{"id":9825,"date":"2025-05-22T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:02:01","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-may-23-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9825","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead May 23-25, 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:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/wiz-khalifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a>: 8 p.m. Friday, May 23 at Majestic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Festivals, Expos, Community Events<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Brat Fest\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20230526_115052.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bratfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brat Fest<\/a>: Friday, May 23 through Sunday, May 25 at Willow Island<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegansausagefest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vegan Sausage Fest<\/a>: Noon Saturday, May 24 at Warner Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bratfestrun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5K &amp; 10K Bun Run<\/a>: 8:30 a.m. Saturday, May 24 at Willow Island<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardmadisonfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forward Madison vs. Portland<\/a>: 6 p.m. Saturday, May 24 at Breese Stevens Field<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/runmadtown.com\/5k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twilight 5K<\/a>: 7 p.m. Saturday, May 24 at Library Mall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/runmadtown.com\/half-marathon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madtown Half<\/a>: 7 a.m. Sunday, May 25 at Library Mall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madcityskiteam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mad-City Ski Team<\/a>: 6 p.m. Sunday, May 25 at Law Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":9042,"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":[16,79,43,55],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-near-east","tag-north-side","tag-south-side"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","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=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}