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Sundays at the Highbeary: How a Bay View soccer pub became Milwaukee’s biggest Chicago Bears bar

December 14, 2018

This Sunday afternoon, the Chicago Bears will host the Green Bay Packers for an important late-season game. The outcome could either clinch a division title for the Bears or potentially extend Green Bay's slim ...

The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2018 (from a guy who ate one every Friday this year)

Caleb Westphal

December 14, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. In April 2017, he began writing a weekly column documenting and reviewing his latest fish fry destinations. Here are his top places for 2018 (presented...

Caley Conway adds to her holiday repertoire with ‘Boleslaus The Cruel’

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2018

Struck with the yuletide spirit, Caley Conway gave listeners the gift of a holiday EP last December. Her Heart Be Light EP found the Milwaukee singer-songwriter taking artistic liberty “with abandon” in each of...

Report: Wisconsin drinks a lot

Matt Wild

December 14, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • It's that time of year again—the time to round up the best music of the year,...

Take a look inside Crossroads Collective, which opens Monday

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 14, 2018

In just a few days, an iconic corner of Milwaukee's East Side will return to life. Crossroads Collective, the much-anticipated food hall located in the old Oriental Drugs building (2238 N. Farwell Ave.), will o...

First Impression: Hemp World CBD Cafe

Tyler Maas

December 13, 2018

It's been quite a year for CBD in Milwaukee. After finally hitting store shelves this summer, Cannabidiol (better known as “CBD”)—a hemp extract that’s a distant relative of marijuana without THC—has become muc...

Watch Milwaukee BMX rider Tim Knoll take to the streets, do some unbelievable stuff

Matt Wild

December 13, 2018

If your last exposure to freestyle BMX was Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX for the PS1, you'll be surprised to see how far the sport has progressed. Or, rather, how far Milwaukee BMX rider Tim Knoll has progressed it....

Christopher Porterfield talks about the long road to ‘Summertime Songs’

Tyler Maas

December 12, 2018

Field Report is on the tail end of a prosperous and busy year in which the band released a well-received album, toured throughout the country, garnered considerable radio play, welcomed in some new members, and...

On The Record #146: This is us discussing ‘This Is Us’

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 12, 2018

Midway through its third season, This Is Us has quickly become one of network TV's biggest shows. The generation-jumping NBC drama has captured the hearts of millions, won a slew of accolades, earned heaps of c...

Here’s the Brewers’ 2019 (and tragically Uecker-less) giveaway schedule

Matt Wild

December 12, 2018

Baseball! Brewers! Giveaways! Is there anything better! No! So let's just cut to the chase: Here's the Milwaukee Brewers' 2019 giveaway schedule. Highlights include a Christian Yelich bobblehead (cue the Chr...

Go nowhere fast with The DUIs and stream “Lowlife”

Tyler Maas

December 11, 2018

Since forming in 2011, The DUIs have operated with a pretty simple set of motivations. The band that lives to "Party, get drunk, and play punk" has put out a steady stream of albums, EPs, and splits in its seve...

Remembering the time, in 1979, when Milwaukee declared war on “rump cleavage”

Matt Wild

December 11, 2018

Times change. Standards evolve. What was acceptable in one era becomes unacceptable in the next. Here's a thought experiment: Imagine a city in 2018 dragging an exotic dancer to court because of her excessive "...

Weather got you down? Let Toasty Vibes warm your soul with his “Good Vibe Of The Day”

Tyler Maas

December 11, 2018

Last month, we introduced you to Toasty Vibes, an anthropomorphic marshmallow stoner and the mascot of the Brewers' new Rookie-Advanced affiliate. Though we think the Rocky Mountain Vibes probably should've put...

Get in the yuletide spirit with 7 more Milwaukee holiday releases

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2018

Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of amazingly tolerable holiday songs. There list grows more and mor...

Green Day songs and football-focused lyrics come together in “Green Day Packers”

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2018

Way back in August, we announced the lineup of our Milwaukee Record Halftime Show series at Cactus Club. At that time, many of you asked about the "Secret Band" that was slated to perform on December 16. In all...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee: Dec. 2-8

Matt Wild

December 10, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Money Inc. thinks the Third Ward is a “Midwestern mecca for foodies”

Matt Wild

December 10, 2018

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...

Public Domain: Caley Conway performs “Jingle Bells”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 7, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

12 reasons to keep watching the 2018 Green Bay Packers

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2018

The 2018 season has been a tough one for the Green Bay Packers. As we all know, last week's loss to the 2-9 Arizona Cardinals at Lambeau Field was immediately followed by Mike McCarthy's firing. The team has st...

257 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Butch’s Red Mill (Brookfield)

Caleb Westphal

December 7, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Have you ever gotten a fish fry in Brookfield? I hadn't. Hell, I've barely ever done anyth...

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