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Madison bicycling and tourism boosters cross fingers for Chicago 2016 Olympics bid
by David Medaris on 09/25/09 at 10:00 am | When the International Olympic Committee convenes in Copenhagen next Friday to announce its selection of the host city for the 2016 summer games, anyone walking in the proximity of Madison’s Concourse Hotel is going to hear either quite an outburst of cheering or a cascade of groans. |
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Madison Snaps -- September 25, 2009
by on 09/25/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “skee ball” was photographed by Katie Hebble. |
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The Week[end]: September 25-27, 2009
by on 09/25/09 at 6:00 am | It hardly gets any more Capital-M "Madison" than this weekend, a three-day sampler of the city's essential flavors. The calendar includes: the Food for Thought Festival; talks by Jill Richardson and Ralph Nader; a fifth birthday party for Overture; Tales from the Dork Side by Broom Street; the Monroe Street Festival and a Big Top Chautauqua; and, live music by Built to Spill, Killdozer, Mike Gordon, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Weakerthans, and more. Break out the pink flamingos. |
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A Book A Week: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Becky Holmes on 09/24/09 at 6:00 pm | I really had high hopes for Beguilement, which is the first volume of a series called The Sharing Knife. My hopes were high not so much because I had heard anything about this book, but because I wanted it to be good. |
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Overture Center helps pump big bucks into downtown economy
by Jay Rath on 09/24/09 at 9:30 am | Just in time for its fifth anniversary celebration this weekend, the Overture Center for the Arts has received a special gift: fresh financial impact figures that show audiences pumping $9.8 million in related spending into the downtown economy annually. |
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Madison Snaps -- September 24, 2009
by on 09/24/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “two wars” was photographed by Beth McConnell. |
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The Hunter brothers, Robert Rauschenberg, and jacs in the September 25 issue of Isthmus
by on 09/24/09 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 gathers its acorns
by David Blaska on 09/23/09 at 3:45 pm | Why was the mainstream news media so slow to pick up on Obama's energy czar, ACORN corruption, and the tea parties? The Washington Post's ombudsman concedes that the Post (and MSM in general) don't really do a good job of covering conservatives. |
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Madame Fromage: A clove and cumin cheese flight
by Tenaya Darlington on 09/23/09 at 12:00 pm | It's been a summer of revelatory pairings. Grilled okra rubbed with sesame oil is delicious, blue cheese goes well with fudge, vodka gimlets taste better on the beach. Now here's another quirky coupling that's cause for yawping at the stars: cumin-and-clove-spiced cheese. |
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Wilmington on DVD: That Hamilton Woman, Paul Newman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
by Mike Wilmington on 09/23/09 at 10:00 am | Few historical period dramas carry a greater romantic charge than Alexander Korda's glossy, flag-waving, deeply tragic and plushly erotic bio film That Hamilton Woman, on England's iconic naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson. |
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Madison Snaps -- September 23, 2009
by on 09/23/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Willy Street Fair” was photographed by Chris Bianchetti. |
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No meat, no cheese, no problem at the Vegan Chili Cookoff, with recipe
by Linda Falkenstein on 09/22/09 at 3:30 pm | Last Saturday, I entered my first ever cooking contest, the sixth annual Alliance for Animals Vegan Chili Cookoff. This is surprising for a few reasons. First, I'm not vegan. Secondly, I'm not a huge fan of contests. Finally, I don't really juggle cooking tasks, combined with serving a lot of people food, all that well. |
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Residents irritated at developer's plans for East Mifflin, Frank Lloyd Wright's Lamp House
by Joe Tarr on 09/22/09 at 1:26 pm | Architect Matt Tills was taking the crowd on a virtual reality tour of blocks just east of Capitol Square. Zooming in and out on his computer, projected on the wall, he showed the neighborhood group some visions for the 200 block of East Mifflin Street, the area including the historic Lamp House, built by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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Win tickets to Paranormal Activity, Mute Math, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and more!
by on 09/22/09 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: Paranormal Activity at Marcus Eastgate; Joshua Radin at the High Noon; Kings of Leon at the Bradley Center; Mute Math at the Majestic; the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the Union Theater; and more! |
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Madison Snaps -- September 22, 2009
by on 09/22/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “Jump Around” was photographed by Michael Leland. |
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Plans for an ATM in Lisa Link Peace Park infuriate homeless, activists
by Joe Tarr on 09/21/09 at 4:06 pm | Proponents of renovating Lisa Link Peace Park have said all along that they're not trying to kick homeless people out of the park. But the latest addition to the plans call for something that would prohibit one group of people: panhandlers. |
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Planet Bike Cup brings cyclocross star to Sun Prairie
by David Medaris on 09/21/09 at 2:53 pm | Last week's announcement that Belgium's Erwin Vervecken will be among the cyclists competing at the Planet Bike Cup boosts anticipation for the inaugural U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross event. |
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Doug Moe column on Mike Miller remains spiked
by Bill Lueders on 09/21/09 at 2:52 pm | As Isthmus reported online, the Wisconsin State Journal axed a column by Doug Moe paying tribute to Cap Times writer Mike Miller, who accepted a buyout after 40 years of service. The reason was not officially explained, but likely owed to concerns that other recently departed employees who were not similarly feted might feel slighted. |
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Madison eats agenda: Michael Pollan, Food for Thought, and pedaling for pumpkin pie
by Linda Falkenstein on 09/21/09 at 1:00 pm | The coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach. |
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Madison's Business Forum seeks nominations for 2009 ATHENA Young Professional Award
by Isthmus Staff on 09/21/09 at 10:22 am | The Business Forum is extending its nomination deadline for the 2009 ATHENA Young Professionals Award to September 28. In its second year, the ATHENA Young Professional Award honors emerging community leaders whose professional and personal achievements make them ideal role models for young women. |
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Madison Snaps -- September 21, 2009
by on 09/21/09 at 8:00 am | Today's image titled “setting the stage for the Blues” was photographed by Monique J. Isham. |
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The Week: September 21-24, 2009
by on 09/21/09 at 6:00 am | Autumn officially opens this week with a healthy mix of words and tunes. The calendar includes: talks by S. Craig Watkins, William Kent Krueger, Elizabeth Streb, and Michael Pollan; and, music by Brandi Carlile, Fishtank Ensemble, Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles , The Rainman Suite, Weedeater, Richard Lloyd, Chairlift with The Soft Pack, and Eclipse. |
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Forward Music Fest 2009 Saturday with Andrew Bird, Low, BLK JKS
by Josh Wimmer on 09/20/09 at 9:27 am | The relaxed, cool vibe differentiates Forward Music Festival from similar events like New York's annual CMJ showcase. |
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Raven falls short with Wolfenstein, follows layoffs with high hopes for Singularity
by Zac Shipley on 09/20/09 at 8:00 am | Wolfenstein seems content to mimic rather than bust the genre it created, though there's nothing wrong with that for a summer game. As an end-of-summer game with Halo and Call of Duty sequels on the horizon, though, it falls short. |
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Diving into Forward Music Fest 2009, Friday night
by Jason Joyce on 09/19/09 at 12:59 pm | With a sketched-together plan to breeze through the Forward Music Fest's Friday night schedule, I help run my son's fifth-grade football practice thinking I might possibly be the only guy in the state to be yelling "Do you want to be the hammer or the nail?" who will be surrounded by hipster beards listening to a laptop band in two hours. |
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Vinyl Cave: Vindicator by Arthur Lee
by Bob Koch on 09/19/09 at 8:00 am | The album today sounds like a natural progression from the second era of Love. The Hendrixisms are still here, as are weird short bits of convoluted poetry. Vindicator holds together better, though, helped by a careful sense of sequencing and its peppering with the mysterious vibe and paranoia of the Forever Changes era. |
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Blaska's Blog does a round up
by David Blaska on 09/18/09 at 3:48 pm | There are two kinds of politicians. Those who run to be somebody and those who run to do something. I opined, on a recent Wisconsin Public Radio Week in Review program, that Jim E. Doyle was one of the former. |
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Beer Here: Chocolate Imperial Porter from Tyranena Brewing
by Robin Shepard on 09/18/09 at 2:00 pm | Regulars at the Tyranena tasting room are the beneficiaries of brewer and owner Rob Larson's skill with big malty beer. He's been playing around with cocoa nibs in his imperial porter and developed something very special. |
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Third Eye Blind leads retro lineup for Freakfest 2009 Halloween party in Madison
by Kenneth Burns on 09/18/09 at 1:32 pm | The City of Madison and Frank Productions have announced acts in the entertainment lineup for the fourth annual Freakfest, including Third Eye Blind, Push Play and Locksley. |
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Laboratory Theatre postpones inaugural production
by Kenneth Burns on 09/18/09 at 10:02 am | Laboratory Theatre, the new resident company at downtown Madison's Bartell Theatre, has postponed its inaugural production, an African American-themed staging of Willy Russell's 1980 play Educating Rita. |
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