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(11/04/05 6:00am)
Battle scenes are the bread and butter of a typical war film,
lending gritty authenticity as well as differentiating it from
similar films. Compare and contrast the chaotic jungle combat of
'Platoon' with the thoroughly unsettling Russian roulette sequences
in 'The Deer Hunter' or the sweeping, Wagner-scored helicopter raid
in 'Apocalypse Now' to see how differently Vietnam was interpreted
by three maverick directors.
(10/12/05 6:00am)
Sexism, racism and domestic violence in the media prompted
student debate Tuesday night when UW-Madison students addressed the
effects of social issues in modern society.
(10/12/05 6:00am)
Ever hear the one about the post-birth abortion combined with
cannibalism and Nazis? An immediate response to this would probably
be \No, what kind of sick person would combine such horrible
topics?"" Well, that man is Stephen Lynch on his latest CD, The
Craig Machine.
(10/11/05 6:00am)
At times last season, players on the Wisconsin football team
(2-1 Big Ten, 5-1 overall) sounded like brainwashed drones,
endlessly dispensing sound bites about how the team just needed to
\go 1-0 this week."" But after Saturday's defensive meltdown in
Evanston, during which the Badger defense surrendered nearly 700
yards and seven consecutive scoring drives to Northwestern in the
stunning 51-48 loss, head coach Barry Alvarez was spinning a far
more disturbing broken record.
(10/11/05 6:00am)
John Madden's second collaboration with Gwyneth Paltrow lacks
both the chemistry and poignancy of \Shakespeare In Love,"" the
award-winning 1998 film. The potential is evident in ""Proof,""
given the array of talented actors and its success on stage, yet it
falls short of anything but mediocre. The lead performances are not
the source of the film's inadequacies-but David Auburn and Rebecca
Miller's screenplay fails to come together, giving the film a
noticeably incomplete tone and leaving one wondering when the plot
was supposed to thicken.
(10/10/05 6:00am)
One of the best parts of the movie \Minority Report"" is when a
group of cops track down Tom Cruise's fugitive character. ""Don't
run,"" they say to him in a cornered alley, but of course Tom comes
back with, ""Everybody runs,"" and proceeds to make one hell of an
escape for a crazy 5'11"" scientologist.
(10/04/05 6:00am)
With the possible exception of Arcade Fire's Funeral, no debut
album in 2004 received such an unabashedly positive critical
response as Franz Ferdinand.
(09/27/05 6:00am)
Coming off of an exciting, down-to-the-wire victory over
Michigan, Barry Alvarez's weekly Monday press conference at Camp
Randall seemed different. Maybe it was the exhilaration of the
recent win still in the Madison air, or maybe it was just Alvarez's
bright pink shirt that seemed to light up the room.
(09/26/05 6:00am)
The Badger football team became No. 17 in the nation after its
win against Michigan Saturday night. But the big winners after this
weekend are Madison's bars.
(09/23/05 6:00am)
Get out your striped off-the shoulder top, chunky accents and
some eyeliner-if you have it. Stellastarr* hits a new wave artery
with their sophomore album, Harmonies for the Haunted. Whether the
album oozes with edge or is a hemorrhage of copy-cat tendencies is
a worthy discussion. With its Cure-reminiscent ballads and full
blown, unabashed homage to the best of '80s new wave, stellastarr*
has a 21st century tenacity in a vein most recently tapped by such
eyeliner favorites as The Killers.
(09/22/05 6:00am)
It's unfortunate most defining moments aren't greeted with the
sort of cinematic fanfare they deserve; no violin crescendos
precede momentous occasions. Because life possesses no soundtrack,
I was recently left unprepared to witness the television event of
the century.
(09/20/05 6:00am)
Every student knows about the perks University of Wisconsin
athletes get. For football players, it's high-priced defense
attorneys for cheap. Basketball players get VIP access to the
Kollege Klub and all no fewer than three Facebook groups dedicated
solely to their 'hotness.' But the UW men's soccer players may get
the best benefit of them all: great frequent flier miles.
(09/08/05 6:00am)
Each season, the story is the same. Teams lose players and are
looking for someone to step up and \fill the shoes"" of the other
guy. This season, the story of the men's soccer team is no
different.
(05/05/05 6:00am)
Hordes of students shuffle listlessly through labyrinthine
corridors, scale cold concrete and metal staircases and gaze
glassy-eyed at windowless ceilings and walls. All the while, muddy
echoes of distant music reverberate from the walls in a series of
discordant notes.
(04/29/05 6:00am)
The UW women's softball team looks to keep up its winning ways
as it travels southward for a four-game swing this weekend. The
Badgers (22-20 overall, 6-8 Big Ten) travel to Iowa today to play
tonight at 6:00 and then play a game Saturday at noon. The team
then heads to Champaigne, Ill. to play a double-header on Sunday at
noon against Illinois.
(04/14/05 6:00am)
The recent proposal to increase the beer tax may give hope to
improving the binge-drinking problem here at UW-Madison. Binge
drinking has been one of the most frustrating problems confronted
by the Wisconsin government and UW-Madison officials. Although the
school is one of the top 10 public schools in the nation, it is
also the country's number two party school, according to the
Princeton Review.
(04/13/05 6:00am)
The Wisconsin softball team (3-5 Big Ten, 12-17 overall) battled
all week against the best the Big Ten had to offer, but failed to
come away with a victory, going 0-5. However, the Badgers' record
does not tell the whole story, as they lost four of their games by
only one run.
(04/12/05 6:00am)
British Sea Power and The Flaming Lips must be kindred spirits.
In addition to touring together, both bands have reputations for
performing some of the most bizarre live shows around, involving
anything from Asiatic black bears to peregrine falcons appearing on
stage for the former and acid-dancing roadies in animal suits and
Teletubbies for the latter.
(04/08/05 6:00am)
The southeastern campus area is up for a facelift.
(04/06/05 6:00am)
Drinking beer and paying taxes are two things Wisconsinites do
in high quantities. So it should come as little surprise that a
proposal to increase taxes on beer has tapped strong feelings over
the best way to fund alcohol abuse treatment programs in the
state.
