Obama victory celebration packs Dane County detox center Vikki Kratz on Thursday 11/20/2008 Some people celebrated a little too hard the night Obama won. An impromptu gathering on State Street, which reportedly drew 1,000 people, also sent a few inebriated folks to Dane County's detox center. >MoreMaking the case for Overture Keeping the center strong is in everyone's best interest Bob D Angelo on Thursday 11/20/2008, (1) Recommendation In about two years, the Overture Center for the Arts will experience a severe revenue shortfall. Simply put, both the public and private sectors will have to dig deeper to provide operational support. >More
MadTracks -- 'Thinking About You' by Meteorade Jessica Steinhoff on Thursday 11/20/2008 5:53 pm, (3) Recommendations Meteorade calls bands such as Weezer, Cake and the Pixies their main influences. While this isn't unusual for a band composed of 35-year-olds, Meteorade's members, all of whom are UW students, weren't even in preschool when Doolittle was released, so perhaps this fascination is somewhat unconventional. >MoreYahara River Grocery Cooperative in Stoughton gets revamp with help from Willy Street Co-op Linda Falkenstein on Thursday 11/20/2008 12:00 pm, (3) Recommendations The Yahara River Grocery Cooperative opened in Stoughton in March, 2008, having been in the planning since July, 2006. However, the fledgling coop had run through most of its start-up funding by the end of October. >More
Chicago's Luna Negra makes its Madison debut Susan Kepecs on Friday 11/14/2008, (1) Recommendation You'd never know it around here, but there's more to dance in the Second City than Hubbard Street, which performs annually at Overture Hall. Luna Negra, a fast-rising Chicago company, focuses on works by Latina/o choreographers that push past the boundaries of 20th-century art into the brave new multicultural 21st. Despite proximity, this important young Windy City troupe, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, performs in Madison for the first time next Thursday at Overture's Capitol Theater. >More
Quantum of Solace: Daniel Craig revitalizes the Bond franchise Marc Savlov on Friday 11/14/2008, (1) Recommendation Forgive me, Sir Roger Moore, but I have forgotten you entirely. Shocking, I know. You used to be so persuasive, so cuttingly urbane, a veritable saint on His Majesty's Secret Service, doling out fisticuffs and dryly sexualized bons mots as though they were some special language all your own. >More
Kushi Bar completes the Muramoto triumvirate in Madison Nosh Japanese street food on King Street Adam Powell on Friday 11/14/2008, (15) Recommendations Chef Shinji Muramoto has revamped his original stomping grounds on King Street -- the new Kushi Bar Muramoto inhabits the same narrow space that housed the original Sushi Muramoto. (If you're keeping track, that restaurant has moved down the block to the space that formerly hosted Cocoliquot.) >More
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