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Win tickets to Dessa, and more!

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.

The Isthmus Guest List is back with another round of free tickets to amazing concerts, shows and more fun events around Madison. This week's contests include tickets to: Dessa at the High Noon; the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest at Art in the Barn; and more! ...

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Rooftop Cinema returns for a fifth summer of avant-garde films atop MMoCA

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Published June 2, 2010 at 12:19 p.m.

For Hollwood, summer is the time to start showing fluff. But for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, it's the time to start showing challenging avant-garde films that few people have ever heard of. The fifth annual Rooftop Cinema series begins on Friday, June 4, on the museum's rooftop sculpture garden ...

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Vinyl Cave: Together by The New Pornographers

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Published May 8, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.

Making the art of the pop song safe for indie rockers, The New Pornographers return for 2010 with Together , the Canadian musical collective's fifth album. That's a somewhat surprising mark considering the band's genesis in the late '90s as a sort of power pop recording side project for the various members, who during the time of the initial sessions were all active in various bands in the Vancouver, British Columbia, music scene ...

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The Week[end]: May 7-9, 2010

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Published May 7, 2010 at 6:00 a.m.

Madison will enjoy the last big hurrah of its spring art season this weekend. The calendar includes: Gallery Night; productions of Side By Side By Sondheim and Sleeping Beauty ; Cars on State and the Mad Rollin' Dolls 2010 semifinals; the MAMAs; more live music by 30db, Cosmo Baker, Kaki King, the Oakwood Chamber Players, Butch Walker ' the Black Widows, and Truth ' Salvage Co.; and, the Listen to Your Mother book reading and another by Michael Perry ...

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What the public is saying about Chazen Museum's goats sculpture

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Published April 27, 2010 at 8:02 a.m.

The most surprising thing about public reaction to artist Beth Cavener Stichter's sculpture "A Rush of Blood to the Head," now on display at the UW-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art, is how little public reaction there is ...

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Art Installation On Lake Monona Damaged, Stolen

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Published Feb. 19, 2010 at 9:14 p.m.

Those who commute down John Nolen Drive frequently might notice something on the lake is missing. An artist said his creation was swiped and damaged ...

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The Week[end]: February 12-14, 2010

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Published Feb. 12, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.

Valentine's weekend in Madison offers a surfeit of opportunities to hit the town with your honey. Choices include: the Garden Expo; and the Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest; productions of Buffalo Soldiers: The Legacy , Sappho in Love , Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse , and The Vagina Monologues ; WWE Road to Wreslemania , a Mad Rollin' Dolls bout, and a show by the Peking Acrobats; benefits for Haiti relief and the United Way; live performances by Cherish the Ladies, the Madison Savoyards,

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A Book A Week: Read My Pins by Madeleine Albright

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Not being a terribly close follower of diplomatic maneuvers, I was unaware of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's famous use of pins to telegraph her thoughts and intentions to world leaders and the press. But lots of other people were aware of it, and now Albright has written a book about it, Read My Pins , to accompany an exhibit of her pins organized by the Museum of Art and Design in New York ...

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Cookbook cues: What We Eat When We Eat Alone by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin

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Published Jan. 27, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Cookbooks are so often about the ideal we have of food. From Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking onward, cookbooks have given us the means to elevate what we serve at home. Then there's the reality. If you're solo -- if you live alone or if you find yourself single while your usual living and dining partner is away on a business trip -- and the kitchen is suddenly yours alone, what do you cook? ...

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Chazen's Automata features whimsical, wonderful sculptures that move

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Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

While interactivity is the buzzword of the Internet age -- and some contemporary artists do exploit high technology -- Automata: Contemporary Mechanical Sculpture offers a different kind of thrill. With the turning of simple hand cranks, the works in Automata, on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through March 14, spring to life to delight viewers in witty ways ...

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