On the shores on Devil’s Lake, outside of Baraboo, The Friend’s of Devil’s Lake has been working for years to build a new Education and Interpretive Center. Some of the area’s residents, however, say that the spot picked out by the group could be disastrous. The Defenders of Devil’s Lake is a loose coalition of […]
Bridging The Gap: Album Re-recordings and Artists’ Ownership
On November 12th, Taylor Swift released the re-recording of the album ‘Red,” now named Red(Taylor’s Version), and immediately swept the Spotify Global Top 50 charts with all 30 songs on the album. Swift’s re-releasing these re-recordings as a means to reclaim the rights to her own music. In this week’s edition of “Bridging the Gap,” […]
Meleesa Johnson on mushroom decontamination project in Marathon County...
Whether on a pizza or on a pile of soil, you can’t deny the allure that mushrooms have on people. But a new project in central Wisconsin may find that mushrooms are more than just a tasty food. They could be helping to clean contaminated soil. As Wisconsin Public Radio reports, the project seeks to […]
Fashion Designer Virgil Abloh Dies at 41
Celebrities flooded social media with thoughts and prayers to honor the passing of a 41-year old who took the design world by storm. The death of Virgil Abloh was announced yesterday by clothing giant Louis Vuitton, which Abloh had been the men’s artistic director for since 2018. He was also the CEO and founder of […]
Nonagenarian COVID Diary Or How a 95 year Survived the Lockdown
Scientists have long predicted that the Climate Crisis would bring more intense storms, coastal flooding and pandemics. All those predictions are coming to pass, most notably in 2020, the COVID 19 pandemic. It is also well known that the impacts of the Climate Crisis disproportionately affect people of color and other vulnerable communities. So how […]
Madison and the Assassination of President Kennedy
Madison in the Sixties, the third week of November, 1963. Wednesday, Nov. 20 President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW President Fred Harvey Harrington, congratulating Dr. Harry Waisman and his colleagues at the UW Orthopedic Children’s Hospital on that afternoon’s dedication of […]
