Great little interview — @captimes.com reporter Ashley Rodriguez talked with photographer Rachel Seed about her documentary, "A Photographic Memory," this week. We're screening the film in Madison on Monday, 6/23. Join us! captimes.com/entertainmen...

New bar coming to Willy Street, from the good people at Ahan! captimes.com/food-drink/a...

Madison being Madison, I knew the two people in this image because they go to my Saturday morning yoga class. :-) Go see art! (via @captimes.com)

Can't you just hear her cute little voice? I love this new @uwmadison.bsky.social plushie! (Via Ashley Rodriguez, @captimes.com) captimes.com/entertainmen...

This story about the end of the MercLab, a scrappy theater space on Fair Oaks that I first wrote about in 2009, was close to my heart. The artists know affordable housing is important, but this still feels like a loss. (in Madison via @captimes.com) captimes.com/entertainmen...

Madison's best spots for grab-and-go lunches and easy dinners, brought to you by the CT newsroom. captimes.com/food-drink/2...

I need ways to make late winter more tolerable, because it is empirically the worst time of year in Wisconsin. This helps. (via Victoria Davis for @captimes.com) PS I love Soup's On!

The thing I love about the Wisconsin Film Festival is it makes film feel like theater. More ephemeral, more of a one-time-only event. Can't wait to dig into this schedule! (via Josh Heath for @captimes.com) captimes.com/entertainmen...

Caught opening night of 'Company' at the Playhouse last night from Madison's Four Seasons Theatre. It's a fantastic production, and I can't wait to see these other three! Like a side-by-side-by-Sondheim kickline. (Via @captimes.com)

Actual note I wrote to Erica, while editing this review of Madison Ballet's new show: "if you read this graf and don't want to see this show you are made of stone" up now at @captimes.com! captimes.com/entertainmen...

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art has announced the artists for the 2025 Triennial, running this summer. captimes.com/entertainmen...

I love the photos Ashley got at the Frozen Assets festival this weekend on Lake Mendota. Via @captimes.com captimes.com/entertainmen...

Doughnuts! Doughnuts! Doughnuts! New vegan-friendly shop coming to Atwood Avenue in Madison.🍩 captimes.com/food-drink/v...

On Tuesday, the cats had the best day of their lives: a bird flew in the back door. We hollered and flailed with blankets and eventually got the little guy back out again. The cats went back to doing this (that's Sebastian, under a pillow). But what a moment in time.

Iconic editor @itsrobthomas.bsky.social left this magnet behind on his desk at the Cap Times. I'm taking that desk, magnet and whole vibe into 2025. 😼

Worth staying up for the west coast New Year for a song by Laufey. What a delight! Happy new year, all!

Five things most people don't know about editors and editing: (1) The job of "editor" is really something like thirty different jobs rolled into one—not just revising, copy editing, and proofreading but developing ideas, mentoring talent, promoting pieces, etc. And nobody is good at all the jobs.

Mmmmmf (thanks mom!)

Family Christmas 2024. The noise took over Springfield!

Is it real gingerbread? If so, is there sugar in it? Do kids ever try to eat pieces of the decor? Is there a cannibalistic witch who lives inside, lying in wait for sugar-obsessed orphans? (spotted at Clasen's European Bakery, Middleton, Wis.)

"Stay an extra hour in bed. Play with that dog. Take a long lunch. Have a hobby not a side hustle. Stop and chat to your neighbour instead of rushing back to work. Your worth is not in what you produce. You can do it tomorrow."

The Wisconsin to New Orleans pipeline is real. And so delightful! How fun, to talk about my favorite spots in Bay View, Milwaukee at a Louisiana wine bar?

My heart hurts for my fellow journalists today at Vox and Eater properties around the country. This well and truly sucks. @shokdiesel.bsky.social thinking of you & your colleagues, and sending solidarity. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Gold rush, Anthony Marra novel alternating with hands of cribbage, veggie burger from Hank's. Perfect Friday. I still have on leggings under my jeans and I am not too warm.

My vibe lately is 12 cups of tea a day and the "Coffee House Covers" station on Pandora. This is me hibernating.

Stores may run out of clamshells of herbs the weekend before Thanksgiving, but delicata squash? Was it a bad year for squash growing? In 'Company' @amythielen.bsky.social calls for buttercup or delicata for a squash bake with goat cheese custard, but we may be butternutting over here. Needs must.

As the snow flies in Madison, I'm taking this as my last opportunity to write a moderate defense of "pumpkin spice" in the food newsletter. captimes.com/newsletters Next stop, eggnog and cherry bounce.

Just watched "Murder on the Orient Express" because I was in the mood for a period whodunit, and that ending ... mmm. What's like Knives Out? Or an already-out-on-film Thusday Murder Club? I feel like deducing something.

@itsrobthomas.bsky.social I must share with you this four-skewer tower-of-meat sandwich a preview from the Cap Times internal slack channels (photo by Ruthie!)

Hoping to find the literary fiction equivalent of #BookTok because I'm too distractable for TikTok but still want to talk about The Whalebone Theatre. ... and the font choice in Interior Chinatown. And what next to read by Danzy Senna. And why Elizabeth's Strout's writing is magic.