Below the jump: Old-school trailer for "Blue Velvet," playing Friday night at UW Cinematheque.

This week in Madison arts journalism might help readers understand things they usually overlook, whether because they tend to not visit art shows or because they never really wondered what that weird-looking place on Lakeside Street is.

Ben Munson visits said place, Red Dragon TV studio, in a revealing Isthmus piece about founder Ari John White Wolf's passion for local music.

In 77 Square's fine-arts department, Lindsay Christians profiles Trent Miller, whose work is currently on display at the Overture Center's Watrous Gallery, and reviews Ellsworth Kelly's show of prints at MMOCA.

In Isthmus, Jennifer A. Smith declares that two exhibitions currently at the Chazen Museum of Art are "essential viewing." [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=38806]

And as local theater begins to pick back up, Madison Magazine's Liberal Arts blog offers this preview of Forward Theater Company's just-opened Collected Stories. 

Lastly, with an intimidatingly diverse UW Cinematheque season getting started this weekend, 77 Square's Rob Thomas focuses in on the spaghetti westerns on Cinematheque's schedule.

Watch the "Blue Velvet" trailer.