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(05/04/10 6:00am)
Are you struggling to find a likeable personality, feeling
lonely or just plain socially inept? Do you feel jealous and
helpless on weekend nights, silently sobbing to yourself as you
peek through the blinds of your dorm or apartment at the site of
drunken and happy-go-lucky students squiring about the town? If so,
you've got two decent options for stopping the vicious cycle of
unwanted self-isolation. You could try your luck at becoming a
reclusive savant, a modern-day Rain Man if you will, using the time
not spent socializing to master an incredible talent like gambling
or chess. Or just take the much easier, albeit less impressive
route; join a fraternity.
(04/29/10 6:00am)
Each year on the first Saturday in May, overworked students put
down their books and grab a beer at the Mifflin Street Block Party.
The annual celebration is one of Madison's most anticipated events,
but few students know the full, politically charged history of the
event.
(04/29/10 6:00am)
Summer just isn't quite the same without the World Cup to watch,
which is why I'm so excited for the upcoming one. The whole world
comes together to watch the purest world championship in all of
sports, and the passion of the countries involved is inspiring. So
without further ado, I give you five players to watch this June and
July in South Africa (assuming they get their stadiums built on
time).
(04/28/10 6:00am)
UW-Madison sophomore Matt Honig had struggled with severe
depression since high school, each successive episode worsening,
until finally during his freshman year of college, he decided to do
something about it.
(04/25/10 6:00am)
I like everything about Facebook. I like the ever-changing
layout and the inevitable groups decrying every miniscule change. I
like the creepiness it can cause, including one particular instance
in College Library when a girl walked up to a rather seedy-looking
guy and demanded to know why he was looking at her profile. I even
like the awfulness of Facebook Chat, and how there is no single
browser that can support its endless bugs. But the thing I like the
most about Facebook is liking. When Facebook introduced that little
""like"" button, I wish I could have liked it. Who knew that by the
time that little button was done growing, I would be able to like a
page devoted to the like button, essentially fulfilling my
wishes?
(04/19/10 6:00am)
""You are now about to witness the power of street knowledge,""
is the line that introduced the world to gangster hip-hop. It
demonstrates the necessity of a background on the streets to spit
true gangster raps. It establishes street cred and makes reputation
an inherent concern for rappers. The eventual suburbanization of
the genre into mainstream forms of R&B and rap—ranging from
radio-made hitsters like Lil' Jon and Akon to gangsters who moved
up to middle- or upper-class society, like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and
Common, or Kanye, who has brought the most credibility to suburban
rap with his polos and troubles in college—is a response to rappers
finding it easier to keep a somewhat clean image and avoid the ire
of concerned parents and other more active opponents of potty-mouth
lyrics. With labels shrinking and forced to sign artists like the
ones mentioned above (who tap into the easiest market to make money
off of: suburban kids), gangster rappers who relied on street
knowledge to survive only to depict their troubling lifestyles
through verses and beats have been relegated to mixtapes.
(04/15/10 6:00am)
If in the unlikely chance you're reading this, PANIC! ABANDON
ALL HOPE! Drop this paper and run like that Kenyan track star!
Why!? It seems our friends down at the genetics department have
really screwed the pooch with their latest top-secret research.
Early today, during some hush-hush human testing projects involving
building smarter, faster and unquestioning humans for the U.S.
Army, hundreds of their specimens overcame the feebly built
researchers and escaped from the genetics building. The catch? The
test itself recently went horribly wrong, and the fugitives just so
happened to be face-eating zombies. To be blunt, we've got more
Jason Bourne-like zombies streaming out of that building than your
everyday Justin Bieber concert.
(04/09/10 6:00am)
They are being compared to the likes of the Jordan-era Bulls,
the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins and even the UCLA basketball
dynasty of the 70s. No, I'm not talking about the Patriots of the
past decade, the late 90s Yankees, or any other great team—it's not
even a men's squad. It just so happens that the latest reign of
dominance in sports belongs to the UConn Huskies women's basketball
team.
(03/28/10 6:00am)
The last three times Wisconsin was in this position, 60 minutes
was not sufficient to decide a winner.Saturday night, it was just
enough. The Wisconsin Badgers, for the first time since 2006, are
headed back to the Frozen Four courtesy of a 5-3 win over
conference rival St. Cloud in the Western Regional Final. There
were 7,182 on hand at the Xcel Energy Center to witness the Huskies
(15-9-4 WCHA, 24-14-5 overall) twice pull themselves within a goal
in the third period before the Badgers (17-8-3, 27-10-4) finally
held on to secure their spot in Detroit. ""It feels incredible,""
senior forward and captain Blake Geoffrion said. ""I know a lot of
seniors have worked since our freshman year coming in, coming in
after a championship team and seeing how those guys work and how
hard they work, so for us the opportunity to possibly go to the
national championship game, it's an incredible feeling right now.
Job's not done yet though.""
(03/21/10 6:00am)
Something about Seth Abramson's poetry feels distanced yet
intensely personal at the same time. This paradox became clear at
the beginning of ""The Suburban Ecstasies,"" the opening lines of
which immediately strike readers with their melodic cadence and
figurative imagery. Fingers ""steeple together / as if to poke out
the sun"" and Gideon, the main character of Abramson's epic poem,
is subjected to a violent event.
(03/15/10 6:00am)
The infamous 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner
developed the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk (commonly translated as
""total work of art""), a multimedia form of artistic production
that, he argued, was more effective and affecting than any of the
arts on their own. For Wagner, it wasn't enough for the arts to be
siblings: They had to become full-blown kissing-cousins. Of all the
venues I've been to in my four years as a Madisonian, it's the
Project Lodge that most reminds me of Wagner's incestuous
conception of art.
(03/05/10 6:00am)
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(03/03/10 6:00am)
A conservative friend recently came out to me as a lover of
human rights, claiming gay marriage was a ""human rights issue.""
To me, this was a sign that our generation will make equality
inevitable.
(02/24/10 6:00am)
I am a simple man with simple tastes, and one of those tastes
happens to be buffet-style pizza for an affordable price. During
one of our numerous five-hour TV sessi ons, my roommates and I
witnessed approximately 34 CiCi's Pizza commercials in one
30-minute segment. Enraged by CiCi's taunting us with their
mountains of pizza goodness, unbeatable prices and ZERO LOCATIONS
IN THE MADISON AREA, we resolved to do something about it. I
quickly pulled up the CiCi's website on my laptop, located their
customer service contact e-mail and sent off this message to Mr.
CiCi himself:
(02/18/10 6:00am)
What's the deal with Art Brut, anyway? Are they a rock 'n' roll
band that makes jokes or a joke band that plays rock 'n' roll? And
what's the deal with the French? When it comes to inconsequential
leisure goods (cheese, wine, soccer) they're some of the world's
best, but when it comes to things that actually matter (influencing
global politics, winning wars) they don't have the same success. So
why, then, would anyone aim to join a resistance against such
harmless friends?
(02/16/10 6:00am)
There is a point in everyone's childhood when we are certain our
toys come to life when our backs are turned. If we could have just
abstained from that one blink or opened the toy box a moment
faster, we would have caught a glimpse of a concealed, enchanted
world in which our typically inanimate playthings have sprung to
life. Watching the lifelike movement and charisma of the automata
kinetic sculptures, now on display in the Mayer Gallery of the
Chazen Museum of Art, may very well be the closest one could ever
come to witnessing such a charmed world.
(02/09/10 6:00am)
The Bohemian life, la vie Boheme, of ""Rent's"" star-studded
cast illuminated the stage for four days at Madison's Overture
Center two weeks ago, and I was among the lucky ones to be touched
by not only the amazing musical talents of the performers, but by
the enduring message. ""Rent"" was created to mirror humanity in
its purest form, depicting extreme poverty, disease and heartache.
It was a successful Broadway tour because it touches people
emotionally, connecting people in ""an isolating age."" Walking
back down State Street after the show in the frigid winter air,
cold despite my warm clothes, my attention was drawn to the
homeless not on stage, but on the street. They did not belt out the
chords of ""Life Support,"" but their plight struck me in a way it
had not before. I did not see these people as annoying panhandlers
or creepy old men. Like the song ""La Vie Boheme,"" I saw these
people as ""an us, instead of a them.""
(02/04/10 6:00am)
Now that Conan's off the air, and considering the fact that SNL
hasn't been momentarily funny for as long as I've been alive,
there's seldom a reason for me to consider watching NBC. This is
all about to change though, as it does every two years for a few
brief weeks. The winter Olympics will be coming to NBC soon,
bringing millions of viewers with it, all eager to see Amurrica do
what it does best...beat the tar out of other countries in acts of
physical strength and dexterity. Knowing that the U.S.A is (as
usual) going to be dolling out the usual dose of whoop-ass, along
with the fact that the majority of the events really aren't that
fun to watch for long periods of time anyway, one must ask a very
important question: Why the hell do Americans abandon their usual
modes of entertainment to tune in to the Winter Olympics so
consistently? Luckily, I think I may have found the answer. Here
are a few of the most popular (and unpopular) events, and the real
reason Americans are actually watching them.
(02/02/10 6:00am)
Lorrie Moore's third collection of short stories begins with an
epigraph, ""It is not news that we live in a world / Where beauty
is unexplainable / And suddenly ruined / And has its own routines.
We are often far / From home in a dark town, and our griefs / Are
difficult to translate into a language / Understood by others."" In
""Birds of America,"" people become the birds, and their
unexplainable beauty, routines and mistakes become objects of
study.
(01/28/10 6:00am)
Hi Erica,
