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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...
Yid Vicious Celebrates 30 Years: Live on the Monday Buzz
On Friday, February 2, 1996, – Groundhog Day – Madison found itself in the grip of an Arctic outbreak that saw 10 inches of snow falling and r...
Historical Perspective on National Guard and Federal Agents
On Saturday, January 24th, U.S. Border Patrol agents Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Guttierez shot ICU nurse Alex Pretti dead in the streets of the...
MN Immigrant Rights Activists at Center of Resistance to I.C.E.
In a recent visit to Minneapolis, U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance expressed surprise at the level of what he called “chaos” in the Twin Cities,...
When Someone Says “White Power” it Really Means Something Differen...
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie Brodean is out sick, so it’s a grab bag show, talking Madis...
UW Cinematheque Launches Spring Season
The University of Wisconsin’s Cinematheque is one of the few places remaining in the Madison area where filmgoers can see arthouse films, restorations...
Data Centers Cause Problems far Beyond their Footprint
According to datacenter.com, there are currently 40 data centers in Wisconsin, with at least 5 more proposed, including a thousand-acre QTS facility p...
Madison Claims Absentee Voting is a Privilege
The saga of the City of Madison’s failure to count 193 absentee ballots in the November 2024 election continued in court this month. In response to a...
The More I Want To Be Myself
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Antoine McNeail, Lashay The Artist is in the studio to continue telling her story, talk about art and...
“Project Projection” Offers New Slate of Local Short Films...
Madison’s ongoing open mike for local film producers, Project Projection at the Arts and Literature Laboratory presents its next installment o...
Making Sense of Dry January
In 2011, U.K. marathon runner Emily Robinson decided to forego any alcohol consumption for the month of January and subsequently reported great gains...
Open Records Shed New Light on Renee Good Killing
On January 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Minneapolis resident Renee Good at the wheel of her vehicle. The i...
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Eulogy for Young Victims 9/18/1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 18, 1963. King spoke at the funeral of four...
Color Wherever You Are
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Lashay The Artist joins us for the hour to talk about her story, f...
Children’s African Story Hour Teaches Empathy
This year, the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Regional and International Studies, in cooperation with the Madison Public Library, is expandin...
Brazen Dropouts Presents 2026 Bike Swap
If you’re like many DIY bicycle aficionados, you probably have a garage full of frames, forks, seat posts, saddles and handlebars left over from proje...
What Will WI Democrats Do if they Retake the Statehouse?
Fourteen years ago, a national Republican wave election swept the GOP into control of both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature and the governor’s hous...
Voices from Madison’s 1/9/2026 vigil for Renee Good
On January 9, 2026, hundreds of Madisonians turned out to Capitol Square to hold a vigil for Renee Nicole Good, who was shot dead by I.C.E....
Oil Grab
Greg Wilpert, German activist and founder of Venezuelanalysis.com, joins host Tony Castañeda to discuss recent events in Venezuela and beyond. Trump’...
New Year, New Perspective
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, the crew is back together live, catching up on the holidays, new y...
Arts Lit Lab Exhibits Roundhouse Studio Artists
As anyone who has navigated Madison’s real estate market knows, finding affordable space is a real challenge. That’s doubly true for visual and perfo...
Oracular Studios Presents “12 Angry Jurors”
Back in 1954, at the height of the paranoia and suspicion of the McCarthy era, television screenwriter Reginald Rose received a summons from the New Y...
Nicolas Maduro Abduction Violates International Law
At 2:01 a.m. on Saturday, January 3, under heavy air bombardment, U.S. Army Delta Force troops abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First...
Madison Protests Maduro Abduction
On Saturday, January 3, 2026, less than twelve hours after U.S. Special Forces abducted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, Madison residents gathere...
Cheshire Cat Comedy Closes Out 2025 with a Laugh
Well, 2025 has been, to put it mildly, quite a year. With everything that has gone on since January, many of us could use a decent laugh. Madison tr...
“The Absence of Reality”
At the end of Lewis Carroll’s 1871 children’s novel, “Through the Looking Glass,” Carroll’s heroine, Alice, asks her cat, Kitty, an important questio...
Wisconsin DHS Breaks Ranks with CDC on Hepatitis Vaccine
Back in June, U.S. Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy, Junior abruptly dismissed all of the members of the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Commi...
Let Your Kids Go Where They Want to Go
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Antoine McNeail flying solo, no guest means a grab bag show, caller shout-outs and talk about parenti...
Access Hour: Nude Organic Farming
Learn about a Wisconsin organic farm that embodies the spirit of getting back to nature completely, by farming in the nude. For this portion of the De...