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Chris Bacarella
Writing a new future
Odyssey Beyond Bars is the first face-to-face accredited course offered by the UW-Madison inside any state corrections facility since 1917. Read more
Christopher Klinge
From the mouth of Donald
Game creator Drew Mueske comes to Working Draft Beer Company to demo a new board game, “Trump Roast.” The game is based on actual quotes from the commander in chief. Read more
Feb 20, 2020
Craig Brabant
Exploring Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s early natural historians and their “cabinet of curiosities” are featured in the Wisconsin Academy’s “Collections & Connections” exhibit at the James Watrous Gallery. Read more
Feb 20, 2020
And then there were two
Daniel Kelly paints Jill Karofsky as a tool of the political left. She casts Kelly as “corrupt,” saying he rules consistently in favor of his Republican and corporate backers. Read more
Feb 19, 2020
Maia Pearson is top vote-getter for school board race
Maia Pearson and Christina Gomez Schmidt, who advance to the April 7 election for school board, say they will hit the campaign trail hard. Read more
Feb 19, 2020
Country love song
Bill and Bobbie Malone met in a tiny bar across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. Forty years later the couple has become part of the fabric of Madison: writing books, performing music and creating the WORT-FM show “Back to the Country.” Read more
Feb 13, 2020
Changing the narrative
It has been a difficult year for the Madison school district. We asked school board candidates what would it take to change the narrative. Read more
Feb 13, 2020
5:01 AM
Victoria Davis
Panty party
Sure, running around in one’s undies in February may seem like a Valentine’s Day prank. But there’s a reason these people are shedding their clothes to raise money to combat Neurofibromatosis. Read more
Feb 13, 2020
5:00 AM
Dylan Brogan
When money is no object
Mike Bloomberg, billionaire presidential candidate, has hired 60 campaign staffers in Wisconsin (so far) ahead of the state primary on April 7. The staffers have been promised jobs through the November election. Read more
Feb 9, 2020
2:57 PM
Nicole Taylor
The laureate next door
In January, Angela Trudell Vasquez became the seventh poet to hold the volunteer position of poet laureate of Madison. She’s a longtime social justice activist and poet of witness, but she is also a poet of play and of place. Read more
Feb 6, 2020
5:02 AM
Supreme consequences
Dane County Judge Jill Karofsky and law professor Ed Fallone are challenging incumbent Dan Kelly for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Read more
Feb 6, 2020
5:01 AM
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Madweek for Feb. 20, 2020
It’s been a bedbugs in the library kind of Madweek. Read more
Honoring a hero’s humanity
Kobe Bryant can be a wonderful father, husband, mentor, philanthropist and basketball player. He can be a leader, even a hero. He can also be the perpetrator of sexual violence. Read more
Writing a new future
Odyssey Beyond Bars is the first face-to-face accredited course offered by the UW-Madison inside any state corrections facility since 1917. Read more
In Wisconsin, this is our religion
In Wisconsin, every Friday, we observe the ritual. Blue gill! Whitefish! Haddock! Perch! Try these four under-the-radar gems for Friday fish fry. Read more
Five (actually six) fish fries you need to try in Madison, Wisconsin
It’s Friday! Where should you go for fish? These five spots took top honors in our 2019 reader poll for favorite fish fry. Read more
