{"id":10172,"date":"2025-11-06T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:53:40","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-nov-7-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10172","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead Nov. 7-9, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg\" alt=\"the-weekend-ahead\" width=\"734\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Concerts, Musicals, Other Performances<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overture.org\/tickets-events\/2025-26-season\/madison-opera-la-boheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Opera<\/a>: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at Overture Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madisoncomedy.com\/event\/dl-hughley25\/2025-11-08\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DL Hughley<\/a>: Saturday, Nov. 8 and Sunday, Nov. 9 at Comedy Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7264 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Madison-Marathon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Madison Marathon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Madison-Marathon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Madison-Marathon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Madison-Marathon.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Festivals, Expos, Community Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdevconf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M+DEV<\/a>: Friday, Nov. 7 through Saturday, Nov. 8 at Alliant Energy Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madisonmarathon.org\/planning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Marathon Expo<\/a>: 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at Monona Terrace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artcraftwis.org\/winter-art-fair-off-the-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Art Fair Off the Square<\/a>: 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at Monona Terrace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madcitybridalexpo.com\/exhibit-with-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mad City Bridal Expo<\/a>: 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at DoubleTree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Parties, Galas, Food-Related Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/union.wisc.edu\/events-and-activities\/event-calendar\/event\/badger-bash-wisconsin-vs-washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Badger Bash<\/a>: 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at Union South<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Basketball vs. Northern Illinois<\/a>: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 at Kohl Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlsontherunscwi.org\/5k\/1\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girls on the Run Fall 5K<\/a>: 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at Waunakee Village Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1277710624124679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Midwest Rugby Championships<\/a>: 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at Wisconsin Rugby Sports Complex<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Football vs. Washington<\/a>: 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at Camp Randall Stadium<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madisonmarathon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Marathon &amp; Half Marathon<\/a>: 7 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 9 at Capitol Square<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/j_benson\/2520397965\/in\/photolist-9N44ex-9N444p-4QHNnr-4QHGvk-898T4V-hxtiqQ-hxtSEy-9HC3V5-6oGRrs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Benson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,16,22,55,230],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-cottage-grove","tag-downtown","tag-east-side","tag-south-side","tag-waunakee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10175,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}