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(04/18/06 6:00am)
My name might as well not even be on the mailbox of my
apartment. My roommates get all kinds of mail: letters, catalogs,
packages and anything else you can slap a stamp on and ship out.
But I check the mail every day and there's never anything for me.
The only reason I have a credit card is so they send me a bill
every month in an envelope with my name on it.
(03/29/06 6:00am)
The Madison Repertory Theatre added a number of recent
books-turned-plays into its catalogue as of late. Such plays
usually have one solid advantage over others, in that the books'
readers are likely to be interested in the play. Millions of people
had read the book versions of Tuesdays with Morrie\ and ""The
Santaland Diaries,"" and the Madison Rep did a fantastic job
bringing them to stage.
(03/28/06 6:00am)
Competing on a collegiate Division-I athletic team in a foreign
country may seem like an intimidating situation to some. However,
when sophomore UW men's tennis player Felipe Bellido came from Peru
to play for the Badgers, he had already competed for his
country.
(02/24/06 6:00am)
Roaming charges and dropped calls are the least of your
concerns. What if instead of a bomb or biological warfare,
terrorists attack using your cell phone? This is the basic premise
of 'Cell,' Stephen King's newest thriller. The novel tells the
story of Clay Riddell and various other refugees in the aftermath
of The Pulse, an unexplained 'virus' that attacks people through
their cell phones. Violence ensues as the 'phone crazies' first
attack each other, and then begin to evolve into zombie-like
creatures with group telepathic powers. The only ones saved from
this terrible fate are the people not using their cell phones
during or after The Pulse. The story follows Clay and his loyal
band of followers as they head north in search of loved ones.
Making various stops along the way, more people join their group in
the struggle for survival in a now- uncertain world.
(02/13/06 6:00am)
Ironically, most songs written specifically for movies are
downright awful. I don't know what it is, but most 'original songs'
are contrived and terrible, and Oscar has continually chosen to
honor a curious supply of the worst of the worst. Whether it's
taken from the soundtracks of 'Con Air' or 'Beethoven's 2nd,'
wannabe Top 40 pop/country/crap has a tendency to show up on the
ballot every year.
(02/01/06 6:00am)
Wednesday marks the unveiling of head coach Bret Bielema's first
recruiting class at UW. But truthfully, the group, which is
expected to include 23 players from around the nation (six from
within the state of Wisconsin), still has some old flavor left over
from Barry Alvarez and company.
(01/31/06 6:00am)
Bret Bielema's first recruiting class as head football coach at
UW is beginning to take its final form, with five oral commitments
given during the final recruiting weekend.
(12/14/05 6:00am)
With 2005 coming to a close after a soft year at the box office,
much good still came from Hollywood. Much good and a whole lot of
bad.
(11/28/05 6:00am)
If any of you have ever taken Intro to Production, you know that
this is the time of the semester when everybody is scrambling to
finish (or maybe even start) their final projects. I am currently
in the class, struggling to make the best movie I can with only
five dollars and a couple friends.
(11/10/05 6:00am)
Day after day, we observe the coverage of this Terrell Owens
saga unfold. The once reveled star has now worn out his welcome in
San Francisco and Philadelphia, not to mention infuriating players
in Baltimore without ever being on the official roster. From
speculating that his old 49er quarterback Jeff Garcia was
homosexual to publicly agreeing that his Eagle team would be better
off with Brett Favre rather than Donovan McNabb, Owens has used his
words to dig himself into a cavernous hole. The hole seems as
though it could only, even partially, be covered up if he refrains
from chattering for the rest of his career'??an essentially
impossible task.
(11/10/05 6:00am)
Students gave input on plans for creating a new Union South and
renovating aspects of the Memorial Union during the Wisconsin Union
Facilities Improvement Plan 2005 Student Open Forum Wednesday.
(10/10/05 6:00am)
Nick Park has done it again, finally in the form of a
full-length motion picture, and this time, he's done it with
bunnies.
(09/06/05 6:00am)
This summer, while many students were away from the classroom,
the world of entertainment worked overtime to ensure they still
learned numerous life lessons.
(08/31/05 6:00am)
This summer, while many students were away from the classroom,
the world of entertainment worked overtime to ensure they still
learned numerous life lessons.
(03/15/05 6:00am)
I was not anticipating the cacophony of criticism that greeted
last week's column calling for the restriction of .50-caliber BMG
rifle sales to the public. It took me about an hour to wade through
the responses that inundated my inbox. The detractions ranged in
tone and content. I received everything from thoughtful objections
to a few nut-jobs who had the wherewithal to look up my personal
address and issue a few none-too-discreet complaints like, \I'll
show you what a .50 BMG can do."" My journalistic integrity has
been impugned, and therefore I feel compelled to return fire.
(02/17/05 6:00am)
Wine is thought to evoke great conversation, but rarely is
conversation made of wine. In one glass, all spectrums of academia
can be tasted, from botany to religion. Unofficially, Wine 101 can
be studied across campus, by throwing wine parties to taste test
its endless varieties.
(01/25/05 6:00am)
At first glance, Wisconsin senior guard Clayton Hanson doesn't
look like he would be the defensive stopper for the basketball
Badgers.
(12/02/04 6:00am)
I remember the blooming orchard and the endless acres. I
remember the plump carrots and enough hay to bury a village. I
remember the maple grove being a place of abundance and the creek
down the dirt road never being short of fish.
(12/04/03 6:00am)
Usually, I try to insert something clever at the start of this
column. And more often than not, I crash and burn in the process.
So, I'm just going to state my point right now:
(10/31/03 6:00am)
\Radio,"" starring Ed Harris and Cuba Gooding Jr., comes as a
quiet and down-to-earth film in a season of epics. With ""The
Matrix: Revolutions"" and ""The Return of the King"" just a few
weeks off, it is a great relief to see a movie where the fate of
the world is not decided in the last 15 minutes. Instead ""Radio""
focuses on the simple respect and dignity that two men share in an
unlikely time and place.