Isthmus

East side

West side

• Rhythm Aces | Monday, Nov. 27 | 6-8 p.m. | Breakwater Restaurant, 6308 Inland Way, Monona | $10 | Have a fine meal while four local musicians serenade you with trombone-forward tunes.

• Theis Brothers Farm Retirement Auction | Tuesday, Nov. 28 | 8 a.m. | 8821 Mineral Point Rd., Verona | Free | In the market for a combine?
• The Butter and Egg Man | Tuesday, Nov. 28 | 7-8:45 p.m. | Arts + Lit Lab, 111. S. Livingston St., Madison | Free | The Falconbridge Players present a classic comedy.
• Bush | Tuesday, Nov. 28 | 7 p.m. | The Sylvee, 25 S. Livingston St., Madison | $45 | Get glistening with glycerine and then go see Bush.

• Adult Craft: Fall Fabric Pumpkins | Wednesday, Nov. 29 | 6-7 p.m. | Middleton Public Library, 7425 Hubbard Ave., Middleton | Good gourd, you can craft yourself a pumpkin.

• A Little Winter Magic | Thursday, Nov. 30 | 6:30-9 p.m. | Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St., Madison | $30-$40 | Get into the holiday spirit at Madison Philharmonic’s festive concert.
• Leo Kottke | Thursday, Nov. 30 | 7:30-10 p.m. | Stoughton Opera House, 381 E. Main St., Stoughton | $40 | Kottke is fingerpicking good.
• Cooking with Chef Paul: Tex-Mex at Heart | Thursday, Nov. 30 | 6-8 p.m. | Willy Street Co-op - West, 6825 University Ave., Middleton | $30-$40 | Join Willy Street Co-op’s Chef Paul for a Tex-Mex demonstration-only cooking class.*

• Starkweather Brewing & Stalzy’s Deli collaboration - SASY Saturdays | Saturday, Dec. 2 | 12-10 p.m. | Starkweather Brewing Company, 2439 Atwood Ave., Madison | Free | At Stalzy’s, purchase a SwBC beer-braised brisket sandwich and receive a BOGO coupon for a SwBC beer. At SwBC, buy a SASY Chicken Sandwich and receive a $1-off Stalzy’s coupon.

• “All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914" pre-performance discussion | Thursday, Dec. 7, Sunday, Dec. 10, Thursday, Dec. 14 | Times vary | Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St., Madison | $25-$38 | At select performances of “All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914,” Wisconsin Veterans Museum Curator of History Kevin Hampton will lead a pre-performance discussion.*

• Residents are airing their grievances over Truax Field’s F-35 jets. Though a boon to the local economy, the jet noise is booming to the point of being harmful to residents, some say. (Cap Times)

• This coming year, Madison plans to spend $11.3 million from its Affordable Housing Fund to help secure 377 new units, including 300 for those with lower incomes, in five housing projects. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Local mental health has just become healthier. That’s thanks to a four-year, $10.4 million contract from the US Department of Education awarded to UW-Madison researchers in the Department of Educational Psychology for the sake of launching a national mental health center. (Badger Herald)

• If you’re considering starting a small business, start it in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is second in the nation for small business survival according to data accrued from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Statewide, 43% of private sector businesses that opened in March 2012 were still open 10 years later. (WBAY)

• UW-Madison students will have more affordable housing options soon. After a recent city council vote, a 1,600-bed complex with lower-income rent prices will be erected on the block bounded by Johnson, Gorham, and Broom streets. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Culture Collectives, a program that provides storefront space on State Street to minority-owned businesses, is in the process of being overhauled. The program, meant to support 13 small businesses by having each vendor rent a section of storefront for a nominal fee, currently only has three shops in the space. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• The owners of the American Chinese restaurant Little Palace, located on King Street, will be closing the space indefinitely to focus on becoming owners of Hạ Long Bay, the popular eatery on Williamson Street. Little Palace will accept gift cards through December. (Channel 3000)

• Thanks to a grant by the US Department of Justice COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) Hiring Program, Fitchburg will be hiring five more police officers to their ranks. Fitchburg was one of only eight cities in the state to be awarded the grant. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• JBC Coffee Roasters isn’t the best in the city, or the state, or even the nation. It’s the best in the world. The Madison-based roastery recently won the #1 Coffee of 2023 award in an international competition at the Coffee Review for its JBC’s Wilton Benitez Pink Bourbon coffee. (WMTV)

• Some new employees at UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research are grate at tasting cheese. The center recently hired a new crew of cheese tasters to analyze cheese made and provided by graduate student researchers, pizza makers, and the state’s cheese industry. (NPR)

• Roses are red, do not forget that local Oscar Mireles is a poet laureate. Mireles was recently announced as poet laureate of the Rotary Club of Madison. Mireles was Madison’s first Latino poet laureate from 2016-2020 and is the executive director and principal of the Omega School. (Madison365)

• Take comfort that what was formerly Salads UP is now Comfort Fuel. The fast-casual restaurant, at 439 N. Frances St., aims to merge healthy eating and comfort foods, such as protein açai bowls, toasts and a Korean pork belly breakfast burrito. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Gift sharp, sophisticated menswear... for 50% off. Black Friday through Cyber Monday, score 50% off everything online at Harlestons — the Golf Digest/Golfweek/Golf Channel-featured premium men’s apparel brand — with our exclusive code: BF50. (We especially love their performance polos.) Bonus: Free shipping on $125+ and easy returns, always.*

• Give the gift of grooming this holiday season (and save big). Take 25% off sitewide during MANSCAPED’s Cyber Monday sale and shop best-sellers like The Lawn Mower® 5.0 Ultra body hair trimmer, The Performance Package 5.0 Ultra full-body grooming kit, and the stocking stuffer-worthy Body Buffer silicone scrubber.*

• Dolly Plowton is the only dual-wing plow in the fleet.
• Saltimus Prime is used to apply saltwater brine to streets before a snowstorm hits.
• Seymour Pavement is a loader with a plow blade and wing attachments.
• Snowbi Wan Kenobi removes snow from bike paths and other areas.