Less than a mile from the Woodson, the Center for Visual Arts is wrapping up its Color exhibit, which closes Sunday evening. The Center’s main gallery is lined with works that explore the inarguably vast topic of color. Featured artists in the exhibit include the watercolorist and photographer Christine Alfery and the digital artist Dave Tilton, who creates abstract works by combining thousands of photographic images into a single, complex panorama. Upstairs in the Loft gallery, a non-juried exhibition by members of the University of Wisconsin–based Wisconsin Regional Art Program continues through Saturday.

Going to get 'authentic' curry. We just don't have the fresh ingredients or the chefs. But that doesn't mean that the subcontinental food we get here can't be extremely enjoyable - and the stuff I like best is where a place has taken, perhaps, the place they come from, some general favourite all-purpose Indian dishes and sundry British interpretations and created their own blend. It always slightly bothered me that they advertise so much though. Every local magazine and paper seems to carry an ad for the place and it seems to be a stalwart candidate for the aforesaid mags' 'independent reviews,'...

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