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They're here, they're sincere, they're Bioneers!
on 11/12/09 at 9:00 am | The aim, says Kristen Joiner, "is to shine a light on what's happening with our local visionaries," to bring them together with other regional leaders and engage the public in a cross-pollinated, trans-disciplinary meeting of minds. The agenda: food, water, energy, transportation, the environment, health, education, spirituality, art, music and politics. |
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Saving the planet, one film festival at a time
on 11/06/09 at 9:00 am | Gregg Mitman thought Tales from Planet Earth would be a one-shot deal. The UW-Madison history of science professor and interim director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies was a principal organizer of the 2007 environmental film festival. "Opening night, there was a line two blocks long waiting to get into the Orpheum," he remembers. He had anticipated 500 people might show up the first night. Instead, more than twice that number turned out. By the end of the festival, total attendance was estimated at 3,500. |
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Tales from Planet Earth 2009 film fest returns with broad community ambitions
on 10/27/09 at 2:23 pm | This year's expanded edition of Tales from Planet Earth represents a significant leap in ambition. Driven by the strong attendance of two years ago, plans for the 2009 festival have grown to set almost double the number of films on a cornerstone theme of "Justice." Tales 2 also engages in close partnerships with nine community organizations. |
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'The War at Home,' Part 2
on 10/23/09 at 9:00 am | Almost three decades after leaving Madison to chase his ambitions, Glenn Silber returns this week for a 30th anniversary screening of The War at Home and the world premiere of his new documentary, Labor Day. The film represents a return to the progressive roots Silber put down in Madison as a UW student and to his independence as a filmmaker. |
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Walk right in
on 10/23/09 at 9:00 am | There's no waiting this morning at Meriter's walk-in FastCare Clinic on Madison's east side. Tucked into a corner at Shopko's Zeier Road location, the clinic looks like the miniaturized essence of a standard medical facility. There is a reception desk, a small waiting area with a couple empty chairs, a consultation room for seeing patients, and a lab for performing basic diagnostic tests. One man has just left, holding what appears to be a prescription note, perhaps bound for Shopko's convenient pharmacy. |
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Ride the Drive Madison returns in tandem for 2010
on 10/08/09 at 6:00 pm | Anyone who enjoyed Madison's inaugural Ride the Drive stands to enjoy it twice as much in 2010. When they gathered last night at the extensively renovated Mansion Hill Inn, now owned by Trek Bicycles and Trek Hospitality, those in attendance heard Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announce tentative plans to shift into a higher gear and hold the event not once next year, but twice. |
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Wisconsin Book Festival 2009: Marty McConnell speaks
on 10/06/09 at 3:00 pm | Marty McConnell is not for the faint of heart: The spoken-word artist's performance poetry blows through the border checkpoints of faith, freedom, gender, humanity, integrity and sex in ways that are frequently beautiful, sometimes transgressive and, in her most exhilarating work, both at once. |
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Madison mourns loss of Chicago bid for 2016 Olympics
on 10/02/09 at 10:48 am | Chicago has been eliminated in the first round of International Olympic Committee balloting to determine the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games. The announcement this hour from the International Olympic Committee meeting at Copenhagen lets the air out of the tires for anyone who had thrilled at the prospect of Madison serving as a satellite host for cycling events. |
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Your handy guide to the 2009 Wisconsin Book Festival
on 10/02/09 at 9:00 am | "When we walk," Thoreau wrote, "we naturally go to the fields and woods." True enough, but so what? Once you've arrived at the literary meadows and forests of the Wisconsin Book Festival, the great Henry David's aphorism is little help finding a path through its thickets of words -- and there must be scores of trails from which to choose. |
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Wisconsin Book Festival 2009: Bonnie Jo Campbell speaks
on 10/01/09 at 4:00 pm | Novelist and short-story author Bonnie Jo Campbell's new collection, American Salvage, traverses the bleak social and economic landscapes of rural Michigan, where methamphetamine labs are as common as unemployment. |
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Wisconsin Book Festival 2009: Michelle Wildgen speaks
on 09/29/09 at 12:00 pm | In a wide-ranging interview, Michelle Wildgen discusses the genesis and evolution of her new novel, But Not for Long, and its characters, the challenges and rewards of writing it, real-life apprehensions and anxieties, courage and what she always carries with her. |
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SOLVE and his art live on at Madison East retrospective
on 09/28/09 at 6:00 pm | The fate of artists is to be outlived by their creative legacies. The tragedy of Brendan Scanlon, the Chicago artist and Madison native known by his street-artist alias of SOLVE, is that he was murdered before he could leave a more complete artistic bequest. |
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Harry Whitehorse leads Effigy Tree homecoming (video)
on 09/27/09 at 8:00 am | A neighborhood, a city and a nation welcomed a tree home to Hudson Park on Lake Monona's north shore during formal rededication ceremonies Saturday afternoon for "Let the Great Spirits Soar," the extraordinary sculpture by Ho-Chunk artist Harry Whitehorse. |
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Madison bicycling and tourism boosters cross fingers for Chicago 2016 Olympics bid
on 09/25/09 at 10:00 am | When the International Olympic Committee convenes in Copenhagen next Friday to announce its selection of the host city for the 2016 summer games, anyone walking in the proximity of Madison’s Concourse Hotel is going to hear either quite an outburst of cheering or a cascade of groans. |
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Planet Bike Cup brings cyclocross star to Sun Prairie
on 09/21/09 at 2:53 pm | Last week's announcement that Belgium's Erwin Vervecken will be among the cyclists competing at the Planet Bike Cup boosts anticipation for the inaugural U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross event. |
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Ironman Wisconsin 2009 bike porn! (SFW)
on 09/11/09 at 5:00 pm | Among the most reliable high points of Ironman Wisconsin each year: the opportunity to check out displays of all the hottest bikes. In the span of a 10-minute stroll through the Ironman expo at Monona Terrace, you can see vast collections of bikes totaling well into the six figures. |
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'On your left!' Madison bike path warning gets the haiku treatment
on 09/10/09 at 12:00 pm | Many pedestrians, in-line skaters and even other cyclists may be confused about how to react when they hear "Left!" and that it is not unreasonable for them, startled upon hearing this barked by a cyclist about to whiz by at 20 mph, to misinterpret it as a command to move to their left -- into the cyclist's desired path. |
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Get on your bikes and ride Mondays Around Monona!
on 09/10/09 at 9:00 am | The Mondays Around Monona bike ride is a low-key circumnavigation of the Lake Monona bike path by a bunch of bikers in no particular hurry to complete the loop. Starting from the path's crossing at Fair Oaks Avenue, the rides began as one woman's need to spend more time on two wheels. |
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Greetings from Antarctica
on 09/04/09 at 9:00 am | Mark Krasberg avoids the worst weeks of Wisconsin's harsh winters by lighting out for sunny Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, the UW-Madison physics researcher is helping to build a $270 million telescope, called Ice Cube, that promises to bring into focus some of the most violent and intriguing phenomena in the universe. |
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Ride the Drive kicks cars to the curb, bikers and pedestrians take over Madison streets (video)
on 08/31/09 at 1:00 pm | Madison's inaugural Ride the Drive lured thousands of bicyclists, pedestrians, in-line skaters and onlookers to the isthmus for six non-motorized hours Sunday morning along six miles of some of the city's busiest thoroughfares. |
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A guide for enjoying the inaugural Ride the Drive Madison
on 08/26/09 at 3:00 pm | Billed as a car-free and care-free celebration of Madison's bike-friendly reputation, Ride the Drive promises to afford the rare opportunity to enjoy a perspective of the city usually reserved for people in motor vehicles, traveling at 25 miles per hour or more. |
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Ride the Drive Madison wants you... to volunteer!
on 08/25/09 at 2:00 pm | With only a few days to go until Ride the Drive, organizers continue to solicit volunteers for the inaugural event. Scheduled for this Sunday, the celebration will close about six miles of downtown streets to motor vehicles -- opening the route to bicyclists, pedestrians, in-line skaters and other non-motorized participants. |
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Ken Lonnquist: Live at his dining room table (video)
on 08/21/09 at 1:39 pm | During an interview at his home on Madison's east side, Lonnquist broke out his recent song, "Foolhardy in Love," for an impromptu performance. |
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Ken Lonnquist never stops entertaining kids -- and everyone else
on 08/21/09 at 9:00 am | Free-spirited and spontaneous, imbued with boundless energy, driven by a relentless creative impulse. A cross between Dylan, Cheech & Chong and Elmo. That's how his closest friends describe Ken Lonnquist. |
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The Progressive seeks support to continue publishing
on 08/20/09 at 4:40 pm | When Matt Rothschild, the editor and publisher of The Progressive, issued an urgent appeal a few days ago, the magazine's future appeared dire indeed. "Let me put it to you straight,' he wrote. "We desperately need to raise $90,000 in the next two weeks to keep going." |
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2009 Madison's Favorites: Recreation & Fitness
on 08/20/09 at 9:00 am | The phrase "do be do be do" has been attributed to Frank Sinatra, while "do see do see do" is, as far as we know, unclaimed — so we're taking it for Madison. It summarizes our approach to sports and recreation here: On those occasions when Mad Citizens aren't riding their bikes, swimming, bowling or otherwise engaged in the sporting life, they flock to watch other people's exertions. |
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Why do you ride the bike you ride? (video)
on 08/11/09 at 11:20 am | In explaining why they ride the bikes they ride, people tend to speak in more intimate, complex and affectionate terms -- extolling virtues like utility, comfort, responsiveness, fit, versatility and durability in ways that invoke a sense of enthusiasm and fun. |
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Teaching your kids the old-school fundamentals
on 08/07/09 at 9:00 am | Parents used to make sure their kids knew how to swim, bike, use a compass, catch and clean fish, and safely build, light, maintain and douse a campfire. Then the pace of life accelerated, people grew more inclined to cocoon at home than hike into the woods, fresh fish became more readily available at the local market, and GPS units supplanted the compass. And many of us started forgetting to teach our kids the fundamentals. |
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Training people for careers in recreation management
on 07/31/09 at 9:00 am | They are golf course superintendents and park rangers, managers of health clubs and YMCAs. They direct municipal recreation programs, water parks and ski resorts. They are the people who help us play. Each year, dozens of them graduate from MATC with a two-year associate degree in recreation management. |
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Idiosyncratic artist Brian Strassburg turns to fanciful creations
on 07/24/09 at 9:00 am | In recent years Brian Strassburg has seen demand for his cartoons and commercial illustrations evaporate. He cites a number of reasons, including the rise of the Internet and easily available clip art and stock art, as well as the decline of print media and their budgets. You might call that bad news. But it has given Strassburg time to work on other projects. |
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