Katy Chronicles: Drinking, drawing and debauchery
Katy Sai on Friday 12/19/2007
Imagine a drawing class... in a bar... with a burlesque dancer as the model... and you have Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. It's a place where clothes come off in the name of art.
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Katy Chronicles: The entrepreneur's fairy godmother
Katy Sai on Friday 12/14/2007
Her name is Joan Gillman and over the years, I suspect she's played fairy godmother to many entrepreneurs.
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Katy Chronicles: Have a little faith
Katy Sai on Tuesday 12/11/2007
This video blog takes you to the Capitol Rotunda kickoff for some holiday activities with songs and dance from various cultures.
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Katy Chronicles: Holiday light switch
Katy Sai on Friday 12/7/2007
Tired of the same old holiday light displays? Go for a drive with videographer Jay Olsen and you'll see Madison's Fantasy in Lights in a whole new... light (ugh). Sorry, I couldn't resist. He actually manages to make Christmas lights a little creepy. I still have to put up my lights and I'm now inspired! Music by: Charles Thomas
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Katy Chronicles: Ode to Otis
Katy Sai on Tuesday 12/4/2007
Madison has a strange and morbid connection to rock and roll history. Some 40 years ago, the plane carrying Otis Redding and his band plunged into icy Lake Monona. The anniversary brought the sole survivor of the crash back to Madison for the first time in four decades. This video includes an interview with Ben Cauley as well as shots from Monday night's memorial at Monona Terrace.
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Katy Chronicles: Making waves
Katy Sai on Friday 11/30/2007
If you can't walk, how can you possibly waterski? With a lot of determination and a little help from some friends. For one magical day each summer, people with disabilities exchange wheelchairs and walkers for waterskis. As you'll see in the story, riding the waves sets them free. I have a clip from the story "Making Waves" in this video blog and you can see the entire piece at StoryBridge.tv.
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Katy Chronicles: Felicia Alima, Diva from Down Under
Katy Sai on Monday 11/26/2007
She's a blend of musical and cultural contradictions but hey... with Felicia Alima, it works. Indonesian and Czechoslovakian. Hip hop artist meets market analyst. Raised in Australia, Felicia is now trying to become an international R&B artist based in, of all places, Wisconsin. You've got to give it up -- the girl's got chutzpah. Meet this self-declared diva who plans to take the world by storm.
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Katy Chronicles: Bowling for Dollars
Katy Sai on Wednesday 11/21/2007
Remember that show -- Bowling for Dollars? I did a version of that recently with kids from the East Madison Community Center. They were playing for money that'll make a real difference in their lives.
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Katy Chronicles: For the love of Mike!
Katy Sai on Monday 11/19/2007
Not many of us will last nearly 40 years in one job and still love it, but all you have to do is watch band leader Mike Leckrone on the football field to see he's still having the time of his life! I got a chance to wear Mike's sparkly concert jackets when I emceed his recent Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony. It was actually very moving to see hundreds of friends and students honor him. You can see the highlights here, and go to StoryBridge.tv to see bonus videos and leave a message for Mike. And no, Mike is NOT retiring!
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Katy Chronicles: Vlog... What?!
Katy Sai on Thursday 11/15/2007
We kick off our new online video feature today with episode one of Katy Chronicles, produced in partnership with StoryBridge.tv, the Madison company headed by Katy Sai and Jay Olsen, formerly of Channel 3.
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Madison Mixology: The Old Fashioned from The Old Fashioned
We're mixing it up with a Wisconsin classic -- the Old Fashioned. Could you even ask for another cocktail at a
place that goes by that name? >More
Madison Mixology: The caipirinha from Samba Brazilian Grill
In this episode of our video series celebrating local cocktail culture, Bob demonstrates how to mix a
caipirinha, the national drink of Brazil, in five steps. >More
Madison Mixology: Opus Lounge's Hypnaughty
In this episode, watch and learn as Mandy Arnold shakes up a sweet, tart Opus original martini. Wonder why
it's called the Hypnaughty? Make it yourself and see -- here it is in 5 easy steps. >More
Madison Mixology: The Creole Napoleon at Natt Spil
It's a spicy, sweet Madison original in this edition of Madison Mixology! In this episode, watch and learn as
Matthew Steebbins mixes up a drink invented at Natt Spil. >More
Madison Mixology: The Effen Good Gimlet from The Local
We're drinking to spring in this edition of Madison Mixology! This how-to series takes us behind the bar
where the experts show us how to create cool cocktails. >More
Madison Mixology: The Mochatini from Genna's
We're going behind the bar for this video how-to series from Madison mixologists. See the secret to whipping
up cool cocktails from people who do it for a living, like Howard Hayes from Genna's. >More
Screamin' Cyn Cyn & the Pons at South by Southwest
The Madison-based record label Crustacean Records hosted its first showcase at the 2008 South By Southwest music and multimedia festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 13. Punk quartet Screamin' Cyn Cyn & the Pons was one of three local bands to play at the show.
Droids Attack at South by Southwest
The Madison-based record label Crustacean Records hosted its first showcase at the 2008 South By Southwest music and multimedia festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 13. Metal trio Droids Attack was one of three local bands to play at the show.
The Box Social @ the High Noon
Jason Joyce on Friday 10/12/2007
The Box Social puts on, according to Isthmus critic Tom Laskin, "very much a brown-bottle kind of performance -- anxious, inspired, sentimental, loose in all the right places."
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The Motorz @ the High Noon
Jason Joyce on Friday 10/12/2007
The Motorz, acknowledged by many to be one of Madison's rockingest bands, closed the bill at Isthmus' Madison Music Project show on October 12 at the High Noon Saloon.
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The Grizzlies @ the High Noon
Jason Joyce on Friday 10/12/2007
The Grizzlies opened the October episode of Isthmus' Madison Music Project concert series with a set of the kind of guitar pop that has attracted increasingly larger audiences to their shows since the band played its first gig nearly a year ago.
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VIDEO LINKS
Watch Patchwork perform "Spaceships" on Thursday evening at the Memorial Union Terrace Ryan Matteson @ MoBHelping set up at mid-game on-field proposal at a Madison Mallards game John KovalicThe Poison show with Dokken and Sebastian Bach drew "a decent, albeit strange crowd of blasted out 30 and 40+ year olds reliving their high-school years in the '80s" Matt AppsWatch Testa Rosa play the theme to the Milwaukee cable access show HO Champ Car in late June at the High Noon Saloon Aaron VeenstraWatch video of Testa Rosa performing "Only to Fail Again" last weekend at the High Noon Saloon Aaron VeenstraWatch Testa Rosa play the new song "My Sin" on Saturday at the High Noon Saloon Aaron VeenstraView photos of Black Diamond Heavies, Shazy Hade, and Ron Franklin playing on Wednesday at the High Noon Saloon "Cheese" |
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