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8 O'Clock Buzz
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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...
Access Hour: The World Naked Bike Ride
On the Access Hour, host Nicholas Wootton presents a 20-minute sound collage feature recordings of the ride along with portions of interviews with peo...
Nudism in the Twenty First Century
Lacking fur or feathers, yet having migrated to places like – say Wisconsin, where the windchill has sat at 15 below zero Fahrenheit the last few days...
Pulaski High School Students Cover the Local Beat
Named after Revolutionary War General and founder of the U.S. Cavalry Casimir Pulaski, the Village of Pulaski sits 20 miles northeast of Green Bay. K...
Building a Better John Nolen Drive
If you’re thinking of travelling on Madison’s John Nolen Drive lately, well… don’t. The City of Madison has just started a nine month long project to...
Tuba, or Not Tuba
If that is the question, definitely tuba. Dave Spies and members of the TubaChristmas orchestra join host Tony Castañeda and the Thursday 8 O’Clock B...
Whale Species Spotted in Wild for First Time
You might think that human beings have explored every inch of the planet earth, and that few mysteries remain. Yet, the earth, especially its oceans,...
Wisconsin Congressional Maps Go to Court
In December of 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that state legislature district maps adopted in 2022 violated the state constitution. ...
WORT OG 1975
Host Tony Castañeda speaks with some of the original staff and volunteers who worked at WORT at the dawn of its existence. Mike DeMark, former audio...
Promoting the Positivity in the Community
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie “Brodean” Morris joins us to talk about new magazine coming...
WORT’s Present and Future with Board President Grant Foster
On December 1, 2025, WORT celebrated its 50th birthday. We now turn from looking at WORT’s distant past to WORT’s present and future. During our la...
WORT Greets Denizens of “the Eyeball Planet”
Charles Cadieux
(photo courtesy Charles Cadieux)WORT sent out its first – admittedly ramshackle – broadcast on December 1, 1975. Since...
Fifty Years of WORT Weirdness
On December 1, 1975, an FM radio station was born. Broadcasting originally at 89.7 megahertz from a now-demolished ramshackle studio on Winnebago Str...
Champagne Problems
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, on Tara’s birthday-eve, some serious talk about dealing with the s...
Finding Home on Highway 14: Episode Four
Since August of 2025, Madison-based performance artist Nicole Gruter has been searching for someplace that feels like home out on U.S. Highway 14. Hi...
Cherish Fund Seeks to Fill Gaps in State Conservation
While the state legislature continues to dither on renewing the state stewardship fund, the Cherish Fund tries to plug the gap for conservation. We’l...
State GOP Balks at Election Reforms
A month ago, Votebeat reporter Alex Shur told us how GOP rep Scott Krug was the voice of moderation in the state legislature. Well now, the right win...
Crying Wolf
Wisconsin State legislators have recently passed a bill that would mandate a wolf hunt with a hard cap goal regardless of science, pack health or ecol...
Here’s a Shout Out!
Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Governor House, A/K/A DJ G Money joins us to tell his story, talk...
150 Years X 150 Artists at Madison Public Library
The Madison Public Library is three times as old as WORT, and it’s celebrating its 150th anniversary with the art exhibit to end all art exhibits, fea...