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‘No Packers, No Life’ profiles a special if unlikely alliance

2 months ago | isthmus.com | Hannah Ritvo

No Packers, No Life is about the Wisconsin tradition of opening your door, and your heart, to your neighbors. Even the ones that live 6,000 miles away. The documentary, which screens April 6 at The Barrymore, spotlights the Japanese Packers Cheering Team — a group of diehard Japanese Packers fans who get together in a Tokyo karaoke bar at 2 a.m. to watch Packers games live.
Expect anything

Aug 6, 2024 | isthmus.com | Hannah Ritvo

Punk-rock duo Damsel Trash has big ideas for their latest EP. Meghan Rose rattles off a list of potential topics that may become songs: lizards, new socks, the 99 cent store, Dune II (which would be performed in whispers) and sandwiches. Bandmate Emily Mills wrote “Poly Paradiso,” for the new EP, a song about the trials, tribulations and joys of being polyamorous.
New home for Annie Stewart fountain?

Jul 8, 2024 | isthmus.com | Hannah Ritvo

The Annie Stewart Fountain, Madison’s oldest commissioned public art, could soon find a new home in Greenbush’s redeveloped Neighborhood House Community Center. “What better than to put Madison's first piece of public art in Madison's first community center," Samuel Brown, president of the board of the Neighborhood House, said at a June 25 neighborhood Zoom meeting on the fate of the fountain.
Raising the bar

Jun 5, 2024 | isthmus.com | Hannah Ritvo

William Stringfellow Willmott is perched on top of a six-foot orange ladder, painting the wall with vibrant colors, bold lines and intricate geometric shapes. In town from his home in Kansas, he’s putting the final touches on a 30-foot Afrofuturist mural that spans the right wall of his brother Kevin Willmott II’s new Gamma Ray bar and music venue. The venue, 121 West Main St., opened June 1.
Madison CARES strives to provide relief to people in mental health crises

May 22, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Hannah Ritvo

Warning: This story reports on issues of mental health and suicide. When a person is in the midst of experiencing a mental health crisis, an encounter with police can be intimidating, frightening and potentially dangerous. In Madison, a relatively new type of first responder program is trying to reduce risks related to these encounters.
Sumudu Atapattu on Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights

May 20, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Hannah Ritvo

EnvironmentUniversity of Wisconsin Law School professor Sumudu Atapattu discusses how the idea of environmental justice applies to people and communities whose basic needs are affected by the changing climate. By | Here & Now Copy and Paste the Following Code to Embed this Video: VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Sumudu Atapattu:So if you look at the impact of an unhealthy environment on people, like pollution causes things like asthma and you know, other health issues.
Steve Vavrus on Madison as a Climate Migrant Destination

May 16, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Hannah Ritvo

Steve Vavrus:A couple of things that make Madison and Wisconsin in general potentially suitable as a place that's safer from climate change. One is that we have a lot of water and the other is that we are relatively cool climate compared to the rest of the country. So those are two advantages, but maybe just as important as what we don't have. We don't have hurricanes, we don't have big wildfires, and we're far away from sea level rise.
Why is Madison considered a climate haven going forward?

May 16, 2024 | pbswisconsin.org | Hannah Ritvo

Transcript coming soon. “The August that we left, it was so dry and so hot that there were wildfires actually encroaching on Austin as we were leaving,” Jessica Mederson said. “As we were driving down the highway, it was literally just scorched, black earth.”Jessica Mederson left Texas in 2012 to escape the heat. “Everybody in the world wants to be in Austin. And I loved it a lot — but I hated the heat,” she added. Mederson is among many who have left their homes to adapt to a changing climate.
News414 responds to Milwaukee's needs, redefines service journalism: A Q&A with Bevin Christie

May 14, 2024 | ethics.journalism.wisc.edu | Hannah Ritvo

Hannah Ritvo is a 2023-24 student fellow at the Center for Journalism Ethics and a recent graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 25% of Milwaukee residents struggle with low literacy, which means they aren’t served by traditional print media. The service journalism initiative News414 is working to change that. News414 aims to fill information gaps and reduce racial disparities in Milwaukee, the most segregated city in the nation.
Young audiences are turning to TikTok influencers for their news. What are the downsides?

Apr 11, 2024 | ethics.journalism.wisc.edu | Hannah Ritvo

Hannah Ritvo is a 2023-24 fellow at the Center for Journalism Ethics and an undergraduate student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. When Josh Helfgott was a child, he didn’t see queer individuals in the mainstream media. “I felt so incredibly alone,” Helfgott said. “There was no LGBTQ+ representation in general.