Isthmus back issues from February 2009:
TheDailyPage.com
Feb 06, 2009; ... The User's Guide to Madison Hip-hop Clare Milliken is in the field gathering critical intelligence on area DJs and MCs. Find her regular updates at TheDailyPage.com/music MORE ... Why do lunch when you can fondue lunch Linda Falkenstein assesses Fromagination's melting ...
Short and sweet
Feb 06, 2009; ... Welcome to the leaner Isthmus, as we go on our 2009 austerity diet. In the interests of preserving our longevity we've decided to use space more efficiently while affecting the editorial package as minimally as possible. Thus, this contents page is a quarter-page shorter, the TV column has been ...
20 YEARS AGO
Feb 06, 2009; ... From the Isthmus archives, Feb. 10, 1969 Heart-broken Their 1986 debut album, In the Heart of the Heart Country, Jaunched Fire Town on a steep trajectory, Tom Laskin recounts. The Madison band was soon signed by Atlantic Records and tagged by Rolling Stone as the nation's hottest ...
MAD CITY
Feb 06, 2009; ... OBAMA REGULATORY PROPOSALS FOR NEXT YEARS SUPER BOWL 1. IN SPIRIT OF BIPARTISAN COOPERATION, TEAMS WILL EXCHANGE OFFENSIVE GAME PLANS 48 HOURS BEFORE KICKOFF 2. MONETARY STIMULUS PACKAGE WILL PROVIDE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE OF CHEERLEADER UNIFORMS TO PREVENT EMBARRASSING ...
THEDAILYPAGE.COM * Forum
Feb 06, 2009; ... I had a discussion with a friend about milk last week. She enjoys raw milk, I drink nothing but skim. The content of the discussion was 100% predictable. But I had a couple incidents of really unsatisfactory hot chocolate/tea experiences recently, and I'm beginning to wonder if I don't need a ...
'The day it happened to me'
Feb 06, 2009; ... Local reporters bear brunt of media hard times Vic Feuerherd's adult son, Chris, offered some words of wisdom, as offspring are wont to do: "Well, you're getting out of a dying business. Get on with your life." Feuerherd, 56, hopes to do that. He's not sure what the future holds, ...
Is city a cheapskate on ice?
Feb 06, 2009; ... WATCH OUT! Steve Goldstein, an east-side resident and avid skater, has noticed it. "The quality of the ice is not as good this year," he says of the city skating rink at Tenney Park. In particular, he was struck that snow was not removed over the long New Year's holiday. He believes ...
FORTUNES
Feb 06, 2009; ... [arrow up] UP: The Wisconsin Innocence Project. The team of UW-Madison students and law professors succeeds in overturning yet another wrongful conviction, its 12th. Robert Lee Stinson, 44, who served 23 years behind bars, is freed after the project exposed the bite-mark analysis used to convict ...
Five vie to guide education
Feb 06, 2009; ... Top DPI job is up for grabs in Feb. 17 primary Two college professors - one from the left, the other from the right Two longtime education bureaucrats. And a parent activist with populist appeal. All are on the Feh 17 primary ballot for Wisconsin superintendent of Public ...
Animal rights, and wrongs
Feb 06, 2009; ... Karen Dawn busts stereotypes as wisecracking vegan ambassador The other day I was telling a friend, a fellow journalist, about Karen Dawn's 2008 book, Thanking the Monkey. My friend has a deep sense of personal as well as social morality, an encompassing sense of curiosity and an active ...
The scandals that aren't
Feb 06, 2009; ... Democrats usher in new era - of cheating and Big Pork First it was Tim Geithner, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City and America's newest Treasury secretary, who disclosed he skimped on paying his personal taxes between 2001 and 2004. Congressional ...
TEAM FREQUENCY
Feb 06, 2009; ... Darwin Sampson and his merry band of music fiends run one innovative nightclub Musicians are lucky. They've found a means of truly expressing themselves. But it can be hard to keep the musical lifestyle going. Darwin Sampson knows this. In fact, that's a major reason he opened ...
LET THE YOUNGSTERS DRINK
Feb 06, 2009; ... Frequency owner Darwin Sampson would like to see the city make live music more accessible to everyone, especially the college students who are the bread and butter of downtown nightlife. "I think it would really help everybody if the city would just bite the bullet and change the ...
The sound of the unraveling
Feb 06, 2009; ... Early 2009 releases reflect the lost order of the times This decade has been an unraveling. All in a span of eight years, the U.S. mainland was attacked and the financial pillars of capitalism have collapsed. Somewhere along the way, the once-powerful music industry lost its grip on the ...
ANCORA STRING QUARTET
Feb 06, 2009; ... Genuine treasure For the second of its Critics' Choice concert series, the Ancora String Quartet followed suggestions of Jacob Stockinger for a stylistically balanced program on Saturday at First Unitarian Society. Catching three composers at career's end were: Haydn's "Quinten" or ...
No rules
Feb 06, 2009; ... Rhett Miller channels rock stars, not cowpokes Alt-country fans know Rhett Miller as the heartbreaker frontman of the Old 97's, one of a few groups that helped make the genre what it is today: music that fits just as well on a compilation of indie rock and Springsteen as it does on a mix ...
Crescent City legends
Feb 06, 2009; ... Dr. John and the Nevilles warm up Overture Mad City's Mardi Gras kicks off with a big-time Big Easy double whammy when Dr. John and the Neville Brothers put Voodoo on you at Overture Hall next Wednesday night. Are you ready? These New Orleans legends - my generation's cultural vanguard, ...
Man or myth?
Feb 06, 2009; ... PBS searches for the real Lincoln Rather than celebrating the Abraham Lincoln myth on his 200th birthday, Looking for Lincoln (Wednesday 8 p.m., PBS) attempts to find the real man. Host Henry Louis Gates knows that won't be easy, given the granite pedestal we've put him on. Gates sets ...
Slash, kill, change outfits
Feb 06, 2009; ... GAMES Tenchu: Shadow Assassins is a violent, mission- based action-adventure. The goal is to kill as many people as you can as fast as you can with- out being seen. You sleuth-sneak around and sly- ly use WiI wands to run, jump, dash into hiding places, throw things, sword- fight and ...
Jean-Claude Van Damme, criminal
Feb 06, 2009; ... Jean-Claude Van Damme, criminal The star, playing himself, is a suspect in JCVD It's been 10 years since Jean-Claude Van Damme made a movie that got a the- atrical release in the United States, and you can see each one of those years in his face, which is slashed with worry ...
VIDEO
Feb 06, 2009; ... Released this week: Bottle Shock, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Secret Life of Bees, Sex Drive, Zack and Miri Make a Porno Bottle Shock: A good drama lurks somewhere in this true story of how the wines of northern California shattered France's oenological hauteur in a blind ...
Candidates' Answers
Feb 06, 2009; ... Primary Elections, Spring 2009 Pull out to save this supplement to Isthmus, Madison's weekly newspaper Candidate information for Dane County level candidates has been compiled by the League of Women Voters of Dane County from questionnaires sent to all candidates. For the ...
Yes, we canned!
Feb 06, 2009; ... Yes, we canned! The Cannery Grill is another good reason to dine in Sun Prairie Less than a decade ago, this expansive space was filled with long lines of steamers and boilers and automated machines that separated sweet corn from its cobs, peas from their pods. Enormous steam- ...
'Mom, there's nothing to do'
Feb 06, 2009; ... Books, music, movies and more for when you have to stay indoors BOOKS You can grow up to be ... When I was a kid, two of my favorite books were The Arrow Book of Presidents and Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, both of which I read into tatters. Now that Barack Obama has made ...
The Other Side of the Island
Feb 06, 2009; ... The Other Side of the Island By Allegra Goodman (Razorbill) The Other Side of the Island takes place in a dystopian future when the earth has flooded, leaving only a scattered archipelago. Near the shore of one tropical island where "the air reeked with rotting mangoes and mushy ...
Pint Size Polkas Volume One
Feb 06, 2009; ... MUSIC Pint Size Polkas Volume One Uncle Mike and His Polka Band In the liner notes to his band's first children's CD, Milwaukee's Mike Schneider admits that as a kid he fell in love with polka music "at first sound." Now he's hoping to Introduce a new generation of young ...
Best of Both Worlds Concert: The 3-D Movie (Extended Edition)
Feb 06, 2009; ... VIDEO Best of Both Worlds Concert: The 3-D Movie (Extended Edition) Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus (Disney) It wouldn't be fair to either artist if we tried to draw comparisons between Miley Cyrus and U2. So let's just say they both made 3-D movies and leave it at ...
Brief encounter
Feb 06, 2009; ... Is there a better word for my underwear? My family and I have recently tried to define "whitey-tighties." I thought they were men's briefs that are short no legs, not high up the belly But both my wife and my daughter believe that "whitey-tighties" includes men's underwear with legs on ...
A different kind of talk-show host
Feb 06, 2009; ... Matt Lepay doesn't fit the stereotype of a sports talk radio host. Unlike barkers Jim Rome and Colin Cowherd, he takes a calm, almost cerebral approach on the monthold show he co-hosts on weekdays 6-8 a.m. with The Capital Times' Mike Lucas on 1070 AM. "A lot of people are going to think ...
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 ...
Brief encounter
Feb 13, 2009; ... Sundance screens Oscar-nominated shorts Once again, Sundance Cinemas is screening all the Oscar nominees for Best Live-Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film, a selection culled from around the world, but mostly Europe. Here are brief looks at each of them. Live -Action ...
VIDEO
Feb 13, 2009; ... Ralaasad this waak: Blindness, Frozen River, Miracle at St. Anna, My Name Is Bruce, Nights in Rodanthe, Soul Men, W. Frozen River: In Courtney Hunt's close-to-thebone look at a woman who smuggles illegal aliens across the Canadian-U.S. border in order to put food on her table, Melissa ...
Pure prairie league
Feb 13, 2009; ... Pure prairie league Middleton Hills' resident cafe gets fresh with breakfast My near-west-side neighborhood is the kind of place that inspired the New Urbanism of Middleton Hills. The narrow streets and close-set houses allow for much neighborliness; the stores and restaurants ...
Apple of my eye
Feb 13, 2009; ... Cherished recipes for your special valentines I know it seems unusual to be talking about a fruit that won't be harvested for months, but I love apples. Apples are my absolute favorite food to eat and prepare. Many Wisconsin farms had at least one apple tree. My parents' first ...
Can't wait 'til Tuesday
Feb 13, 2009; ... L'Etoile has a hit with communal suppers A wise man once told us all to love our neighbors. But man, sometimes your neighbors are weird. Chef Tory Miller of L'Etoile has found an easy solution: prepare a meal that everyone loves, and get 'em all around the same table. Step back, and ...
In the end
Feb 13, 2009; ... The world's most beloved advice columnist says bye-bye It all beqan at a 5,000-watt radio station in Fresno, California. Wait a minute, that's Ted Baxter's old line. For yours truly, it all began at a 61,000-circulation alternative newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, when I signed on to ...
Knight, lite
Feb 13, 2009; ... On Saturday ESPN is bringing its popular College GameDay show to Madison, the traveling production's only stop at a Big Ten school this season. The show's format features a crew of former players and coaches breaking down the week's action in front of frenzied student fans. Seated at the ...