With Halloween less than a week away, Madison's downtown bars remain unsure of what to expect.'
\The faculty room in 'The Faculty Room' becomes a comfort for the audience just as it is for the teachers, and neither wants to leave by the end,"" writes Marly Schuman.'
Viewing Sofia Coppola's ""Marie Antoinette"" is a lot like spending two hours walking through a fine art gallery. Save for a few pieces of intrigue, it is, above all, a lavish visual tour. Lacking moments of climax, the film rolls along at a truly languid pace that proves enjoyable simply for its aesthetic appeal.
Nick Van Sicklen's 8-inch growth spurt in high school merely foreshadowed the height his soccer career has grown to since graduating from UW-Madison in 2005 as lead scorer and team captain of the men's soccer team. Since then, Van Sicklen has '
The Badger football team used a stifling defense and an effective rushing attack to defeat Purdue 24-3 Saturday.'
Although electronic voting machines promise to increase the reliability and accuracy of election results, most machines have disturbing vulnerabilities that undermine these goals.'
A common toothpaste and mouthwash ingredient may prevent skin cancer, according to an Oct. 19 announcement by a UW-Madison professor-led research team at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Seattle. '
Everyone has seen Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six American servicemen raising the American flag at Iwo Jima. But contrary to popular belief, the flag was raised at the start of the brutal weeks-long battle. After the Americans had taken the island and Rosenthal's picture had become a great patriotic symbol, three of those immortalized had been killed. The remaining three—Navy Corpsman John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) and Marines Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)—were persuaded (perhaps intimidated) to return to the United States for a nationwide tour to convince Americans to buy war bonds. Clint Eastwood's ""Flags of Our Fathers,"" based on the bestselling memoir by James Bradley and Ron Powers, is about the emotional toll this took on these three men.
The Wisconsin women's soccer team continued its late-season slump this weekend, losing 3-0 at No. 9 Penn State Friday and 1-0 at UW-Milwaukee Sunday.
As the soccer season heads down the home stretch, every game played inches closer and closer to potentially being the last one. On Sunday, the UW men's soccer team fell 1-0 to Northern Illinois in an overtime match.
Eventually the winning streak had to end, and the same team that Wisconsin began their winning streak against ended it. Wisconsin tied Minnesota 3-3 Sunday after the Badgers beat the Gophers 3-1 Saturday. Now the 19-game winning streak becomes a 20-game unbeaten streak.
The UW Athletics Ticket Office has implemented a waiting list for men's basketball courtside seats, as the tickets priced $10,000 to $12,500 recently sold out, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Saturday.'
In-state politics leading up to the Nov. 7 elections have grown increasingly intense, especially the controversy surrounding the State Elections Board. Critics have called for the reformation of the board, and have proposed the idea of the Secretary of St'
A weekend set against Minnesota-Duluth tallied three points for the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team as they tied 2-2 Friday and won 5-2 Saturday.'
This editorial board applauds Reilly and the UW System for taking steps and working with the Legislative Audit Bureau to make UW practices more transparent.'
A lunchroom beating and a woman's threat to stab a 12-year-old Madison middle school student have focused the city's attention on school safety for the second time in less than a week.'
The Wisconsin Supreme Court demanded more information from both gubernatorial candidate Mark Green and the state Elections Board Thursday to decide whether or not the high court will take up Green's case.'
The recent rash of muggings continued Thursday morning when a 23-year-old was held up on the 400 block of South Brooks Street at 1 a.m. '
Executive Director Beth Donley of the WiCell Research Institute, home to the National Stem Cell Bank that holds a majority of the world's federally funded stem cell lines, resigned from her position Thursday.'
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