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Like Bolts of Lightning

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March 8, 2014 - 11:30am

He was one of the most famous men in Europe, and even though he was feeling unwell, Niccolò Paganini had come to Berlin to perform. The audience of nine hundred or so included Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, and all the royal family. Writing four days later, on March...

Lighter Ways To Prepare Root Vegetables

March 7, 2014 - 3:16pm

Wisconsinites are getting a little bit more sunshine every day, but the temperatures are still cold here and none of the spring produce is in season yet.

If you're sick of eating root vegetables, you're in luck. Wisconsin Public Radio music host and resident foodie Lori Skelton has some lighter preparations to get people in the mood for spring.

One of the recipes that Skelton shares is a golden buttermilk borscht. The recipe is from "The Moosewood Cookbook" from the 1970s.

"Instead of using some of the heavier things that can be used in a borscht, like cabbage and potatoes and heavier sour...

Radio Won't Wait

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March 7, 2014 - 11:30am

According to its producer, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour was a way for radio audiences “to feel cultured without really being so.” Beginning in 1934 it provided classical music, popular opera arias, familiar ballads, and hymns. Henry Ford hired most of the Detroit Symphony as the house orchestra. The conductors...

Friday Night In Wisconsin Is Fish Fry Night

March 7, 2014 - 6:00am

With the start of Lent, Wisconsin’s ever-popular Friday night fish fry tradition is about to get even more popular.

Ron Faiola, a fish fry connoisseur and producer of a documentary about Milwaukee’s fish fry scene, said Wisconsin residents should be on the lookout for church-hosted fish fries this time of year as Roman Catholics giving up meat for the season often turn to fish as a substitute.

But the origin of the fish fry, Faiola said, was more universal.

“It was a way to get people and families into taverns,” he said. “Perch was abundant and cheap back in the day....

The Challenge

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March 6, 2014 - 11:30am

By 1754 Francesco Geminiani was known throughout Europe as a composer of concertos. When he was approached by the director of a Paris theater to write theater music, Geminiani took up the challenge. The Enchanted Forest was a pantomime based on episodes from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered– a subject that...

The Pauper

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March 5, 2014 - 11:30am

Young André Gretry led the life of a character from Dickens. He was the son of a poor church musician in the city of Liège, Belgium. About 1750, at the age of nine, he became a choir boy, a position that required him to walk a mile each way to...

Barbie Appearance On Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Sends Wrong Message, Professor Says

March 5, 2014 - 6:00am

The Barbie doll turns 55 years old this year and she is celebrating by launching an advertising campaign titled “Unapologetic” and having a photo on the cover of the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated magazine.

But, why should people care? Leslie Harris, an assistant professor in the communication department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said people should because this turn of events has stirred up the debate about how these two iconic entities in American pop culture objectify women.

Harris' research focuses on rhetoric in public culture as it pertains to gender, and she said objectification occurs “when a person...

Documentary Examines What Media Monopolies Mean For A Free Press

March 4, 2014 - 1:00pm

One doesn’t need to place the U.S. media under a microscope to discover that most information comes courtesy a very small and ever-shrinking group of for-profit corporations.

According to watchdog groups like Free Press and Common Cause, a mere six corporations currently control 90 percent of the mainstream media in the U.S., and their control is only growing as more and more media conglomerates consolidate.

What does this mean for the public? How does corporate control of the media affect the range and quality of information people get?

Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay’s documentary, "Shadows of Liberty," examines...

A Yearlong Investigation Looks Into The Dark Side Of Fraternities

March 7, 2014 - 4:15pm

A journalist spent a year looking at modern fraternity life on the American college campus...and found that in many cases, the fraternities have become more powerful than the universities that host them.

Wisconsin Women Who Took On The World Of Fashion

March 6, 2014 - 3:15pm

When you think of ball gowns and designer shoes you may not think of Wisconsin. High fashion is for places like New York or Paris, right?

Well not so fast. Fashion and the Badger State aren’t exactly strangers. From first ladies in jumpsuits to nightclub singers in couture, women throughout Wisconsin history have embraced fashion and sometimes pushed its boundaries.

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Lighter Ways To Prepare Root Vegetables

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Barbie Appearance On Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Sends Wrong Message, Professor Says

Documentary Examines What Media Monopolies Mean For A Free Press

A Yearlong Investigation Looks Into The Dark Side Of Fraternities

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