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Victoria Davis
Rebels with a cause
The Leathernecks motorcycle club was founded by Marine veterans as a way to reconnect back in civilian life. Although they look tough dressed in leather on their Harleys, they’re “straight-laced” with “families and honest jobs.” Read more
Linda Falkenstein
Play like an artist
In life drawing, it is folly to try to make your sketches “too human, too soon.” This and other artistic advice is available free at the Chazen Museum of Art. Read more
Jul 11, 2019
Victoria Davis
Dances with lions
Chinese Lion Dancing is an ancient art form that requires dancers to use every part of their bodies. Teams from around the country came to Madison last weekend to compete in the Second National Dragon & Lion Dance Championships. Read more
Jul 3, 2019
Beth Skogen
As free as the wind blows
About 150 people participated in Madison’s World Naked Bike Ride this year. Writer Holly Henschen applies thick layers of sunscreen and joins the “sublime community experience.” Read more
Jun 27, 2019
AMY STOCKLEIN
Spam-a-rama
At David Pouncey’s annual backyard party, eating the Spam is “highly discouraged.” But his guests carve blocks of pink-hued mystery meat into hilarious, irreverent sculptures. Read more
Jun 20, 2019
AMY STOCKLEIN
Working-class heroes
An AmeriCorps NCCC team is stationed in the Madison area for eight weeks, removing invasive species, restoring trails, and planting pollinator gardens. Read more
Jun 13, 2019
AMY STOCKLEIN
Live from east Madison
BingBong didn’t want to record its next album in a boring studio. So they invited their friends and threw a party in a secret, undisclosed space on the east side. Read more
Jun 6, 2019
Victoria Davis
Safety nets not included
In May, 200 climbers showed up for the first Downtown Showdown climbing competition. This wasn’t the typical competition with frowns and icy cold stares from competitors, but a nurturing community. Read more
May 30, 2019
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Allison Geyer
Going up the country
Ziggy the cat might have been the Willy Street neighborhood’s most popular resident. If you’ve missed him lately, don’t worry. Ziggy has retired to a country estate and is doing just fine, though he misses his old neighborhood buds. Read more
May 23, 2019
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Sharon Vanorny
The secret concrete garden
North of Madison, there’s a secret indoor skate park called The Shred Shed. It’s just for friends, but if you want to be friends with the organizers, they’ll be friends with you. Read more
May 16, 2019
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Victoria Davis
To Sri Lanka with love
Madison’s small but tight-knit Sri Lankan community was horrified on Easter to learn that terrorists had killed hundreds of people in their homeland. On May 1, they held a dinner to collect money and love to send back home. Read more
May 9, 2019
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Howard Hardee
Hit me with your DIPPUL stick
On April 20, about 50 people loaded up on beer and hit the streets to clean them up for Madison’s first Drunk in Public Picking Up Litter. Read more
May 2, 2019
5:00 AM
AMY STOCKLEIN
School of hard nots
Before being sworn into office, eight new members of the Common Council get a crash course on Robert’s Rules of Order and the state’s and city’s ethics rules. Apply the “smell test,” they are told, and say goodbye to free beers. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
5:01 AM
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Downtown businesses close due to MGE fire, power outages
No power meant forced closures for many downtown Madison businesses. Somehow the bargain event of the season on State Street — Maxwell Street Days — was not affected. Read more
Rebels with a cause
The Leathernecks motorcycle club was founded by Marine veterans as a way to reconnect back in civilian life. Although they look tough dressed in leather on their Harleys, they’re “straight-laced” with “families and honest jobs.” Read more
After detention
When immigrants are released from detention centers to await their appearance in court, they often have nothing. Sarah Frank traveled to the border with much-needed supplies. Read more
A museum of our own
Madison has a lot of museums but not one is devoted to its own history. Without a history museum, is the city losing the stories and artifacts that show us how we have evolved and who we are? Read more
“There better be beer!”
Revised designs for the Madison Public Market are incorporating feedback from the public. It will be “green” — and presumably not orange. Read more
