👻 The spookiest things to do in Madison

🗳️ Gwen Walz to Campaign in Madison

• Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will make campaign stops in Madison and Beloit on Wednesday to stump for Kamala Harris, the campaign announced.
• The Madison appearance will take place at noon, but a location has not yet been announced.
• A longtime public school teacher, Gwen Walz has served as First Lady of Minnesota since her husband was elected in 2018. [WKOW]

🎤 Coldplay To Perform at Camp Randall in 2025

• The pop band Coldplay will perform at Camp Randall next year, according to a social media tease from the UW-Madison’s Athletics Department. More details are expected to be formally announced Tuesday.
• The concert would break a drought of nearly 30 years for live concerts at the Madison football stadium. The last concert there was the Rolling Stones in 1997.
• Coldplay released its latest album, “Moon Music,” last week, and has been doing some unusual marketing. Singer Chris Martin performed karaoke in disguise in Las Vegas late last month, and the band held a listening party at the tiny Moon Saloon in Moon, Wisconsin. [Channel 3000, X, City Cast Las Vegas, WAOW]

🍔 DLUX Closes Oct. 30

• Food Fight Restaurant Group announced on social media over the weekend that DLUX, the downtown restaurant known for smash burgers and boozy shakes, will close Oct. 30.
• The company said it decided to not renew its lease in the building where the restaurant has been located since it opened in 2012. Food Fight said it is actively working to find jobs for DLUX Staff at other restaurants owned by the company. [Facebook]

The Halloween spirit means different things to different people. Some people want to get the daylights scared out of them. Others just want to eat candy. Hopefully this list of spooky-themed activities and events in and around Madison will hit your Halloween sweet spot.

🎃 Dance the Fright Away

With Freakfest gone, the way to show off your Sexy Beetlejuice costume on State Street on Halloween is to go to “Murder at the Dance Floor,” a dance party at the Orpheum Theater on Oct. 31 hosted by DJ Femme Noir.

If you’d rather mope than boogie, “Emo Halloween” drapes the Majestic Theatre in black on Oct. 26. Or check out some of Madison’s top musicians masquerading as their favorite bands at the High Noon Saloon's “Freakin’ Halloweekend” also on Oct. 26.

☠️ Want To See Something Really Scary?

All of Madison’s movie theaters are programming horror movies this October, with Flix Brewhouse Madison at East Towne Mall offering 17 different classics, from “The Shining” to “Hotel Transylvania” to a brunch screening of “Practical Magic.”

The Bartell Theatre has started showing movies, with an Oct. 26 showing of the director’s cut of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Psycho” and the family friendly “Hocus Pocus.” And the UW Cinematheque isn’t for the faint of heart with the controversial “Cannibal Holocaust” on Oct. 25 and “Dark Harvest” and “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” on Oct. 26.

👻 Go Bust Some Ghosts

US Ghost Adventures will take the supernaturally curious on a tour of Madison’s haunted hotspots, with hourlong tours nightly that tell the secret spooky stories of the city’s downtown.

Meet Stetson, an eight-month-old pup who came to the Dane County Humane Society from an overcrowded shelter in Mississippi in August. Now living in a foster home, Stetson is fearful of meeting new people, but he becomes cuddly and friendly with people he feels safe with. Stetson is potty trained, and he loves hanging out on the deck and in the fenced-in backyard. His foster is working with Stetson on leash and crate training, but Stetson is very nervous about leashes, so he needs to find a home with an attached fenced-in yard so he can get plenty of exercise. He’s also looking for a home with no other dogs and a patient family of teenagers and older who will continue to work with him on his positive reinforcement training.