Follow Madison vs. New York at Derby in Dairyland LIVE! on Friday 10/10/2008 4:01 pm Madison's own Dairyland Dolls, having defeated the Minnesota Roller Girls Friday morning, advance to the next round of the Womens Flat Track Derby Association's Eastern Regionals where they'll face New York's Gotham Girls. Follow the action with a live video stream and live blog here. >MoreWilmington on DVD: Not enough Michael Moore Slacker Uprising, The Visitor, Sleeping Beauty, and Jean-Pierre Melville Mike Wilmington on Friday 10/10/2008 11:00 am Premiering on DVD and screens as a conscious political gesture -- to try and influence the upcoming Obama vs. McCain election -- Slacker Uprising is probably director/comedian/agitator Michael Moore's weakest movie in recent years, mostly because it's mostly a straight-out concert doc. The event is fascinating -- his 62-city tour calculated to bring out the youth vote, attracting its audience with guest stars as well as free Ramen noodles and new underwear. >More
The Oprah effect Will her latest pick push the Wisconsin Book Festival to new heights? David Medaris on Friday 10/10/2008 David Wroblewski spent the better part of a decade crafting The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Everything since has happened very fast indeed. Published in June to critical acclaim and a lavish testimonial from Stephen King, the northern Wisconsin native's 576-page debut novel climbed The New York Times best-seller list. During a summer book-tour stop in Madison, he was invited to return for the 2008 Wisconsin Book Festival. Then, on Sept. 19, Oprah Winfrey picked The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as the latest title for her book club — calling it a great American novel comparable to the best of Steinbeck and Harper Lee. >MoreLocksley ride clean-cut image to success Rich Albertoni on Friday 10/10/2008 The members of Locksley have gotten used to answering cheesy questions about their Wisconsin roots. In a recent interview with the New York-based music website earfarm.com they were asked: Do you remember the first time you went to a dairy farm on a field trip? How about the first time you shoveled so much snow you thought you would die? >More
An American Carol: Comedic conservatism David Zucker's political spoof yields few yuks Kent Williams on Friday 10/10/2008 Does political humor have to align with your politics before you can find it funny? That's the question I kept asking myself while watching An American Carol, David Zucker's comic skewering of the American Left in general and Michael Moore in particular. Admittedly, I laughed only rarely, but was it because Zucker's taking his pot shots from the right side of the aisle or because the pot shots themselves, in a purely esthetic sense, were so lame? >More
Doug's Soul Food Cafe serves heavenly country-fried Southern comfort Adam Powell on Friday 10/10/2008, (4) Recommendations When my mother was a little girl, her Alabama-bred mother used to cook up "a mess o' greens" on tough days. The recipe consisted of a slab of bacon, collard greens and turnip greens, all stewed up into a mass of nutritious and heavy gruel. >More
Madison musicians seek the big time in New York Jessica Steinhoff on Friday 10/10/2008, (2) Recommendations There comes a time when young musicians consider making the leap to a larger venue. For some, it may be from Cafe Montmartre to the Majestic. For others, however, the destination is much larger: New York City and its promise of opportunity. >More
The Oprah effect Will her latest pick push the Wisconsin Book Festival to new heights? David Medaris on Friday 10/10/2008 David Wroblewski spent the better part of a decade crafting The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Everything since has happened very fast indeed. Published in June to critical acclaim and a lavish testimonial from Stephen King, the northern Wisconsin native's 576-page debut novel climbed The New York Times best-seller list. During a summer book-tour stop in Madison, he was invited to return for the 2008 Wisconsin Book Festival. Then, on Sept. 19, Oprah Winfrey picked The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as the latest title for her book club — calling it a great American novel comparable to the best of Steinbeck and Harper Lee. >More
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