📚 Paul’s Bookstore lives on in man’s basement

🎸 Red And White UW Will Be All Yellow For Coldplay

• Hotels, businesses, and motorists are bracing themselves as one of the biggest pop-rock bands in the world, Coldplay, comes to Camp Randall on Saturday night. It’s the second big concert of the summer at the stadium, following country star Morgan Wallen’s two shows in June, breaking a decades-long drought of live music.
• Monroe Street between Regent Street and Randall Avenue will be closed between 8 a.m. July 19 and 3 a.m. July 20. Regent Street between Spooner Street and Randall Avenue will be closed between 11 p.m. and midnight July 19 to make sure pedestrians leaving the concert are safe.
• 🎧 If you’re not sure what happened this week, the City Cast Madison team will try to “fix you” with the Friday news roundup. We talk about the latest delay in the Madison Public Market, the new restrictions at Goodman Pool, and what dishes to order for Madison Restaurant Week. [Channel 3000, City of Madison, 🎧 City Cast Madison, WKOW, WMTV, Madison Magazine]

🇮🇹 Italian Workmen’s Club Added to Registry of Historic Places

• The 103-year-old Italian Workmen’s Club on Regent Street was added to the National Registry of Historic Places this week.
• The building was built by hand by members of the club in 1922, and remains committed to celebrating the traditions and culture of Italians and Italian Americans. The club offers Italian language classes, and is home to the Greenbush Bar.
• Dig deeper: The Greenbush neighborhood has seen a big revival in recent years. Spots like Leopold’s, Fabiola’s, and the Greenbush Bar have become new staples of the area. To get the scoop, Sam Brown, the owner of all three businesses, chatted with the City Cast Madison podcast team. [WKOW, Italian Workmen’s Club, Greenbush Bar, 🎧City Cast Madison]

📚 Paul’s Bookstore (Or At Least 2,000 Of its Books) Lives On

• A frequent customer of the now-closed Paul’s Bookstore on State Street has recreated a piece of the iconic shop in his basement.
• August McGinnity-Wake bought 2,000 books from the store and some shelves, and has used it to create his own bookstore, Augie’s Books, in the basement of his home on Farwell Street. The books are all fiction and literary criticism, and McGinnity-Wake has sold about 100 of those books online so far. [Channel 3000, Augie’s Books]

Meet Aloysius Jehoshaphat, who goes by AJ for short! His humans say he’s very special. He loves to head butt them, and purrs as soon as he gets in your lap. He has two “older sisters” who he loves to chase around and burn off his high energy.