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The Onion Radio News has been the most highly regarded broadcast news source in the world since visionary Onion publisher T.Herman Zweibel made the bold move in 1922 to shut down the popular Onion Telegraph News and focus on the...

Simone Dinnerstein at the Union Theater; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) , Step Afrika! , and Grease at Overture; Taylor Hicks at the High Noon; The Books, Boombox, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and James Otto with Jimmy Wayne at...

While they were gradually growing more able at identifying bands with true appeal to the hip, many of the good rock bands that found success on majors like Columbia were still being poached from the smaller labels at even the...

Amid continued reports detailing the CIA's use of loud music to torture detainees at Guantánamo Bay, pop-culture elitists from across the country gathered in the nation's capital Monday to protest the uninspired song selections employed in the brutal treatment of...

The Selfish Gene prevailed last night at the Frequency in the final round of Isthmus Band to Band Combat , the local-music contest staged by your favorite Madison alternative newsweekly. The runner-up was The Midwest Beat , the quartet whose...

I like to think of these categories as either ends of a ruler, with most books falling somewhere between the two ends. A lot of the books I read fall right around the middle of the continuum between popular and...