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(10/15/04 6:00am)
Modest Mouse started this year the same way The Flaming Lips
started 2002-a band whose optimistic indie rock had, for years,
deemed them the next big thing. Finally, after a string of
critically acclaimed albums which had never amounted to a
commercial success, the Lips pushed through with Yoshimi Battles
the Pink Robots. This was echoed two years later by Modest Mouse,
when Good News for People Who Like Bad News brought the band from
indie icons to mainstream ones. Modest Mouse has effectively become
this year's Flaming Lips.
(09/30/04 6:00am)
(09/16/04 6:00am)
The word \unnecessary"" comes to mind. It's not the sort of
unnecessary that means something shouldn't be around at all, but
the kind that means it is simply out of place, or rather, already
there.
(05/04/04 6:00am)
Tortoise's Johnny Herndon is incapable of giving a direct or
detailed answer to interview
(04/30/04 6:00am)
Seachange
(04/29/04 6:00am)
The woods beckons. It always does. With the call of spring now
more of an echo of the first days of summer, I'm longing to walk
amongst the trunks.
(04/19/04 6:00am)
The Madison-based Civil Marriage Equality Coalition rallied
Saturday on Library Mall, then marched to the state Capitol to
promote civil marriage equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender couples.
(04/16/04 6:00am)
The Wisconsin softball team (3-5 Big Ten, 23-19 overall) will
host an important Big Ten home series this weekend, taking on
Indiana and Purdue. The IU series will be played Friday and
Saturday, while the Purdue affair will be a Sunday
doubleheader.
(04/15/04 6:00am)
A frequent and exasperating practice of Hollywood studios today
is their penchant for making movies that must be PG-13. This is a
greedy attempt to maximize profits by appealing to the largest
audience possible. Nothing makes a rich studio CEO happier than the
release of a good-ol' PG-13 flick that Mom and Pops can bring the
whole minivan full of kids to.
(03/31/04 6:00am)
Madison is not known for grand pieces of public art. The closest
things the city has to the monolithic grandeur of the St. Louis
Arch are in fact hidden from the public. One of them is masked by a
piece of art itself in the form of Frank Lloydd Wright's Monona
Terrace, while the second piece is hidden by placement in an
obscure location.
(03/29/04 6:00am)
At a meeting Thursday involving more than 350 members of The
Teaching Assistants Association, the vast majority voted to
consider a university-wide strike in response to disputes with the
state over teaching assistants' pay and health benefits. Such a
strike may halt many UW-Madison classes.
(03/26/04 6:00am)
For one night, the Madison music community came together in a
symphony of thanks, cooperation and support. The first Madison Area
Music Awards honored the city's best and most creative Sunday night
at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State St.
(03/11/04 6:00am)
When most people think of St. Patrick's Day, the first three
things that come to mind are wearing green, drinking heavily and
eating corned beef and cabbage. While this line of thinking almost
certainly simplifies the holiday, it definitely underestimates the
extent of Irish fare.
(03/03/04 6:00am)
The Wisconsin women's hockey team (16-5-1 Western Collegiate
Hockey Association, 22-5-3 overall) ensured themselves at least a
second-place finish in the WCHA after a series sweep of Ohio State
last weekend. The Badgers dominated the Buckeyes, outscoring them
13-3 in the two games.
(02/27/04 6:00am)
Pattern surrounds us, from striped wallpaper to the rows of
books on bookshelves. The underlying concept behind pattern is
repetition-repetition is key to understanding a pattern when we see
it. \Repeat, Repeat,"" showing through March 8 at the Gallery of
Design, exhibits four artists who use pattern to explore concepts
and process in their work. As part of the School of Human Ecology
Centennial Year exhibition series, ""Repeat, Repeat"" relies on the
viewer's knowledge of pattern as connected to the world of textiles
and interiors in order to come across as a coherent body of work.
(02/25/04 6:00am)
With the UW men's basketball team (8-4 Big Ten, 17-6 overall) in
the midst of its first losing steak of the season, a visit from an
even more woeful Penn State (3-9, 9-14) squad should come as a
welcome sight.While much has been made of the Badgers' road
struggles, their troubles are miniscule compared to those of Penn
State. The Nittany Lions have won just one road game, with eight
losses coming away from Happy Valley. Regardless of where the games
have been, PSU has had little success. It has been six games since
they last won a game, and nine of their last 10 games have ended in
defeat. But despite their poor record, the Badgers won't be
underestimating the Nittany Lions.\We're not going to underestimate
them one little bit,"" sophomore guard Boo Wade said. ""Any team
can get hot and get the roll ... so we've just got to keep them
under control and do what we have to do on D.""Junior guard Clayton
Hanson echoed those same sentiments.""Crazy things happen in this
league,"" Hanson said. ""For us, at this point in the season, we
never take any team for granted."" In the Badgers last two games,
both losses, their opponents have scored an average of 68 points,
well above UW's usual allowance of just 57. Wade, arguably the
team's top defender, thinks a lack of intensity is to blame.""I
think the intensity of our D is going down,"" Wade said. ""We're
not going out there showing the intensity we had [in earlier
games]. We're letting a lot of guys penetrate, we're sagging off,
not putting our hand up enough and they're just shooting over
us.""If that same lackadaisical mentality shows up Wednesday, Penn
State has a few players who could make the Badgers pay. Leading the
way for the Nittany Lions is junior forward Jan Jagla. The 7'0""
center leads the team in both points and rebounds, averaging a
solid 13 and eight respectively. Also contributing for PSU are
sophomore guard Deforrest Riley and freshman guard Marlon Smith.
Riley is a good all-around player who is second in the conference
in assists with five per game. He can score (13 points per game),
and averages five boards per contest. Smith is having a good rookie
campaign, averaging 12 ppg, but is shooting just 34 percent from
the field.Despite Wisconsin's recent struggles, the chance for a
title is still there, but the Badgers can ill afford any more
losses. With Michigan State just a game and a half clear of UW atop
the conference, nobody is panicking in the UW camp. ""No one is in
a panic mode,"" Wade said. ""We just lost to two very good teams
... and we got away from our offense. [The coaches] are getting us
back in our rhythm where we're running our O and locking down on
D.""These final home games will stand as a barometer for this team,
as it looks to parlay late-season success into a deep tournament
run.""[A good finish] is key leading up to the Big Ten Tournament
and the postseason,"" Hanson said. ""But taking an overall approach
probably isn't the best idea; we just need to take it game by
game.\
(02/25/04 6:00am)
Liars
(02/16/04 6:00am)
When Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., arrived Saturday at the Inn On
The Park, 22 S. Carroll St., he hopped on stage with an ear-to-ear
grin, shaking hands all around.
(02/10/04 6:00am)
Alan Lightman is capable of more than \Reunion."" His early
triumph, ""Einstein's Dreams,"" showed the considerable talents of
the professor at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
(02/09/04 6:00am)
Ben and Leo Sidran, local enaissance men"" in the music
industry, have recently created their own record label, Nardis
Music, in part with Liquid 8 Records and Entertainment.
