City Life

As UW-Madison celebrates its 112th homecoming week, we’re taking a look at the annual traditions of the past and present, plus a few new events that have tradition potential.

Celebrate campus traditions new and old in Madison this week.

The pandemic changed everything. So what does it take to be considered a top-notch workplace in 2022 and beyond?

Henry James Brophy mystified Mount Horeb with psychic happenings in the early 20th century. His story remains mysterious to this day.

There will be plenty of Halloween fun happening around town to help you celebrate spooky season.

Some say fall is the best time to take a drive in Wisconsin. Just hop in the car and choose one of our routes!

Photos and follow-up: Madison community and The American Family Institute for Corporate and Social Impact raise $15,000 for the Very Asian Foundation

The New Zealander is ready to take the UW men’s soccer team to the next level.

Madison’s near west-side mall will welcome new businesses soon.

Two incredible corn mazes to check out this fall

Some you’ve heard of, some you haven’t. Some you even may have seen. Get to know 9 local apparitions and where you can find them.

After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Vegan Fest is back with food vendors, guest speakers and, for the first time, live music.

The October issue of Madison Magazine features a line-up of spooky stories, including Madison’s ghost tales

Signe Skott Cooper transformed the field of nursing through her work at UW-Madison

The center’s executive director and grandmother of 10 has found a second family at the Goodman Community Center.

The hospital is a place for healing. However, in Dane County and across the country, racial inequality and health care disparities, especially among Black patients, require some healing of their own.

Nominated by peers and patients, these Madison-area nurses named Madison Magazine’s Top Nurses are at the heart of health care.

SSM Health Davis Duehr Dean Eye Care Center retina nurse is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Practice Award.

William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital evidence-based practice RN is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Practice Award.

UW Health diversity and cultural congruence resource nurse is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Leadership Award.

Agrace nurse who heads a cardiac specialty program is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Leadership Award.

Madison Metropolitan School District director of health services is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Innovation Award.

UW Organ and Tissue Donation nurse practitioner is a recipient of the Top Nurses 2022 Innovation Award.

The latest edition features a few reasons why Madison has been named No. 1 on the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America list for the second year in a row.

gener8tor celebrates 10 years of success in Wisconsin and the nation as one of the largest accelerators in the world.

Making a living in information security was once considered a rare, if not impossible, challenge. But Madison’s Jack Koziol proved them all wrong.

A physician-turned-therapist now gives other doctors the mental health and substance abuse counseling they need.

Do you recall the wild days at this south-east side water park from 1984 to 1991?

Madison Magazine partners with Mike Gannon for second year to spotlight and award local women in honor of Amy and Jocelyn Gannon

The day a bicycle ride in pursuit of beer and pizza took a fateful turn.

A Susan Siman feature: Two families brought together by an adoption journey decades ago reunite after one of the families had to flee their war-torn home in Ukraine.

Nation’s leading canoe and kayak shop joins the Novation Campus on Madison’s south side.

The Pickle Pro Courts grand opening is Aug. 1 at 5:30 p.m. and features Beef Butter BBQ and a pro fundraising exhibition match benefiting FEED Kitchens and the River Food Pantry. The five-court indoor facility is Madison’s first.

See the full list of Best of Madison 2022 winners and so much more in the August issue of Madison Magazine.

The new Madison store will feature Levi’s new full-service store experience which includes the Levi’s Tailor Shop.

Sauk City native Sam Ness’s new album, “City Lights and Smoke,” launches with a release concert at the Majestic Theatre on July 23.

Early in Ahna Skop’s time as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a mentor’s remark in a lab caused a reckoning.

If it had been up to Madison residents in 1927, the Dane County Regional Airport might have been named “Bob La Follette Landing Field” instead.

After Sarah Carlson’s on-air seizure went viral and epilepsy threatened her career, she moved and shifted gears. Now she is back and living seizure-free.

Here in the Madison area, the aviation community says that if you’ve ever been curious about becoming a pilot, they’d love to take you up in the air.

The farmers’ market runs every Thursday 3-6 p.m. through Sept. 22 on Winnebago Street. It is free to Hmong farmers and other small-scale producers of color.

Glenway Golf Course is now The Glen Golf Park after a reimagining worth $750,000 from Michael Keiser. The public course and community event space reopened July 1.

​​On Monona Terrace’s 25th anniversary, Neil Heinen reflects on the nearly-60-years-in-the-making project that’s encountered as much pushback as it has had influence.

DarkAero, the company launched by the Karl brothers in 2017 after they all quit their corporate jobs and pooled their savings, has grown into a full-service provider of aerospace composites training, classes and consulting.

There’s a dog meetup group in Madison that’s open to dogs of all breeds and sizes.

Whether it’s a local boarding facility, a pet sitter or a doggy day care, make sure your companion is cared for when you’re not at home.

It’s recommended that dogs get between 30 minutes and two hours of exercise a day, so that’s when a professional dog-walking service may come in handy.