Wednesday June 20 7 pm at the Arts = Literature Laboratory 2021 Winnebago Street, Madison The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society presents American … [Read More]
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Exclusive Videos Live from Blue Ox Festival!
Red-winged blackbirds sing back up for Pert' Near Sandstone, Them Coulee Boys, Charlie Parr, Trout Steak Revival, Laska, and White Iron Band in this … [Read More]
Your Source for the Best New Music = WORT!!
Our top add is the new John Fogerty album The Holy Grail featuring Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Support WORT Community Radio today with your pledge at … [Read More]
Adrian Lomax Reaches Out to the Wild & Blue
Adrian Lomax has discovered a wonderful musical connection between two seemingly dissimilar genres, and he brings that connection to WORT listeners … [Read More]
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Redistricting in Wisconsin
The jury is still out on whether today’s news from the US supreme court is good or bad for Wisconsinites who want to see the state’s Assembly District … [Read More]
Dane County Files Lawsuit Against Painkiller Manufacturers
Dane County becomes the 69th Wisconsin county to file a suit against pharmaceutical companies for the opioid crisis. Five tribes have also filed … [Read More]
The Night Sky With Jim Lattis
Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place, has been a frequent guest on the Perpetual Notion Machine. How many times has it been? 20, 30 times? … [Read More]
Unpaid Internships Are on the Rise, and College Requirements Are to Blame
Delight Hailman thought she had her summer plans figured out: the UW Madison student would work two part-time jobs and an internship. But two weeks … [Read More]
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Madison’s Young Shakespeare Players Present “Saint Joan”
George Bernard Shaw wrote “St. Joan” in 1923, three years after the Roman Catholic church canonized Joan of Arc, and 492 years after the heroine of Orleans was burned at the stake by an English Court in Normandy. Shaw based his play on the unusually well … [Read More...]
“The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo”
Anyone who has read Hunter S. Thompson knows it is often difficult in his works to separate reality from fiction… or from drug-induced hallucination. So, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, when Thompson described his attorney as “a 300-pound Samoan,” we s … [Read More...]
UW Students Investigate: Is Democracy Dying In Wisconsin?
For years, Wisconsin prided itself as a model for open, transparent government. The State has had one of the strongest open records laws and open meetings laws on the books since 1981, and its elections were generally seen as competitive and f … [Read More...]
No More Potted Meat!
This week on Mel & Floyd: Wells Fargo feel-good commercial [we good now?]; eyewitness review of Stormy Daniels “performance”; Real Estate opportunities in North Korea [beachfront condos!!]; Manafort goes to jail [Yay!]; Russian citizens warned against “hu … [Read More...]