Isthmus back issues from February 2008:
Skivolution
Feb 01, 2008; ... Capitol Square Sprints now Madison Winter Festival "First of all, the name," says Yuriy Gusev. The executive director of the Central Cross Country Ski Association and program director for the Russian Style Ski School is answering a question about what's new at this year's Capitol Square ...
The circus is in town
Feb 01, 2008; ... We're trying hard to help you be an informed voter by the time the Wisconsin primary rolls around on Feb. 19. Hey, you're the Decider, at least in terms of whom you'll throw your support behind when the presidential nomination circus rolls through our state. But after Tuesday's Florida polling, ...
MAD CITY
Feb 01, 2008; ... Mad City Interviews World-Famous Wisconsin Comedian JEFF CESARIO On April 3. 1978, Jeff Cesario, suffering from writer's block and a lingering cold, borrowed $10 from Brian Strassburg and headed for Star Liquor to procure some medicinal beverages. Jeff, however, changed his mind that ...
Corrections
Feb 01, 2008; ... Corrections: In last week's paper, the article on health care incorrectly referred to state Sen. Jon Erpenbach as majority leader of the state Senate ....
THEDAILYPAGE.COM: Forum
Feb 01, 2008; ... Excerpts from Forum, on TheDailyPage.com If I see the moving violation, and I'm safely able to make a traffic stop, then you will most likely get the ticket. I don't care how much the ticket costs you; I don't set the forfeiture. Be honest with yourself: How many times have you committed ...
Cost cutting and child care
Feb 01, 2008; ... State changes make it harder for Dane County providers Oma Vic McMurray didn't want to do it. But the Madison resident, who provides child care out of her home, had no choice. She used to reserve spots for children of low-income families, but state cuts in subsidies have forced her to ...
FORTUNES
Feb 01, 2008; ... UP: Madison Metro. The bus system announces that fixed-route ridership rose 5.3% in 2007. Metro gave 12.7 million rides last year, nearing its record high of 13.4 million, set in 1982. Metro officials say the steady rise in riders is likely due to higher gas prices and arrangements that provide ...
Mayor Dave's housing plan fizzles
Feb 01, 2008; ... Ordinance mandating affordable units falls short of hype In January 2004, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called inclusionary zoning "the centerpiece" of city efforts to add affordable housing. IZ proponents predicted that their plan to require developers to include affordable units in ...
Make it about merit
Feb 01, 2008; ... The State Journal is right to seek change in how justices are picked Let me be the first to admit it: I was wrong. In my end-of-the-year Cheap Shots, I chided the Wisconsin State Journal for its lame 2007 crusade - daily railing on state Sen. Fred Risser until he fulfilled a ...
Be THE Decider
Feb 01, 2008; ... As Wisconsin prepares to weigh in on the presidential sweepstakes, two experts size up the choices To hear some pundits tell it, the races to pick the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees will be over next week, after the ballot bonanza known as Super (Duper) Tuesday. But ...
GREEN PAGES
Feb 01, 2008; ... A children's book publisher combines environmentalism and literature "We want to introduce holistic living in subtle and fun ways to children who typically don't get exposure to different aspects of holistic living, such as vegetarianism, yoga, just being out in nature," says Robyn ...
Alphabet House
Feb 01, 2008; ... BOOKS Alphabet House By Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Treat your eyes to a gorgeous tour through the Alphabet House. Each page in this carefully crafted book represents a different letter of the alphabet In the "M" room, mermaids and a map of Maine decorate the walls, while a ...
The First Music
Feb 01, 2008; ... The First Music By Dylan Prichett Prichett, a well-known African American storyteller, delights readers with his first picture book. In ancient Africa, there was no music. All the animals had their sounds, but never made them together and never in harmony. Then, elephant has an ...
I'd Tell You I Loved You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You and Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy
Feb 01, 2008; ... I'd Tell You I Loved You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You and Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy By Ally Carter Being a Gallagher Girl is not easy. First, you're enrolled in a very competitive all-girls school where you're taught college-level course work. second, you're expected to be ...
ALMOST FAMOUS
Feb 01, 2008; ... Local tribute acts come close to the real thing Pressed against the stage of the High Noon Saloon, one young fan had an urgent request. "Would you guys ever do 'Mr. Jones'?" he asked another young man setting up a guitar, amplifier and synthesizer. "Mr. Jones" is a ...
Hype and tragedy
Feb 01, 2008; ... Ra Ra Riot has its ups and downs Less than two years ago, Ra Ra Riot formed as a Syracuse University student band. Already, they've been through more hype and tragedy than most bands ever face. Their lo-fi, up-tempo indie rock is a blend of strings, keys, guitar and soft vocals. Praise ...
The spring thaw
Feb 01, 2008; ... Here comes the flood of touring bands Don't despair. Spring will return to Wisconsin. It's just a matter of when. As for the spring concert season, despite the hillocks of gray snow piled up in local parking lots, it's already here. Granted, grumbling about digging out the car and ...
Passionate intensity
Feb 01, 2008; ... Passionate intensity The Madison Symphony Orchestra gives a dream performance Last weekend at Overture Hall, Arild Remmereit's second visit to the Madison Symphony Orchestra's podium partnered him with young California violinist Jennifer Frautschi as guest soloist. Her choice of ...
Fare play
Feb 01, 2008; ... Fare play The Maple Bluff Mystery Presented by Broom Street Theater, through Feb. 24 The Maple Bluff Mystery uncovers crime at a bus stop Broom Street Theater opens its 2008 season with much anticipated (and appreciated) new seating and The Maple Bluff Mystery, a ...
Bass desires
Feb 01, 2008; ... Bass desires Muskle Love Presented by the Madison Repertory Theatre at the Barrymore Theatre, through Feb. 3 Fishing types fall hard in Muskie Love From the children's storybook set, to the full moon projected onto the star-glittered ceiling of the Barrymore ...
The soul of a heel
Feb 01, 2008; ... A bad lawyer changes his ways in Eli Stone In Eli Stone (Thursday, 9 p.m., ABC), the title character (Jonny Lee Miller) is a lawyer at a top San Francisco firm that specializes in screwing the little guy. His heartless ambition has brought him wealth, status and the perfectly awful) ...
Sea of Tranquility
Feb 01, 2008; ... Endless Ocean Wii Rated Everyone Endless Ocean is like a chill pill to put your mind in meditation mode. It's not a game so much as it is a simulation of scuba diving in blue, tropical waters. All you do is swim, pet fish and befriend dolphins and penguins. When ...
Why he fights
Feb 01, 2008; ... Why he fights Rambo Eastgate, Point, Star Rambo explores the nihilism that drives a super-patriot Like it or not, Sylvester Stallone is going to go down in history as the creator of not one but two movie legends, Rocky and Rambo. Always slyer than he's let on-his ...
Candidates' Answers
Feb 01, 2008; ... Pull out to save this supplement to Isthmus, Madison's weekly newspaper Primary Election: Feb. 19, 2008 Candidate information has been compiled by the Dane County League from questionnaires sent to all candidates. The League makes neither endorsements of candidates nor ...
Ethical retail
Feb 01, 2008; ... Buying something for a good cause doesn't usually reap much. Girl Scout cookies seem stale after the eighth box, and seriously - how many magazine subscription drives does one school district need? But if winter has you bluesy and you're desperate for a pick-me-up, cruise over to A ...
Inside the comedian
Feb 01, 2008; ... Being Andy Kaufman is harder than it looks It's easy to say yes to something that's two months away Not that agreeing to appear in the Gomers' "Midnight Special" show at the High Noon threatened hardship. But the days leading up to the show melted away like snowmen in the hot August ...
Food bank
Feb 01, 2008; ... Food bank The Bank Restaurant & Wine Bar 134 W. Jefferson St., Spring Green, 608-588-7600 Lunch 11 am-2 pm Tue.-Fri., brunch 10 am-2 pm Sat.-Sun., dinner 5-9 pm Wed.-Thurs., 5-10 pm Fri.-Sun. Entrees $18-$26. Street parking. Credit cards; Madison checks okay ....
Deep-winter spinach
Feb 01, 2008; ... Snug Haven Farm likes the cold weather I don't want to say it was cold last Thursday, but when I packed the car for a drive to Snug Haven Farm outside of Paoli, I did the Wisconsin thing and threw a pair of long underwear in the backseat, just in case. You know, just in case the ...
Mouse tales
Feb 01, 2008; ... Tasty trivia about the rodents among us Do mice fear the scent of a cat? Does just having a cat reduce the chance of rodent infestation? Ayten Osmanli Do mice really have a particular fondness for cheese, as cartoons tell us? Enyce Why don't they make rat- ...
Love's labor not lost
Feb 08, 2008; ... MAKING THE PAPER Valentine's Day is barely a week away, probably less by the time you read this, but for Isthmus, Valentine's Day is now, with the publication of the Book of Love. The BOL has become a staple of the season, having graced our pages for decades. Originally the feature was ...
Corrections
Feb 08, 2008; ... Corrections: The art on last week's front page should have been credited to Drew, the author of Toothpaste for Dinner. The review ...
20 YEARS AGO
Feb 08, 2008; ... From the Isthmus archives, Feb. 12, 1988 Cliff's notes Tom Laskln's arts feature focuses on the realities confronted by local lounge acts including guitarist/vocalist Cliff Frederiksen, who is four years into a steady run at Quality Inn South. "When I left Fargo, N.D., to come ...
THEDAILYPAGE.COM: Forum
Feb 08, 2008; ... Excerpts from Forum, on TheDailyPaqe.com Could we please have some of these snowstorms NOT on a Tuesday?? This is my double band practice night. All I ask is you move it to a different night for February. It's been straight Tuesdays since Thanksgiving, and I've had it. I'm generally a ...
The danger of teaching democracy
Feb 08, 2008; ... Letting students write letters to school officials lands Madison educator in hot water Kate Lyman, who teaches secondand third-grade students at Hawthorne Elementary, saw it as a learning opportunity. The Madison school district saw it as an abuse, for which Lyman was reprimanded and ...
'History? Get us rewrite'
Feb 08, 2008; ... The telling of some historical events can be as contentious as the events themselves. Consider the historical marker erected last summer in Peace Park on State Street, recounting clashes between protesters and police during the Vietnam War. The marker, one of 12 funded by the Madison ...
FORTUNES
Feb 08, 2008; ... UP: Stephen Hurley. A referee's report exonerates the Madison attorney of wrongdoing in a state Office of Lawyer Regulation's disciplinary proceeding against him. The report concludes that Hurley had an obligation to use deception to obtain exculpatory evidence on behalf of his client, Madison ...
Nerad to hit the ground running
Feb 08, 2008; ... New superintendent has experience, ideas and opportunity After a round of "meet and greets" with the three finalists for the job of Madison schools superintendent, insiders were divided on two favorites. Leaders who've pushed for greater educational reforms spoke highly of Miami's Steve ...
City hall fumbles, loses ally
Feb 08, 2008; ... Gary Gorman builds the sort of affordable housing Madison needs Now here's a good idea: Build rent-to-own affordable housing in struggling neighborhoods. The promise of ownership attracts longer-term residents who bolster neighborhood stability while the lease protects them from ...
THE Edge OF Homelessness
Feb 08, 2008; ... In Dane County, hundreds of people lack a place to live, and many more are on the brink Nathaniel Godfrey has on numerous occasions over the last five years narrowly avoided becoming homeless. Depression, anxiety, alcoholism and bad luck have conspired to ruin his credit, employment and ...
MADISON METAL
Feb 08, 2008; ... LOCAL BANDS PLAY THE DEVIL'S MUSIC His choice of instrument hardly made sense, especially given his dad's history as a guitarist in cover bands, and nearly a decade and a half hence Brian Koenig remains unable to explicate exactly what inspired him as a fifth- grader to study the oboe, ...
Book 'em
Feb 08, 2008; ... Darwin Sampson keeps the live music flowing at the Annex It was Saturday night - traditionally the biggest night of the week for bars and music clubs. But when I met up with Darwin Sampson at the Regent Street Retreat last weekend, we sat down to talk amid a sea of empty ...
SCOOPS
Feb 08, 2008; ... Mike Droho is starting a new project with former Profits bandmate Scott Lamps. The Compass Rose also includes Anthony Lamarr and Ida Pajunen. According to their publicist, Shirley Kennedy, the band is "an eclectic mix of orchestral rhythms and acoustic music with a flavor of R&B and ...
Star power
Feb 08, 2008; ... Basia Bulat is destined for big things Basla Bulat Friday, Feb. 8, High Noon Saloon, 7 pm The headline to a recent piece on veryshortlist.com about Canadian singer Basia Bulat screams: "Play this album before Steve Jobs puts it in an iPod ad!" And, frankly, that pretty ...
Sister style
Feb 08, 2008; ... DecaDanceTheatre offers a female version of hip-hop dance DecaDanceTheatre Thursday, Feb. 14, Overture Center's Capitol Theater, 7:30 pm Jennifer Weber's all-grrrl DecaDanceTheatre brings an evening of vanguard Big Apple hip-hop dance to Overture's Capitol Theater on ...
Art meets music
Feb 08, 2008; ... The Project Lodge emerges as a new cultural power spot Portland, Ore., transplants Chris Buckingham and Kendra Larson had a full cultural life back home in the Pacific Northwest. Buckingham played in indie bands, Larson made visual art, and together they hosted art shows in their home ....
Object lessons
Feb 08, 2008; ... Object lessons The UW art faculty show their stuff Art Department Faculty Exhibition Chazen Museum of Art, through March 30 The new show at the UWs Chazen Museum of Art doesn't really have a name, other than the merely functional 'Art Department Faculty ...
The weaker sex
Feb 08, 2008; ... The weaker sex Lipstick Jungle demeans women while pretending to be feminist Lipstick Jungle (Thursday, 9 p.m., NBC) comes on like another Cashmere Mafia: a celebration of New York City businesswomen as tough and independent as their male counterparts. Wendy (Brooke Shields) runs ...
Free ride
Feb 08, 2008; ... Burnout Paradise PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Rated Everyone 10+ The Burnout racing series was already fun, but the new Burnout Paradise is bigger, cooler and gives me something I didn't even know I wanted from it-freedom. I get to drive any of 75 cars aroimd a huge inner city ...
Piercing the veil
Feb 08, 2008; ... Piercing the veil Persepolis' heroine takes us inside Iran Persepolis Sundance "Nothing is more universal than ont? human being," Iranian-born-and-raised Marjane Satrapi has said, and she certainly proves that in Persepolis, her largely autobiographical account of ...
VIDEO
Feb 08, 2008; ... VIDEO Released this week: 2 Days in Pahs, Across the Universe, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Brave One, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Feast of Love, The Jane Austen Book Club, Romance & Cigarettes. The Assassination of Jesse ...
The path home
Feb 08, 2008; ... Cheri Maples is ordained a dharma teacher A framed work of art hangs above the fireplace. It includes six words rendered in elegant calligraphy on four lines: I have arrived I am home As Cheri Maples settles into a chair between the fireplace and a ...
Happy couple
Feb 08, 2008; ... Enjoy chocolate with wine, or vice versa I'm the kind of person who considers chocolate a food group of its own. If I had my way, the USDA food pyramid would look like a giant chocolate iceberg, with a little section at the top for cheese, pasta and extra-virgin olive oil. I grew ...
Mourad Rguig
Feb 08, 2008; ... OCCUPATION: Co-owner, with wife RaeLynn Mattie-Rguig WHERE: The Casbah, 119 E. Main St. WHY YOU SHOULD GO: For Valentine's Day, make a reservation to dine in the Casbah's intimate King Tut room and ply your sweetie with treats from Rguig's new list of Moroccan ...
Cell division
Feb 08, 2008; ... Should 10-year-olds have mobile phones? You asked parents to comment on what age is appropriate to get their children a cell phone (Mr. Right, 1/18/08). Our daughter is also 10. She's had one since she was 8. We bought the phone for $29.95 and are on a payas-you-go plan that costs us $20 ...
Grownups behaving badly
Feb 08, 2008; ... The poorest sports at high school games aren't the students Two weeks ago, I was in the stands at Verona Area High School watching Madison Memorial's boys basketball team assert its will over Minnesota's Minnetonka High. Across the aisle from me, a middle-aged man in an immaculate ...
SPORTS WEEK
Feb 08, 2008; ... UW Women's Hockey * 76-4-2 WCHA (third, 34 points); 20-6-2 overall (fifth, US College Hockey Online and USA Today/USA Hockey poll). 2/2-3: Win 6-1, 5-2 vs. North Dakota. Next: 2/8-9 at Minnesota-Duluth. UW Men's Hockey * 8-9-3 WCHA (tied for fourth at 19 points); 12-11-5 ...
Price check on aisle 4
Feb 15, 2008; ... This week, full-time supplements editor and part-time food maven Linda Falkenstein takes us on a tour of those fonts of comestibles - supermarkets. In "Shoppin' Around," our cover story, she tours Madison's mainline grocery purveyors. She does not deal with the ethnic, such as Asian and Latin ...
20 YEARS AGO
Feb 15, 2008; ... From the Isthmus archives, Feb. 19, 1988 V for victory "My very earliest years In public office tended to be extremely frustrating," David Clarenbach tells Betty Brickson in her cover profile of the state representative for Madison's 78th District. "I was fighting the losing ...
THEDAILYPAGE.COM
Feb 15, 2008; ... Forum Excerpts from Forum, on TheDailyPaqe.com Anyone else notice the 9/11 Truthers that were escorted off the floor about 15 minutes into Obama's speech at the Kohl Center? They had a placard, about the same size as the ones the campaign handed out to everyone, theirs with the ...
Neighbors lose their parking places
Feb 15, 2008; ... Crackdown on 'car campers' causes collateral damage As more than 13 inches of snow fell on Madison last week, Julie Gebrayel donned two winter coats, pulled on her extra-high boots and wrapped a scarf around her head. Then she went out into the blizzard to move her ...
FORTUNES
Feb 15, 2008; ... UP: Juan Colas. The longtime assistant attorney general is tapped by Gov. Jim Doyle to become Dane County's first Hispanic circuit court judge. Colas, 50, was born in Colombia and came to the U.S. in 1962 at age 5. He will replace Judge Angela Bartell, who retired after 30 years; his term runs ...
Northern Wisconsin seeks sustainability
Feb 15, 2008; ... Ashland-area communities embrace the Natural Step framework also used in Madison Kelsey Brasseur had knocked on just a handful of doors in Ashland, Wis., before making a sale. Well, not a sale, exactly, but an exchange: of light bulbs and environmental ideas. Brasseur, 20, is a ...
A tear for The Capital Times
Feb 15, 2008; ... Be sad, and mad, over the loss of Madison's afternoon daily A longtime reader of The Capital Times called me to say that the news made him cry When I mentioned this to Dave Zweifel, the paper's longtime editor, now emeritus, he confided, "I cried." Maybe we all ...
Shoppin' Around
Feb 15, 2008; ... Linda Falkenstein checks out Madison's super markets Madison is undergoing a Renaissance of sorts in its grocery options. The grocery climate in Madison has changed considerably since the city formed a special committee on the topic in 2003 in response to a number of store ...
DYNAMIC DUO
Feb 15, 2008; ... Gretchen Parlato and Esperanza Spalding point to jazz's future The Isthmus Jazz Series double bill featuring the Gretchen Parlato duo and the Esperanza Spalding trio is your chance to check out some ascending stars of the 21st-century New York sound. Parlato and Spalding have very short ...