Maggie Ginsberg

2 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Maggie Ginsberg

“A Riotous Cast of Characters” tells the story of the former Wisconsin State Journal office on Carroll Street, as narrated by retired WSJ editor Harold McClelland. “We threw cigarette butts on the floor, yelled, worked long hours and drank (after deadlines, of course), and on weekends we filled the society editor’s desk with empty bottles,” McClelland wrote, going on to bemoan the changing face of technology.

3 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Maggie Ginsberg

Recognize this neon sign? Look again. This doesn’t say “Smoky’s Club” like you remember from the iconic sign that stood on University Avenue for nearly 70 years. Rather, it reads, “So Far, So Good.”This is one of Wisconsin artist Krista V. Allenstein’s former specialties: She took recognizable neon signs and turned them into oil paintings on vintage maps featuring new phrases.

3 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Anna Kottakis |Maggie Ginsberg

Look, there, on the wall: the most exquisite Victorian wallpaper pattern. On a blush of delicate pink, the color of a clamshell’s interior, eight circles burst from a round center, each with a triangular marking inside. Come closer. Further enter the welcoming room, furnished with warm wooden antique cabinetry and lit with chandeliers, so you can better admire the wallpaper — except it isn’t wallpaper.

1 month ago | channel3000.com | Maggie Ginsberg

As a former editor of Isthmus and current co-editor of On Wisconsin Magazine, Dean Robbins is best known for his journalism and, most recently, a slate of delightfully educational children’s picture books that highlight his many heroes. Now Robbins is bringing his passion for spotlighting prominent individuals to a grown-up audience with “Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in April.

1 month ago | channel3000.com | Maggie Ginsberg

In 1986, the same year “Back to School” starring Rodney Dangerfield (and partly filmed in Madison) came out, Tom Kinney wrote a March cover story for Madison Magazine called “Movie Making in Wisconsin.” It opens with Madison rock band Spooner filming “Dreams Come True,” a low-budget movie set in an Oshkosh bar, with members Butch Vig and Doug Erickson — who scored the film — “lip-synching their way through a routine bar fight scene.” Kinney noted that, while only 10 years earlier most movies...