State college basketball
Nicole
Cute Sports
We won't talk about Marquette's embarrassing loss to Dayton -Instead, let's focus on Wisconsin's last-second win over Virginia Tech in the Big Ten/ACC Shootout. Despite leading most of the game, the Badgers needed a last-second shot from Trevon Hughes to
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Patti Smith's Dream
David Luhrssen
I Hate Hollywood
For Patti Smith, the names of the dead echoed loudly: Robert Mapplethorpe (1989), Richard Sohl (1991), Fred Smith (1994), Todd Smith (1994). Mentors and collaborators, her husband and her brother, all died within a short timeline. Allen Ginsberg rang wi
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Rough Impressions of THE PRODUCERS
Russ Bickerstaff
Curtains
The Producers has a strange history in my memory. I vaguely seem to remember being in second or third grade when I first saw Mel Brooks’ original 1968 film on television. It was an independant station that played it quite often, so I saw a number o
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George Strait to Headline 2009 Summerfest Date
Evan Rytlewski
On Music
For most, the timing is more noteworthy than the announcement: Summerfest announced its first headlining act for 2009: George Strait, who will play the Marcus Amphitheater on Monday, June 29. The announcement of Summerfest's first 2009 act seems to have
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Packers leave me speechless
Nicole
Cute Sports
I haven't been blogging on the Packers much lately because I've been struggling to find something - anything - to say about the disappointment this team has levied on their fans, but thus far I've come up empty. Tallying 16 more minutes of possession than
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We make 'em mighty crazy in Wisconsin
Nicole
Cute Sports
In what must be the absolute oddest stalker combination, a former Wisconsin Badger football player has been harassing Athletic Director (and his former coach) Barry Alvarez with threatening phone calls about Maria Sharapova. There's not a lot of informati
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Brewers and arbitration
Nicole
Cute Sports
The Brewers offered arby today to Brian Shouse, Ben Sheets and CC Sabathia. They declined to offer it to Eric Gagne. While we obviously wanted to offer it to CC, things become a little muddier in terms of Sheets. While the Brewers likely offered arby to a
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Still love me some Eric Gagne
Nicole
Cute Sports
Ok, so he was a bust as our closer (though I still think there's a valid injury argument to be made), but you cannot deny that Eric Gagne is a class act. To mark the Thanksgiving holiday, the Brewers official site had an article about the team and charita
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Hotel Hopping Part One: The Iron Horse
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
By its very nature the hotel conjures
up an especially rich and often contradictory set of associations: openness and
intimacy, public engagement and private pursuit, permanence and transience,
business and pleasure, glamour and seediness. N
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George C. Scott Remembered
David Luhrssen
I Hate Hollywood
George C. Scott’s small part in The Hanging Tree (1959), as a drunken faith healer made to look foolish by Gary Cooper, was an inconspicuous and perhaps inauspicious Hollywood debut. But in the roles he filled during the following 40 years, Scott would
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