Bartell Theatre sees five years of entertainment
Members, patrons and actors of the Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., will celebrate five years of performance on Saturday, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Members, patrons and actors of the Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., will celebrate five years of performance on Saturday, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Though a perfectly fine Madison evening can be spent with a few beers and a couple of friends, the city has plenty of entertainment to offer this summer. Ranging from the Memorial Union to State Street and all around the city, Madison's attractions fit wherever they can. Check out some of the following shows and locations for something to do when sitting back on the porch gets a little old.
The Madison/Dane County phone book for this year is a generally balanced, though occasionally drawling, collection that never really finds its focus in its 1,700 or so pages. With golf and dental guides as well as the usual yellow and white pages, it seems to meander between passing out information and diluting it in ads. The book, as a whole, tries to prop itself up as a reference work, but would be better to function as a shopping journal.
By any measure, the Appalachian Mountains have been around awhile and it seems as though they gain a little more venerability with every passing year. From these ancient hills emerged Americana roots music and a few weathered troubadours.
Eventually everybody has to read their first work by John Updike. It might be \The Poorhouse Fair"" in high school, or a stray New Yorker story that seemed like a relief from the esoteric movie reviews. Updike stands as one of the few authors who anybody masquerading as a cultured citizen has to come across eventually. For anyone who has not yet shook a literary hand with this godfather of American literature, they might as well start with his most recent novel, ""Seek My Face.""
Walgreen's is not meant to be an intimidating place. Usually a guy can get his on-a-whim-groceries or prescription drugs without any hassle and be gone before the clerk can remember his face. The place shouldn't make a man feel like blushing when he is purchasing an item.
Interrupting a nice, big, gaudy cover is a sticker that touts \Matchstick Men"" as ""next summer's big movie."" While this boast may have the backing of Ridley Scott's direction and the star power of Nicholas Cage, it would be preferable if the narrow book could support the supposed story. While the author may see some quick cash from a filmed story, it is the novel that suffers.
Mark Dunn's new novel, \Welcome to Higby,"" possesses an attractive charm composed of well-wrought characters out and about on a Labor Day weekend. Set in a small town in northern Mississippi, the book takes five very different people and lets them run into one another as the pages slip by. It is tightly woven and comes around to leave no main plot but the combination of the five, essentially being a book of five subplots.
The most lasting entertainment images that come from Super Bowl XXXVII are not going to come from the halftime show or from the commercials. When the big game winds itself down, the advertisements that are going to stick will emerge from the sidelines and the scoreboard. Motorola, blazoned across the mouthpieces of the coaches, and Budweiser, written large over the scoreboard, have a tendency to stick. Every time the camera flashed away from the field, the phone company had its few seconds, probably far cheaper than any 30-second spot.
\Cool Gardens,"" Serj Tankian's collection of poetry, announces itself with a bullhorn and keeps yelling long after the introduction finishes. It consists of strange fables and bare-knuckled rants directed at ""globalistic economic totalitarianism."" Focusing on the problems of capitalism and hypocrisy of government, Tankian, the lead singer of System of a Down, writes with scathing metaphors and a screaming voice. He shouts his way through 90 pages with accusations and anger drawn from a the acid of his gut-level observations.
The problem with good satire is not so much figuring out when it is being serious, but when it is being comical. As it often happens in the bestsatiric works, (see Kurt Vonnegut's \Slaughterhouse-Five"" or even Richard Russo's ""Straight Man"") the humorous aspect possesses such sharp brilliance that it threatens to make the lampooning words all too believable. When a book cuts so deeply into its target to draw the blood of a serious social critique, the satire lives up to its name and its meaning is far from mocking.
\American Ground"" may seem irreverent because it appears in a little more than a year after its events. But it maintains a confident sort of reverence for every person involved in the deconstruction of the disaster. The author, William Langewiesche, turns hallowed ground into a demolition site and portrays the search for the bodies of firemen as sifting through steel. Though the impersonalization of the World Trade Center's unbuilding may seem to be heartless and brutally unsentimental, the narrative is not.
Patty Friedmann's new book \Secondhand Smoke"" rolls in like a malevolent fog, gets into the lungs and raises the phlegm from the deep recesses of the alveoli. It is a work to cough back up, trying to return some of the detritus that it produces. The smoke of the title flows deeply in the veins of every character and leaves a thick black film on every surface it touches. The book itself is not composed of the same dank moisture of the fog, but its people contain more toxic wisps of bad air than can easily be handled.
\Population: 485"" drives down dirt roads with an ambulance's lights flashing and nothing but the northern Wisconsin woods for company. The book sifts through the life of the volunteer fire department in New Auburn. Composed of ""part-timers, novices and rogues,"" it manages to perform its duties faithfully whether those duties are putting out a fire, saving lives at an auto accident or running a beer tent.
Reading \Ella Minnow Pea"" by Mark Dunn is a jarring and occasionally vexing experience. It is a job fogged by stopping very much, like a quiz on wax paper. The book is written in letters passed between several characters and they continually shift from obedient people to fearful folks to refugees. The plot has a way of disappearing from time to time and it lurches when it starts back up. And, apparently, there are a whole lot of letters missing from this book.
Addressing a full house Thursday evening at the Orpheum Theatre, 211 State St., Professor Howard Zinn spoke about war, democracy and how one can negate the other.
Like a lonesome man walking down a dusty road in the first light of dawn, Steve Earle's voice always stands by itself. With a recording career stretching back to 1975, his distinctive tone sets him apart from other country artists by its sheer weight and agility in perspective. Songs like \Guitar Town,"" ""Nowhere Road"" and even ""John Walker's Blues"" make it clear that Earle possesses a voice with more stories than an instrument can handle.
In \A New World Order"" Caryl Phillips harnesses the power of the essay to find some common ground in a planet with scattered foundations. He breaks down his work into essays that address the works of artists from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and Britain. Phillips is able to criss-cross the Atlantic with a quick understanding of the struggles of Africans at home and abroad.
The recent collection of John Steinbeck's works, \America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction,"" brings together the quintessential American author's finest observations. ""America and Americans"" is a rerelease of his last published work while the nonfiction pulls together a vast arc of Steinbeck's journalistic pieces stretching from his hometown of Salinas, Calif., to the jungles of Vietnam to Sag Harbor, New York. Both sections offer a single man as a journalist, father, traveler, war correspondent, farmer, bum and half a dozen other occupations.