Wisconsin Life

The 91st Academy Awards ceremony is happening this Sunday, which got Dean Robbins thinking about movies set in and around Madison. It’s always a thrill to see Wisconsin’s capital city as a backdrop for a major motion picture, or is that really Madison we are seeing? == I guess I should be glad that Hollywood

Wisconsin is THE badger state. It's on the flag. It's the mascot of the state's biggest university. And back in 1957, lawmakers put the badger into state law as Wisconsin's official animal. But why?

In Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood, a museum is resurrecting. America’s Black Holocaust Museum was founded in 1988, closed in 2008, and transformed into an online museum. Now, a new physical museum stands, waiting to welcome visitors from around the world. Before understanding the museum's history and purpose, it helps to get to know its founder,

Metcalfe Park Legacy Garden in Milwaukee has transformed several vacant lots into a vibrant place for community gatherings and education. The garden is overseen by the Metcalfe Park Community Bridges organization and GroundWork Milwaukee, which provides modest stipends for neighborhood kids to work on the garden in the summer months. The Lands We Share farming history

Jackie Kashian fell hard for comedy while attending University of Wisconsin-Madison, but the elements were there while growing up in South Milwaukee….NOT Milwaukee. “I have been explaining to people that South Milwaukee is its own town in between Cudahy and Oak Creek with its own water treatment plant. We have a football team, Go Rockets,”

On the third Thursday of each month, pinball enthusiasts from across Madison converge at I/O Arcade Bar to get lost in the world of flippers, multiballs and free games. The growing popularity of arcade bars is hard to ignore. In Madison alone, the last several years has seen an explosion in places to play pinball,

A classic Wisconsin activity is making its ways into the world of high school sports. Ice fishing teams are popping up in schools across the state. January 5th marked the first high school ice fishing tournament of 2019 at Bone Lake in Luck, Wisconsin. While trucks and trailers filed in, coaches distributed bait, and student

Is there a song that represents or unifies the state? Is it 'On, Wisconsin!'? Bon Iver? Liberace? We got music journalists and historians to weigh in.

Coyotes have moved into areas within the Madison city limits. What does that mean for human and canid coexistence? Researchers are trying to find out through the UW-Madison Urban Canid Project. Steve Gotcher joined the group of scientists in the field on a quest to capture and examine a coyote. Here's what he found... ==

January is National Polka Month. And what better place to commemorate this iconic sound than in Wisconsin, where the polka is our state dance? To celebrate, poet Susan Firer shares a poem about her sister's accordion and her mother's irritation. == 1956, the Year My Sister, Using Her Ill Health Once Again, Blackmailed My Parents