Blake Thomas wants your liver Hard living has given the country singer stories to tell John Mendels(s)ohn on Friday 05/16/2008 Over the course of their weekly two sets each at Mickey's Tavern, Robby Schiller and Blake Thomas had, as was their wont, kept their whistles very wet -- so wet, in fact, that they wound up not at the house on Ingersoll Street they share with other musicians and dumpster-divers and dogs and girlfriends and folksingers, but at B.B. Clarke Beach on the shore of Lake Monona, on whose frozen surface they decided to cavort. >MoreJulie Furset, bartender, cook and waitress at Laurel Tavern Where: Laurel Tavern, 2505 Monroe St. Susan Kepecs on Friday 05/16/2008, (1) Recommendation Why you should go: For good old-fashioned neighborhood bar ambience, with good old-fashioned food to match. >More
The Planski: Dave Mahoney's immigrant policy makes this 'Doughface County' Ben Manski on Friday 05/16/2008 1:15 pm, (4) Recommendations Under Mahoney, the Sheriff's Office has reported upwards of 400 immigrants to ICE, the latest incarnation of the former INS (where do the feds come up with these acronyms, anyway? Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Operation Iraqi Liberation? Brilliant!). That's a substantial increase from the record of the previous sheriff, Gary Hamblin, for whom cracking down on undocumented immigrants was not a priority. >MoreUW-Madison Chancellor finalists meet the press Gary Sandefur, Biddy Martin, Tim Mulcahy, and Rebecca Blank: Priorities are similar but styles diverge Erica Pelzek on Friday 05/16/2008 1:03 pm As UW-Madison's academic year comes to a close, its future leadership is the focus of a Chancellor search that has been underway since February. The UW Board of Regents will pick a replacement for UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, who is leaving in September, at its meeting early next month in Milwaukee. On consecutive days this week, the final four candidates -- out of more than 50 applicants -- took part in meet-and-greets at Memorial Union. >More
Speed Racer: Steering you wrong Speed Racer takes a bad turn Kent Williams on Friday 05/16/2008 Rarely has a movie devoted itself entirely to the depiction of speed...until now. Speed Racer, the new movie version of the Japanese-import cartoon that kept many of us from getting our homework done back in the late '60s and early '70s, lives up to its title more or less every second it's on the screen. And the races themselves — think Roller Derby, only with cars, the whole world covered in Hot Wheels tracks — seem determined to break new ground, if not the sound barrier. >More
Holistic vineyards Biodynamic wine is greener Anne Strainchamps on Friday 05/16/2008 What is biodynamic agriculture, anyway? Critics call it "vineyard voodoo"; others refer to it as "supercharged organic." In fact, it dates back to 1924, when Austrian philosopher-scientist Rudolf Steiner, the founder of a school of spiritual philosophy called anthroposophy, gave a series of lectures in which he argued that modern farming had lost its spiritual connection to nature. Steiner exhorted followers to consider a farm a living ecosystem, rather than a food factory. >More
Madison and Dane County officials sued over Zimmermann 911 call secrecy Read the full text of the complaint filed on Tuesday Bill Lueders on Wednesday 05/14/2008 1:10 pm Hell hath no fury like journalists scorned. On Tuesday, four state media organizations filed a lawsuit over the refusal of public officials to release information regarding the 911 call made from the cell phone of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann shortly before her murder on April 2. >More
Blake Thomas wants your liver Hard living has given the country singer stories to tell John Mendels(s)ohn on Friday 05/16/2008 Over the course of their weekly two sets each at Mickey's Tavern, Robby Schiller and Blake Thomas had, as was their wont, kept their whistles very wet -- so wet, in fact, that they wound up not at the house on Ingersoll Street they share with other musicians and dumpster-divers and dogs and girlfriends and folksingers, but at B.B. Clarke Beach on the shore of Lake Monona, on whose frozen surface they decided to cavort. >More
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