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(10/25/09 6:00am)
Jack White carefully winds a length of wire around two fresh
nails as uninterested cattle graze in the green field behind him.
He brings the wire taut over a glass Coke bottle and secures a
round electromagnet beneath. The familiar hum of an amp clicks
through the speakers as he twists a knob, sending an electric chill
through your spine. White leans over his contraption and starts
cranking crazy riffs from his newly minted instrument. The cows
look up, amazed.
(09/18/09 6:00am)
It's not often Wisconsin plays a team whose offense makes the
Badgers' look like an aerial attack. Typically it is the Badgers
carrying the mantle of the most-run heavy team on the field.
(09/10/09 6:00am)
9: Although Shane Acker?s ?9? featured stunning graphics, its
plot was as used as its characters? clothing.
(09/10/09 6:00am)
Humankind has been destroyed by the very technology intended to
maintain peace, but nine burlap sack dolls (coined ""stitchpunks"")
survive the destruction in Shane Acker's post-apocalyptic CGI
animated film, ""9."" Together, the stitchpunks must avoid the
clutches of the soulless machines that annihilated human
civilization.
(09/03/09 6:00am)
The storyline behind The xx is so old it's barely worth telling.
A group of four 20 year olds from London get together, record a
stunning debut and are praised as the next in line to overtake the
indie music throne. This version's stunning debut, xx, however,
sets itself apart as not really falling into that same trajectory.
It has no one distinctive influence or overbearing angst, but it
manages to stretch the genre to a limit by rearing back and
stripping it of nearly everything, showing encouraging amounts of
confidence in the band's finer moments. It's actually surprising
how young the members of The xx are considering how ballsy their
debut LP is, whether those be in the form of confidence of
hormones.
(09/03/09 6:00am)
Following last Tuesday's neighborhood meeting concerning the
proposed redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel, one thing was
incredibly clear: both sides are passionate about this case. Hammes
Company president Bob Dunn, the lead developer on the project, was
given a rousing applause from his supporters following a booming
speech. The whole presentation had an aura akin to a sales pitch
from ""Mad Men,"" seeming rather hollow and soulless yet oddly
inspirational at the same time––and surely the fact that the
presentation was flanked by Bethel Lutheran Church's giant stained
glass rendering of Jesus was not lost on Dunn.
(09/01/09 6:00am)
Another bar bites the dust? Could be, according
to Richard Lyshek, who says there's a ""good chance"" his Ram Head
Ratskellar may never reopen.
(08/26/09 6:00am)
Another bar bites the dust? Could be, according to Richard
Lyshek, who says there's a ""good chance"" his Ram Head Ratskellar
may never reopen.
(06/05/09 6:00am)
Having released three full-length albums in five years, Grizzly
Bear have taken plenty of time to develop as songwriters between
releases, and their progression is fascinating. They have
maintained a signature sound and achieved consistent, reliable
results while managing to grow sonically from album to album. On
their latest release, Veckatimest, they've reached a point where
they are now appealing to all brands of indie listeners.
(05/07/09 6:00am)
With the year nearing its unavoidable conclusion and seniors
nearly ready (or for some far beyond ready) to end their stay in
Madison, it only seems appropriate to reflect on the athletic feats
and disappointments which the class of '09 has borne witness to.
(05/01/09 6:00am)
For the first time since 1992, the Wisconsin Rugby Football Club
is heading to the Division II National Championships. This weekend,
the team, which has recently established itself as a rugby
powerhouse in the Midwest, travels to Stanford University in Palo
Alto, Calif., to battle Miami (Ohio), Middlebury and Georgetown for
the title.
(04/27/09 6:00am)
At a trim 80 minutes, ""Wendy and Lucy"" is as slender and
simple as it is dense and stunning. For a film that's pretty
straightforward about the emotions it's trying to stir, ""Wendy and
Lucy"" deserves the highest compliment: It's a really potent punch
to the gut. It marries big-time affectivity with intellectual
abstraction; that is, if it doesn't make you too miserable to think
afterward.
(04/14/09 6:00am)
On a typical Friday night, most undergraduates, including those
attending UW-Madison, have come to terms with paying five dollars
at the door to receive a red Solo cup for unlimited drinking.
However, some college students are often exempt from the fee: young
women.
(04/01/09 6:00am)
Carolyn Biddy Cent"" Martin, UW-Madison chancellor and graduate
with a doctoral degree in German literature, stunned fans earlier
this week with the release of her debut album to a tumult of
controversy. Following her plans to hike tuition steadily over the
next several years, Biddy Martin announced she had been spending
considerable time over the past several months creating an album
that relates her troubled experiences growing up as an impoverished
youth.
(03/30/09 6:00am)
We checked in after our 20-hour car ride from Madison to the
cheapest hotel near downtown Austin, and within 20 minutes of
arriving we were again rushing out the door, dripping from
much-needed showers and scarcely dressed for the
uncharacteristically drizzly Texas weather. We dashed into a frenzy
of conference-goers and film fans desperate to register for the ID
badges that would admit them to screenings over the course of the
next week. Done there, we were off to the Paramount Theater for the
premiere screening of ""I Love You, Man,"" nearly tripping over the
red carpet into Jason Segel, who was posing awkwardly five feet in
front of us for a photograph.
(03/09/09 6:00am)
Ozymandias gazes at the bank of TV monitors as news reports of
the catastrophe air on every station. He turns to his audience, the
rest of the masked adventurers from the world of ""Watchmen,"" and
plainly asks, ""Don't you see?"" It may as well be director Zack
Snyder (""300,"" ""Dawn of the Dead""), anxious as his careful film
adaptation of the legendary graphic novel comes to a close.
Although he produced a faithful bite-size version for the screen,
he seems painfully aware that he could only skim the surface of the
world of Watchmen.
(03/02/09 6:00am)
Feeling like The Blob in the movie ""Heavyweights"" isn't
exactly an experience I want repeated, so I have decided it's time
to lose a little weight.
(02/19/09 6:00am)
The year 2008 was a year of change in American film. The year
began by bringing us one of the most critically acclaimed
blockbusters in a long time with The Dark Knight,"" and an animated
feature as a legitimate Best Picture contender in Pixar's kiddie
sci-fi masterpiece ""WALL-E.""
(02/16/09 6:00am)
Sweat drips from my brow as I stare blankly at the page. Think
Megan, think! What the hell is the biological species concept? Why
does this crab have a non-functioning claw? Why the hell do I care
about these stupid fricking lizards on an undiscovered island?! I
slam my head on the desk in despair.
(02/12/09 6:00am)
Plungerhead Old Vine Zinfandel (Lodi, CA) 2007
