AltWeeklies Wire
Madison's Wireless Network Loses Provider as it Works Out the Kinksnew
Over the past year, 1,300 of about 2,000 people canceled their subscriptions to ResTech Services, one of two service providers for the city's Wi-Fi system. On Wednesday, ResTech announced it will no longer provide service.
Tags: computers & technology
In the Fight Against Global Warming, Activists Are Walking the Walknew
In Madison, some individuals are taking personal responsibility for the problems caused by global warming and are setting an example for others by altering the way they live their lives. Here are six of them.
Isthmus |
Linda Falkenstein |
04-23-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Bombs Away!new
Our critic's list of great movies that other critics hated includes Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Gigli.
The Dems' Labor Problemnew
Door-to-door canvassers raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee complain that the company that employes them, Boston-based Grassroots Campaigns, is paying them less than the Wisconsin minimum wage.
Isthmus |
Bill Lueders |
09-05-2006 |
Business & Labor
The Life and Death of coreweeklynew
Yesterday, coreweekly ceased publishing: Despite the work of its staff, its fate was guided by simple business calculations made by corporate executives with no passion for the paper itself.
Tags: free newspapers, faux alts
I Saw The Light: A Gay Man's Search for a Welcoming Church
After establishing an identity as a gay man, country musician and alternative journalist, the author realized that "just as preachers and Sunday school teachers used to tell me, I might have a soul, and it might need looking after."
Yes, Virginia, There Is an American Dream
C.J. Hribal's sweeping new novel, The Company Car, follows one family's 50-year pursuit of the American Dream. But does the American Dream still exist? If so, is it still worth pursuing? Hribal addresses these and other questions about our social landscape in an interview.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Exhilaration of Being Published
Rebecca Meacham, author of the acclaimed debut story collection Let's Do, admits to feeling the pressure to perform with her forthcoming second book, but extolls the enormous pleasures of her craft -- such as inscribing a copy of Let's Do for her elementary-school choir teacher.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-14-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Power of Sisterhood
The Wisconsin writer's upcoming book is about a woman who died too soon and whose funeral honors all women who have loved and lost, and who grieve and still need to live.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Another Look at Frailty
In an email interview, Bee Season author Myla Goldberg discusses her new novel set during the flu pandemic of 1918, her musical and spelling prowess, and her fondness for "the full spectrum of language."
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Burdens of Being the FOUND Guy
The creator of FOUND magazine has a collection of short fiction out, and he says he had to urge Simon & Schuster not to publish it in a flushable format.
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Love, Death and the Paranormal
It took art professor Audrey Niffenegger 14 years to complete her latest book, and she hopes readers of her best-selling The Time Traveler's Wife "will not be so startled" by her new illustrated novel "that they choke on their coffee."
Isthmus |
David Medaris |
10-13-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Words Return: The Best of 9/11 Fiction
Maureen Leary sees the birth of a genre as she surveys the best of the current crop of 9/11-related fiction.
Artery-Clogging Trans Fats Can Hide in Plain Sight
New label laws kicking in through 2005 will make trans fats somewhat easier to spot in pre-packaged foods. But eaters still need to pay attention in restaurants and look closely at labels and ingredients.
Seoul Survivor: Busted for Dope in South Korea
Teaching English as a second language in South Korea was a good gig for this recent college graduate and world traveler until he smoked hashish with the wrong people and found himself cought up in that country's draconian drug enforcement.
Isthmus |
Jason Storbakken |
01-28-2005 |
Crime & Justice
