Itâ??s sundown on a beautiful Monday night on the Memorial Union Terrace, and patrons are gathered around tables, pouring each other plastic cups of beer and laughing. But many of them arenâ??t looking at the orange-pink sky above or the silvery expanse of Lake Mendota, or doing the usual people-watching sport of a summertime Terrace night.
Instead, their attention is focused on a screen set up on the Terraceâ??s covered music stage, where Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy are giving Principal Vernon (â??You just bought yourself another Saturday, pal!â?) a hard time in the seminal 1985 teen flick â??The Breakfast Club.â? Welcome to Lakeside Cinema, a Monday night ritual on the Terrace for at least 30 years.