 Barrett already fundraising on Walker's 'divide and conquer' comments caught on video
Judith Davidoff on Friday 05/11/2012
Tom Barrett is already raising money off of potentially explosive video footage reported late Thursday by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, in which a then newly elected Gov. Scott Walker tells his largest donor that he intends to pursue a “divide and conquer” strategy as the first step in diffusing union power. >More  Live-blogging the 2012 Wisconsin recall primary election
Isthmus Staff on Tuesday 05/08/2012
Voters across Wisconsin will go to the polls today to cast ballots in the primaries of six recall elections, for governor, lieutenant governor, and four state senate seats. The principal race is in the Democratic primary for governor, in which Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, former Dane County Exec. Kathleen Falk, Sec. of State Doug La Follette, and state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout will vie for the opportunity to face Gov. Scott Walker in the general election. >More
 #dontgo: Scenes from the 2012 Mifflin Street Block Party (slideshow)
Lukas Keapproth on Sunday 05/06/2012
An estimated 5,000 people gathered on Madison's Mifflin Street Saturday to celebrate an annual rite of spring, although this year they did so under the watchful eye of dozens of police officers. >More Isthmus on the isthmus: 'Madison needs a bus station and that's no joke' (video)
Ben Reiser on Monday 04/30/2012
Since the Badger Bus Depot on the corner of West Washington and Bedford closed its doors in the fall of 2009, bus travelers and others have expressed dissatisfaction with the alternatives. That population includes the two women featured in this video, one of whom was moved to write a poem about the situation. >More The end of the occupation? Inside the Occupy Madison camp (video)
Brendan McCarty on Monday 04/30/2012
April 30 is the city-imposed expiration date on the Occupy Madison encampment on East Washington Avenue, which has become home to many homeless people. Hear some of the residents explain why the camp has been so important to them. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Sunday and beyond
on Tuesday 04/24/2012
Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More Saturday on State Street: Busking for Books, digging for vinyl (video)
Brendan McCarty on Tuesday 04/24/2012
Downtown Madison was a busy place to be on Saturday with, among other events, Busking for Books colliding with Record Store Day. Here's how it looked and sounded. >More The end: Day five of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ryan Billingham on Monday 04/23/2012
The goal was 17 films. I know at least one person set his goal at 19 which seems like the "kill screen" in a game of Tetris. Just barely possible. For me, 17 wasn't possible. I failed. As the last movie of the Wisconsin Film Festival, Elena, was about to begin I was sitting in the balcony of The Orpheum in a daze. >More Hug me, please? Day four of the Wisconsin Film Festival
Ryan Billingham on Monday 04/23/2012
Saturday's five-film slate turned this year's experience from a vacation into a journey. By the end of the day I had watched as young Russian girls were exploited by a culture that worships youth, the dark side of cancer awareness marketing expressed with anger by women with Stage IV breast cancer and the life, times and early death of gay activist Vito Russo. It was a test of my emotional fortitude. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Saturday
Isthmus Staff on Sunday 04/22/2012
Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More A surge of enthusiasm: Day three of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ryan Billingham on Saturday 04/21/2012
Here we are queued up. Bookish and pale yet oddly attractive. When we're not in a theater venue we're alternately chugging coffee and beer. Those of us without mints should give others a wide berth. On Friday, the sun came out and the Wisconsin Film Festival headed toward full speed. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Friday
Isthmus Staff on Friday 04/20/2012
Keep up with the action at the third day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More The gathering storm: Day two of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ryan Billingham on Friday 04/20/2012
It was a rainy, gloomy Thursday, typical Wisconsin Film Festival weather, actually. And since it's one of film's lamest tropes, appropriate. Yet, the fest gained a second-day momentum, chugging along as buzz grew and the weekend loomed large. #wifilmfest is heating up as well, with tweets and posts ranging from giddy to cautionary to confounded. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Thursday
Isthmus Staff on Thursday 04/19/2012
Keep up with the action at the second day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More One man, seventeen films: Opening night of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ryan Billingham on Thursday 04/19/2012
Ryan Billingham has taken a couple days of vacation to immerse himself in the Wisconsin Film Festival experience this year, which includes many screenings, questions and answers with directors, photos and a bunch of social media nerdery. He's pulling his daily dispatches together with Storify, so we can easily follow his exploits. >More Follow a Twitter live-blog of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival: Wednesday
Isthmus Staff on Wednesday 04/18/2012
Keep up with the action at the first day of the 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival, and share your thoughts with #wifilmfest. >More Scenes from the 2012 Americans for Prosperity Tax Day rally at the Wisconsin Capitol (slideshow)
Austin Duerst on Sunday 04/15/2012
Supporters of Gov. Scott Walker gathered at the Wisconsin Capitol Saturday for an annual Tax Day rally organized by Americans for Prosperity, featuring speeches from Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and several talk radio hosts. >More Scenes from SBTRKT and Willis Earl Beal at the Majestic (slideshow)
Sam Clarke on Monday 04/09/2012
Masked DJ SBTRKT (think "subtract") blew the roof off the Majestic Theatre in downtown Madison Sunday night with help from soul revivalist and iconoclast Willis Earl Beal. >More Kelda Helen Roys, Kaleem Caire join hoodie rally on Capitol steps (slideshow)
Nayantara Mukherji on Saturday 04/07/2012
With temperatures in the mid-60s, Saturday was a perfect day to be out in a hooded sweatshirt. And that's exactly what hundreds of protesters wore to a hoodie rally on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol, commemorating the deaths of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, and Bo Morrison in Slinger, Wisconsin. >More What brought you to the polls, Madison? (video)
Brendan McCarty on Wednesday 04/04/2012
The polling place at Madison's Georgia O'Keefe Middle School, located in the heart of Madison's near east side, has a tradition of strong voter turnout. Since it's also my local polling place, I headed over to O'Keefe on Tuesday to talk to voters and see what's on their mind as they cast their ballots in the spring election, which included local races as well as the Republican presidential primary. >More Garbage premieres 'Blood for Poppies' video, first single from Not Your Kind of People
Kenneth Burns on Wednesday 04/04/2012
Madison rock legends Garbage have released a video for "Blood for Poppies," the first single from the band's new album, Not Your Kind of People, due out May 15. It's the first Garbage album since 2005's Bleed With Me. >More Occupy Madison movement struggles to maintain relevance (slideshow)
Lukas Keapproth, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism on Sunday 04/01/2012, (1) Comment
On an unseasonably warm day in March, Dave Peters cleaned out his tent, removing old newspapers he had been using for insulation. The papers are gone now, but Peters and about 40 other people are still holding their ground. >More Isthmus Green Day 2012: How do you 'go green?'
Isthmus Staff on Friday 03/23/2012
We asked, and you responded! Our on-the-street videographer Melissa Cooper caught up with some people, and this is what they said about how to "go green." >More American Players Theatre unveils chuckle-tastic promo video
Kenneth Burns on Wednesday 03/21/2012
This morning brings a pleasing sign of summer in the form of a note from Madison filmmaker Nicholas Langholff. He writes to say his team has completed another amusing promo film for American Players Theatre, whose season begins June 16. >More Fans on the street: Keep the WIAA high school hoops tournaments in Madison (video)
Brendan McCarty on Monday 03/19/2012
Due to scheduling conflicts at the Kohl Center between UW-Madison athletic events and high school basketball tournaments, the WIAA recommended last month that the tournaments move from Madison to Green Bay. Doing so would end a great March Madness tradition for fans and players alike. The consensus among those we met up with over the weekend is to keep the tournament in Madison. >More Spartan style: Getting a state tournament haircut with the Madison Memorial basketball squad (video)
Ben Reiser on Friday 03/16/2012
Madison Memorial makes its ninth straight appearance at the Kohl Center for the WIAA state boys basketball tournament Friday night and dating to at least the Jeronne Maymon and Vander Blue era, it's a tradition for several players to show off intricate and impressive haircuts at state. >More Isthmus Book of Love: Valentine's Day, 2012
You always say the nicest things!
Isthmus Staff on Thursday 02/09/2012
Once again, Madison, you have demonstrated how the power of love can lead to hundreds of quips, bits and blurbs that are poetic, silly, profound, lovely, dumb and poignant. And don't forget the photos, captured here in an audio slideshow. >More Scenes from the 2012 Isthmus Beer & Cheese Fest (slideshow)
Eric Tadsen on Monday 01/23/2012
Over two thousand fans of Wisconsin's bounty joined us on Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center's Exhibition Hall for a celebration of some of the stuff that makes living here great! >More Wisconsin Recall Cam is the country's latest hit reality TV show
Linda Falkenstein on Friday 01/20/2012
The placing of a camera in the bleak, bunker-like room of undisclosed location in Madison wherein workers are verifying the signatures on the petitions to recall Governor Scott Walker was probably designed to lend some transparency to what is otherwise a highly protected process. >More Who should challenge Gov. Walker in a recall election? (slideshow)
Nayantara Mukherji on Thursday 01/19/2012
With over one million signatures collected to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, there was an overwhelming sense of optimism at the recall victory party on Tuesday. But supporters were also keenly aware that if the election is certified, it will only be the first step towards changing leadership in the State. >More
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