David Luhrssen

Red One is this year’s first Christmas movie pairing Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans as an unlikely Santa-rescuing duo.

Karen Estrada will direct this comforting, joyful play about romantic love and human connection.

Recipes have been published in newspapers at least as long ago as the 19th century. While working on a project to digitize back issues of Badger State papers, many of them long defunct, the authors became fascinated with recipes they found. Parboiled onions stuffed with meat and baked in a paper bag? They discovered that one in a 1912 issue of the Manitowoc Pilot and included it in their book, Extra! Extra! Eat All About It.

Horses once were a primary means for moving goods and getting around, and aside from riding herd and hauling freight, they were the primary instrument of empire builders until replaced by the internal combustion engine.

The critics, directors, writers and cast interviewed for the superbly assembled documentary ‘1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!’ all agree that something special happened that year.

GREENFIELD, Wis. — “It’s good to be back home,” said Rev. Tateos Abdalian, the celebrant and guest speaker for the 82nd anniversary celebration at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church.

Sound emerges from silence on “Deerand,” the opening and title track on the latest album by Quartet Diminished. What begins as a Near Eastern piano nocturn, accompanied by ominous underlying bass notes, grows tense with softly reverberating percussion and rises with the anxious notes of soprano sax and clarinet.

Mike Leckrone took charge of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band in 1968. Before long, they were almost as popular as the Badgers for their skill and showmanship at half-time and postgame. During the ‘80s, some said they played better than the team.

By changing our assumptions, we can change ourselves—and the world. That assumption was crucial in the thinking of David Graeber (1961-2020), anthropologist-turned-anarchist activist. He was an organizer in the Occupy movement that grabbed headlines in 2011 before imploding under the difficulties of maintaining a participatory democracy that demands a vote for even the smallest decisions.

As long ago as 1920, an African American man opened a Harley-Davidson dealership in New York. Like many other chapters in U.S. history, Black participation in the motorcycle culture tended to be marginalized in most accounts, at least until recently.