The Wisconsin women's hockey team advanced to the WCHA Playoff Championship Saturday night, completing a sweep of North Dakota with a 3-0 victory.'
It seems like Lucinda Williams has been in a constant process of getting over failed relationships for the last decade, and her latest album hasn't come around to change that—thematically, the songs on West detail Williams' intensely personal attempts to deal with the disappointment of love, which is standard turf for her. But in terms of music, West is an effortlessly perfect combination of country, folk, blues and rock that neither she nor many others has ever achieved.
The University of Wisconsin men's indoor track and field team continued their dominance at the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Ind. over the weekend. The Badgers stretched their streak of consecutive Big Ten Championships to seven.
Madison police spent more than 10 hours Friday morning surrounding an apartment building where Valentine's Day robber Anthony Chancy was located. '
Bennett's Smut-N-Eggs, 416 S. Park St., a popular restaurant where patrons could eat and watch pornography, closed its doors this weekend. '
Last week's tease of spring has got me pissed off. I hate winter, I hate the cold, and right now I'm thinking about how stupid ice fishing is. What idiot does this for leisure?'
After two botched elections last spring, we hope those running the new online balloting system will work out the kinks well beforehand.'
The storm surrounding the November referendum banning gay marriage is picking up speed once again as the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided last week to hear eight domestic partner benefits cases from across the state.'
Both ordinary citizens and politicians can help put pressure on the government to explore nonviolent options in Iran.'
The UW softball team's trip to the University of Texas-El Paso over the weekend began and ended in losses but in between they showed resiliency and a lineup that could be dangerous when conference play rolls around.'
State legislators and the Tavern League of Wisconsin will meet Tuesday to discuss Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed statewide smoking ban, but bar owners suggest the ban may not go over as smoothly across the state as a similar citywide ban has in Madison.'
The Athletic Board announced Friday student-section tickets will increase $2 from $17 to $19 and regular admission tickets will increase $4 from $34 to $39 for the 2007 football season.
Much of the UW men's basketball team's hope of getting a No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament was dashed Sunday as they lost 49-48 to Ohio State.'
Plan 2008 needs to be about more than just diversity and should instead seek to reach out to all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class and so on.'
For a band that doesn't use any lyrics—save one song which reproduces a war movie—Explosions in the Sky has a lot to say. Entering the music world in 1999, the Texas-based group built a style of post-rock instrumental pieces that practically induce a meditative state. It's a skill that has carried them through four studio albums and an original film soundtrack (Friday Night Lights) and has now matured for their entrancing yet depressingly-titled effort All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.
Zeta Psi Fraternity's Madison chapter was placed on probation Friday by the fraternity's national council for alcohol violations at a December party, while UW-Madison's investigation of the party is still pending.
Adding to the insult of losing the Big Ten Title to Ohio State Sunday, the UW men's basketball team may have lost junior forward Brian Butch for the rest of the season with an elbow injury.'
In this week's \Going Back to Kali,"" Laura vents her frustrations about Charter Communications.'
In the ""Cancelled"" episode of ""South Park,"" aliens kidnap our tyke heroes, leaving Chef and Jeff Goldblum's scientist from ""Independence Day"" to find out where they've been taken. Goldblum figures out that i'
Safety concerns at the SERF have heightened after police arrested a man for stealing a wallet at the facility Thursday evening. '
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