/09 at 6:00 am | Madisonians will find many opportunities to go old school this week. The calendar includes: the celebration of the "On, Wisconsin!" centennial; a production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and a performance by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana; talks by Dan Ariely, Bill Ivey, and Lama Ole Nydahl; and, live music by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Erin McKeown, Jeffrey Siegel, Enter the Haggis, Trampled By Turtles, Digable Planets, Paleo, and Helliphant with Mr. Gnome. |
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All About Eve is a promising start by the Forward Theater Company
by Jennifer A. Smith on 11/08/09 at 10:47 am | If Saturday night's near-capacity crowd for All About Eve is a reliable indicator, there's definitely an appetite for professional theater in Madison. |
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Vinyl Cave: The Delta Sweete by Bobbie Gentry
by Bob Koch on 11/08/09 at 8:00 am | Bobbie Gentry burst overnight onto the national music scene with one of the most mysterious-sounding records of 1967, "Ode to Billie Joe." With her smoky vocals and down-home guitar in the forefront, backed by foreboding strings, the record's spare production stands out when compared to the often overly elaborate records of the Summer of Love. |
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Bleak on paper, the Mountain Goats are earnestly comic at the High Noon Saloon
by Andy Moore on 11/07/09 at 12:24 pm | The Mountain Goats clamored onto the High Noon stage Friday night like four lovable brothers-in-law arriving late for Thanksgiving dinner. |
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Dog Sees God by OUT!Cast Theatre spoofs the Peanuts gang (don't bring the kids)
by Bruce G. Bradley on 11/07/09 at 12:00 pm | It's a fairly good bet that when Charles Schulz created his beloved Peanuts cartoon strip, he never foresaw the futures that his characters live into in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a decidedly adult spoof that is the debut production of the OUT!Cast Theatre company. |
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Emotional power in Madison Opera's vividly staged Carmen
by John W. Barker on 11/07/09 at 10:33 am | Friday night the Madison Opera opened this season with a lavish production in Overture Hall of the perennial crowd-pleaser, Bizet's Carmen. And a production to please it surely was. |
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Alder wants new downtown Madison library donors to pony up
by Joe Tarr on 11/06/09 at 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. |
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Beer Here: Eisphyre from Capital Brewery
by Robin Shepard on 11/06/09 at 2:00 pm | 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. |
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Blaska's Blog is brewing up some tea over the Dane County RTA
by David Blaska on 11/06/09 at 12:56 pm | Leave aside estimates that only 5,500 passengers will ride the Dane County commuter train. Forget that each trip will need to be subsidized to the tune of $40+. Never mind that the train doesn’t really go anywhere that buses can’t already take you and more cheaply. It’s the dishonest way it was done. |
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Madison Snaps -- November 6, 2009
by on 11/06/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Turkey in the arb” was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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