City Cast Madison

The City Cast Madison team is here to round up the news of the week and it’s been a big one! Host Bianca Martin, executive producer Hayley Sperling, and Madison Minutes newsletter editor Rob Thomas recap how long lines at Camp Randall led to some angry sports fans and why two local nonprofits are suddenly making headlines for the wrong reasons. Plus, the city has officially opened a new park, and if that wasn’t enough, Vice President Kamala Harris is in town today stumping for her presidential campaign.

Mentioned on the show:

Concourse traffic at Camp Randall 'embarrassing' as fans vent during long waits [WSJ]

Urban Triage housing assistance for homeless people $100K over budget [Cap Times]

Goodman Community Center under investigation for financial impropriety [Cap Times]

Madison’s Unique Lakefront Porch Park Opens with a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony [City of Madison]

Kamala Harris to hold rally in Madison Friday [Channel 3000]

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Madison Vegan Fest is right around the corner. On Sept. 28, food vendors, exhibitors, musicians, and speakers will flock to Lunney Lake Farm Park for a day of animal rights advocacy, funky music, and of course good vegan food. To get the scoop on what to expect from this annual festival, host Bianca Martin caught up with Emma Cameron, the festival’s lead organizer.

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If you enjoyed today's interview with Madison Public School Foundation’s President, Melinda Heinritz, learn more here.

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Opera, ballet, and theater — oh my! The fall season for Madison’s performing arts scene is here. To get a look at what’s on the schedule around town, executive producer Hayley Sperling caught up with Cap Times reporter Lindsay Christians, who recently published a roundup of local shows.

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City Cast Madison is back with another installment of Must See Madison, where we take on Madison’s must-see attractions and hidden gems. On today’s episode, we head over to the Dudgeon-Monroe neighborhood on the west side to spotlight the 46th annual Monroe Street Festival coming up this Saturday, Sept. 21.

Executive producer Hayley Sperling sat down with the festival chair Joanne Berg, owner of Mystery to Me bookstore on Monroe St., to get the lowdown on what to expect from this yearly celebration. 

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The 13th biannual PhotoMidwest exhibition is opening tomorrow, and the photography festivities have just begun. 

Bianca Martin catches up with the Curator and Director of FlakPhoto Projects, Andy Adams, to learn more about the featured photographers, what you can learn at the workshops, and what he has been doing with PhotoMidwest and the Arts and Lit Laboratory to build the Madison Photography scene. 

Mentioned on the show:

PhotoMidwest

FlakPhoto

Arts and Lit Laboratory 

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The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. Executive producer Hayley Sperling and Madison Minutes newsletter editor Rob Thomas recap the largest private donation to the University of Wisconsin and what’s going on with the city’s capital budget. Plus the story behind Madison’s newest upcoming music festival.

Mentioned on the show:

With $75 million gift for new UW–Madison engineering building, brothers’ impact spans generations and transcends campus boundaries [UW-Madison]

Amid tax hike on ballots, Madison mayor pitches record capital budget [Cap Times]

Joey's Song benefit concert becoming 4-day music festival [Wisconsin State Journal]

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Like many of us, Lauren Rudersdorf is busy. Between her day job at Edible Madison magazine, raising a toddler, and writing several food blogs, she doesn’t have as much time to cook as she used to. But she’s here to show you that you CAN do it. She shares her food prep hacks for cooking and eating well at home - and some delicious seasonal recipes for fall.

Find Lauren’s writing: 

The Leek and the Carrot

Locally Grown by Lauren Rudersdorf

Edible Madison 

Lauren’s Favorite Early Fall Recipes: 

🥣 Cabbage Patch Soup 

🍅 Tomato Soup

🍲 Butternut Squash Soup

🥗 Peanut Kale Salad

🌾 Grain Bowls

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This episode originally aired September 21, 2023.

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The Madison Public Library has a wealth of resources beyond books. 

Your little orange card can help you grow a garden or get across town. You can digitize those old family photos or make cheap photocopies. Madison’s Public Library Director Tana Elias lets us in on a few things you probably didn’t know your little card can do. 

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It’s football season, which means on select Saturdays (and a couple Fridays) during the fall and winter, seas of red-and-white-clad humans flood the streets of Madison to cheer on the Badgers. The parties are bountiful, and each neighborhood does things a little differently. To get the scoop on how and where Madisonians tailgate, executive producer Hayley Sperling and host Bianca Martin chat with local DJ Nick Nice, who’s helped bring the party to Regent Street for the past decade.

Mentioned on the show

How Wisconsin's 'Jump Around' became the best tradition in college football [ESPN]

Being Bucky [IMDB]

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The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art wants to give the community a behind-the-scenes look at some of its largest, and rarely exhibited artwork. A new exhibit titled Snapshots invites visitors to see the inner workings of maintaining the museum’s permanent collection every Thursday and Friday in September. The exhibition is an attempt to bring more transparency to the museum’s processes after it faced massive community backlash in 2022 for a series of missteps that occurred during the Wisconsin Triennial.

Host Bianca Martin sat down with the museum’s new Gabriele Haberland Director Paul Baker Prindle to get the details on the exhibit and how the museum hopes to move forward from controversy.

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