Madison News

Madison Central High School graduate Liz Davis won the final round Sunday of P. Diddy's StarMaker on MTV.

Members of the John Marshall High School band including Michael Register wait to leave the field after competing in the Bands of America Super Regional Championships at the Alamodome on Saturday.

Nick Cannon deejays at the Bank in the Bellagio during his 29th birthday celebration.

Country singer Liz Davis of Madison has made it into the final four on the MTV reality show 'P. Diddy's Starmaker.' Two contestants were sent home Sunday, leaving the Madison Central High School graduate among the three women and one man still in the running for a record deal with Diddy's label.

It's just about showtime on a Wednesday night at the Frequency, and the stage room contains only a few folks with pints ... and a band dressed in hooded black capes, forbidding sunglasses and a bit of dark makeup.

A New York man is out on bail after being arrested for monitoring police movements around the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh and disseminating intelligence to protesters on the ground.

The 30-second ads, done in a black-and-white documentary style, feature ordinary jocks intercut with sports superstars such as basketball player Michael Jordan and tennis champion John McEnroe, while John Lennon sings, "You say you want a revolution." The new sneakers cost $75 a pair.

Holly Madison lost her Mayor Oscar Goodman bobblehead at the ballpark last week.

Rapper Vanilla Ice played to the crowd Saturday, July 4, 2009, at Wet Republic at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Simian songs specifically designed to appeal to monkeys have been composed by scientists, in an experiment that sheds new light on the evolutionary origins of Man's taste for music.

Sharon Rotz of Mosinee, Patricia Gaska of Rothschild and Betty Haase of Weston have quilts accepted in the Quilt Expo quilt contest.

With a larger-than-life, televised version of herself singing her heart out and swaggering across the stage, Liz Davis of Madison sat glued to the big-screen TV watching, for the first time, her performance on the new MTV show P. Diddy's Starmaker.

Since January, virtually no dogs or cats brought into the Madison animal shelter have been euthanized thanks to the efforts of a new rescue group, Madison Animal Rescue Foundation.

Rumer Willis, daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, walked the red carpet Saturday, August 15, 2009, before her 21st birthday party at Tao at the Venetian in Las Vegas.

Sculptor Gil Boro holds one of the maquettes that will be on display at Gallery One.

What can you find in this week's Isthmus ? Highlights from the latest issue follow: Madison.gov: Union stewards question state furloughs that don't save any money.

Kathleen Hughes of Wauwatosa has a quilt titled "The Persistence of Life"" accepted in the Quilt Expo quilt contest.

Maria Terres of Shorewood has a quilt titled "66 Dragonflies, Some Swirlies and Just One Butterfly" accepted in the Quilt Expo quilt contest.

The Holman Autry Band will play its next concert in Athens at the Melting Point for the American Cancer Society, which booked the band for its first bachelor's auction.

The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block an architect from engraving "In God We Trust" and the Pledge of Allegiance at the new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.