P.O.W.E.R.S. is a new Madison group that supports those having abortions and offers info on options from carrying a pregnancy to term to ending a pregnancy. It’s a new option for those with no personal support network.
Here’s the latest — and last — piece from my fellowship with the Center for Journalism Ethics, which explores how freelance journalists have no recourse in cases where they are sexually harassed.
Madison families and young professionals aren’t mincing words. They say the city’s rental market is “a nightmare,” “verging on highly unaffordable” and turning into “an absolute [expletive] housing crisis.”
(Above image credit: artist Panmela Castro with photo by Anarkia Boladona)
This was a large package of stories for Madison Magazine on the city’s public art scene, including information about new funding, new projects, the efforts of local non-profits and what’s going on in neighboring cities’ art scenes.
Other articles include:
Attention-grabbing installations can be found throughout the city (link)
Other area cities add to constellation of public art (link)
Dane Arts Mural Arts brings artists and buildings together (link)
This cover story for Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine examines the rise of drone use and the potential these flying robots have to transform multiple industries in Wisconsin while also looking at what the ubiquitous technology means for individual privacy.
Like most kids, Amirah Coleman loves music. But when this 12-year-old jams out to her favorite tracks, she doesn’t play them on headphones or a home stereo.
Instead, she steps up to a pair of Technics 1200 turntables and loads the songs into the Serato computer program. From there she cues up a Pioneer S9 mixer to layer the tracks over each other, then uses the turntables to sync the beats and adjust the pitch until the songs blend into one seamless playlist.
