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“Slow Looking” Brings New Perspective to Art
We live in a world that values speed and efficiency above all. The internet serves us thousands of bite-sized memes, which we quickly devour while do...
How Rare are “Rare Earths?”
In February, President Trump announced the creation of “Project Vault,” a $12 billion public-private partnership to create a U.S. based strategic rese...
Iran War at Stalemate Six Weeks In
As the U.S./ Israeli war on Iran enters its sixth week, the death toll continues to climb. According to Al Jazeera, the region has seen a total of ov...
Finding Home on Highway 14: Episode Six
Since August of 2025, Madison-based performance artist Nicole Gruter has been searching for someplace that feels like home out on U.S. Highway 14. Hi...
Science Expeditions Open Up UW Labs
On Friday, April 10 through Sunday, April 12, the University of Wisconsin offers a peek under the hood of its various science departments. The UW Sci...
Postmark Changes Could Affect Absentee Ballots
If you were planning on mailing in your absentee ballot before tomorrow’s Wisconsin election, you might want to deliver it yourself instead. Last Dec...
Trumpargo on Cuba
Cuba is in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis since 1959 according to Andres Pertierra, Historian at the UW-Madison. The economy isn’t functi...
Understand what Blessings Look Like
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, we’re joined by Larissa Ako from the Urban League of Greater Madis...
Retreating into the Dark Forests of the Internet
When new media technologies, such as radio, television, or even the printing press, first emerge, they hold the promise of democratizing access to inf...
Election Issues Front and Center in Supreme Court Race
From ballot boxes, to legislative districts, to the privacy of voter information, the next Wisconsin Supreme Court justice may rule on a plethora of e...
Maria Lazar Seeks Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat
On April 7, voters in Wisconsin will select a new justice for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Justice Rebecca Bradley. The nonpa...
Voices from the Madison “No Kings” Rally 3/28/2026
Tens of thousands marched on the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of nationwide “No Kings” protests. We hear from some of the voices, talking about fai...
Midwest Video Poetry Fest 2026 Lands at ArtLitLab
Madison’s Arts and Literature Laboratory’s Midwest Video Poetry Festival, now in its sixth year, seeks to synthesize one of humanity’s oldest art form...
Taxes Only Part of Housing Costs
In their February 2026 housing report, the Wisconsin Realtors Association found that the median price of a new home in Southern Wisconsin had grown to...
Slaying the Gerrymander Dragon
In 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that state assembly and senate district maps created by the Republican-led legislature in 2011 violated...
Lots of Folks Realities
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Afra Smith, Founder and CEO of The Melanin Project, as well as fou...
“Pants on Fire” Brings Craig Ferguson Back to Overture Cen...
Back in the 1980s, Craig Ferguson started his entertainment career as a drummer for Glasgow punk bands Night Creatures, Exposure, Ana Hausen and The B...
Native Plants Promote Biodiversity at Neighborhood Scales
Though a half a foot of new snow in the Madison area may suggest otherwise, gardening season is right around the corner. Rather than fill you...
Sometimes Words Are All We Have
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie “Brodean” Morris is back in the studio to talk about the up...
Astria Suparak Presents “Asian Futures Without Asians”
For years, performance and multimedia artist Astria Suparak has been challenging audiences with her blend of science fiction movies, rock ‘n’ roll, in...
Bonobos’ “Make-Believe” Play Challenges Assumptions ...
Human beings guard their intellectual achievements very jealously. For decades, students were taught that so-called “lower animals” were creatures wh...
Federal Law Puts the Squeeze on Cannabis Market
In 2018, Congress passed the omnibus Farm Bill, which included changes to how the federal government regulates the plant cannabis sativa L., otherwise...
Are You Working a Dream or Working a Business
Today on the Too Turnt Up Pledge Drive Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, multi-entrepreneur and music business expert Will “Ch...
Air Wisconsin Survives by Serving ICE
Across the country, regional short-hop airlines face potential extinction, as rising costs, pilot shortages and industry upsizing of commercial aircra...
There Are Always Ways to Dance
Today on the Not Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, Jennie Mullins, Director of Arts Education, and Matthew Sanborn, Exhibitions Manag...
Lead Between the Rhymes: 50 Years of Hip Hop in Wisconsin
Think of vibrant hiphop scenes, and major metropolitan areas like New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Detroit come immediately to mind. But hipho...
UW African-American Studies Student Symposium 2026
On February 27th from 8:00 am to 4:00 PM the University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of African American Studies will hold its 2026 studen...
A Good Clerk is Hard to Find
Between April, 2025 and February, 2026, thirteen towns, villages and cities in Wausau County, Wisconsin lost their municipal clerks due to retirement,...
Not-So-Rare Earth Minerals
Rare earth minerals are a group of 17 chemically similar, heavy metals, that are used for many high-tech and sustainable energy applications. Despite...
Going Hard Against the Narratives
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Dwight Hayes, serial entrepreneur, proud father and husband, and 2...
Finding Home on Highway 14: Episode 5
Madison’s Nicole Gruter has been travelling the historic U.S. Highway 14, bringing us the stories of those who live along the iconic road. This time...
Reports from Palestine’s West Bank
While the world has focused on Israel’s invasion and occupation of the Gaza Strip, other disputed territories on Israel’s borders have started heating...
New Madison City Clerk has Hands Full with Election Prep
Lydia McComas, Madison’s new City Clerk has only been on the job for seven months, but she already has her hands full. McComas’ predecessor, Maribeth...
Can We Add More Black History?
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie Brodean joins us in studio, dressed to the nines, to announ...
Combo Noir Says, “To Hell with Love”
Saint Valentine, the patron saint of epileptics and beekeepers, was beheaded at the hands of Roman Centurions on February 14, 225. For reasons no-one...
Magdalena Coline: A Life Beyond Slavery
Although the concept of slavery has existed, to some extent, throughout recorded history, the institution took on new dimensions in the 17th, 18th and...
WI Democracy Campaign on Protecting 2026 Elections
Last week, President Donald Trump continued to throw shade at election officials in traditionally Democratic states. On Monday, February 2nd, Trump to...
Governor’s Race – David Crowley
David Crowley, the current Milwaukee County Executive, joins host Eli Wilz to discuss his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial primary to be hel...
In From The Cold
Living at 10,000 feet elevation in bitterly cold weather can have its challenges. Christine Verdico, Electronics Engineering Technician at UW-Madison...
Beautiful Alchemy
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, talking about beautiful alchemy, taking adversity and doing good with it. In the firs...