{"id":9978,"date":"2025-08-07T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:45:15","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-aug-8-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9978","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead Aug. 8-10, 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 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.ucanmadison.org\/madlit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MadLit<\/a>: 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 at 100 Block of State Street<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/union.wisc.edu\/events-and-activities\/event-calendar\/event\/behind-beat-pat-mccurdy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat McCurdy<\/a>: 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at UW Memorial Union Terrace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MadEx-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"MadEx\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MadEx-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MadEx-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MadEx-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MadEx.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Festivals, Expos, Community Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madisoncomicexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MadEx<\/a>: 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 and 10 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 10 at Alliant Energy Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Parties, Galas, Food-Related Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danedances.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dane Dances<\/a>: 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8 at Monona Terrace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greattaste.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Taste of the Midwest<\/a>: 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at Olin-Turville Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mbrw.madisonblackchamber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Restaurant Week<\/a>: Sunday, Aug. 10 through Sunday, Aug. 17 at various locations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madisonminimarathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Mini Marathon &amp; 5K<\/a>: 7 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at UW Memorial Union<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1483073903040606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom Health Day 5K<\/a>: 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at Freedom Inc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Mallards vs. Green Bay:<\/a> 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at Duck Pond<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardmadisonfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forward Madison FC vs. One Knoxville<\/a>: 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9 at Breese Stevens Field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from MadEx Facebook page<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a curated list of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9987,"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":[16,79,55],"class_list":["post-9978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-near-east","tag-south-side"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","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=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}