In April 2021 Isthmus became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We returned to print in August 2021, 17 months after the shutdown. We have not missed a month since and are now a small staff of 6.5.
“There’s a lot of magic that happens around Black Restaurant Week,” says Madison Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Camille Carter, recalling creating the idea with the late Milele Chikasa Anana in 2016.
Summer has always been a time for voluntary enrichment classes, often in the area of arts/crafts,. All those same feels can come back at Wisconsin’s many art and folk schools.
Carts, in search of new audiences, have been making the rounds of gathering spaces without kitchens, such as various bars, brewpubs and cocktail lounges. Be on the lookout for M & J Jamaican Kitch’n, The Roost and Thailand in a Truck.