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Fire Damages Sir Hobo's In Sun Prairie


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Published Feb. 14, 2011 at 5:33 p.m.

Fire and smoke damaged Sir Hobo's Restaurant in Sun Prairie on Saturday night ... (Photo courtesy: Chris Mertes) ...

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Firefighters respond to Sun Prairie restaurant overnight


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Published Feb. 13, 2011 at 8:35 p.m.

Firefighters responded to a fire in Sun Prairie ... Dane County Communications says trucks from Sun Prairie, DeForest, Deerfield, Cottage Grove and Waunakee fire departments were requested ...

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Edgewood College leaders curbing illegal "smart drug" use on campus


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Published Feb. 10, 2011 at 4:00 a.m.

For many college students - staying up late and drinking coffee go hand in hand with studying for exams ... More students are taking illegal prescription drugs like Adderall, to help them hit the books ...

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Madison eats agenda: Chocolate science, coffee talk, Hearts for Helping, more benefits


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Published Feb. 7, 2011 at 11:00 p.m.

This coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach ...

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Merchant is downtown Madison's latest buzzing hangout


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Published Jan. 27, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

The food court that used to be the Capitol Square just keeps growing. In fact, the sheer number of new culinary players that have opened shop in the area, in the last year alone, can seem daunting, even to dedicated diners. The big question is whether there is room, after the fairly recent launches of, take a deep breath, Graze, 43 North, Nostrano, Underground Kitchen, King ' Mane, Francesca's al Lago and the expanded Old Fashioned, for one more restaurant. Clearly Merchant Madison thinks so,

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Fuzzy's Taco Shop comes on strong but proves erratic


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Published Jan. 6, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

When it comes to restaurant decor, do you enjoy an eclectic mix of primary colors, corrugated metal, sombreros, giant fish and flat-screen TVs? Then you should check out Fuzzy's. If not, perhaps you will enjoy crude slogans or Badger sports memorabilia. They have those, too ...

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Orient House's alternate offerings make it more than just another American Chinese restaurant


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Published Dec. 2, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

Where many Chinese restaurants in the United States fail to distinguish themselves, Orient House succeeds for one basic reason. Orient House has a secret menu -- except that it isn't a secret ...

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Blaska's Blog picks Election Day winners and losers


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Published Oct. 27, 2010 at 4:24 p.m.

My crack research team has fired up the Remington Rand Univac computer one more time. It was touch and go there, for awhile. The plutonium that has powered our machine since 1954 has gone missing. But we hooked the clanking contraption up to a Farmall tractor power take-off and fed it a steady diet of punch cards (and some grapefruit rinds and coffee grounds) ...

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Beer Here: Freedom Forward from Grumpy Troll Restaurant and Brewery


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Published Oct. 22, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Beer drinkers with a taste for seasonals might want to give attention to the increasing number of brews that turn up along with the fall harvest of hops and barley. Hops are commonly picked in late summer and early fall, so that means beers referred to as "fresh hopped" are arriving in brewpubs and on store shelves. One beer worth trying right now is Freedom Forward from the Grumpy Troll in Mount Horeb ...

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43 North puts Madison on the map


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Published Oct. 20, 2010 at 5:07 p.m.

It took just 20 days to transform the former Cafe Continental to 43 North, while other recent notable openings have taken months. 43 North is Chef Justin Carlisle's new restaurant at 108 King St. It is named for the 43º North latitude that Madison occupies on the globe. Although Shinji Muramoto is one of the backers, it's not a Japanese restaurant and it's not, strictly speaking, one of the Muramoto restaurants ...

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