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MAD CITY
Feb 13, 2009; ... MAD CTTY MONEY SCHEMES TO HELP OVERTURE 1. HOLD SWIMSUIT CALENDAR FUNDRAISER FEATURING CITY COUNCIL ALDEROIDS 2. SEND "GET RICH QUICK" PYRAMID LETTER TO BERNIE MADOFF 3. HOLD WEEKLY PANCAKE BREAKFAST/ EUCHRE TOURNAMENT FUNDRAISER IN OVERTURE ROTUNDA 4. HOLD ...
Mr. Right, unmasked
Feb 13, 2009; ... I mentioned last week that we are entering a period of change and readjustment to a tighter paper as we seek to accommodate the convulsive advertising environment that is affecting all media, especially print This week I continue the unhappy chore with the announcement of the departure of Kent ...
THEDAILYPAGE.COM: Forum
Feb 13, 2009; ... I really want to join a gym, but am kind of at a loss as to the best place and the best value. I live on the near east side. Does anyone have any recommendations? I am going to go and take tours and maybe do the one-week trials. pattymcnutt I just switched from the YMCA to the ...
Correction
Feb 13, 2009; ... Correction: Last week's "Watchdog" column stated that Pat Reardon, a veteran Wisconsin State Journal copy editor, ...
Dueling hotels
Feb 13, 2009; ... 20 YEARS AGO From the Isthmus archives, Feb. 17, 1989 John 0. Hammons, the nation's largest Holiday Inn franchise holder, is building a 300-room, 30,000-square-foot hotel and trade center in Middleton. Scheduled to open in March 1990, it is already raising hackles in local hospitality ...
FORTUNES
Feb 13, 2009; ... UP: Dave Mahoney. Dane County's sheriff this week announces he's cut the cost of sending inmates to other county jails from $2.9 million in 2006 to just $377,000 last year; no inmates have been sent out- of- county during the last four months. Mahoney also pointedly dissents from the county's ...
Reality: CWD is here to stay
Feb 13, 2009; ... DNR's new plan is more of the same failed approach Near the end of 2008, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released its draft plan for managing chronic wasting disease (CWD) over the next 10 years. The state's Natural Resources Board has already endorsed one ...
Why not make abortion easier?
Feb 13, 2009; ... There's no good reason to make life harder for women in need After all the drama over the proposal to provide second-trimester abortions at the Madison Surgery Center, it was good to see the University of Wisconsin Hospital Board vote to move forward by a healthy 11-3 margin. With Dr ....
JAZZ SURVIVOR
Feb 13, 2009; ... ANDY BEY KEEPS THE SOUND VITAL Andy Bey - vocalist, pianist, composer - is the most important obscure jazz artist you need to hear these days. Even if you're a diehard jazz fan, chances are you've never heard Bey play live - I haven't. But my old friend Bobby Baker, who played alto sax ...
Farewell to broken-down vans
Feb 13, 2009; ... Awesome Car Funmaker prepares to switch gears In its six years Awesome Car Funmaker's had a pretty wild ride, one that's involved a teasing war with another band, living out of a U-Haul and doing jumping jacks on stages from here to the Canadian border. But the ride is over. The ...
Art and the city
Feb 13, 2009; ... Council rivals weigh in on doing it in public Is public arts funding a frill or an economic development tool? As local arts groups founder in the recession, Madison aldermanic candidates disagree. "We need to focus on our basic needs as a community first," says Sherman Hackbarth, ...
WHAT HAPPENED TO AMOS?
Feb 13, 2009; ... One suspect told police, 'I know exactly what happened.' Another allegedly admitted having gotten away with murder On Nov. 4, 2004, Amos Mortier and Reed Rogala realized they had a problem: How to recover $80,000 for marijuana they believed Jacob Stadfeld, a longtime friend of Mortier's, ...
THE BIN
Feb 13, 2009; ... Pupy Costello & His Big City Honky Tonk: Drinking Beer Songs Forget Rascal Flatts: Pupy Costello and his band make real, footstompin' country music, the kind that's fit for both a honky- tonk barn dance and a bar full of rascals. It channels not only the sounds of classic country and ...
Listen to the image
Feb 13, 2009; ... Memorial Union introduces cell-phone gallery tours The next time you view a painting, its artist could be whispering in your ear. Visitors to Memorial Union galleries can now take advantage of an innovative cell phone audio tour, the first of its kind to be offered at an art ...
Madison Ballet cancels season
Feb 13, 2009; ... Dance lovers and worried observers of the local arts scene got more rotten news last week, when Madison Ballet announced it was canceling An Evening of Romance, the concert that was to have taken place this weekend at Overture Center's Capitol Theater. "It was probably one of the hardest ...
Avant-garde hillbilly
Feb 13, 2009; ... Larkin Grimm blends New Age and old time Larkin Grimm isn't from anywhere. On MySpace, the 27-year old psych-folk musical vagabond claims First City, The Universe, Antarctica as her hometown. Grimm, 27, was born into a wayfaring family. Her parents were members of a religious ...
What's old is new
Feb 13, 2009; ... KANOPY DANCE COMPANY What's old is new Kanopy Dance Company's Dark Nights: Miserere. For the Refugees of the World, which I saw Friday night in Overture's Promenade Hall, was a solid program of revamped repertory works by the company's co -artistic directors, Lisa Thurrell and ...
Beethoven blast
Feb 13, 2009; ... MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Beethoven blast Last weekend in Overture Hall, the Madison Symphony Orchestra guaranteed success with an all-Beethoven program containing three surefire hits. Conductor John DeMain led them in exuberant and assertive performances. Transcending ...
Big breasts for big bucks
Feb 13, 2009; ... Big breasts for big bucks Money buys love in The Millionaire Matchmaker By every reason able standard, Patti Stanger is a creep. In The Millionaire Matchmak- er (Thursday, 9 p.m., Bravo), she runs a dat- ing club for obnoxious rich guys, introducing them to well-endowed ladies ...
Flawed but enchanting
Feb 13, 2009; ... He is Afro Samurai. He seeks to slay the "No. 1" samurai, who Killed his father. En route, everyone sinister comes slicing for Afro. Airo Samurai is, as we say, a hack- and-slash. You stab a steely red sword through rivals' throats. You kick them to death with tae kwon do ...