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👀 Get a Peek at the Public Market

• The city is hosting an open house at the site of the future public market featuring food vendors, live music, and a tour of the space. [City of Madison]
• The details: The event will be held from 5-8 p.m., Sept. 12, at 202 First Street.

🧀 Now Open: Tricky Foods

• The founder of local charcuterie board business Tricky Foods has opened a new storefront near Olin Park. Aside from being a home base for the business, the location will also be part wine bar and part event space. [Madison Magazine]
• “I imagine people coming in, grabbing a glass of wine and pairing that with a cheese or a charcuterie cup,” owner Therese Merkel told Madison Magazine.

🛍️ The Future of State Street

• Madison’s City Council recently took the first steps toward turning part of State Street into a pedestrian mall. The council approved examining an “experimental closure” that would block off the 400, 500, and 600 blocks of the street to non-emergency vehicle traffic (sometime) in 2024. [Wisconsin State Journal]
• There’s still a ways to go before the plan is finalized. The city intends to seek further public input from residents and business owners before taking any action.

🏳️‍🌈 Your Lunchtime Read: Anti-LGBTQ+ tactics spread in Wisconsin, but so does support.

• “Nationwide, individuals and organizations tried to censor or ban 2,571 different books and other publications last year, and almost all of the targeted works had LGBTQ+ themes, according to the American Library Association. Yet “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a coming-of-age story that was No. 2 on the list of banned or challenged books in 2022, sat prominently on display this summer at the Madison Public Library Hawthorne Branch.” [Cap Times]

• Diana Ross at Orpheum Madison
• Euchre at Starkweather Brewing Company
• Madison Public Market Open House at the future site of Madison Public Market (200 N. First Street)
• Lecture: “Our Solar System's Five-Billion-Year Future" at UW-Madison Space Place

For this Take Me Home Tuesday with the Dane County Humane Society, we’d like you to meet Candy Corn! Just in time for spooky season, this adult male cat was found wandering around Waunakee. Candy Corn loves receiving pets and snuggles, and he gives lots of head bumps asking for more.

Candy Corn has Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), making him more susceptible to other infections. However, cats with FIV can still live long, normal, happy lives. The only ways FIV can be transmitted to another cat is through a deep bite wound or mating. People and dogs cannot contract the virus. Potential adopters should research this condition before taking him home.

Candy Corn is looking for a family who will spoil him with lots of attention and affection. He is a member of the Lonely Hearts Club and his adoption fee has been reduced.

Why Wisconsin Hates Beavers

Wisconsin has long had mixed feelings about America’s largest rodents. Beavers have been hunted, trapped, had their dams blown up, and were generally considered to be a nuisance by many of the state’s human residents. Yet many other states welcome beavers, even importing them for their ecosystem benefits. So why is Wisconsin an outlier?

Susan Lampert Smith gives us the lay of the land (and water).