• A Taste for Change | Wednesday, March 13 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Sun Prairie Public Library, 1350 Linnerud Dr., Sun Prairie | Learn how to regrow food scraps into living plants, prevent food from spoiling, and how to compost like a pro.
• Public Meditation | Wednesday, March 13 | 8 p.m. | Diamond Way Buddhist Center of Madison, 104 King St., Madison | Free | All are welcome to this talk and guided meditation.

• Brews and Q’s | Thursday, March 14 | 6:30 p.m. | Karben4, 3698 Kinsman Blvd., Madison | Cost of purchase | Answer general trivia questions (and bonus beer questions) for first, second, and third place prizes.
• The Night Painters & Steven the Butler | Thursday, March 14 | 8-11 p.m. | The Bur Oak, 2262 Winnebago St., Madison | $15-$20 | The Seattle-born Night Painters, now based in Madison, has the Pacific Northwest musical sensibilities of existential gloom made pretty.

• Sixteen Candles | Friday, March 15 | 8 p.m. | Majestic Theatre, 115 King St., Madison | $18-$78 | Attendees might go Kajagoogoo over this world-traveling 80s cover band playing all the hits.

• Spring Fling Craft & Vendor Market | Saturday, March 16 | 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Bowl-A-Vard Lanes Event Room, 2121 E. Spring St., Madison | Free | Enjoy an arts and crafts market as kids delight over treats and free photos with the Easter bunny.

• Irish Flag Raising Ceremony | Sunday, March 17 | 12-2 p.m. | Wisconsin State Capitol, 2 E. Main St., Madison | Free | Stand in the rotunda with the Dane County Shamrock Club while the Irish flag is ceremoniously raised to music and Irish dancing.
• Combo Noir | Sunday, March 17 | 4-7 p.m. | Red Rooster Madison, 2513 Seiferth Rd., Madison | $7 | Soulful, swinging, bluesy, and rooted, Combo Noir is a genre-hopping band with ties to Yid Vicious, Forward! Marching Band, and the Dixie Sizzlers.

• $118 million. That is how much funding the federal government is recommending for the second phase of Madison’s Bus Rapid Transit system. Phase two will run from the North side, through downtown, to Fitchburg, and begins operations in 2028. (Wisconsin State Journal)

• Starting today, Dempsey Road is closed from Cottage Grove Road to Maher Avenue until August. The city is replacing underground utilities and will reconstruct the roadway. Bicyclists will need to use the Lake Loop detour.

• Local curling fans are swept up in excitement over the UW-Madison curling team becoming national champions. The team, in its first season, won in Rice Lake last week. (WMTV)

• Marv Miller, the founder of Madison’s beloved Greenbush Bakery, died last week at the age of 82. Miller, “The Donut Man,” had no bakery experience before starting Greenbush in 1996.

• UW-Milwaukee’s two-year campus in Waukesha will close after the spring 2025 semester due to dwindling enrollment and budgetary concerns. Enrollment there has declined by 70% in the last decade. (Cap Times)

• You burrata vote for the best type of cheese in Wisconsin. Alice in Dairyland’s new Wisconsin Artisan Cheese Bracket competition pits state-made cheeses like gouda, colby jack, and gorgonzola against each other. Voting will continue for the next few weeks.

• Bradley Whitford, the Emmy Award-winning actor from “The West Wing,” went to Madison East High School. In the Arts Educators Save the World podcast, hosted by UW-Madison professor Erica Halverson, Whitford highlights his time as an actor at the school.

• Cue drum roll: 2024 is here, and the personal finance experts at The Ascent have sorted through hundreds of credit cards and done the work for you. These four are among the best bonus cards they’ve ever seen.*

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