http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus Print content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:57:23 CDT Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26293 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26293 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26294 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26294 "Give Gene Parks a Job" is the headline for Isthmus editor Marc Eisen's opinion column. Madison's former affirmative action officer, fired for alleged nonperformance of duties, "has become the city's biggest pariah," Eisen writes. "A lot of folks would have you believe that Gene Parks is just a raving bitter crank. Don't believe them. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26295 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26295 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26296 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26296 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26297 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26297 Dane County is scaring people. Its Lakes and Watershed Commission has been developing the Dane County Waterbody Classification Project, which some fear will bring draconian regulations. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26300 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26300 The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation is gravely concerned about a proposed $107 million expansion of the Edgewater Hotel. And not just about preservation. "The whole process is so private that plans for the Edgewater will be so fully realized, so fully formed when they're finally revealed, that there will be no opportunity for public input," says Michael Bridgeman, a board member and spokesman for the Trust. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26299 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26299 The city of Madison currently faces three separate but related decisions on transportation, each with long-ranging consequences. These issues are: 1) the need for a downtown multi-modal transit facility; 2) the location of the high-speed rail terminal; and 3) the composition and goals of the Regional Transit Authority (RTA). Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26302 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26302 Dear Tell All: Since I became sexually active a few years ago, I have only ever been able to "last" about two minutes of actual penetration in bed (I am a male). I've heard a lot about the "stop and go" method, but no girl I've been with enjoys the "stop" part, and it doesn't seem to bring any real "lasting" effects. Having never brought a girl to orgasm, I've developed some sort of inadequacy complex that, without fail, makes me begin worrying about my ejaculation as soon as coitus begins, which, I'm sure, only brings it faster. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26303 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26303 Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, encourages fans to become obsessed with the game's lore, statistics, history and mythology. Craig Robinson, an English artist in Bellingham, Wash., has combined all those aspects in the wonderfully distracting FlipFlopFlyBall.com. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26304 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26304 These days, stupid or not, it's the economy that seems to be on everyone's mind, to the exclusion of everything else. (Okay, everything else except Michael Jackson.) We at Isthmus have not escaped the preoccupation, as evidenced by our lead news stories the past two issues. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26306 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26306 Using $450,000 of federal stimulus money, Dane County is starting a revolving loan fund to help residents and businesses here become more energy-efficient. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26307 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26307 With its finances already in disarray, the Overture Center on Tuesday ended its special six-month budgeting period $275,000 over budget. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26322 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26322 Every five years, members of the Downtown Business Improvement District vote on whether the group -- financed with an extra tax -- will continue existing. This month, the 10-year-old BID will hold its second reelection vote, amid grumbling from some that it should be dissolved. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26249 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26249 Brian McCormick ponders the question. What accounts for the cluster of artists in Tenney-Lapham? "I bet if you looked at any neighborhood in Madison, you'd find artists," he says. "I bet if you circled any 10 blocks, anybody could put on an art walk if they wanted to." Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26248 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26248 Scott Rawson is one of hundreds of local folks who got a taste of Hollywood glamour -- and, in some cases, Hollywood cigarettes -- as extras in <i>Public Enemies</i>. I tracked down some of them and asked them to reminisce. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26262 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26262 Film Wisconsin has advocated forcefully for preserving the tax credits for film producers that brought <i>Public Enemies</i> to Wisconsin. In his budget proposal for 2009-2011, Gov. Jim Doyle proposed eliminating the credits. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26250 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26250 I went to meet the members of Optometri at the Local Tavern on King Street last week, but none of them showed up. They all sent their personal assistants instead. It was no surprise. The six Russian emigrants who make up this Madison band have largely avoided the local media since they were secretly discovered here five years ago. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26251 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26251 After recent stumbles, <i>The Ecstatic</i> returns Mos Def to the high standards he set early in his career. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26252 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26252 <i>Far</i> will go a long way in establishing this 29-year old Soviet-born, New York pianist as one of the best songwriters around right now. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26253 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26253 Rachel Goodrich is driving through the Carolinas on her first cross-country tour, daydreaming about Cuban food and halfheartedly wondering if she should pull off the road to avoid that tornado. But a goofy mind fog stronger than any funnel cloud has taken over, so instead she's just seeing where the breeze -- metaphorical or otherwise -- takes her.