Madison WI

This Thursday, May 28 at 8:00 PM, student musicians from Watertown High School will perform their "banned" concert piece, A Mother of A Revolution!, at the Barrymore Theater in Madison, WI. This piece centers Marsha Johnson, the stonewall LGBTQ+ activist, which is largely why the piece was banned.

These brave students are facing backlash and safety concerns in their hometown just for using their voices. They need to see what it looks like when a community stands with them. Lakeside Pride and Pride Bands Alliance are stepping in, and we need your help!

Here is how you can support them:

• 🎵 PERFORM: Need musicians to fill the parts! Sign up by 5 PM TOMORROW (Wed, May 27) to play alongside them. ➡️ Sign-Up Link
• 🎟️ ATTEND: Pack the house and show your support! Tickets here
• 💰 DONATE: Help finance travel and equipment. Please dedicate your gift to "Watertown HS" here)

Amtrak says it’s aiming to bring passenger rail service to Madison by 2030, earlier than previously planned, as the rail service looks to connect Madison to Milwaukee and Chicago and eventually the Twin Cities.

In the first phase of the effort, Amtrak would extend two daily Chicago-to-Milwaukee trains to Madison, said Arun Rao, senior director of state partnerships and development for Amtrak.

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Hi all, I’m wondering if anyone knows of an events calendar for the area that you can add as a google calendar, ical, or something similar. I’ve seen a number of places with calendars, but you have to go to their website to see what is happening and none have an .ical format except the libraries.

If I had to design one myself, it would have all the community festivals, concerts and venues, farmers markets, and pretty much everything else organized into categories that you could subscribe to as a whole or individually.

Anyway, I’m wondering if anybody knows of such a thing exists or is interested in taking that idea and running with it. Thanks and have a lovely Labor Day.

I guess this is now an annual occurrence. Just lamenting how in my brief life that climate change has become a daily reality and it isn't getting better any time soon.

Interested in Housing Cooperatives? Come to the MACHA Summer Social. Thursday, July 24, 6-10pm at Hypatia Co-op (411 N. Pinckney St).

If anyone is interest in learning non-violent peacekeeping skills for events or direct action campaigns, Madison Friends Meeting (Quakers) is hosting a workshop on Sunday, September 14. A dinner and community building time will follow the training.

Holy crap, Woodman's roof caved in. 😲

The 2024 State Street Pedestrian Mall project was popular and led to increased activity on that stretch of State Street during the summer months, according to a report on the experiment(opens in a new window) adopted by the Common Council during its March 25, 2025, meeting. The first year of this experiment is leading City staff to evaluate a longer-term program while keeping or bringing back some of the elements of last year’s experiment.

We have several city alder elections, as well as the state supreme court race.

This past week, I saw a car near the stadium with a vanity plate with this on it, and I can't stop wondering about the backstory. I guess it could be a sports player or fan referring to the 4th OT in a game. If it's supposed to read "forethought," the owner probably could have used some. Anyway, I guess the censors at WisDOT aren't clued into, or don't care about, Millennial slang.

This is why the April 1st election for Supreme Court is so critical. We need to have fair district maps to have a hope of getting a Legislature that will share the state surplus with cities instead of sitting on it. It's a Republican strategy to deliberately withhold shared revenue from Madison in order to force their agenda down our throats, like they did in Milwaukee, that led to the recent referendum to increase property taxes. (They've also withheld payments for municipal services that Madison has already provided to state buildings.) If Congress removes this tax exemption, too, we'll be doubly-squeezed.

Everybody knows that a traffic jam is the result of too many cars on the road. Real-life experience says that the only way that ever works to ease traffic congestion is to have fewer cars on the road. New York switched on congestion tolling earlier this year, flawed as it is, and lo, fewer cars on the road means fewer traffic jams!

So of course the new administration wants to cancel transit projects. Is this stupid, malicious, or both?

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group backed by billionaire Elon Musk is behind a set of deceptive attack ads and text messages targeting voters just weeks ahead of the election for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, employing a battleground state strategy it used last year against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

I've heard tales of deceptive mailings coming in, too. Has anybody here received one?

Great list of upcoming events in Madison. The list gets updated continually , but is a pretty short time frame to plan ahead.

Just thought I would add a few links here to see if there is any activity. I think that the upcoming election is something that is very important for the direction of our state.

The candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court will face off on April 1. Access to reproductive choice hangs in the balance.