Legal Tender and the Terrace
As a student, my pockets may be (who am I kidding? ARE) empty, but my spirit remains unbroken because I can identify the best place for complimentary entertainment on the UW-Madison campus: the terrace. Whether it’s playing cards, people-watching, or drinking (I’m 21. You can read my profile if you don’t believe me. Don’t ask for my license, however, because I find the picture to be more embarrassing than my mother singing her version of “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” by Drowning Pool), the terrace never ceases to fill my entertainment void while never breaking my bank.
Sometimes, if I’m lucky, those elusive programming people will add extra delight to my life by scheduling live music or fire jugglers at the precise time I choose to venture to this venue. Well, this time, I can identify the programmers and even the schedule because…
It is time, once again, to salute summer with the sounds of jazz—and not just any jazz, but jazz prefaced by my undeniably favorite adjective as a can’t-afford-to-turn-on-my-air-conditioning, eating-the-dented-cans-of-what-resembles-food-which-I-must-not-have-been-in-a-normal-state-of-mind-to-purchase-in-the-first-place, washing-my-hair-with-an-industrial-sized-vat-of-hand-soap college student: FREE. (Just kidding. I can’t afford hand soap.)
The jazz spirit has even migrated across generations and geography alike to my parents, who are trekking the two hours to
Madison so that we can go to Jazz Fest as a family. Insert collective “awwww” here.
Because I am the official marketing maiven of this theater, I can see how you’d misconstrue this blog entry as a sneaky attempt to persuade you and yours to come check out the Isthmus Jazz Festival on the Memorial Union Terrace, June 1-4, 2006, with events usually starting at 5 PM and ending at midnight, with the exception of Sunday, when they start at 10 AM, but that’s just simply not the case!! What would be the benefit of that for me? Nope, if there’s one thing that you should’ve gotten out of this blog entry, it’s that the events are free…
Which is why I’m asking you to take the money you would’ve normally spent on admission to such a fine festival and mail them to:
Lauren Zink
Wisconsin Union Theater
800 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53703
