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Jealousy, harmony in The Winter's Tale at American Players Theatre
by Katie Reiser on 06/26/09 at 10:17 am | APT artistic director David Frank directs The Winter's Tale, and while this is not my favorite Shakespeare, the production is still strong and compelling. |
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Madison Snaps -- June 26, 2009
by on 06/26/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Ferris Wheel” was photographed by Robb and Jessie Stankey. |
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The Week[end]: June 26-28, 2009
by on 06/26/09 at 6:00 am | Summer in Madison achieves an early apex this weekend with the annual preemptive Independence Day celebration that is Rhythm & Booms. There's much more on tap, though, including Oregon Summer Fest; The Winter's Tale at APT; a F5 photo opening and the Tenney-Lapham Art Walk, Drums on Parade; and live music by our local Bach fanatics, Katie Todd, Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam, Diplomats of Solid Sound, Imperial Battlesnake, The Scurvies, and Moira Scar. |
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Beilke: It's Blaska vs. Kozol in Meadowood
by Dustin Beilke on 06/25/09 at 2:00 pm | Teenagers in Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills have the same droopy drawers, use the same gangster slang and have the same penchant for creative and uncreative cursing as the kids in Meadowood. But we don't assume this is helping them become National Merit Scholars or get admitted to Ivy League colleges -- both of which they do with amazing frequency. |
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Dane County Farmers' Market: Jones Valley Farm
by Clare Milliken on 06/25/09 at 1:00 pm | Over the course of the season, the Jones Valley Farm stand on South Carroll Street at the Dane County Farmers' Market overflows with more than 125 varieties of organic fresh veggies. This produce is cultivated by Mike and Jean Martin on their farm near Spring Green, with a focus on exotic vegetables grown from imported European seeds. |
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Airstream enthusiasts gather in Madison for international rally
by Isthmus Staff on 06/25/09 at 11:00 am | Approaching the Alliant Energy Center on John Nolen Drive, the glare off hundreds of silver Twinkies is blinding. It's a growing village of vintage Airstream trailers and motor homes in town for the 2009 Wally Byam Caravan Club International Rally. |
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Rhapsodic Russians open Concerts on the Square 2009 season
by John W. Barker on 06/25/09 at 10:59 am | Madison's Concerts on the Square are a far cry from the small-town concerts at the village bandstand of a century ago. But they have become an institution, now in its 26th season. |
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Madison Snaps -- June 25, 2009
by on 06/25/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “6.18.09 (74/365) - bike rack” was photographed by Katie Hebble. |
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Public Enemies, entrepreneurs, and Daisy cupcakes in the June 26 edition of Isthmus
by on 06/25/09 at 6:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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MadTracks -- 'Porter House 650' by Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo
by Jessica Steinhoff on 06/24/09 at 3:00 pm | When most people think of a porterhouse, they imagine a thick, juicy slab of meat and perhaps a cattle rancher or two. Madison blues-rock band Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo don't think about the steak or the farm as much as the saucy lady who served the meal. |
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Fringe Foods: Crispy pig bung from Asia Express
by Kyle Nabilcy on 06/24/09 at 2:00 pm | Like menudo, pig bung is a product of efficiency, frugality, and a little bit of poverty thrown in for good measure. When the finer cuts -- the belly, the hocks, the loin -- are gone, "what's left" becomes "what's for dinner." Think ears, hooves, jowls, and bung. |
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Blaska's Blog is 'deranged,' sure, but 'unintelligent'?
by David Blaska on 06/24/09 at 11:22 am | The gangsta look inherent in the low-riders thing is akin to a suspicious lump or unusual bleeding. It’s an early warning sign that needs attention, stat! Or, we could wait until he empties his chamber. Might be too late, then. Might be. |
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Madison Parking Enforcement jeep 1, bikes 0
by Jason Joyce on 06/24/09 at 10:35 am | A witness contacted TDP Tuesday evening with a report that a Madison Parking Enforcement vehicle had rolled into a bike rack on the 100 block of West Main Street, just outside the Inn on the Park hotel, crunching several bikes in the process. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Woodstock, Jack Lemmon, and Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Mike Wilmington on 06/24/09 at 10:00 am | Both a great rock concert movie and a superb documentary on youth culture in the Vietnam War Years, Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock -- shot at the legendary 1969 Aquarian gathering at Max Yasgur's farm at Bethel, N.Y. (not the nearby Woodstock) -- brings back the era and all its pot-fumed tenderness, horror, humor, beauty, ugliness, and glorious absurdities, as few other movies can. |
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Madison Snaps -- June 24, 2009
by on 06/24/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Dinner at Jolly Bob's” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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Snacking around Madison: Eating ideas for when the weather turns warm
by Linda Falkenstein on 06/23/09 at 2:00 pm | When the first hot, humid days of summer arrive, hunger pangs alter. An appetite in summer can turn on and off without much warning. |
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Win tickets to White Rabbits, Blueheels, and more!
by on 06/23/09 at 11:00 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: Blueheels and Moira Scar at the Frequency; Imperial Battlesnake, White Rabbits, and Fountains of Wayne at the High Noon; and Pearl Snap Saturday at the Majestic. |
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Madison Snaps -- June 23, 2009
by on 06/23/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Water dance” was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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Blaska's Blog salutes the nutty editorialist
by David Blaska on 06/22/09 at 6:57 pm | The Jerry Lewis impersonator at The Capital Times has written one of the wackiest, nuttiest editorials of all time. It is such a treat that I had to bring it to a wider audience. |
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Columbus, Wisconsin picks up the pieces after Johnny Depp and Public Enemies
by Rod Melotte on 06/22/09 at 2:00 pm | It's been over a year since Universal Studios shot Public Enemies in my little town of Columbus, Wisconsin. On the eve of the movie's July 1 premiere, I've been thinking about what a major motion picture does to a town of 5,000. |
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Frothy fun in The Philanderer by American Players Theatre
by Jennifer A. Smith on 06/22/09 at 1:00 pm | Although George Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer was one of his three Plays Unpleasant, he also subtitled it "A Topical Comedy." Let that be a tip-off to the somewhat split identity of this 1898 play. |
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Madison eats agenda: Free food for kids, free coffee for workers, and schnitzel for all!
by Linda Falkenstein on 06/22/09 at 11:00 am | The coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach. |
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Madison zoning code redo already under fire
by Joe Tarr on 06/22/09 at 9:23 am | After months of work, the city of Madison is this week unveiling the first draft of its new zoning code. But already there are critics who say the codes discourage traditional neighborhoods and high-density developments. Jeff Rosenberg of Veridian Homes sent the city a memo last week, saying the new codes "would deter sustainable neighborhoods" and be "a drastic step backwards." |
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Madison Snaps -- June 22, 2009
by on 06/22/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “BerryBerry” was photographed by Diana Zlatanovski. |
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The Week: June 22-25, 2009
by on 06/22/09 at 6:00 am | Summer kindles its way into full florescence this week, and it's going to be a hot one. The calendar includes: Downtown Works Week; opening night of this season's Concerts on the Square; a trio of new art exhibitions at Overture and a book reading by Judith Leavitt; and plenty of live music by X, Amy Curl & Dan Kennedy, Them Damn Kids, Cribshitter with Butt Funnel, Au Revoir Simone, Silverstein, John Primer, and the Chicago Afrobeat Project. |
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Arts & Crafts stands out among high school bands to win Launchpad 2009 finals
by Joe Shaffer on 06/21/09 at 12:00 pm | As a 12-year-old in a rock band with high hopes for my own career in the Launchpad competition, I was excited to check out the statewide finals on Saturday, June 20, at the Wisconsin Union Theater. I'm not yet eligible for Launchpad, but as I sat through the 12 finalists I definitely got an idea of what to do and what not to do. |
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Blaska's Blog hikes 'em up
by David Blaska on 06/21/09 at 11:06 am | Action list item #6: Promote positive values. Abandon the victimology message. Get the education and faith communities to pro-actively preach empowerment, self-respect, consideration of and responsibility to others -- to balance off the over-emphasis on “rights.”? |
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A Book A Week: Dumbfounded by Matt Rothschild
by Becky Holmes on 06/20/09 at 12:00 pm | I'm not the first person to observe this, but you know how sometimes a movie trailer can make a movie look funny and unique, then you go see it at the theater and realize that all the best bits were in the trailer and the rest of the movie is a big disappointment? |
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Vinyl Cave: In Search of the Lost Chord by The Moody Blues
by Bob Koch on 06/20/09 at 10:00 am | I recently had a chance to do some overseas traveling, including a few days in London. Since there were far more exciting sights to see than racks of records -- and little space to transport anything home, anyway -- only a small stack of vinyl made the trip back. |
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Blaska's Blog is making a list
by David Blaska on 06/19/09 at 4:44 pm | I did manage to attend the first hour of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s summit meeting Wednesday morning. I had to leave before the second hour in order to make a previous commitment. |
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