{"id":10290,"date":"2026-01-01T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:11:08","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-jan-2-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10290","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead Jan. 2-4, 2026"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Murr-Murray-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"James Murr Murray\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Murr-Murray-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Murr-Murray-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Murr-Murray.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Concerts, Musicals, Other Performances<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madisoncomedy.com\/event\/james-murr-murray26\/2026-01-02\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James &#8220;Murr&#8221; Murray<\/a>: Friday, Jan. 2 and Saturday, Jan. 3 at Overture Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madcapshockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Capitols vs. Youngstown<\/a>: 7:05 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2 and 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3 at LEGACY20 Ice Arena<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Basketball vs. Purdue<\/a>: 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3 at Kohl Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/197918411@N05\/52762426015\/in\/photolist-2oore3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Morgan<\/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":10292,"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":[16,4],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-middleton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","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=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}