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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Matt Ellis
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Dan Cherry
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