With their eighth album, Roots & Crowns, Califone have hit a possible peak in an already strong career making experimental indie folk-rock. It is both their most sweepingly coherent artistic statement and their most accessible batch of melodies and arrangements.
Joining a student organization is a great experience, but participation must be driven by desire, not well-intentioned coercion. Wiley's extracurricular activity proposal should not be implemented.'
The Badgers beat Northwestern Friday and Illinois Saturday to extend their conference winning streak to seven matches, but neither victory came easy for the team.'
Senior guard Kammron Taylor paced the Badgers in the first half, and senior forward Alando Tucker led them in the second as UW went on to a 72-48 victory over the Mercer Bears.
The Wisconsin women's basketball team (1-0) soared high above Air Force (0-1) Friday night with a final score of 91-58, giving the Badgers their first regular season win of 2006-‘07.
IOWA CITY, IOWA — Wisconsin's 24-21 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday was full of surprise, suspense and individual records — all leading to a Badger victory. '
A new drug recently discovered by UW-Madison researchers has the potential to prevent avian influenza infections in humans.'
Windows Vista is coming and Microsoft is promising that rootkits and malware will be objects of the past.'
The wait is finally over. After four straight losses to Iowa — including a heartbreaking 20-10 loss in Barry Alvarez's last home game as head coach — the Badgers came up with a 24-21 win Saturday over the Hawkeyes in Iowa City.'
Even though the Badgers were able to put three goals up on the board Saturday, it still wasn't enough to salvage a point for the weekend as they followed Friday's 2-0 loss to Denver with another loss, a 4-3 overtime heartbreaker.'
When ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" was in theaters, Kate Winslet compared Charlie Kaufman to Shakespeare and repeatedly referred to him as the greatest writer of our generation. After only a handful of films, not only has Kaufman reinvented the meta-movie; with ""Being John Malkovich,"" ""Adaptation"" and ""Eternal Sunshine"" (ignore ""Human Nature""), he's been responsible for three of the weirdest, and best, movies ever made. If you doubt his enormous talent in the slightest, watch what happens when others try and mimic his inimitable style. First we had ""Eternal Sunshine"" director Michel Gondry's ""The Science of Sleep,"" which was equal parts eccentric and irritating, and now we've got Marc Forster's ""Stranger Than Fiction,"" a somewhat engaging existential romp that, despite a wonderful central performance from Will Ferrell, never quite manages to come together.
\Out of boredom during last year's holidays, I decided to borrow a couple of DVDs from my relatives whom I was visiting,"" writes Julia Shiplett. ""And because my grandparents are not the most technologically inclined people, I had no other choice but'
They join with different majors, have different career goals and come from different military branches. But UW-Madison's Reserve Officer Training Corps students have one aspect in common—passion.
Remedy of a $20 million budget deficit was the focus of a Coalition for Affordable Public Education town hall meeting Thursday. '
The UW Roman Catholic Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators, claiming the university is discriminating against the organization on the basis of religion.'
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee reheard an American Indian student organization's budget Thursday night, deciding to give the organization all of its originally proposed funding for the 2007-'08 academic '
At the UW System Board of Regents November meeting Thursday, Regents focused on Milwaukee's public health, how the university is helping the city meet those needs and difficulties the UW System is facing retaining faculty due to its inability to mee'
Campus could soon feel consequences from the passage of the gay marriage ban, administrators and student leaders said of the ban's approval Tuesday. '
After the Democrats won the majority of the state Senate with four seats, both Democratic and Republican senators chose new leadership Thursday for the upcoming legislative session. '
Snow will eventually fall this winter regardless of Mother Nature's spiteful reminders this week of the warmth of summer. The week's unseasonably warm weather brought shorts and Frisbees out of storage for only a brief moment it seems, as four'
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