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(04/24/17 11:00am)
Conor Oberst, the mascaraed Bright Eyes frontman, has a verse on his new album, Ruminations, about life under Ronald Reagan. True, Reagan doesn’t seem so bad now, but at the time he seemed like a bad joke. “Reagan flexes his worn, snipped, tucked, mottled face,” wrote Martin Amis in 1979. “He would make a good head waiter, a good Butlins redcoat, a good host for ‘New Faces.’ But would he make a good leader of the free world?”
(04/19/17 12:53am)
A Greek tragedy with a contemporary spin to it came to life earlier this month when Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was whisked away from a State Street gyro shack by a downtown resident who had no recollection of the incident the next day.
(04/18/17 1:06am)
A man carrying a knife was reported in the parking lot below Helen C. White Hall, according to a WiscAlert. He was last seen in Lot 6 at 7:46 p.m. and walked toward Lake Mendota. He was noticed displaying the knife when fighting with an unidentified man and a woman.
(04/13/17 11:19am)
In a slightly annoyed state Monday night, area-man Luke Bauer reached into his pocket and discovered that, yet again, his Bose earbuds had twisted themselves into an intricate knot.The incident—which really wasn’t a big deal—caused Bauer to sigh heavily and yank on random parts of the wire.“The entire sight was pretty relatable,” said local witness George Hartin. “I’ve been there, and lemme tell ya, it ever so slightly makes your day worse.”Bauer untangled the knot in the amount of time one might expect when doing this type of activity, but discovered one of the little rubber headphone covers was missing.The Bose “FreeStyle” earbuds advertise “tangle-free” technology or your money back. This imperceptibly annoyed man might take that offer, or he may not, since the whole ordeal really wasn’t that much of an inconvenience.After the headphone cord was de-coiled, a slightly brightening Bauer flipped through his array of cringey 90s rock and settled on Nickelback—a classic for the now-cheery man.“There really is nothing better than listening to Chad Kroeger’s raspy voice after an experience like reaching into your pocket and finding a mangled mess of wires,” Bauer said.Bauer was later seen taping part of the wire that had become frayed, causing the previously happy man to become even more ticked off at the small, annoying things in his otherwise amazing life.
(04/10/17 4:00pm)
Indie music’s favorite disgruntled hipster has returned with a fresh gospel on what we’ve screwed up since last time. Yes, Josh Tilman, pseudonym Father John Misty, is back to inspire drug-fueled pilgrimages and weed paranoia with his new album, Pure Comedy.
(04/10/17 1:30pm)
You shine so bright, they force you into a shadow,growing into a sunflower without the sun to turn to,girl, you got the magicYou are surrounded by skepticswho weren’t present witness to your blossom,they doubt it’s occurrence, they doubt you.I feel your anger,the nonchalant way of going aboutexpecting nothing from the people that interact with the day.No one will let you down without your permission.I get why you write,why you obsess, why you get mad,that you love so hard and so much,it drags you down like a responsibility.So you stopped carrying your heart in your hands.I know most times you leave it at home,perhaps in your closet,so no one will know you have one, too.You hide your soft so no one try to shape youinto something you are not.You don’t want anyone to accidentally step on itand then feel bad for not accepting their “sorry.”To you that word is flimsy,can’t even take being thrown in a trashcan.Helga, I know how bad waking up can be,when no one is thereto say good morning,or there when you get back home,or there when your world is screaming novels at you.And I get that sometimes loneliness is not a choice,it’s the only option when no one chooses you back.Please write until everything you have to sayis able to be read and I’ll read it.Helga you are so beautiful,and loving yourself is only half the battle,sometimes it’s the full war.Thank you for the Saturday mornings,for those 20 minutes it wasn’t so bad to be alone.
(04/10/17 1:00pm)
April 3, 2017 marked the day of the biggest chemical weapon attack against civilians in Syria since the Ghouta Massacre in 2013.
(04/03/17 10:14pm)
A man stole three women’s wallets and hid them in a large flower pot in downtown Madison early Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
(03/28/17 12:42am)
A UW-Madison graduate working as a photojournalist for The Guardian was one of hundreds of people arrested Sunday at an opposition rally in Moscow.
(03/15/17 9:17pm)
With the music section of SXSW officially underway, musicians have already started bringing their A-game across the gorgeous city of Austin, Texas.
(03/15/17 11:40am)
After a night of drinking, a UW-Madison student was sexually assaulted in a campus dorm room. She didn’t recall much about the evening, but she remembered vomiting in the dorm’s trash can.
(03/15/17 3:12pm)
At a time when many aspects of the UW System have encountered politicization, increasing reporting and investigation of sexual assault on college campuses has become an area of bipartisan support at the Capitol.
(03/14/17 12:20am)
Attorneys of suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook are set to receive at least 2,800 pages of police reports and other evidence previously undisclosed by the prosecution after an emergency motion was filed Friday requesting the release of the material.
(03/07/17 1:13am)
Every week on Wednesdays at 8 pm at Der Rathskeller in Memorial Union, an eclectic group of students and community members alike gather to witness the greatness that is Open Mic Night. I’ve been hearing about this spectacle for years, because my roommate attends every week and occasionally sings. I had never made the journey to witness the show for myself until now, and enjoyed the opportunity to spend more time with my roommate and friend.
(03/01/17 2:35am)
In an attempt to grab President Donald Trump’s attention, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., is attending Trump’s congressional address Tuesday accompanied by a Mexican undocumented student who attends Edgewood College.
(02/27/17 1:00pm)
For first-year student Melissa Strupp, the struggle to start her college career began long before she ever scaled Bascom Hill.
(02/23/17 12:00pm)
The Head and the Heart returned to Madison this week to perform at the Orpheum for two nights. On Tuesday, I watched as both the balcony seating and general admission enjoyed a continuous influx of people all waiting in anticipation to see the indie band take to the stage.
(02/19/17 4:00pm)
Live from New York, it’s Saturday night! This is a catchphrase that has enthralled viewers across the country who tune into the most popular weekly live comedy show for decades and decades. Saturday Night Live has been cracking jokes since 1975 and for all of its 42 seasons this has comedically criticized and commented on the current political scene.
(02/16/17 12:00pm)
The past weekend has definitely been an art-filled extravaganza for the city of Madison. Between NoName at the Orpheum, the start of the FoodFight Foodie Week and many other events in the area both large and small, there was ample entertainment for all the Madison communities. Among them included the annual dance department faculty concert titled “Neither East Nor West,” held in the Margaret H'doubler Performance Space of Lathrop Hall. Dance department students performed works choreographed by some of the university’s most renowned professors, and the audiences were, without a doubt, impressed.
(02/14/17 12:00pm)
There are a lot of reasons to enjoy “The Lego Batman Movie”: the frenetic pace of the humor, Batman’s goofy overconfidence, the immaculate casting of Michael Cera as Robin. One of the biggest reasons, though, is that the film’s excellence is completely untethered to any discussion of President Donald J. Trump.
