Culture
Madison’s broader landscape of art, literature, and more.
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Oddsconsin: UFOs and alien abductions
Perhaps we should be proud of our state’s status as a hotbed of UFO sightings.
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney catalogs a museum of her 20s in “Joy Is My Middle Name”
The formerly Madison-based poet gives justice to our city and the richness of girlhood in this debut poetry collection.
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Small Bites: How to make a cheeseboard
An informative guide to an affordable luxury while ICE terrorizes the United States.
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“Welcome Poets” provides a portal into the Wisconsin places that shaped Lorine Niedecker’s identity
A meditation on the 20th-century Wisconsin poet’s artistic impact, in relation to Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig’s own six-part series that screens at Art Lit Lab on October 18.
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Oddsconsin: Children’s graves at St. Martin’s Cemetery
Cemeteries are one of the only things we have to remind us of a traumatic period in our history.
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Hidden Housing Histories: Joyce Funeral Home
Living in a 100-year-old ex-funeral home, I uncovered an unusual and dark piece of Madison history.
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Oddsconsin: Dane County Asylum and Home Cemetery
Between two strip malls lies a cemetery for the Dane County Poor Home and Asylum for the Chronic Insane.
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Terror at the edge of the earth
Quan Barry’s horror novel, “The Unveiling,” mines a deadly South-Pole expedition to explore America’s ongoing racial haunting.
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Jan Levine Thal’s inner and outer theatrical lives
Ahead of the October 10 Broom Street premiere of her latest play, “Head On A Silver Platter: In Defense Of Salome,” the playwright shares her creative process and storied career.
