New restaurant The Feiring to open soon in Stoughton
The Feiring (pronounced like “firing” with a slightly rolled “r”), is set to open in mid-December on Stoughton’s East Main Street.
Lindsay Christians
Lindsay Christians (she/hers) is the food and culture editor at The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. She produced The Corner Table podcast (2016-2021/2024) and hosts Cooking with the Cap Times, a monthly chef demo series (2021-). She is the author of “Madison Chefs: Stories of Food, Farms and People” (UW Press, 2021) and "The Osteria Papavero Cookbook" (Little Creek Press, 2023) with Francesco Mangano.
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Pop musical ‘& Juliet’ comes of age to a millennial mixtape
Rachel Simone Webb, the magnetic singer playing Juliet in theaters across the country, has her work cut out for her by Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande in this playful, hummable show.
Capital City gives ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ a promising premiere
With a jazzy score and selective adherence to Frank Capra’s familiar story, “Wonderful Life” has promise.
MMoCA show ‘Broken Spectre’ illuminates a climate crisis
The imagery in “Broken Spectre,” a sweeping, 74-minute art film showing over four screens in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s main galleries, reveals a land in crisis.
Public Parking has a space for you on East Johnson
Public Parking, a highly anticipated craft cocktail bar, has opened on East Johnson Street.
Photos: Thony 'Mango Man' Clarke makes chicken curry at Idea Fest
The September Cooking with the Cap Times event at Furniture & ApplianceMart featured Thony Clarke of Café Costa Rica and Mango Man sauces.
Live on stage: How theater can thrive in a digital age
The show must go on — but what does that mean in an era of streaming, Zoom and virtual theater productions?
Robinia Courtyard: What went wrong at the Madison restaurant group?
Former employees said they enjoyed working at Robinia save for repeated issues with bounced and missing checks, inaccurate payments and unresponsive owners.
As rents rise across Madison, a business incubator supports growth
Small food businesses in Madison with tight margins and small staffs can find themselves with an increasing customer base and no place to grow.
Campy 'Moulin Rouge!' mashes up the hits at Overture Hall
Featuring a score that tosses together bits from 70 hit songs from five decades, “Moulin Rouge!” is chaotic and campy, with dancing that dazzles and a scrap of plot that holds on for dear life.
World premiere of ‘Virgin Queen’ twists the knife
In “The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool,” a new drama at American Players Theatre, Philadelphia playwright Michael Hollinger examines the sacrifices women make when they ascend to power.
Wisconsin restaurants in recovery: more staff but fewer diners
A new report out May 30 from Wisconsin Policy Forum charts the recovery of restaurants and bars. Staffing looks better, more restaurants are operating, and revenue is on the rebound.
Madison Opera's sparkling 'Candide' takes a hero's journey
Watching the title character in Madison Opera’s current production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” calls to mind all the untortured poets who came after him.
A peek behind the scenes on ‘Top Chef Wisconsin’
Media access to “Top Chef” sets is tightly controlled by NBC Universal. But for one challenge, I got a view from the dish pit.
Late MMoCA leader Stephen Fleischman shaped Madison's art scene
Stephen Fleischman, a beloved figure in Madison’s art world for more than three decades, died on Jan. 14. He led the contemporary art museum for 27 years in an industry where it’s common for leaders to move around.
Don’t Cook for Cowboys pop-up dinners revive Grandma’s fancy plates
Don’t Cook for Cowboys is a mobile, collaborative dinner party powered by thrift store finds and friendship.
UW-Madison grad Carrie Coon talks 'Gilded Age' and 'Ghostbusters'
Every time Carrie Coon talks about “The Gilded Age,” people want to know about the clothes. And not just the clothes — the hats.
Duck Inn in Delavan gives an oat milk brand a taste of Wisconsin
A new promo video from Oatly gives the world a quick glimpse of Wisconsin supper club culture, punctuated by frank takes, flat accents and goofy antics. “It’s got a nice shelf life, I guess.” “It’s good, but I wouldn’t order it.” “Tastes perfectly normal, I’d say.”
How ‘Top Chef’ came to Dairyland
According to documents obtained by the Cap Times, Travel Wisconsin coordinated a total of $1.3 million in incentives from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation ($500,000) as well as tourism partners and agricultural marketing organizations, like Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.
Deaf actor Joshua Castille brings a new Romeo to APT
Joshua Castille, a Chicago-based Deaf actor making his debut at American Players Theatre this summer, doesn’t wear his hearing aids onstage, to fully embody a young character who — like Juliet — is struggling to be heard.
This Dry January, nonalcoholic cocktails level up in Madison
15% of adults in the U.S. planned to sober up for Dry January 2023, a trend mostly driven by millennials. Madison is seeing new creativity in zero-proof cocktails at spots like Cordial, Blind Shot Social Club and State Line Distillery.
It's popular. Is it art? 'Immersive Van Gogh' comes to Madison
For the past two years, immersive art — lately, shorthand for large-scale, digital exhibitions — has spread across the country. On Thanksgiving, Middleton gets its own bit of van Gogh writ large when the Canadian company Lighthouse Immersive opens “Immersive Van Gogh” at a former DSW shoe store.
Madison Opera stages Strauss' haunting ‘Salome’
Salome’s been dressing for revenge. Armed with seven veils and a look that could snap a soldier into action, the central character in Richard Strauss’ opera has a knack for spotting weakness.
Cheesy, cynical 'Pretty Woman' musical never heats up
With a repetitive, schlocky score and a script that did not age well, the musical of “Pretty Woman” limps through nearly two and a half hours to a conclusion no one is waiting for.
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