http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus Print content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:23:59 CST Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35784 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35784 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35785 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35785 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35788 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35788 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35789 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35789 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35790 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35790 The Castle ' Doyle building on the 100 block of State Street is safe, for now. Jerome Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland hoped to demolish all but its 1921 terracotta façade to replace what some see as an eyesore across from the Overture Center with a $10 million redevelopment. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35791 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35791 With new arrests every week, the FBI probe of Scott Walker's closest aides and supporters is continually uncovering stories that would be front-page news in any other political era. How strained are things around the governor's mansion, where Walker's own spokesman, Cullen Werwie, now has immunity in the FBI probe? No wonder the governor says he wants to hurry up the recall election. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35792 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35792 Dear Tell All: When I heard that Miss Wisconsin had won the Miss America pageant this month, I just thought "whatever" and went about my business. In 2012, most people know that beauty pageants are a sexist embarrassment, right? Maybe they tune in to laugh or gawk, but no one takes them seriously. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35793 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35793 The Milwaukee Bucks have rarely been relevant in the Madison sports scene, due mainly to their history of ineptitude -- and the presence of a competitive college team right here at the UW. But the addition of former Badgers star Jon Leuer to the Bucks' roster has forced a lot of local hoopheads to once again take notice of the NBA's Milwaukee franchise. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35794 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35794 If you've talked to anyone who was there, or if you were among the more than 2,000 who paid to partake, last Saturday's 2012 edition of the Isthmus Beer 'amp; Cheese Festival was a rousing success. If you need further confirmation, check out correspondent Austin Duerst's report in <i>TheDailyPage.com</i>'s "Eats" section. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35801 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35801 That I never met Billy Zurlo is, first of all, my loss, and second, surprising. I've known his sister Rosemary and her husband Frank for more than a decade, and over time I've met most other members of their families. But Billy was someone I didn't get to know until after he'd died -- starting with his memorial service at the Goodman Center on Dec. 30, 2011. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35802 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35802 Each January, Madison's live-music scene succumbs to the winter doldrums, lying listless for weeks as temperatures dip into frostbite territory. But then, around the time UW-Madison classes start, concert promoters stage an intervention, filling clubs with musicians and their fans. Here are 29 cold-weather shows to fuel the transformation. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35803 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35803 California singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has built up a weird body of online apocrypha, which hobbles that whole process of consulting the Internet to figure out how to appreciate music. Go ahead and dig for context, but you may find yourself grumbling over his slippery answers to interview questions as you stare at a photo of him looking glum in suspenders. He's screwing with people's heads, intentionally or not. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35804 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35804 Consider the parallel course American music has run next to American politics. The handiest example is the 1960s, when music and politics raged, clashed and crashed, creating sparks that both united and divided us. Music and politics also met up in the 1930s, and that coalescing did nothing less than identify what being an American meant. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35805 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35805 Back in 2002, things looked bad for student radio in Madison. Not that things ever looked great. There was the little matter of the Federal Communications Commission taking the old channel off the air in the 1970s due to broadcasting obscenities. Fact is, for all UW-Madison's student activism, student voices had never been heard to any great effect on the airwaves. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35807 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35807 HBO specializes in making appealing shows about unappealing men, like Tony in <i>The Sopranos</i> or Nucky Thompson in <i>Boardwalk Empire. Luck</i> is the latest attempt -- a racetrack tale of crooks (Dustin Hoffman), horse owners (Nick Nolte) and assorted gamblers. The talent on board is impressive, from Hoffman and Nolte to filmmakers Michael Mann (<i>The Insider</i>) and David Milch (<i>Hill Street Blues</i>). But in the pilot, they can't get us to care about these awful people. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35808 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35808 There's a priceless moment in <i>Albert Nobbs</i> in which an alcoholic physician turns to his hotel's servant, the titular Nobbs, and utters the classic male complaint: "Women." The brief scene is a hoot because, unbeknown to the doctor, the singular Mr. Nobbs is in reality <i>Miss</i> Nobbs, played with permanently repressed panic by a remarkable Glenn Close. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35809 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35809 Hear the words "David Cronenberg" paired with "erotic drama," and you might feel a sudden shudder of unease, thinking back on the Canadian filmmaker's earlier works like <i>Crash</i> or <i>Dead Ringers</i>. This isn't that kind of Cronenberg picture, however. In fact, it's a period piece about the origins of psychoanalysis and the sexual confusions of its progenitors. It's eloquent and handsomely made, if never quite revelatory. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35810 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35810 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35811 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35811 There is something refreshingly soulful about the Fountain, especially as the chain-ification of State Street continues apace. (And why not an actually decent chain, like maybe a Maoz Vegetarian or Le Pain Quotidien or, if we have to swallow one more cupcake, at least a Sprinkles, which doesn't pile its cakes with mounds of lard-like frosting?) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35812 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35812 The Tenney Park lagoon is frequently called Madison's prettiest place to skate. Shaped like an uneven horseshoe, surrounded by trees and crossed by graceful arched bridges, it's a setting reminiscent of a Currier and Ives painting. But until recently, the warming shelter was a dark and gloomy no-frills building built in 1958 and beginning to decay.