http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus Print content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:07 CST Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28363 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28363 UW-Madison students Quincy Harrison and Cliff Grefe were profiled in USA Today last December for a song they wrote in the basement of their Langdon Street fraternity house. Harrison, 20, and Grefe, 19, didn't get national press for breaking musical ground. They'd barely begun performing together as Zooniversity months earlier. The raps and beats were simple on their debut single, "Coastie Song (What's a Coastie?)." Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28366 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28366 It's noon on Saturday, and four of the five members of the Madison rock band Fortune and Glory are sitting around a table at a local pub, having drinks. When they're not chiding each other, they're busy telling me why they've found a haven in the punk-pop music they make. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28367 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28367 Indie rock is no longer the unpredictable genre it once was. It is increasingly performed as down-tempo, folk-based music. It emphasizes sonic space and extended instrumental repetition in its seemingly singular determination to make music feel thoughtful, gently impressionistic and dreamy. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28368 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28368 Composed of four Berklee College of Music graduates, Via Audio aren't short on talent. In fact, they've become fast favorites of Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla and Spoon drummer Jim Eno. Eno produced both 2007's <i>Say Something</i> and <i>Animalore</i>, the disc they're releasing March 9 during a cross-country tour. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28369 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28369 I say this every year, but I really think the Academy Awards will be better than usual. The producers are reportedly studying film of past disasters to weed out the deadliest elements (why has no one ever thought of this before?), and hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are sure to be an improvement over last year's Hugh Jackman. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28370 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28370 I'm lucky that I've never been one of those people who say or think violent thoughts. I never say anything like, "I could just kill such-and-such." I mean, I can hate a person. I'm just don't get all rage-y about it. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28371 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28371 It's easy to tell which side is virtuous and which side is debased in <i>Red Cliff</i>, John Woo's spectacular war film set in third-century China. The virtuous leaders love music and tea, and they commune with nature. The debased ones desecrate their dead. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28372 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28372 Newt Gingrich, you'll recall, shut down the federal government because Bill Clinton made him use the back door of the plane. Depending on whom you ask, the stakes aren't quite so high in the marvelous British sports film <i>The Damned United</i>, but like the Gingrich story, this movie likewise warns us that grudges can lead to disaster. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28373 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28373 I was excited when I sat down to watch <i>The White Ribbon</i>, Michael Haneke's Oscar-nominated film about mysterious events in a German town just before World War I. But 144 minutes later, I had to ask: That's all? Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28374 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28374 Big River, a short playing Tuesday at the Wild ' Scenic Environmental Film Festival, presents itself as a companion to <i>King Corn</i>. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28375 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28375 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28376 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28376 One of the nicest things about living in Madison is the sense of community, and the kind of friends who keep you informed. So it was typical that my friend Doug Swenson was the person who introduced me to the original La Mestiza restaurant on Odana Road. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28377 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28377 The windows at Middleton's new Bloom Bake Shop, 1834 Parmenter St., are steamed over -- like a greenhouse! -- from all the baking going on early this cold Thursday morning. A chocolate-smudged Annemarie Spitznagle finishes adding some ingredients to a batter and emerges from behind the counter to talk. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28378 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28378 The next Glass House Supper Club dinner at Bradbury's is slated for March 27 and 28 and is called "A Tasting of Hare." Cost is $30; BYOB. For reservations, call Bradbury's at 608-204-0474. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28379 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28379 Back in the 20th century, summer camp options usually boiled down to 4-H, church, Scout or YMCA programs, often on a lake in the woods where activities ranged from swimming and hiking to swimming and hiking. Since then, a proliferation of choices has resulted in summer camps for everything from swimming and hiking to math, foreign languages, computers and performing arts. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28348 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28348 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28349 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28349 Contributor Phil Davis profiles the Madison Civic Center on the eve of its 10th anniversary. An estimated 350,000 people visit each year, viewing exhibitions at the Madison Art Center and attending performances. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28350 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28350 Doug Schoepp wasn't trying to set a city record when he built his house last year on Madison's far west side, off Mid Town Road. Schoepp -- who owns Schoepp Motors Inc. -- says he and his wife, Michelle, just wanted a house big enough for them, their three children and both sets of parents, should they ever need to move in. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28351 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28351 The Madison Common Council is starting to contemplate who will be its next president and president pro tem, to be elected at its organizational meeting April 13. At first blush, it seems nobody wants the job. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28352 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28352