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Go back to happier times with this Global Union video

November 25, 2014

Has the world gone insane? Is our society breaking down? Have we lost all sense of justice, goodwill, and peace? What’s up with this weather? If these questions have been plaguing you for, oh, 24 hours or so, l...

Futura Extra Bold celebrates 100 years of design in unlikely style

Matt Wild

November 11, 2014

When it comes to 100th anniversary blowouts, Milwaukeeans would be hard pressed not to think of Harley-Davidson, a sea of leather-clad bikers, and a floundering Elton John. One 100-year-old group that probably ...

Here’s what Neil deGrasse Tyson will talk about at his Riverside shows this December

Matt Wild

October 21, 2014

In a time when ignorance is celebrated and grown adults camp out in parking lots for free chicken sandwiches, a public figure like Neil deGrasse Tyson is not only welcome, but needed. The celebrated astrophysic...

Here’s the schedule for this weekend’s Maker Faire Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 22, 2014

Milwaukee has no shortage of art, craft, food, beer, and whatever-else fairs. Hell, some of them are even at night! But this weekend’s inaugural Maker Faire Milwaukee is a bit different, focusing more on techno...

Great job, Wisconsin! Our state has a thing for banning books, apparently

Matt Wild

September 22, 2014

Depending on whom you ask, Wisconsin is either a forward-looking state with a proud progressive past, or a backwards-looking flyover state best left to blaze-orange Cheeseheads and the dopes that wear them. Tha...

Support your local nerf herder: Mighty Con Milwaukee comes to Serb Hall Sept. 21

Rob Wieland

September 19, 2014

Comic book conventions, like rock shows, come in all shapes and sizes. Big shows like San Diego Comic Con are like the Nerd Superbowl, while smaller regional shows like Wizard World bring celebrities and flippa...

Sat. Nite Duets and The Fatty Acids rekindle b-ball rivalry for art’s sake

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2014

Wouldn't it be cool if music videos were real? Imagine a universe where a woman could be whisked away to an exhilarating animated world like the one in A-ha's "Take On Me", where Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat cou...

Postmodern dance, heavy metal, and venturing outside one’s comfort zones

Matt Wild

July 29, 2014

This past Sunday, I went to the Lynden Sculpture Garden to see a retrospective performance from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, which kicked off Alverno Presents’ 2014-15 season. To say I knew nothing—and still...

Latino Arts announces schedule for fall season

Tyler Maas

July 29, 2014

Since 1985, Latino Arts Inc. has fostered Hispanic expression sourced by artists, musicians, dancers, and thespians from all corners of Latin America, as well as ample representation from talents right here in ...

6 reasons to get excited for Alverno Presents’ 2014-15 season

Matt Wild

July 24, 2014

For more than five decades, Alverno Presents has pollinated the city with some of the most original and rewarding performing arts in the world. International music and dance have long been staples of Alverno’s ...

Looking inward with Performing For Cyclops at Pitch Project gallery

Maureen Post

July 11, 2014

Earlier this year, Mike Brenner unveiled his own happy utopia: a huge Walker’s Point warehouse dedicated to his two lifelong loves of beer and art. Yes, the newly opened Brenner Brewing also houses The Pitch Pr...

Milwaukee welcomes Welcome To Night Vale to Pabst Theater

Rob Wieland

July 10, 2014

Radio shows were once a dying art form rarely heard outside of scratchy compilation CDs and community theater one-offs. The rise of podcasting, however, introduced a new format for narrative radio and got a new...

Neil deGrasse Tyson coming to Riverside Theater December 11

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 9, 2014

Famed astrophysicist, popular Star Talk podcaster, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey host Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to drop some knowledge on Milwaukee in December. Months removed from Sunday’s Cosmos season f...

Where to go (and what to see) at Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night

Matt Wild

June 4, 2014

For the past few years, Made In Milwaukee’s semi-annual Bay View Gallery Night has taken the tried and true citywide art exhibition and whittled it down to a single neighborhood. By staging many of its exhibits...

Inspiration Studios breathes life into West Allis arts

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2014

For 70 years, 1500 S. 73rd Street in West Allis was an edifice shrouded in death, loss, and mourning. In 1930, Slattery & Skubal Funeral Home took root in the imposing brick building. In 2000, the funeral h...

Let’s translate the latest “Creational Trails” press release

Matt Wild

May 8, 2014

Back in May 2013, the Greater Milwaukee Committee and a slew of overlapping and cryptically named local arts groups (ART Milwaukee, MiKE, beintween, probably 8,000 more) were awarded a $350,000 ArtPlace America...

Join Milwaukee Record at Maker Market

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 1, 2014

After a successful inaugural year, Maker Market is returning for its second season. On the first Sunday of each month between May and September, the parking lot of Bay View’s Colectivo will turn into an arts an...

Help make KPolly’s “Fake A$$ Rappers” a reality

Matt Wild

April 25, 2014

The music world is filled with plenty of outsized personalities better suited to seizure-inducing Japanese cartoons (Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc.), and artists who blur the line between artist and...

White trash Fabergé: L.CHAPPELLE’s “Expanded Landscapes” highlights Gallery Night & Day

Brent Gohde

April 24, 2014

Spring in Milwaukee. It’s not just for baseball and Sunday Funday patio drinking. John Malan gives us the impression that this is the first time since last July that God Himself will not indiscriminately punish...

Talk, talk, talk: Alverno Presents hosts Jeanine Durning’s “inging”

Matt Wild

April 17, 2014

“You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” As sung by David Byrne in “Psycho Killer,” it’s a lyric that serves as a put-down at best, a condemnation from a deranged mind at worst. But as practiced ...