🚌 Will Trump kill BRT funding?

🏀 UW Women’s Basketball Coach Resigns

• Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Marisa Moseley resigned from the program Friday after four losing seasons leading the team.
• The team had a 47-75 overall record under Moseley, 21-51 in Big Ten games. In January, former UW player Tessa Towers publicly accused Moseley of emotional abuse and unfair treatment when she was on the team for two years. [Ch. 3000, Badger Herald]

🏥 American Family Children’s Hospital Expanding

• American Family Children’s Hospital will expand its pediatric intensive care unit and add a cardiac intensive care unit to accommodate an increasing number of patients. In 2023, the hospital had to turn away over 100 children because of a lack of available beds.
• The expansion will take place on the hospital’s sixth floor, which was left vacant when the building opened in 2007 to anticipate such future needs. The hospital will add 24 new intensive care beds on the floor. [WKOW]

🚌 Federal Funding Cuts Put Second BRT Line at Risk

• Madison’s transportation director warned that the city might not get the $118 million in federal funding to build a second north-south BRT line from the Trump administration.
• The money was recommended by the Federal Transit Administration under former President Joe Biden. But in the wake of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s severe funding cuts throughout the federal government, and Trump’s general antipathy to climate-focused projects like mass transit, that funding is now at “high risk” of being rescinded.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: BRT funding is just one issue facing the Madison City Council, which has all of its seats up for election on the April 1 ballot. Listen on the City Cast Madison podcast today as host Bianca Martin talks to outgoing Ald. Juliana Bennett for an inside look at life on the council, and what the next council has on its plate. [Isthmus, 🎧 City Cast Madison]

Tickets for the Wisconsin Film Festival just went on sale Saturday, and already several screenings for the eight-day event running from April 3 to April 10 are sold out. Now in its 26th year, the festival has built up a loyal audience of local cinephiles who will gobble up seats as soon as they go on sale.

But that doesn’t mean the more casual film fan is out of luck. With 170 films on the schedule, there’s still plenty to choose from. Here’s a few interesting-looking flicks that still have tickets available:

“Rosaura at 4 O’Clock”

3:30 p.m. April 4, UW Cinematheque, and 8 p.m. April 9, Flix Brewhouse

Festival consulting programmer Jim Healy said the 4K restoration rarely-seen 1958 Argentine drama, a “Rashomon”-like puzzle drama set in a Buenos Aires boarding house, is the discovery of the festival.

“The Surfer”

6:15 p.m. April 4, Union South Marquee

Words can’t capture the delight that the City Cast Madison team exuded on learning that not only will the festival screen a new Nicolas Cage movie, but that “The Surfer” looks to be a gonzo thriller about a middle-aged man bullied by Australian surfers on the beach of his youth.

“Premium Rush”

6 p.m. April 4, UW Cinematheque

UW grad David Koepp may be one of Hollywood's most in-demand screenwriters, but his second career as a director has also produced plenty of gems. This dizzyingly fun 2012 thriller, a favorite of the late UW film professor David Bordwell, features Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger being chased across Manhattan by a corrupt cop (Michael Shannon). Koepp will be at the screening to talk about the film.

“Shelf Life”

11 a.m. April 5, Barrymore Theatre

A documentary about cheese? That’ll never play at a Wisconsin film festival! This film looks at the spiritual nature of cheese obsessives, how it’s both a delicacy and a metaphor for life.

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