The Planski: (One) Party On?! Ben Manski on Friday 07/04/2008 6:10 pm, (4) Recommendations Congratulations, Mark Pocan! Congrats are also in order for Therese Berceau, Joe Parisi, Mark Miller, and Fred Risser. If your luck holds out, you may already have won... reelection. >MoreMadison Miscellany -- July 5, 2008 A daily survey of Madison blogs, press releases, and other online updates on Saturday 07/05/2008 12:00 am Independence Day festivities in Monona, Shorewood Hills, and Columbus, along with Brett Favre chatter, ongoing Badgers at the U.S. Olympic Trials results, and much more can be found in this latest round-up of online social media in Madison and Dane County >More
Fabu: 'To be black is to be political' Madison poet laureate doesn't pull her punches Julie Sensat Waldren on Friday 07/04/2008, (1) Recommendation On the first Saturday night in May, while rowdy college kids roamed the Mifflin Street block party in search of their next keg, a quieter crowd gathered at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street. In the art gallery coarsely decorated with organic fair-trade coffee sacks, over 50 people sat in folding chairs and in the aisles. Madison's new poet laureate, Fabu Carter Brisco, took the mike. >MoreBelleville American Music Festival: Strings attached Festival goes heavy on guitars Tom Laskin on Friday 07/04/2008, (102) Recommendations Geoff Wilbourn makes no bones about it. The 3rd annual Belleville American Music Festival, which takes place July 11 and 12, conforms to the personal tastes of its founders. >More
WALL-E: Mechanical genius Makes us fall in love with a machine Kent Williams on Friday 07/04/2008 You've got to hand it to Pixar, the friendly folks behind such movies as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille: They never rest on their laurels. They've revolutionized the world of animation and made billions of dollars doing it, but they keep pushing themselves and keep pushing us. (Ratatouille was a rat, for crissakes.) With WALL-E, their latest release, they almost seem to be pushing us aside. >More
Gotham Bagels: Holy cream cheese, Batman! Raphael Kadushin on Friday 07/04/2008, (1) Comment We were heading to Mount Horeb for lunch when one of those oddly apocalyptic summer storms whipped up, the kind that seems to have become, suddenly, freakishly routine. The radio was making noises about running for cover, and we decided maybe it wasn't worth the broken bones and twisted neck, and that long, tempting tunnel of light, even for a really good lunch. So we turned back to Madison, and that's how we ended up, drenched, at Gotham Bagels for lunch instead. >More
Lee 'Scratch' Perry, hitmaker The aging reggae legend finds a Top 40 groove Rich Albertoni on Friday 07/04/2008 The music was an irresistible fusion of Perry's wacked-out, hypnotic vocals and W.K.'s thunderous party beats. The song was "Pum Pum" (pronounced "Poom Poom"), the first single from Perry's forthcoming Repentance, set for release in August. >More
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