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-documented historic transcripts of the trial of Joan of Arc. […]
“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 should all know to take that with a grain of salt. In fact, […]
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 fair. But beginning in 2010, with the Republican party seizing control of all branches […]
Revival Tour: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir
It has now been twenty years since Bill Talen first donned his white suit and a clerical collar and started preaching about the Disney anti-Christ in Times Square. Since then, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir have brought an evangelical fervor to a wide variety of anti-corporate protests around the globe. Lately, the Church […]
How to Make a Life: Tibetan Refugee Family Adopts Midwest Woman
After the People’s Republic of China sought to claim Tibet under their rule, many Tibetans made a hard choice to leave their homeland, including Tenzin Kelseng’s family. Hesitant at the opportunity to come to America, Tenzin eventually accepted and met Madeline Uraneck at work one fateful day. Across languages, religions and cultural differences, the two […]
Madison-Rafah solidarity protests
This weekend, the 122th protester was killed since March during Palestine protests which aim to draw attention to the 11-year blockade by Israel and Egypt of the coastal territory and to press refugee claims to lands lost when Israel was established in 1948. These killings have been condemned by the U.N. as use of “excessive […]
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