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422 Black Sheep - RPG and card gaming club.
4Kids Treehouse - 
- List of links to kid-friendly web sites.
all-info - Local web guide.
American Girl - - Online magazine for girls, sponsored by the Pleasant Company. Activities, stories, advice column -- good stuff!
Antares Publishing - Includes Antares Science Fiction, a site for sci-fi writing; LAFF, a humor page; and World Domination Review, a political humor, satire and paranoia 'zine.
ArmatiWeb - Armati is a set of published rules for ancient, Medieval and Renaissance wargaming. This web site has the related info.
Bicycling Community Page - - Covers Madison and Dane County. Pretty comprehensive.
Bowlweb - Info about bowling in Wisconsin.
Broom Street Theatre - Community theatre.
Call for Peace Drum and Dance Company - Local troupe's mission is to educate people about nonviolence through art performances.
Capitol City "N"Gineers - Model railroading organization.
Capitol Sound Drum and Bugle Corps - Local drum and bugle corps.
Cheap at Any Price Poets - Open mic readings and poetry slams.
Club Curling - 
- Devoted to bringing you the latest information about club curling.
Commander Bob's Boating Safety Notebook - - Lots of useful information about boating.
Contra Dance of Madison - A kind of folk dancing. Includes schedules and info.
Cows on the Concourse - The bovines take over the Capitol Square for this dairy-filled event.
CyberMad - An award-winning electronic publication.
The Daily Page - - - The Isthmus weekly newspaper posts daily web updates. The Daily Page has many interesting and informative sections, including the best local movie listings.
Destination Baraboo - - A Baraboo / Wisconsin Dells vacation planner, with information on lodging, camping, night-life, shopping, entertainment and lots more.
Farmers' Market - Info about this downtown tradition, held every Saturday during reasonably warm (or not freezing cold) months.
Fish Wisconsin - Comprehensively covers fishing news, regulations, records, maps and so forth.
Garbage - Local band goes national.
Gerald A. Bartell Community Theatre - Includes the Madison Theatre Guild, the Strollers, Millenium Theatre, The Mercury Theatre and the Mazomanie R&R.
Girl Scout Troop #037 - Troop in Waunakee put up information about their activities.
Green Bay Packers - Not exactly local, but their fans are vocal, so...
Headpump - A local band.
The Hypnotic Network - This is actually an interesting idea: content from other entertainment sites (most notably CyberMad, Soundz and Muskrat Central) arranged in a television channel metaphor.
Janesville Concert Association -
Just Aquaria Web Site - The cleverly-named JAWS site has information on how to raise fish and other creatures in a freshwater or marine aquarium.
Kirk's Paddlin' Page - Information resource on canoeing.
Kohlcam - No, it's not pictures of U.S. Senator Herb Kohl running around Washington DC (though that does raise an interesting possibility for participatory democracy...) -- it's a live camera streaming video over the web pointed at the construction of the Kohl Center.
Live 1 - Guide to local music in Milwaukee and Madison.
Locust and Honey - A review of Christian poetry.
Mad Media Productions - Non-profit organization hosts science-fiction conventions.
Mad-City Ski Team - Waterskiing show team.
Madison Black Wolf Baseball - Local baseball team.
Madison By Night - UW-Madison student organization for live role-playing/interactive drama enthusiasts.
Madison Capitols - Independent AAA Peewee youth hockey team sponsored by the Madison Monsters professional hockey team.
Madison Civic Center - Sponsors a broad range of cultural activities.
Madison Curling Club - - Get on the ice to sweep in front of stones in this exciting winter sport.
MadisonDining On Line - - Information on local restaurants and gourmet indulgences .
Madison Hoofers - An outdoor recreation club.
Madison Metropolitan School District Planetarium - Teaches children and adults from around the state about astronomy.
The Madison Music Homepage - Promoting and supporting local music and musicians.
Madison Music Online - Club calendar and band directory.
Madison Restaurant Guide - Somewhat outdated information about Madison eateries, but still useful.
Madison Scottish Country Dancers -
Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps -
The Madison Wordplayers - Group meets at Borders every month to play word-related games.
Mifflin Street Block Party - You can read up on the history here.
Muskrat Central - - John Kovalic's Wild Life cartoon on the web. It's not Dilbert or anything (hah! had to be a sneaky way of getting that link in), but it's local and still pretty good. He also does a cartoon called Beached for an internet site that probably doesn't qualify as local, but you may want to check it out too.
Natty Nation - Madison-based roots rock reggae group.
The O'bros - Local band plays R&B, rock, jazz, etc.
OD TAPO IMI Steel Drum Band - - This eight member Madison ensemble holds live performances and also has released three albums. The large sound files are worth the download time.
Opera for the Young - Opera for the Young brings live, prefessional opera to elementary school audiences.
Our Voice - Weekly online polls about politics, movies and so forth. Based in Madison.
Paraguas - Latin American Acoustic Music by Laura Fuentes, Josué Pizarro and Enrique Rueda. Check out their CD, "Picnic Point" (a Madison landmark of sorts). There's also a versión en Español.
Plastic - Local band. Includes photos and upcoming show dates.
P.S. Mueller Cartoon Page - Warped but entertaining comic strips from a local talent.
The Reptile Palace Orchestra - Local band, unique sound.
Schlosser, Art Paul - - Madison's most famous street musician. Did you see him open for Mojo Nixon? Now that was surreal.
Scholastic Chess Club of Madison -
SF3 - The (deep breath) Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It hosts WisCon, a yearly local Feminist Science Fiction convention, as well as monthly book discussions and probably other things as well.
Soccer Scoop - Locally-produced online newspaper covers the world of soccer and related topics.
Soundz - "The music nexus" provides information about music on the internet.
SpearWeb - Information related to Spearhead, rules for division-level World War II wargaming.
The Springs Golf Club Resort - Golfing near Spring Green.
Theater in Madison - Guide to local theatre shows and groups.
Triage - - Plays mostly cover tunes by Blues Traveler, Live, Rush, Cracker and
other rock/alternative bands. The group was formerly called Uncle Pancake.
UPL-Cam - An image from a live video shot of the Undergraduate Projects Laboratory at UW-Madison.
UW Badger Men's Soccer, official web site - University of Wisconsin-Madison men's soccer team, as seen by the Athletic Department.
UW Badger Men's Soccer, semi-official web site - University of Wisconsin-Madison men's soccer team, as seen by a fan..
UW-Madison Botanical Garden - All sorts of beautiful flowers, open to the public.
UW-Madison, Collegiate Athletics -
UW Memorial Union - Probably the best hangout spot (or spots, depending upon your point of view) for University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
Vagabond Monthly - Well, technically this magazine of world-wandering antics is based in Madison, but since they are vagabonds I'm not sure anywhere is truly "local" for them.
Vilas Zoo - - Free admission, fun for all ages.
West Madison Flyers - Hockey club for youth residing in the James Madison Memorial High School attendance area.
Westport Squares - - The Westport Square Dance Club is based in Madison.
Widen-Cam - Watch streaming video of a fish tank at Widen Enterprises.
WISChess - Whitewater Instructional Summer Chess Camp (ages 10-adult).
Wisconline - - Wisconsin events, attractions, maps, weather and almanac. Many opportunities for public involvement. Event listings updated weekly.
Wisconsin Dells (wisdells.com) - Tourist mecca.
Wisconsin Dells (dells.com) - Another Dells site.
Wisconsin Department of Tourism -
Wisconsin Fly Fishing Page - All sorts of information on this outdoor activity.
Wisconsin Magic Plus - A guide to magic shops, clubs, events and magicians in the state.
The Wisconsin Rock Climbing Page - Essential reading for anyone in the state interested in rock climbing as a sport. Site has info on places to climb (outdoor and gyms), climbing tips, links, a climbers' directory and more.
Wisconsin SkiNet Resort Guide -
Wisconsin Travel - Most of the information that appears to be part of this site actually leads to other sites, sometimes inappropriately. For example, when you click on the Parks button, you're sent to the "Park Off-Road Bicycle Travel Guide" on the Bicycling Community Page.
Wisconsin Union Theater - Concerts, performance, film.
The Wonders of Physics - - Fun and educational demonstrations about physics. Public presentations are held in Madison in February, check the site for free ticket information. Also arranges trips to southern Wisconsin schools and sells videotapes and lecture kits.
World Wide Woodworking - Information resource on woodworking.