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Company offers to make 1 million free masks if Milwaukee passes mandatory mask ordinance

July 7, 2020

Need a mask in the event that the City of Milwaukee passes some type of mandatory mask ordinance? A Saukville company has you covered. Literally. Rebel Converting has offered the materials to make 1 million ...

Council passes resolution requiring MPD to get approval before buying “crowd control and militaristic equipment”

Matt Wild

July 7, 2020

The Milwaukee Common Council approved a resolution on Tuesday "directing that Police Department purchases of crowd-response, crowd-control, military-grade and militaristic equipment be approved by the Common Co...

Broken Bat’s wall was covered with the name of a fallen graffiti artist—now it’s a (repainted) tribute

Matt Wild

July 7, 2020

Long story short: Over Memorial Day weekend, the giant westward-facing wall of Broken Bat Brewing Company (135 E. Pittsburgh Ave.) was covered in graffiti. Broken Bat owners were "pretty bummed" (they had only ...

Here’s Milwaukee’s proposed (and updated) mandatory mask ordinance, to be discussed Thursday

Matt Wild

July 6, 2020

UPDATE 7/8/20): A slightly revised version of the ordinance (seen below) will be discussed at a special Public Safety and Health Committee meeting on Thursday, July 9, at 2:30 p.m. UPDATE (7/7/20): The Commo...

1991 Great Circus Parade co-hosted by Captain Kangaroo

Watch the 1991 Great Circus Parade and imagine a time when circuses, parades, and crowds existed

Matt Wild

July 6, 2020

According to our calculations, 1991 was approximately 29 years ago. Still, it may as well be 129 years ago when you're watching this 1991 WMVS broadcast of Milwaukee's then-popular Great Circus Parade. Circuses...

Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen July 16 (with timed ticketing, free admission for a month)

Matt Wild

July 6, 2020

The Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen to the public on Thursday, July 16. If you're a Museum Member, that reopening gets bumped ahead to Thursday, July 9. As for pandemic precautions, MAM will employee a time...

Take a terrifying look inside Dustin Diamond’s water-damaged Port Washington home, which is for sale

Matt Wild

July 5, 2020

If you're in the market for a water-damaged celebrity-owned home filled with moldy Halloween decorations and probably some memorabilia from that time Casey Kasem guest-starred on the Zack Attack episode, have w...

Get a personal history of Brady Street in the ’60s and ’70s, via The Leather Shop’s Bill Odbert

Matt Wild

July 3, 2020

Last Thursday, Milwaukee Record threw our first (and god willing, our last) Virtual Summer Festival. With little to no festivals, block parties, or sports to thrill and entertain us this year, the eight-hour li...

Indonesian Junk gets sketchy in new video for “City Lights”

Matt Wild

July 2, 2020

It's been nearly a year since Milwaukee's long-running, long-swaggering glam-punk outfit Indonesian Junk released its latest album, Spiderbites. "Produced, engineered, and mixed by Shane Hochstetler at Howl Str...

Please enjoy the many delightful emails supporting or opposing a citywide masking policy

Matt Wild

July 1, 2020

On Thursday, July 2 at 9 a.m., the Common Council's Public Safety and Health Committee will discuss a proposed citywide masking policy that would require Milwaukeeans to wear masks in public places. In case you...

Please enjoy this dramatic reading tribute to Da Crusher, ya bums

Matt Wild

July 1, 2020

Last Thursday, Milwaukee Record threw our first (and god willing, our last) Virtual Summer Festival. With little to no festivals, block parties, or sports to thrill and entertain us this year, the 8-hour livest...

“Please don’t let us become Florida or Texas”: More than 70 Milwaukee businesses call for mandatory mask rule

Matt Wild

June 30, 2020

UPDATE: Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic has introduced a mandatory mask proposal, dubbed MKE Cares, that will go before the Common Council's Public Safety & Health Committee July 2. Read the proposal HERE. M...

Milwaukee County Board wants to make racist 911 calls a hate crime in Wisconsin

Matt Wild

June 30, 2020

Milwaukee County Supervisor Shawn Rolland introduced a resolution on Tuesday calling on Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin State Legislature "to reclassify false police reports on any member of a minority group ...

Bayshore’s getting a Target

Matt Wild

June 30, 2020

Yep. The still-in-redevelopment Bayshore Town Center (which we think dropped "town center" from its name, even though it plans to become more of a town center than ever before) is getting a Target. A two-story ...

Milwaukee Health Commissioner: “We’re going to have to be more aggressive with our enforcement”

Matt Wild

June 30, 2020

At a virtual media briefing Tuesday afternoon, Milwaukee Commissioner of Health Dr. Jeanette Kowalik said that the city will have to be "more aggressive" with its enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions. "Remem...

Steny’s closes for deep cleaning: “A positive case of COVID-19 has made its way into our building”

Matt Wild

June 30, 2020

Milwaukee fish fry favorite Steny's announced Tuesday night that it has temporarily closed for deep cleaning, due to a positive case of COVID-19 " its way into our building" on 800 S. 2nd St. Here's the anno...

Relive the music and mayhem of Milwaukee Record’s Virtual Summer Festival

Matt Wild

June 26, 2020

At some point during yesterday's eight-hour Milwaukee Record Virtual Summer Festival, someone (we think it was Lauryl Sulfate) said the whole thing was like MTV—when MTV was new and scrappy and weird. We can't ...

Milwaukee Board of School Directors votes to terminate all contracts with Milwaukee Police Department

Matt Wild

June 18, 2020

The Milwaukee Police Department has been dismissed. Thursday night, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors voted to terminate "all contracts with the Milwaukee Police Department for the services of School R...

An announcement that City Lounge is doing a ‘Tiger King’ pop-up (from someone who hasn’t seen ‘Tiger King’)

Matt Wild

June 18, 2020

Tiger King! It's that true-crime Netflix sensation everyone on planet Earth has seen! Except me (Matt)! And now City Lounge in Cudahy is doing a Tiger King-inspired "pop-up bar experience" from August 14 throug...

Common Council approves “I can’t breathe” resolution, explores 10% cut in police budget

Matt Wild

June 16, 2020

It was a busy day for the Milwaukee Common Council. At a (virtual) meeting on Tuesday, the Council held every mayoral cabinet appointment, demanded systemic change in all city departments, went ahead with the p...

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