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Summer is waning, but the season burns brightly this weekend with the Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival and the Madison Roots Festival. The fun also includes: a live broadcast by Thom Hartmann, Dane Dances, and the Mallards alumni game; a production of Evita ; the opening of a mezzotints exhibit at the Chazen; a Bitch Magazine benefit with DJ Raja and a performance by the Madtown Hellcats with the Wake; more live music by Bob Parins, Tantric, Needtobreathe, Twista, Rookie of the Year, The Rural

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Mad Rollin' Dolls wrap up summer with an outdoor bout at the Duck Pond

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Published Aug. 19, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

If you are a longtime fan of the Mad Rollin' Dolls, you might recall a rainy night at the Duck Pond late in the summer of 2006. It wasn't a Madison Mallards baseball game you triedto see through the veil of steady drizzle, though, it was a roller derby bout, played on a portable track in right field ...

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Jeff 'The Dude' Dowd talks movies, Madison, and the Mallards

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Published July 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

"Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude." The voiceover drawled in the opening sequence of The Big Lebowski couldn't have been more prescient about the cult of fandom that has flowered around both the movie and the man who inspired the iconic character, Jeff Dowd ...

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Baseball for veterans

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Published July 13, 2009 at 8:02 p.m.

More than 250 current and former soldiers and their families filled the Duck Pond Sunday as the Mallards helped welcome back our newest veterans ...

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The Tennessee Three resurrect Johnny Cash's spirit in Madison

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Published June 13, 2009 at 7:36 p.m.

Legends are rarely built without the help of some clever friends and a convincing storyteller. In the case of Johnny Cash, at least a few of these partners in crime belonged to The Tennessee Three, his backing band of more than 40 years. Friday night at the Madison Mallards baseball game and later at the Essen Haus, the current lineup of the band gave fans a glimpse into how such legends are made ...

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Beer here at the Duck Pond with the Madison Mallards

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Published June 5, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.

What goes well with duck? Apparently beer! The Madison Mallards'attendance figures keep growing every year, and beer may be one factor in that success ...

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The Week: June 1-4, 2009

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Published June 1, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.

The Madison Mallards make summer official this week when they open their ninth season. There's much more than baseball on deck, though, including: book readings by Harold Varmus, and Arthur and Ursula Rathburn; and the return to a lively concert calendar with shows by SSION, Gibraltar Rockets, Jenny Lewis with The Sadies, Halestorm, and Steez ...

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