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If you happened to be at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Oct. 11, it would have been impossible for you to miss the 3,052 people marching, grinning ear to ear and waving rainbows flags to raise money for the fight against AIDS. This year AIDS Walk Wisconsin, on it's 20 year anniversary, raised $362,278. Read more...
From 150,000 to 300,000 gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered and their allies marched for their rights in Washington D.C on Oct. 11, 2009. They marched past the White House, Congress and the Senate, all the while chanting "What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? NOW!" They were demanding their rights to be treated as first-class citizens. After the march, Read more...
"I don't know what's going on. Why is my belt off," exclaimed Tyler Sankbeil, looking around in confusion at the small group of people surrounding him. ... Sankbeil was one of the 19 students that were hypnotized by Dr. Jim Wand on Oct. 14 in the cafeteria. Read more...
The Madison Area Technical College dance team is getting ready to start performing again as the MATC basketball season approaches. The dance team is entering their second year under the leadership of Hayley Mason. Read more...
The stage was set. The Madison Area Technical College soccer team was poised to make a run for the North Central Community College Conference title in their first year in the conference. Read more...
The Madison Area Technical College women's volleyball team wrapped up their conference season finishing in second place (10-2) in the North Central Community College Conference (N4C). Read more...
The adventure of a young boy named Max begins after he has been scolded for misbehaving. He then sails away to where the wild things are. Anxious to fit in, he becomes the ruler he's always wanted to be for a group of wild things who long for a king. Read more...
"The Resistance," Muse's follow-up album to the 2006 release of "Black Holes and Revelations," has been highly anticipated by fans of the band, and with good reason. "Black Holes" was the band's break through album and the three year wait for the follow up was tough for fans to endure as they were looking forward to hearing how the band, composed of guitarist/vocalist Matt Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme and drummer Dominic Howard, expanded and evolved their sound. Read more...
I recall a film called "Ed Wood," released in 1994, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and Martin Landau. In one memorable scene, Landau, playing Bela Legosi (the iconic Dracula star of the old Universal monster-movie days), says to Depp, "If you vant to make-out vith the yunk lady take her to see dwacula. Read more...
Rest easy, Madisonians - our fair city just got safer. The city council, in its infinite wisdom, has recently passed a law banning the sale of novelty lighters within the city of Madison. Apparently, there have been as many as three deaths across the entire nation within the past two years, all children, casualties of accidental fires caused by novelty lighters. Read more...
I'm doing my grocery shopping with my iPod playing in my ear, Billie Jeaning my way through the grocery store like I usually do, and when I round the corner to aisle two, this guy gives me that look, the look that says I am too embarrassing to exist. Read more...
In normal life someone's worth is sometimes judged by petty things like their popularity or the opinions of those in power. This is not the case for sports. Read more...
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