by Erika Janik | Dec 23, 2014 | Magazine Article
In late August of 1906, Mrs. Anna Carlton announced her intention to drown herself in the Chippewa River. Her disappearance soon after led many to believe she had followed through on her promise. Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction by...
by Jon Horvath | Dec 22, 2014 | Magazine Article
Grounded in a sense of wonder and awe, Wide Eyed departs from a reactionary response to my surroundings. I approach this series of photographs with the spirit of the wanderer and emphasize egalitarianism with the images I select. Wide Eyed persists as the undercurrent...
by Lisa Gaumnitz | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Kathy Mehls is a retired high school guidance counselor from Chippewa Falls with an abiding love of birds and the outdoors. Most days, Mehls experiences the sciences vicariously through her daughter Casey, a biologist working to protect endangered species in South...
by Jason Smith | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Fifteen years ago, University of Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer delivered a prescient commencement address on a political and cultural phenomenon called “the New Tribalism.” “I hear an ancient noise rising in Oregon. … It sounds like the cacophony of a hundred...
by Randall Berndt, Martha Glowacki | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
There was no way of knowing what a great success the James Watrous Gallery in Overture Center for the Arts would be when its doors opened on Sunday, September 19, in 2004. Located in downtown Madison, just steps from the Capitol Square, the high-profile gallery was...
by Marilyn Shapiro Leys | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
First the eyes, he thought. Watch the eyes—where are the eyes watching? Forward, searching over heads, sorting out the familiar ones ahead on the rickety gangplank? Or backward, back to the steamship, the eyes glancing over the shoulder—the right shoulder, usually,...
