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2009 Wisconsin Film Festival, Day Three: The wisdom of crowds
by Linda Falkenstein on 04/05/09 at 9:00 am | The campus seemed a little empty Saturday as I hopped from film to film, all west of the Library Mall. All three films were about art and artists: Chuck Close, Between the Folds, and Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker. The greatest concentration of excitement was at the showing of Between the Folds at the Chazen Museum, and the auditorium was sold out, with ushers hunting down every last seat. |
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Vinyl Cave -- Incontinopia by The Mystery Girls
by Bob Koch on 04/04/09 at 8:00 am | It's been five years since Green Bay's young masters of bluesy skronk, The Mystery Girls, released their second long-player to a global audience through Los Angeles-based In the Red Records. The last show I remember them playing in Madison was more than three years ago. Where have you gone, Mystery Girls? |
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2009 Wisconsin Film Festival, Day Two: 'We Like It Here'
by Dean Robbins on 04/03/09 at 11:33 pm | Stephen Jarchow, distributor of Oscar-winning Departures, is impressed with the Wisconsin Film Festival’s interest in foreign films. "Madison is a sophisticated film town. It’s one of the best cities for foreign films in the U.S., outside the major markets." |
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Madison coffee shops defy national trend
by Clare Milliken on 04/03/09 at 1:30 pm | "Business is up since last year," says Ryan Baughn, training director of Ancora Coffee Roasters on King Street. "Where people are spending their dollar is looked at with a lot more detail, but I think people still want a treat." |
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The Week on Forum: Bishop Morlino, teenagers, the auto industry, and Mike Verveer
by Clare Milliken on 04/03/09 at 12:00 pm | Forons were on high alert this week for all things ridiculous or just plain wrong. From the Madison Catholic Diocese to international protests, the community was abuzz with commentary from all sides. |
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The Week[end]: April 3-5, 2009
by on 04/03/09 at 10:00 am | Spring has undoubtedly arrived in Madison, marked by the return of the four day celebration of cinema that is the Wisconsin Film Festival. There’s much more fun to be found around town this weekend, though, including: the Wunk Sheek Pow Wow, UW Science Expeditions, and an Etsy Trunk Show; the opening of a Wisconsin Watercolor Society show; a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and performance by Doug Stanhope; and live music by the MSO, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Lotus, The Cemetery Improvement Society with Revolving Doors, Wavves, O Trem Dos Tres, and Heiruspecs. |
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2009 Wisconsin Film Festival, Day One: Recession proof? Waterproof?
by David Medaris on 04/03/09 at 9:07 am | From the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's rooftop sculpture garden, the sight was impressive -- people dashing across State Street at mid-block between the cross-traffic of bikes and Madison Metro buses, and growing numbers of pedestrians crossing the Dayton and Johnson street intersections as if drawn by some cinematic gravity. |
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Madison Snaps -- April 3, 2009
by on 04/03/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image is titled “UW Cinematheque Shows Buñuel's Once Controversial Viridiana” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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Mad Rollin' refs: Four Dolls referees talk about officiating derby
by Melissa Faliveno on 04/02/09 at 6:00 pm | During this fifth season of roller derby in Madison, the Dolls have seen a lot of changes. But one element that remains tried and true -- and one without which roller derby could hardly function -- is the officials. |
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Do you know your Wisconsin Film Festival 2009 character?
by Paul Hoppe on 04/02/09 at 12:00 pm | Celebrating the fest, are you a member of the audience, or one of the characters? |
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A meal at Nick's Restaurant with the Eating in Madison A-Z folks
by Linda Falkenstein on 04/02/09 at 11:00 am | First off, we ended up at Nick's at what is possibly the most un-Nick's-like time to end up at Nick's: 5 p.m. on a Monday. Nick's is more of an 11 p.m.-on-a-Friday kind of place in my mind, probably an idea that's leftover from when I was an undergraduate. Nick's looks just like it did back then, except now you can actually see what it looks like because there's no haze of smoke. |
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Burns on Jeopardy!, UW Press, Abode, and Schoolhouse Cafe in the April 3 edition of Isthmus
by on 04/02/09 at 10:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow. |
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Madison Snaps -- April 2, 2009
by on 04/02/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image “untitled” was photographed by Tsai-Fang Chen. |
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Blaska's Blog: Here's mud in your eye
by David Blaska on 04/01/09 at 2:00 pm | The Capital Times has endorsed The Kathleen for re-election as protectoress in chief of Dane County’s lands with high-water tables. Surely the bullfrogs are croaking their approval. ("Rib-it. Rib-it.") Also: Alder Thuy seeks an earlier curfew. |
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Searching for resolutions in Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America by Anne-Marie Cusac
by Linda Falkenstein on 04/01/09 at 1:00 pm | Now is an advantageous time for the publication of Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America. As a country, we are once again at a crossroads with regard to our attitude toward punishment. But as author Anne-Marie Cusac shows, the nation has long flip-flopped on this issue. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Slumdog Millionaire, Danton, Il Generale Della Rovere, and An American in Paris
by Mike Wilmington on 04/01/09 at 10:00 am | Slumdog Millionaire is a dancing, crackling shockwave of a movie, an incandescent, visually explosive tale of poverty, wealthy, love and crime in contemporary India. It's a pulse-racer, a technically exhilarating movie that uses many of the modern devices and tricks of cinema, infuses them with a wild, rushing energy and -- without sacrificing social insight or dramatic depth -- ends up all but blowing you out of your seat. |
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Madison Snaps -- April 1, 2009
by on 04/01/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image is titled “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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1855 Saloon and Grill makes its own history in Cottage Grove
by Robin Shepard on 03/31/09 at 3:00 pm | Cottage Grove was once a rest stop for the stagecoach or trains heading into Madison from the east. Today, it's more of a bedroom suburb, about a 15-minute drive east of the isthmus. Recently, its downtown has undergone a bit of a renaissance. The trailhead of the Glacial Drumlin State Trail starts (or ends) right in the middle of town. And right next to the trailhead, the 1855 Saloon and Grill is establishing its own place as a local dining spot that attracts visitors who like to venture out of Madison. |
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Basford's Spin City: Blaska vs. Mistele!
by Mike Basford on 03/31/09 at 12:00 pm | In one corner, you have a tried-and-true conservative leader who, with the united backing of the county's center-right, gave Kathleen Falk a real run for her money in the County Executive's race. In the other corner, you have Nancy Mistele. |
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MadTracks -- 'Sixth Severence' by The Cemetery Improvement Society
by Jessica Steinhoff on 03/31/09 at 11:00 am | The Cemetery Improvement Society as a name makes sense when you consider Marc Claggett and Russell Paul's fascination with zany, self-directed projects, which include wacky online photo-curation efforts, an ongoing arm wrestling and ice sculpture competition and, in the case Claggett, a new label called Analogy Records. |
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Win tickets to Phil Gnarly and the Tough Guys, Mariza, DJ Rehka, Todd Snider, and more!
by on 03/31/09 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: Isthmus Green Day; DJ Rehka at the Majestic; Todd Snider and Nanci Griffith at the Barrymore; Phil Gnarly and the Tough Guys at the Frequency; Mariza at the Wisconsin Union Theatre; the Ahn Trio, Stomp, The Mayhem Poets, and Marionetas de la Esquina at Overture; and more. |
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Madison Snaps -- March 31, 2009
by on 03/31/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image is titled “088_365 Snowball Fight” was photographed by Chris Bianchetti. |
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A Book a Week: When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
by Becky Holmes on 03/30/09 at 5:00 pm | I have a crush on Kate Atkinson. Her books are so clever, so original, so unexpected. They crackle with wit and sparkle with insight. Her characters live on in your head, continuing to make their mordant observations for months after you have finished reading about them. I just can't get enough of them, and like a good relationship, the longer I have known Atkinson, the better she gets. |
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Strange little gals in Falling Girls by University Theatre
by Jennifer A. Smith on 03/30/09 at 12:00 pm | Blue's Clues Live! it ain't. Falling Girls, the latest production from University Theatre, offers an avant-garde approach to theater for the very young. While it is deliberately short on conventional storytelling, it's an oddly compelling experience that last Saturday afternoon kept young audience members -- and this adult -- fully engaged. |
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The Week: March 30 – April 2, 2009
by on 03/30/09 at 11:00 am | April commences this week, and hopefully spring will really get started too. On tap for this transitional period are the opening of the Wisconsin Film Festival; talks by Anne Whiston Spirn, Jeremi Suri, and David Lowenthal; along with plenty of live music care of The Game, Tallest Man on Earth, Kalman Balogh & the Gypsy Cimbalom Band, The Big Gigantic, Barefoot Becky & the Ivanhoe Dutchmen, Mathematicians, Jil Aigrot, Joan Wildman, and Horse in the Sea. |
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Mistele goes overboard in attacking Falk on 911 snafus
by Bill Lueders on 03/30/09 at 9:43 am | I'm not going to tell you how to vote in the race for Dane County executive, or any other electoral contest. I don't think that's my role. I'm glad that Isthmus does not endorse candidates. I'm comfortable with the credo Vince O'Hern imparted my first week on the job, 23 years ago: "Our mission is to inform and not persuade." |
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Madison Snaps -- March 30, 2009
by on 03/30/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image is “untitled” was photographed by Diana Zlatanovski. |
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Blaska's Blog: Censor this, you bastards!
by David Blaska on 03/28/09 at 8:10 pm | The Big Government control freaks have sunk their meat hooks into two growth opportunities: the environment and political speech. |
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Isthmus Green Day 2009 main stage schedule
by on 03/28/09 at 4:43 pm | Indoor kites, organic cooking, T'ai Chi and more pack the Isthmus Green Day 2009 schedule, full of ideas for living smart and simple. |
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Vinyl Cave -- IIxII by The Cowsills
by Bob Koch on 03/28/09 at 10:00 am | The history of music is dotted with child or teenage performers, and the rock era has been no different, right up to today's Disney-launched stars The Jonas Brothers. In the '60s, one of the most talented young groups was family band The Cowsills. |
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