Fifty years ago this week, the Black Studies Strike kicked into high gear, as students blocked UW classrooms in an effort to force the creation of a Black Studies Department. […]
Brandon Colvin on hanging up Micro-Wave Cinema
Filmgoers in the Madison area are getting ready to say goodbye to a small but important screening series. The Micro-Wave Cinema Series launched in the spring of 2014, and it focuses […]
Meredith Nnoka’s “A Hunger Called Music”
Meredith Nnoka‘s poetry works at the intersection of narrative and meticulous research, but it’s also drenched in emotion. Nnoka’s 2016 collection A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History Of Black […]
An Elizabethan interlude with the Madison Early Music Festival
Tone Madison‘s Sarah Witman talks with Cheryl Bensman-Rowe and Paul Rowe, co-directors of the Madison Early Music Festival, which takes place July 9 through 16 on the UW-Madison campus. They discuss Shakespeare’s “death-iversary” […]
Plants In Space
In 1957, the Russian dog Laika made international news as the first animal to enter earth’s orbit, aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2. Laika didn’t make it back alive, but the […]
Jazz Legend Richard Davis Retires from UW
Richard Davis has had a storied career in jazz. Named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz master in 2014, Davis has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries such as […]