Badgers fall to 0-5 in Big Ten after losses to PSU
(04/12/10 6:00am)
The Wisconsin women's softball team continued to struggle through conference games, falling to the Penn State Nittany Lions 3-1 and 3-0 this weekend.
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Turtles come out of shell
(04/12/10 6:00am)
Somewhere buried beneath the modern-day musical behemoth genres of rock, pop and country there lies an oft-forgotten sect called bluegrass. It is generally associated with toothless hicks in Branson, Mo. scraping on washboards and blowing on empty jugs of moonshine. It's also frowned upon by music elites sitting in their upper-middle-class high-rise apartments. However, Minnesota-based Trampled by Turtles do their best to avoid such stereotypes by taking their core bluegrass sound and adapting it to the current indie-folk wave, reaching their critical apex with their 2008 album Duluth. Two years later they have sent forth the album Palomino as the successor to their most widely acclaimed record, and, if anything, it should draw more people into the bluegrass fold.
Choose your own adventure: College edition
(04/12/10 6:00am)
Someone once said that college is an adventure and only you hold the map that shows the path to success. That ""someone"" was an ex-con turned motivational speaker who completed two hours of his court-ordered community service by speaking at my eighth grade graduation. Despite his teardrop tattoo and missing fingers, I took the advice of Henry ""T-Bone"" Watkins to heart; he was genuine and emphatic and said anyone who didn't listen to his advice ""IS GONNA GET STABBED.""
MGMT deserves Congratulations
(04/08/10 6:00am)
Who is MGMT? That's the question their official website asks. To many, they're the band played constantly at Urban Outfitters. With their latest album, MGMT challenges that reputation, even though it made their last album so popular.
Dieting wisdom from wisdom teeth recovery
(04/07/10 6:00am)
Dieting is really hard when your favorite thing in life is food. Ask Oprah... or Kirstie Alley. I doubt two people have ridden the Fight Fat roller coaster harder or more frequently than those two. After millions of dollars worth of endorsements, supplements, personal trainers and gym equipment, they still haven't figured out any secrets to long-lasting weight loss.
'Hot Tub' stays lukewarm
(04/04/10 6:00am)
""Hot Tub Time Machine"" is like the VH1 program ""I Love the '80s."" It will make viewers nostalgic for a simpler time (remember how awesome ""Back to the Future"" was?),and will even offer occasional bursts of laugh-out-loud hilarity (though from Craig Robinson, not from Michael Ian Black or Hal Sparks). But like ""I Love the '80s,"" ""Hot Tub Time Machine"" is a clash between two distinctly different generations, and the results are mixed at best.
New Beer Tuesday--Ranger India Pale Ale
(03/23/10 6:00am)
India Pale Ales can be intimidating to the hophobic, but New Belgium Brewery's Ranger IPA is inviting and refreshing. Lacking the bitter overly hopped smack stronger IPAs may wallop the Ranger is nicely herbal, offering a wildly floral bouquet.
Campus Briefs--Week 9
(03/16/10 6:00am)
Direct relationship between living in Madison, becoming a fatass, experts say
Rock out to 'Runaways'
(03/16/10 6:00am)
In the '70s, the all-girl rock band the Runaways gained huge amounts of fame and attention for albums like The Runaways and Queens of Noise. Although the group disbanded decades ago, the band continues to gain recognition with the new film ""The Runaways."" The movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, tells of the band's experiences in the music industry and is likely to be a success with audiences.
Searching for fun with Google predictions
(03/11/10 6:00am)
Why hasn't Larry King died yet? Why haven't I shit in four days? How big was the fattest person who has ever lived? How deep underwater do you need to swim before your ears implode? He's only 76, a low-fiber diet, 1,225 pounds and pretty fucking deep. These are the real questions in life; the questions your professors will be scratching their heads at. Luckily, we have Google. For poor, uninformed bastards like me, it's the slickest route for answers the world has ever known. Sometimes when I'm really hungry for answers, I'll just sit in front of Google for hours suckling on the unending virtual teat of knowledge until I can't take any more.
Nine movie remakes inspired by UW-Madison
(03/10/10 6:00am)
It seems like every year around February or March people make the claim that it's the worst time of year. I've heard everything: burnout from school, the not-quite-winter-but-not-quite-spring weather, winter sports winding down, and even that they just hate Valentine's Day with a fiery passion. I, however, love this time of year for one simple reason: shitty movies. Yes, this time of year is perfect for studios to pump out their corny formula comedies or awful book adaptations for audiences who don't know any better. I'm a bit of a film buff myself, and a little research produced some quite surprising news. It appears that UW-Madison itself has been an inspiration for many of these subpar films that come out this time of year. I included titles and summaries from nine of the best ones below:
Locksley 'In Love' with retro musical stylings
(02/25/10 6:00am)
The Madison-raised, now Brooklyn-residing band Locksley still maintains its vintage-loving reputation with the energetic and slightly hectic ensemble of tunes on their second album, Be In Love. The carefree feeling this foursome generates through jazzy guitars, wild drumming and catchy harmonies is sure to produce major booty shaking, or at least a foot tapping of sorts for those who resist a total lack of inhibitions.
First-time fornicators should focus on foreplay
(02/25/10 6:00am)
My boyfriend and I have been together for several months and we are thinking about having sex. I am a virgin and so is he... How do we know if we are ready for the first time?
Rockin' the bowl cut: A tale from hair hell
(02/23/10 6:00am)
Everyone has something about themselves that they hate. With some people, it's a physical thing. For others, their issues might run a little deeper.
Claims against Shorewood Hills unfounded
(02/17/10 6:00am)
[In response to Kathy Dittrich's Feb. 15 article ""Hypocrisy shines in Shorewood Hills]
Hot Chip cool down
(02/09/10 6:00am)
One Life Stand, the latest album by British Electropop-ers Hot Chip reveals the same upbeat band as before, only with less goofiness than on previous releases. Their electronica sounds more akin to a-ha this time around than to Stars or Crystal Castles, which is a refreshing change of pace.
Defining cinematic experiences: the line between art and trash
(02/03/10 6:00am)
What does it mean to see a film? To me, these types of questions are much more interesting and fruitful than the more widely posed ""Does all cinema count as art?"" As I see it, the point of talking and thinking about art is not to make art an an elite club to which the contents of the Louvre, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, ""Madame Bovary"" and ""Citizen Kane"" belong but ""Hot Tub Time Machine,"" R. Kelly, Lady Gaga and Jackson Pollock do not.
Sports media hypocritical with discourse
(02/03/10 6:00am)
A couple weeks ago when Charles Woodson was announced as the Defensive Player of the Year, Rex Ryan, the head coach of the New York Jets, was asked about the decision. If Ryan followed the rules of coach speak, he would have told reporters he was hoping his cornerback Darrelle Revis would win the award, but that Charles Woodson is a great player and he respects the decision.
Residence hall energy competition to take place throughout February
(02/01/10 6:00am)
The fourth annual UW-Madison Residence Hall Energy Competition, organized by Big Red Go Green begins Monday.
New movie 'Tooth Fairy' bites, less entertaining than a trip to the dentist
(01/24/10 6:00am)
Very few people would expect ""The Tooth Fairy"" to be a great movie. Still, Dwayne ""The Rock"" Johnson as a bad boy hockey player turned temporary tooth fairy could have made for a breezy 100 minutes of harmless movie fluff for kids. Instead, ""The Tooth Fairy"" is dragged down to direct-to-video levels of horribleness by disjointed writing, annoying characters and an overemphasis on its ""dreams can come true"" message.
