Ald. Mike Verveer, who has served on the Madison Common Council since 1995, faces Eli Tsarovsky, a UW-Madison grad student and community organizer.

Before photographer Ami Vitale ventured up to the Wolong Nature Reserve in China, local panda caretakers warned her not to get her hopes up. "People are like, 'Well how hard can it be to shoot a ...

But Vitale persevered with a lot of patience - and by wearing a crude panda costume soaked in panda urine. She went home that day with a shot that ended up as a full page spread published in the ...