Tone Madison

Artist Anne Ciecko's videopoem, LIMERENT PITTSBURGH (2025), is a highlight among the 30 selections of this year's Midwest Video Poetry Fest at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Saturday, April 4.

"...The use of a murmuring accordion melody also acts as a key component to this videopoem's heightened yearning that flits between a focus on the city's eminent industry and the crux of memory. Ciecko calls herself an autodidactic player, and sees the trans-cultural instrument serving as another voice along with her [narration], complementing the folkloric elements extracted through the multiplicity of images and words," writes Arts Editor Grant Phipps.

"Limerent Pittsburgh" intricately constructs a folkloric affection of place Artist Anne Ciecko's 2025 videopoem is a highlight among the 30 selections of this year's Midwest Video Poetry Fest at ALL on April 4.

Amelia Zollner gets to know retired lecturer and winsome ornithologist Charles "Chuck" Henrikson on one of his most recent UW-Madison Arboretum Tuesday birding hikes, which he's been coordinating for well over a decade.

Like Henrikson, we "wish you good health and good birding too."

Good birding in all seasons with the storied Charles "Chuck" Henrikson The retired lecturer and winsome ornithologist has been coordinating Tuesday birder hikes at the Arboretum for well over a decade.

"It's easy to build a great food culture in a city just by going out more often, especially during non-peak hours.... One small change in dining habits would have a massive impact. If even a quarter of Madisonians added one or two more nights out during the week, that would mean around 65,000 more meals for Madison's nearly 1,500 total restaurants," writes Jesse Raub in his final "Small Bites" column.

Small Bites: How I would fix Madison dining Going out on Sundays and other thoughts on building a more sustainable food city.