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University Theatre's beautifully designed Imaginary Invalid is funny, offbeat
by Jennifer A. Smith on 10/24/09 at 10:17 am | The phrase "17th-century French theater" probably doesn't scream "big fun!" to a lot of playgoers. You might imagine stuffy costumes, stilted dialogue and the like. But in the case of the University Theatre adaptation of Molière's 1673 play The Imaginary Invalid, you'd be dead wrong. |
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Madison Symphony Orchestra is relentless with violin soloist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
by John W. Barker on 10/24/09 at 10:13 am | Friday night in Overture Hall, the Madison Symphony Orchestra opened its second concert program with the ebullient overture to Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmilla. The well-drilled string players brought off their fiendishly fast parts triumphantly. |
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Is Madison ready for Hy-Vee?
by Linda Falkenstein on 10/23/09 at 5:04 pm | Hy-Vee is already a well-established chain in Iowa, but it set its sights on Madison as the place that would be right to open its first LEED-certified (green-built) store. "We thought Madison would be a great place to try making our buildings more carbon efficient, and do more recycling," says Hy-Vee C.E.O. Ric Jurgens, in town in advance of next week's grand opening. |
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Blaska's Blog channels his inner caveman
by David Blaska on 10/23/09 at 4:05 pm | They're calling themselves "Cave Men and Women." They are the opponents of the proposed $250 million Dane County Regional Transit Authority. Like any self-respecting refuseniks in this day and age of the tax tea parties, they have their own T-shirts. But they were there first. |
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American Players Theatre announces 2010 season
by Kenneth Burns on 10/23/09 at 12:05 pm | In the wake of American Players Theatre's 2009 season, which saw the triumphant debut of the indoor Touchstone Theatre, the Spring Green company has released its eight-play lineup for next year. |
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The Week[end]: October 23-25, 2009
by on 10/23/09 at 11:00 am | This weekend offers plenty to feed both imaginations and stomachs, along with a well-stocked array of treats for the eyes and ears. The calendar includes: Geek.Kon and the Madison Food & Wine Show; a production of The Imaginary Invalid and performances by Li-Chiao Ping Dance; a John Cage and Merce Cunningham opening at MMoCA; Ballpark Blast and Duck Soup Cinema; Women Rock for the Cure; and, more live music by the WCO, the MSO, Jane Monheit, Great Lakes Swimmers, Los Cojolites, Daughtry, Kaki King, Langhorne Slim, The Bel-Airs, Pretty Lights, Jonathan Coulton, and Julian Marley & the Uprising. |
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Beer Here: Hopscotch from the Great Dane Fitchburg
by Robin Shepard on 10/23/09 at 10:00 am | Hopscotch offers some big malty flavor, much like the current offering of fall Oktoberfests, only it has an assertive, bitter personality, making for a taste that you shouldn't, well, skip. |
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Madison Snaps -- October 23, 2009
by on 10/23/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Hockey's back at Kohl” was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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Alders draw line on cuts to Madison ice rink maintenance
by Joe Tarr on 10/22/09 at 4:56 pm | You don't mess with ice rinks in Madison. One of the money saving measures proposed by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in the 2010 operating budget was to discontinue maintenance at some of the city’s 10 ice rinks, for a savings of $38,000. But, several alders have balked at the idea. |
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Blaska's Blog majors in Hip Hop Studies. Not!
by David Blaska on 10/22/09 at 3:57 pm | Perhaps the last sober thing Jeff Wood ever did was to leave the Republican party after the Legislature broke camp last session. |
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The Green Owl brings vegetarian dining back to Madison
by Linda Falkenstein on 10/22/09 at 1:25 pm | Jennie Capellaro started cooking "just out of necessity." Soon, she'll spin that necessity into a brave venture: The Green Owl, Madison's first vegetarian restaurant since Peacemeal closed about five years ago. It's been hard for vegetarians in Madison -- well known as a place that loves its farmers' markets, food coop and CSAs, yet has been unable to sustain a dedicated vegetarian restaurant. |
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The Avett Brothers play heart-bending set at the Barrymore
by Andy Moore on 10/22/09 at 9:42 am | Mountain impressionists Seth and Scott Avett brushed a thick coat of music over a blissed-out, sold-out Barrymore Theatre last night. Their uplifting music seems to come out of thin air, but it's anything but thin. |
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Madison Snaps -- October 22, 2009
by on 10/22/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Bucky Badger balloon” was photographed by Ron Wiecki. |
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Health care complaints, retail clinics, and Glenn Silber in the October 23 issue of Isthmus
by on 10/22/09 at 6:00 am | What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow: |
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Madame Fromage: Bleu Mont Bandaged Cheddar Reserve
by Tenaya Darlington on 10/21/09 at 2:00 pm | Bleu Mont Dairy's Bandaged Cheddar Reserve tastes like walking through a damp forest at the peak of fall color. It's gorgeous -- a cheddar so woodsy you have to wear a wool sweater to eat it and, if possible, a cap with ear flaps. |
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Wilmington on DVD: Monsoon Wedding, Dusan Makavejev, Transformers 2, Cheri
by Mike Wilmington on 10/21/09 at 10:00 am | Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair's joyous movie about a wedding in Delhi -- constantly disrupted by family squabbles, sudden crises, covert romantic interludes, cultural clashes among the guests, dark buried secrets erupting to the surface and finally, a full-blown monsoon rainfall, not to mention a musical climax that outdoes Bollywood -- is both her most popular film and her best. |
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Madison Snaps -- October 21, 2009
by on 10/21/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “leaf” was photographed by Steve Salt. |
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MadTracks: 'We Will Bury You' by Optometri
by Bob Koch on 10/20/09 at 4:00 pm | Part of the fun of being in a band is developing a stage presence, be it slightly different or wildly divergent from one's usual personality. Madison's been graced with many performers dedicated to onstage antics and fanciful band back stories; currently one of the most developed "biographies" surfaces on stage a few times a year in the form of Optometri. |
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Blaska's Blog tries to make Obama's enemies list
by David Blaska on 10/20/09 at 1:16 pm | I'm talking to the same people who went into high dudgeon for making Nixon's enemies list and wore that honor like an Oxford don's chevrons. I'm talking to people who get fainting spells when the local library puts Tropic of Cancer on the restricted shelf. |
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Win tickets to Pete Yorn, Noah and the Whale, Freakin’ Halloweekend, and more!
by on 10/20/09 at 1:00 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: Little Women at Overture; Jane Monheit and Tiempo Libre at the Wisconsin Union Theatre; Pete Yorn, Noah and the Whale, The Sounds, and The Fiery Furnaces at the Majestic; Dane101's Freakin' Halloweekend and Digital Leather at the High Noon; In This Moment at the Annex; and more! |
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Hilldale Target receives mixed reaction from neighbors
by Joe Tarr on 10/20/09 at 12:22 pm | Monday night, Target executives presented their plan for a 155,000-square-foot "raised single level" store at the corner of North Midvale Boulevard and University Avenue. The store would be on top of about 450 parking spaces and employ 150 to 200 people. |
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Madison Snaps -- October 20, 2009
by on 10/20/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Beautiful Death” was photographed by Jason Marx. |
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Madison eats agenda: Cheesy meals, Madison Food & Wine Show, and Sons of Idun lutefisk
by Andrea Parins on 10/19/09 at 3:00 pm | The coming week, with events that get to your heart through your stomach. |
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Madison media launch All Together Now with collaborative reporting project on health care
by Bill Lueders on 10/19/09 at 12:01 pm | When our jobs were secure, it was easier for reporters and media organizations to bicker with each other. Now we are more inclined to see that we’re all in this together. |
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Madison Music Scene and Heard: A.N.T. & Kinfolk, Commentaraoke, Whitney Mann
by Bob Koch on 10/19/09 at 12:00 pm | Hip-hop continues to cross over into all musical genres, due both to bands under its influence and rappers trying out something different. New Madison band A.N.T. & KinFolk was formed in April by local emcee Anthony Ward (who performs as A.N.T.); they'll be playing at R Place on Park Thursday, Oct. 22 (note corrected date). |
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Blaska's Blog visits the Democrat-media complex
by David Blaska on 10/19/09 at 11:50 am | Great interview with Andrew Breitbart in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Who? Andrew Breitbart. He’s the guy who disseminated (but did not create) the videotaped sting operation that revealed Acorn to be an immoral, ends justify the means organization. |
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Madison Snaps -- October 19, 2009
by on 10/19/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Traffic Congestion” was photographed by Peter Patau. |
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The Week: October 19-22, 2009
by on 10/19/09 at 6:00 am | Talks and tunes dominate this mid-autumn week. The calendar includes: talks by John Eisenberg, David Wroblewski, Liaquat Ahamed, Jerry Apps, Jim Wallis, and a quartet of vampire experts; Women Rock for the Cure, and, more live music by Sunset Rubdown, Arlo Guthrie, The Avett Brothers, Drummer, and Yonder Mountain String Band. |
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Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre stages strong debut
by Josh Wimmer on 10/17/09 at 9:00 am | As debuts go, The Smart Women Project -- the first-ever production from the new Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre company -- is, well, awfully smart. The production's nine short plays run the gamut from sober realism to out-there experiments to frenetic zaniness, and while some work better than others, all of them work, and none talk down to the audience. |
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Vinyl Cave: Tiptoe Past the Dragon by Marlin Greene
by Bob Koch on 10/17/09 at 8:00 am | On a recent long-delayed field trip to Fox Music Company in Watertown to dig through the store's thousands of 45s, disappointment reigned upon learning that they had sold the whole works to someone in Michigan just a few weeks previously. So I settled for digging through the thousands of LPs, and uncovered several obscure items to take a flyer on. |
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