All Web Content 2014 - 2019
How to Fight the Winter Blues
Advice from someone who really hates winter and wants warmer weather as soon as possible.
A Fictional Universe Model
How can your favorite fictional universes—Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars—apply to real-life decisions?
Book Review: All the Missing Girls
Looking for a new guilty pleasure read? Here's why All the Missing Girls should be next on your reading list.
Supermarket Sushi
She did her best to ignore the muted color of the unidentifiable vegetables neatly packed into the cylinders of white rice, popping each roll into her anxious mouth like she was knocking back pills.
A Floating Pebble
Was his life flashing before his eyes? He saw no light in a tunnel. That must be a good sign.
Going the Distance
Engaging with citizens in their local communities across the state about the higher education debate may be the best way to shape our public universities. The undergraduate-led project Documenting the Aims of Higher Education in Wisconsin demonstrates the eclectic views and barriers of citizens, and how to possibly serve them.
Big Thief and Mount Eerie: Songwriting as Autobiography
Capacity by Big Thief and A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie are both masterworks in autobiographical storytelling in songwriting.
Dear Freshman
As the end of a semester nears, it’s a good time to reflect on what comes next.
Lauren Gunderson: Discussions on Playwriting, Storytelling, and the Role They Play in Bringing Us Together
Playwright Lauren Gunderson spoke at the Madison Public Library in a playful yet thought-provoking reading that covered everything from her personal writing process to why theater’s incomparable influence in our society has endured for centuries.
A Collective Constellation
CRC Peer Mentors are made of starlight - stars that form a collective constellation with the university, its students, and the greater community. In their classrooms, the Wisconsin Idea can truly be examined, discussed, and criticized for growth.
Mundane and Memorable
Our Town is a beautifully written play that reminds us how memorable mundane lives are.
A Time of Transition
Whether you’re having your best semester yet or counting down the days to winter break, you can relate to the transitional feeling of fall.The days seem to slip away, almost as if fall only exists as a segue from long summer days into winter’s unforgiving chill.
Quick Change: The Magic Behind the Stage
A Gentlemen's Guide to Love & Murder brings audience into a magical world of surprises and laughter.
Nyctalopia
...and the manmade starlightwill shimmer down from the deep blanket of night to alight your world-weary eyes...
Your Inner Van Hise
"Mr. Charles Van Hise and I have something in common --we both have an idea"
2017’s Top Book to Movie Adaptations
Truly powerful books translate into powerful movies, and turning a novel into a film can catapult it to new levels of success.