For Hollwood, summer is the time to start showing fluff. But for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, it's the time to start showing challenging avant-garde films that few people have ever heard of. The fifth annual Rooftop Cinema series begins on Friday, June 4, on the museum's rooftop sculpture garden ...
Revel in a late season celebration of snow and ice this weekend at the Madison Winter Festival and Polar Plunge. The calendar also includes: performances by Kanopy Dance Company and productions of Two Rooms , An Evening of Broadway , and A Year with Frog and Toad ; standup by Lisa Lampanelli and Duck Soup Cinema; live music by Juniper Tar, Lotus, Bird Peterson, Pretty ' Nice, Little Blue Crunchy Things, the Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra, Otep, Eyedea ' Abilities, Sondre Lerche, and
Quentin Tarantino shoots the works in Inglourious Basterds , a wild blend of World War II action film pyrotechnics, subtitled art cinema romance, inside-movie allusions of every type and description, grand spaghetti-operatic Sergio Leone stylistics, and a brash "Let's-rewrite-World War II-and make-it-a-De Palma flick" ending ...
This weekend offers plenty to feed both imaginations and stomachs, along with a well-stocked array of treats for the eyes and ears. The calendar includes: Geek.Kon and the Madison Food ' Wine Show; a production of The Imaginary Invalid and performances by Li-Chiao Ping Dance; a John Cage and Merce Cunningham opening at MMoCA; Ballpark Blast and Duck Soup Cinema; Women Rock for the Cure; and, more live music by the WCO, the MSO, Jane Monheit, Great Lakes Swimmers, Los Cojolites, Daughtry, Kaki
Kickshaw, billed as "American cuisine with a global influence" is set to open in the former Good Times and Fitch's Chophouse space on McKee Road in Fitchburg. The site, though convenient to Star Cinema and the growing retail area near Target, has yet to find a good match ...
War is hell, or at least purgatory. Few filmmakers have shown that as clearly as the 83-year-old Polish master Andrzej Wajda. Wajda, a sometime cinematic genius, is one of the last members left of the great international cinema generation that included Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni and Satyajit Ray, and he's also perhaps the very best of all Polish filmmakers, living or dead ...
Make sure to take full advantage of this weekend and its longest days of the year. The fun around town includes: Juneteenth and an anniversary party for the UW Arboretum; Blues Picnic in the Park and the second Senior Scenester Reunion; productions of Thrill Me , Lounging Around , and The Philanderer ; a new Rooftop Cinema; and, live music from The Ghostwrite, DJ Rekha vs. DJ Vadim, The Detroit Cobras, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Plexi 3, Speedsquare, The
Madison rarely bursts with as much life and activity as it will this weekend. Summer gatherings abound with the Hometown USA Fest in Verona, the Marquette Waterfront Fest, the Cambridge Pottery Fest, Middleton's Big Event, Parade of Homes, A Toast to Our Veterans at Truax, and the Mounds Dog Fest. The action continues with a final party for Bike to Work Week; week two at Rooftop Cinema; productions of Blitz by Mercury Players and The Comedy of Errors at APT; a poetry marathon; the debut of
Four years is a long time in a transient college town, certainly enough to make Rooftop Cinema at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art an abiding summer tradition. The four week-long avant-garde and experimental film series returns on Friday for yet another all-too-short month of screenings atop a garden overlooking State Street ...