Singer-songwriter Sam Ness on the road again
Sam Ness chose the road over college musical theater scholarship offers. He travels with a guitar and little else, and has accrued a deep well of colorful stories.
Caire: The Black Hands That Built America
Kaleem Caire wrote a guest column in the August 2020 issue of Madison Magazine.
Saved by the Laurel Tavern’s fish fry
Anyone with a sense of Madison and Wisconsin history should appreciate both fish fries and the Laurel Tavern.
Editor's Note: Forever Changed
Once a month I walk down the dark hallway of Madison Magazine’s empty office to pick up the latest copy of the magazine, check my messages and empty my mailbox.
Odom: Beat No. 49
Experience teaches that protests cannot persist forever. The challenge will be to determine when to swap demonstrations for negotiations.
From Waunakee, a Caribbean caper
Davin Goodwin has just published his first novel, “Diver’s Paradise,” set on the Caribbean island of Bonaire.
Wisconsin true crime documentary in the works
A national video crew was in Madison last week conducting interviews for an upcoming true crime documentary series. My two-hour Skype interview with them plunged me back into a story that decades ago an investigator told me included “the most patently bizarre, absolutely incredible set of circumstances you’d ever want to see.”
Jonathan Little, Madison’s music missionary
Jonathan Little currently manages a handful of musicians and programs three channels for the online music streaming service Accuradio and for 22 years has worked as an executive for TroyResearch.
Heinen: A message to the Madison graduates of 2020
Editorial director Neil Heinen offers words of wisdom for this year's graduating class.
Madison’s Isaac Scott is a photographer now
Seven of Isaac Scott's breathtaking black and white images taken at protests in Philadelphia are spread across 14 pages in the June 22 issue of The New Yorker magazine, which includes other stories related to George Floyd and social justice.
A gripping first novel from Innocence Project’s Steven Wright
Steven Wright’s first novel, “The Coyotes of Carthage,” is informed by the five years the author spent doing voting rights litigation for the United States Department of Justice.
Roach: Shelter from the storm
In times of turmoil, it is difficult to see the full story. But then it hits you: The chaos is the story.
Why we're capitalizing the B in Black
National Association of Black Journalists updates its style guide, and we are, too.
Heinen: Stress unrelieved
COVID-19 opened our eyes to stresses too long obscured by a distracted society.
Editor's note: blinding light of privilege
I often have to squint through the blinding light of my own white privilege.
A fond farewell to Bill and Bobbie Malone
Bill and Bobbie Malone are basically inseparable. They play music together and after her 2011 retirement from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Bobbie helped with “Back to the Country,” Bill's Wednesday morning program on WORT-FM.
Cycling with America’s first black sports hero
Michael Kranish’s book “The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero" is about cycling and about race relations at an earlier time in the United States.
Heinen: Madison media, we’re in this together
Local news gathering is a responsibility and a privilege and those of us who do it take it seriously.
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