Among
the countless blogs covering food, we've always been inspired by
Midtown Lunch, a guide for regular working types to eating an economical
yet luscious lunch in Midtown Manhattan that began in 2006. We're happy
to start our Mad Town Lunch adventure by quizzing Adam Powell.
The
ancient performance arts of dance, music and theater face stiff
competition from new digital unrealities -- Xbox, Netflix and the strobe
of CGI. But our old traditions wield a primal, visceral punch; the
sweat and immediacy of live performances provide a depth of experience
that flat-screen pastimes cannot. Walk your kids away from the Wii and
watch their synapses light up when they witness how good live
entertainment with no digital effects can be.
With new Hobbit movies and the red-hot series Game of Thrones
in the cultural consciousness, mead-swilling characters from medieval
environs abound. So it is with admirable timing that Colleen Bos has
just opened Madison's first facility dedicated solely to mead, combining
her backgrounds as a homebrewer and medieval historian. Her Kickstarter
project reached its goal in mid-August, and now a clean, professional
meadery at 849 E. Washington Ave. is open for business.
When
Salon Media Group broke the news in late June that employees of
ur-online community the WELL had been terminated and that assets were up
for sale, a cadre of early Net adopters bristled, then rallied. Founded
in 1985 by Larry Brilliant and Stewart Brand, the WELL is among the
first and richest online communities.
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