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(11/06/06 6:00am)
Under normal circumstances, the UW student section is welcoming
and pleasant. Gentle hostilities are exchanged between the sections
and opposing fans have to expect ridicule, but I was not prepared
for the intense alienation I felt Saturday afternoon. I have long
felt the sting of prejudice and second-class citizenship since it
was discovered that I have an inability to clap on rhythm, whistle,
snap and—worst of all—participate in massive group dances.
(10/29/06 6:00am)
The Kenyan Witch Trials
(10/25/06 6:00am)
This Halloween, people across the country will watch ""The
Shining,"" ""The Exorcist,"" ""Dawn of the Dead"" and a host of
other films your kid sibling isn't supposed to see without Mom or
Dad. But there's no reason to stretch the MPAA's limits when
looking for horror this Tuesday; as anyone reared on Disney, Grimm
fairy tales or the Bible knows, it's often the stuff deemed MOST
appropriate for kids that ends up being the scariest. Here, the
Cardinal Arts Staff examines the most terrifying films to ever
receive the film industry's tamest rating.
(10/22/06 6:00am)
Runaway bride files lawsuit against ex-fiancAc
(10/19/06 6:00am)
There are only a precious few times in life when you can go from
eating a brat at a football game to donning a suit and attending a
wedding in a single day. I was fortunate, nay blessed, enough to
experience one such day last weekend. But while those crowds don't
tend to mingle, I couldn't help but notice that we all end up
dancing around like drunken lunatics.
(10/04/06 6:00am)
most unusual party"" is how my brother Eric termed his wedding
last weekend, and it lived up to its billing.
(10/03/06 6:00am)
There's a sadism to ""Confetti,"" and director Debbie Isitt
doesn't provide a convincing way out of it. It's a mockumentary
about six people undergoing a completely humiliating experience,
learning nothing about themselves along the way. The best
mockumentaries, however, are about people doing not what they hate,
but what they love. They require a flexible sentimentality and an
eye for how people really are.
(10/02/06 6:00am)
The temperature was slowly dropping outside the Kohl Center
Friday night and despite my contraband blanket, (which was in turn
supplemented by an artificial one of Sunny D and vodka), I couldn't
keep my mind off the cold. So, I did what any otherwise normal
person who had been sitting in a lawn chair for 11 hours would do—I
decided to eavesdrop on the boys next to me.
(09/27/06 6:00am)
About this time of year, you long for summer.
(09/05/06 6:00am)
Five days from today marks the five year anniversary of an event
that single-handedly altered the course of the world. September 11,
2001 is a day that will forever be etched in the minds of all
Americans, as they were shocked and stunned at the sight of their
own flesh and blood being mercilessly slain.
(04/20/06 6:00am)
A Court TV program profiling the faked abduction of UW-Madison
student Audrey Seiler will air tonight at 9 p.m. on Madison cable
channel 56.
(04/12/06 6:00am)
Blue Strom, who described herself as being in gender limbo\ but
identifies mostly as a gay man, spoke Tuesday as part of the LGBT
Campus Center's Out and About Month series.
(04/06/06 6:00am)
No matter how big of a rut hip-hop is in, a song about SpongeBob
driving a Bentley coupe underwater will always shake things up.
Leave it to Ghostface Killah, rap music's reigning absurd genius,
to drop the year's most engaging album almost 15 years into his
legendary career.
(03/31/06 6:00am)
Two Madison taxi drivers were assaulted and robbed in separate
incidents late Wednesday night.
(03/21/06 6:00am)
Usually when a widely respected actor or actress makes a
directorial debut, their film owes a distinctive debt to the work
of another director. Robert De Niro's fantastic A Bronx Tale\ had
all the hallmarks of a sweeping Scorsese mobster epic, and before
he astonished everyone with ""Good Night, and Good Luck,"" George
Clooney helmed a decent but somewhat timid adaptation of Chuck
Barris' so-called autobiography, ""Confessions of a Dangerous
Mind,"" that had more than just a whiff of Soderbergh slickness.
Although Tommy Lee Jones' debut, a modern-day Western called ""The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,"" has drawn numerous
references to legendary director Sam Peckinpah, it is a well-acted
but ultimately unremarkable morality tale. In fact, ""Three
Burials"" is technically not Jones' debut—he previously helmed a
TNT film called ""The Good Old Boys""—but it is his first film to
be theatrically released to widespread acclaim. Jones stars as Pete
Perkins, a taciturn cowboy whose beloved friend Melquiades (Julio
Cedillo) is killed in a moronic accident by newbie border patrolman
Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). After he discovers the authorities plan
on ignoring the incident, Perkins concocts a plan to honor
Melquiades that involves digging him up, kidnapping Norton and
heading south of the border to bury him in his hometown. Other
supporting characters hover around the proceedings, and through a
handful of flashbacks, we become privy to the intimate
relationships and hidden ironies created by them. We meet some of
the town's residents, including Norton's pretty young wife (January
Jones, Stifler's object of affection in ""American Wedding""), the
impotent sheriff (Dwight Yoakum) and an amorous diner waitress
(Melissa Leo) who's more bored than horny. With a complex script by
Guillermo Arriaga (who previously wrote two of the past decade's
best movies, ""21 Grams"" and ""Amores Perros""), the subtleties
and nuances of these criss-crossing lives enhance the central
events of the film. ""Three Burials"" is most involving when Jones
lingers on the tedium of the small Texas town everyone has to live
in, observing friendships and sexual relationships that blossom
almost solely out of necessity. These characters spend a lot of
time smoking cigarettes and watching people come and go in a town
which is, like a certain Yoakum song's refrain, one thousand miles
from nowhere. The long hike Perkins and Norton take is, on the
other hand, not as engaging. It has its inspired moments, most
notably a visit with a wizened old man (The Band's drummer Levon
Helm) who helps them out and then makes a startlingly poignant
request. But the journey, which is always visually stunning, has a
tendency to lag on its way to an obvious and predictable
conclusion. To Arriaga and Jones' credit, the ending is much more
restrained than it could have been, but it is still abrupt and
disappointingly anticlimactic. Also, the film often contradicts its
efforts to show complexity by portraying all of the Mexicans as
good-hearted saints and nearly all of the Caucasians as petty,
cruel, dismissive and sexually dysfunctional. This isn't to say
that Jones descends into ""Crash""-style hyperbole, but as an
allegorical piece of social commentary, ""Three Burials""
occasionally feels smug. When it clicks, ""Three Burials"" is
thoughtful and interesting, but despite a plethora of intriguing
moments and scenes, the film runs out of steam. It's a prestigious
film that won Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film
Festival and will appeal to some while boring others. However,
Jones coaxes uniformly proficient performances from his cast and
shows enough genuine promise behind the camera to make one hope he
directs another film.
(03/20/06 6:00am)
Are you planning on having children? Liberals who answer No,
thanks\ to this question may want to reconsider their family plan,
according to Phillip Longman. The author of ""The Empty Cradle: How
Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About
It"" recently postulated in USA Today and Foreign Policy magazine
that the trend of progressive secularists to have fewer children
compared to religious conservatives will greatly skew the general
political mind-set in the country.
(03/08/06 6:00am)
Trisha Lynn Esteppe and Tyree Henderson exchanged their vows on
Monday at the McDonald's in Fairborn, Ohio, where they work
together and met three years ago.
(02/23/06 6:00am)
'Date Movie' is the first movie in the film-parody genre that is
so terrible it is not worth watching. The film spends most of its
time repeating actual lines and scenes from other films, rather
than parodying a certain genre. 'Date Movie' makes fun of movies
normally classified as chick flicks, but it also makes fun of 'Lord
of the Rings' and 'Kill Bill.' It is a collection of scenes from
previous films such as 'Meet the Parents,' 'Napoleon Dynamite,'
'Pretty Woman,' 'My Best Friend's Wedding' and 'How to Lose a Guy
in 10 Days.'
(02/13/06 6:00am)
It is very possible to love a movie, to hopelessly, desperately,
unendingly adore a slew of characters as one might adore his or her
own friends, and yet to feel at the exact same time that it could
have been done better. That perhaps, with just a little more
honesty and a little less Hollywood, it could have been a punch in
the face, an invitation to fall in love, or simply a great, great
flick.
(02/08/06 6:00am)
Some say Saint Valentine was a priest who performed secret
weddings after marriage was outlawed in third century Rome. Others
say he sent the first 'valentine' to a young girl while he was in
prison. However the tradition started, it has since evolved into
one of the most commercialized holidays of the year.
