Aaron R. Conklin

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As a young boy growing up in Mexico, Samuel Sanchez savored eating fish soup with family at his grandmother’s long dinner table. The soup was cooked by his uncles — a detail that stuck with Sanchez, given that women were the traditional captains of the kitchen in his home country. It also inspired him. Several decades later and several thousand miles away, Sanchez is now the one doing the cooking. In this case, for a different and much larger “family” — his customers at Gates & Brovi.

Jan 8, 2025 | channel3000.com | Aaron R. Conklin

Jennifer Javornik works in multiplayer mode. She’s a former IT consultant who once worked on the systems that supported the implementation of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Today she’s the chief partnerships officer for Filament Games, a downtown Madison-based developer of video games in the educational space. The company is best known for iCivics — a platform and series of games co-developed with late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to help educators teach civics.

Nov 27, 2024 | channel3000.com | Aaron R. Conklin

The atmosphere in Madison College’s Barhorst Center is supercharged with holiday spirit: Caches of carolers, selfie stages with makeshift holiday trees and a mini-holiday market in the lobby area. It’s clear that Capital City Theatre (CCT) is trying to both amp up the Christmas vibe and stretch homey Bedford Falls — the setting of "It's a Wonderful Life" — from the Mitby Theater to the front doors.

Nov 27, 2024 | channel3000.com | Aaron R. Conklin

What if, instead of stabbing herself at the sight of her lover’s dead corpse, Juliet, one half of William Shakespeare’s most famous duo, had walked away from the carnage and continued her life? It's a doozy of a literary “what-if" — and the premise of "& Juliet,” the touring Broadway production playing at the Overture Center through Dec. 1.

Nov 21, 2024 | channel3000.com | Aaron R. Conklin

There’s a noticeable sense of order and symmetry at Turkish Kitchen, chef Huseyin Gurhan Cokuğurluel’s modest Monroe Street restaurant. It’s evident in the details — in the dark wood tables geometrically arranged with flower vases and napkins placed just so — and behind the bar, where Turkish and European wine bottles line glass shelves like soldiers in strict formation, their labels facing forward.