Fearful Symmetries

The rumor mill continues to grind out the bread and life of destiny. It was not even a week ago when I received news that WI Department of W...

Historian Peter Frankopan has a book due soon called The First Crusade: the Call from the East . It's being promoted as a revolutionary ...

Ghost stories go way back as evidenced by Debbie Felton's Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity . “I think the...

Slate has an article today about horror radio drama, specifically Tales From Beyond the Pale . Just released as a five-CD set containing al...

My stepson has popped me up in chat twice today. At first I thought he was at home but, no, he was at school. He was in homeroom where he ha...

Shawn Rajanayagam of The Badger Herald has me confused. Earlier this week he penned an editorial in support of a bill which would "ban...

I heard an interview with art historian Paul Koudounaris about his new book The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charne...

It's been a good year for me and my love of difficult, contemplative cinema. First there was The Tree of Life and over the weekend I sa...

Well, it looks like Carl Nolen's bid to take over Capital Brewery will not come to pass . But the real news in the article comes from t...

RA.One looks like a blast and it's screening here in Madison tomorrow, Thursday, and Saturday. It is a big budget CGI blockbuster with...

While in Chicago over the weekend, The Dulcinea and I dined at a couple fine establishments. The first was Sensational Bites , a dessert caf...

I had a busy weekend and was able to attend only one event at the Wisconsin Book Festival - Douglas Jacobson and his latest novel The Katyn...

The Carolina Chocolate Drops cruised into Stoughton last Friday night and played to a sold out Opera House. It was their third stop here i...

Roland Emmerich's first non-CGI disaster fest in over a decade, Anonymous , was to have opened today at Sundance. Yet the Elizabethan po...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in Chicago earlier this week and he issued a characteristically originalist ruling on pizza : “I do...

Rumor has it that Capitol Police have had their shifts changed to hours, including 12-hour stints, resembling those from earlier this year w...

Back when it was hot outside I ate lunch with the Eating in Madison A to Z gang. We dined on the comestibles from Thai-riffic . Head over th...

Earlier this month it was announced that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the public/private hybrid agency that replaced the Depart...

Having recently read The Terror , a fictional account of Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, I...