San Pedro High School has partnered with a nearby university on a curriculum that may not surprise some people: teachers are using students’ Spanish-speaking skills to speed their progress in Italian and French classes.

As a kid, summertime is the perfect time to find a nice, warm sunny spot to read a book. And what better place to get a good book than at your public library?

Madison Opera's closing production this season is something entitled Cinderella . It opened Friday night in Overture Hall. If you close your eyes, you hear Rossini's wonderful comic opera Cenerentola , essentially complete, and in the original Italian. If you open your eyes, you see a wildly incoherent spectacle with a new plot (and frequently distorted surtitles).