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Voting for Isthmus Band to Band Combat starts Thursday!
on 10/29/09 at 9:34 am | Warning: Those expecting an effort to define Madison's finest performing musical ensemble should look elsewhere. Isthmus Band to Band Combat, which returns after a six-year hiatus, attempts only to expose our readers to a lot of local music. |
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Barbeque and bánh mì lunches at The Haze
on 10/27/09 at 3:17 pm | The new Muramoto restaurant The Haze, replacing the Kushi Bar at 106 King St., has already generated a lot of interest among local restaurant talkers. The fusion barbeque joint offers dual American and Asian flavor options for the meats, which include half and full racks of ribs, brisket, chicken, pork, and sausage. Sides, both standard and seasonal, are on the menu, along with a couple of salads. Here's a first look at the lunch specials. |
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Isthmus Band to Band Combat is back!
on 10/08/09 at 5:00 pm | Last disputed in 2003, the Isthmus online music contest Band to Band Combat aims to reward not necessarily the best band in Madison, but the one that can get out the vote and win people over with their sound over four rounds of voting and a final competition in front of a live audience. |
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Madison's Business Forum seeks nominations for 2009 ATHENA Young Professional Award
on 09/21/09 at 10:22 am | The Business Forum is extending its nomination deadline for the 2009 ATHENA Young Professionals Award to September 28. In its second year, the ATHENA Young Professional Award honors emerging community leaders whose professional and personal achievements make them ideal role models for young women. |
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Madison: The Lay of the Land
on 08/20/09 at 9:00 am | For the confused, the consternated, the clueless and the just plain curious, here’s our human-GPS thumbnail guide to the streets of Madison, Wis. |
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Madison moving days 2009: Funky junk (slideshow)
on 08/17/09 at 3:30 pm | Another "Hippie Christmas" has come and gone in downtown Madison. A stroll around the student neighborhoods over the weekend turned up the predictable piles of trash, along with an associated funky odor, and a few gleaners. But generally speaking, the mid-August moving days aren't as frenzied and messy as they were a few years ago |
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Isthmus Reads: Over the Edge, The Great Gatsby, and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
on 07/13/09 at 4:00 pm | A compelling account of the 2000 kidnapping of four U.S. climbers, Over the Edge is set along the remote and lawless borders of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia, and based on extensive interviews with the climbers and other participants in the drama, including one of their captors. |
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The weekend that was: The Hold Steady, art fairs, La Fete de Marquette, and more
on 07/13/09 at 12:45 pm | Isthmoids fanned out around the city this weekend, as did many other Madisonians. Here is a photographic sampling of what they encountered. |
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Monkey longevity, Google, and trees down on Spaight
on 07/09/09 at 1:16 pm | Plus, Konkel has Thuy's back, Nichole & JM head to Olive Garden and Coasties vs. Sconnies on reality TV. |
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Badger Bus Depot, Steve Stricker, and the Wis. Bus. Council
on 07/08/09 at 4:03 pm | Plus, what happens when a district attorney from one of Wisconsin's sleepiest counties stops being polite... and starts getting real. |
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Airstream enthusiasts gather in Madison for international rally
on 06/25/09 at 11:00 am | Approaching the Alliant Energy Center on John Nolen Drive, the glare off hundreds of silver Twinkies is blinding. It's a growing village of vintage Airstream trailers and motor homes in town for the 2009 Wally Byam Caravan Club International Rally. |
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Help is on the way
on 06/19/09 at 9:00 am | When the economy sucks, everything sucks. Tight pocketbooks can lead to problems with shelter, health, abuse, hunger, crime, and on and on. At times like these, we need social service providers more than ever. The problem is, money is tight for them, too. |
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Watch video of the forced feeding of Warren Lilly
on 06/18/09 at 12:00 pm | For much of the last five years, Wisconsin prison inmate Warren Lilly has been refusing to eat and the state Department of Corrections has been feeding him forcibly. Lilly says his intent is not to die but to protest; the DOC says it is doing what it needs to to protect Lilly's health. |
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Isthmus Reads: Richard Yates, Susan Choi, Tana French, Denis Leary
on 06/15/09 at 4:00 pm | One of my perverse pleasures is movie tie-in editions, so I picked up Vintage Contemporary's new mass-market paperback of Revolutionary Roadwith Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet canoodling on the cover. |
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My monkey: More Isthmus stories on primate research
on 05/14/09 at 12:00 pm | Read previous Isthmus stories and documents relating to "My Monkey: The sad life of r04040" by Bill Lueders in the May 15 issue. |
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Announcing the winners of the 2009 Madison Area Music Awards
on 05/10/09 at 12:00 pm | The sixth annual Madison Area Music Awards were held before a buzzing audience of local musicians and supporters at the Barrymore Theatre on Saturday night. A list of the winners announced at the show follows. |
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12 months of meals in Madison and beyond
on 04/17/09 at 9:00 am | We kept up with the openings (and closings), menu revamps, and special event dinners in the pages of Isthmus and on TheDailyPage.com. If you've been meaning to try out some of the newest kitchens in town, or revisit old favorites that have tweaked their menus, this compilation is a good place to start. |
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View more photos of tea party protesters in Madison
on 04/15/09 at 2:05 pm | It was impossible to take photos of every single sign that showed up near the King Street entrance of the Wisconsin State Capitol for Wednesday's "tea party" demonstration, but we tried. |
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View photos of the Wisconsin 'Tea Party' in Madison
on 04/15/09 at 1:00 pm | Capitol Square in downtown Madison buzzed at midday Wedneday with the cheers and chants of a "Tea Party" broadly protesting government tax policies as well as the policies of the Obama administration and the Doyle administration in Wisconsin. |
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Isthmus Reads: John Updike, David Wroblewski, e.e. cummings
on 03/01/09 at 8:55 am | An occasionally updated list of what Isthmus staffers are reading. |
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'Mom, there's nothing to do'
on 02/06/09 at 9:00 am | When I was a kid, two of my favorite books were The Arrow Book of Presidents and Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, both of which I read into tatters. Now that Barack Obama has made being the president cool again, February's upcoming President's Day holiday and the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth are good occasions to take a closer look at the office. |
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The Daily Page: Our favorite stories from 2008
on 12/24/08 at 10:00 am | As the world lives increasingly online, so does Isthmus, publishing original stories every day on TheDailyPage.com. Here is some of the more memorable coverage from the past year. |
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Isthmus gives thanks for what we have
on 11/26/08 at 9:00 am | With the introduction of animated e-cards, emails and text messaging, the traditional demands of etiquette have given way to something a lot more casual -- and that's if you get a "thank-you" at all. But we like the opportunity a written thank-you provides for a thoughtful outpouring of appreciation, artfully enshrined. |
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MATC's Shawna Carter receives Business Forum award
on 11/13/08 at 9:28 am | The Business Forum, a women's business organization in Madison, awarded the ATHENA Young Professional award Wednesday night to Shawna Carter, Associate Dean of the Arts & Sciences Center at Madison Area Technical College. The event and award helps mark the 20th anniversary of The Business Forum. |
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Map: Madison and Dane County voters go big for Obama
on 11/05/08 at 2:00 pm | This map gives a ward by ward, precinct by precinct breakdown of vote totals in Madison and Dane County. Overall 72% of Dane County voters and 80% of Madison voters picked Barack Obama. |
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Live-blogging Election Night 2008 in Madison: Obama wins!
on 11/04/08 at 8:00 pm | Tune in here, no matter where you are, for live TDP punditry from the High Noon Saloon as returns pour in and our election night party rolls on. |
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Madison early voting total tops 32,000 for 2008 election
on 11/03/08 at 9:53 pm | The Madison City Clerk's office released its final total of absentee voters in the 2008 fall election, a figure that represents a turnout nearly one-fifth higher than that seen four years ago. "Today, 911 people voted in the City Clerk's office," reads a brief report relayed by mayoral spokesperson Rachel Strauch-Nelson on Monday night. "In total, 17,808 people voted early, and that brings our absentee totals to 32,012." |
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Madison City Clerk's office releases pre-Election Day voting update
on 11/03/08 at 10:05 am | Less than 24 hours remain until the polls open in Wisconsin for Election Day, and preparations by city and county clerk's offices around the state is reaching a fever pitch. The numbers of early voters in Madison broke the 31,000 mark yesterday, and a possibly unprecedented turnout is anticipated tomorrow through new voters taking advantage of same day registration. |
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Madison early voting numbers strong over Halloween holiday
on 11/02/08 at 2:33 pm | Early voting in Madison continues to blow past figures seen four years ago, with more than 30,000 people casting absentee ballots, a number that's already represents a fifth higher turnout than that seen four years ago, and with two more days of early voting uncounted. |
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City of Madison extends early voting hours for weekend
on 10/31/08 at 5:03 pm | The number of people taking advantage of early voting in Madison continues to increase as Election Day approaches, with nearly 50% more people casting a ballot at the City-County Building on Thursday than did on Tuesday. In fact, more voters have already cast an early ballot than did so back in the 2004 presidential election, a figure that represents more than a tenth of the city's total population. |
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