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Ben Munson

Ben Munson is a full-time journalist and former editor of The A.V. Club Madison. He was once in the same room as Jennifer Lopez and Mario Lopez, at the same time.

May 22, 2020

Small and perpetually salty

Culture, Microtones

Giving a hyper-vigilant little dog a break.

Ben Munson
March 13, 2020

Medians in need

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
January 31, 2020

Near beer yet so far away

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
November 22, 2019

Suspense at Lake Edge

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
October 18, 2019

Sculptures made of bad bets

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
August 30, 2019

For Sall, forever ago

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
July 12, 2019

In defense of “veggie pizza”

Culture, Microtones, Politics

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
January 18, 2019

This pizza bracket is harmless but also very wrong

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
September 28, 2018

Stress fish

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson
March 9, 2018

A crystalline blast of a jingle

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Ben Munson

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Tone Madison was a journalist-owned, reader-supported website covering culture and politics in Madison, Wisconsin. We launched in October 2014 and kept publishing our journalism until April 2026, when Tone Madison’s worker-owners made the painful decision to close the publication.

The site remains online as an archive of the work we created over nearly 12 years, but Tone Madison is no longer actively in operation.

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