Fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Tech University students shared their experiences and discussed the lasting effects of the disaster with the Madison community Monday night at the Pres House.'
You pass by them every day on the streets of Madison. The clanking of coins in their plastic cups has become no different than the muffled sound of a campus bus or the echo of police sirens on University Avenue — so normal that no one even notices an'
UW-Madison senior Rita Burlingame embraces the mindset of ""crazy, no regrets"" to the fullest â_but that's to be expected from someone named for a Beatles song.'
There are a lot of famous partnerships in the rock music world—Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Dylan and the Band—but there's also a lot of partnerships that tend to slip under the public's radar. Artists write songs for each other, pitch in on an album here and there, listen to each other's playing and modify their style in response.
Wisconsin guard Jason Bohannon combines a deadly shot with a well-rounded game.'
Wisconsin takes on Delaware State in its second matchup of the South Padre Invitational.'
For the Badgers to get a BCS bowl, many games and opportunities have to go the Wisconsin football team's way.'
My family's tragic association with Thanksgiving began in 1978. At that Thanksgiving meal, my great-grandfather left the table and disappeared. No one knows if it was the canned cranberry sauce, the turkey, the piles and piles of pie or the fact tha'
The UW women's basketball team did not allow a point from UW-Milwaukee for around the first 10 minutes of their Monday game and ended up winning 78-45.'
A Rock County halfway house escapee hijacked a car Saturday and caused a three-vehicle crash on the 1200 Block of East Johnson Street, according to a Madison Police statement. '
Taking the next step in the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan, the Chazen Museum of Art held its campaign kick-off Friday evening for its forthcoming expansion.
Both the UW men's and UW women's cross country teams came away with top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships Monday at LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind.'
National coverage of the use of a ""W"" logo similar to UW-Madison's ""Motion W"" at a high school in Waukee, Iowa, has fueled media attention to other high schools across the nation with similar logos.
Wisconsin may have voted ‘yes' on the amendment banning gay marriage, but many Madison residents refused to concede the fight against the ban as they gathered to protest Friday on Library Mall.
Minnesota's Dan Monson, Michigan's Tommy Amaker, and Texas Tech's Bob Knight head the list of coaches on the hot seat this year.'
Specific violent acts and threats directed at Wisconsin farmers and the UW-Madison research centers have ignited national concerns, prompting Washington to pass a bill to increase protection for scientists and farmers against animal activists. '
A lot of people hate Michael Moore, and it's easy to see why: he's obnoxious, grandiose, occasionally belittling and relentlessly obtuse in defending his viewpoints. However, it's these traits that make him a phenomenal showman, or at the very least, a political extremist worth listening to. Billy Wilder once said, ""If you're going to tell the truth, be funny or they will kill you""—wise words to remember when making an overtly political film. Maybe you're not required to be funny, per se, but if you want to convince groups of people to listen to you and/or your actors bitch for two hours, your bitching better be entertaining. Even the legendarily stiff Al Gore pulled this off, enticing droves of people to leave their homes in order to see him lecture about global warming because he and his collaborators didn't forget how to be engaging.
\'Al Franken: God Spoke' is a blast to watch, but if the filmmakers think they've made a movie arguing for Al Franken's senatorial campaign, they should think again,"" writes Eric R. Schmidt.'
Celebrating its one-year anniversary this November, the Street Pulse seeks to endow the homeless of Madison with a voice, according to UW-Madison senior Claire Muller, the publication's Editor-in-Chief.
Why is it that it takes a brutal death for some bands or musicians to reach their pinnacle of commercial popularity? Even though the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Garcia and Biggie Smalls did their best stuff while living (obviously), why was their deity status solidified only when they kicked the bucket? Although the Exploding Hearts were nowhere near and probably never will be along the lines of those names, they too gained their prominence in the power-pop genre after the tragic overturn of their van during their 2003 tour supporting their first and final release Guitar Romantic. Three of the four band members were killed; the fourth (guitarist Jerry Six) received minor injuries and has since then found a home with a similarly leather clad quartet called Nice Boys.
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