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    • Shoegaze meets metal (and Cheap Trick) in Shamewave's 'Heaven' EP

      Matt Wild
      February 5, 2021
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      Cal Roach
      January 21, 2022

    • MKE Music Rewind: Compound Red, ‘Mr. Microcosm’ (1993)

      Matt Wild
      January 20, 2022

    • Help your dog dream with Milwaukee-made ‘Ambient Music For Sleeping Dogs’

      Matt Wild
      January 19, 2022

    • Burnhearts Mitten Fest returns February 12! Here’s the lineup

      Tyler Maas
      January 18, 2022

    • Go ahead and cry while listening to Brat Sounds cover Mister Rogers’ “It’s You I Like”

      Matt Wild
      January 18, 2022

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      Milwaukee Record Staff
      January 17, 2022
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    • Great Job, Milwaukee! We're one of the drunkest cities in America. Again

      Matt Wild
      May 25, 2017
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    • Links to everyone else’s articles about Milwaukee Public Market’s new ice skating rink, a story I missed yesterday because I wasn’t feeling well (don’t worry, it’s not COVID!) and I was taking a nap

      Matt Wild
      January 20, 2022

    • In case you blinked last month, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (Jan. 9-15)

      Matt Wild
      January 18, 2022

    • Milwaukee Common Council approves return of indoor mask mandate (through March 1)

      Matt Wild
      January 18, 2022

    • Watch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak at UWM in 1965

      Matt Wild
      January 17, 2022

    • MKE SEX: Let’s talk about sex (and pregnancy), baby! Pt. 1

      Lucky Tomaszek
      January 14, 2022

    • 500,000 more free N95 masks are available at Milwaukee libraries and city testing sites

      Matt Wild
      January 13, 2022
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    • Midwest Diner has closed

      Tyler Maas
      January 2, 2017
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    • 420 Friday fish frys and counting: Wegner’s St. Martins Inn (Franklin)

      Caleb Westphal
      January 21, 2022

    • Discourse, an “experimental coffee bar,” will open in Crossroads Collective February 5

      Matt Wild
      January 20, 2022

    • 419 Friday fish frys and counting: Colonel Hart’s (Wauwatosa)

      Caleb Westphal
      January 14, 2022

    • 23 pictures of the just-opened 3rd Street Market Hall, plus 1 picture of the burger I ate

      Matt Wild
      January 14, 2022

    • The Patio Pub & Grill brings great food, corner bar atmosphere to Clarke Square

      Juan Miguel Martinez
      January 13, 2022

    • 3rd Street Market Hall will open (finally!) January 14

      Matt Wild
      January 12, 2022
  • Comedy
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    • Dan Band’s curse-filled covers win over Turner Hall

      Tyler Maas
      May 12, 2014
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    • Comedian Tom Clark talks Milwaukee start, acting, Hedberg memories before homecoming shows

      Tyler Maas
      November 30, 2021

    • Season 3 of ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ will premiere November 7

      Tyler Maas
      October 11, 2021

    • 11 (more) notable comedians with Wisconsin roots

      Tyler Maas
      October 5, 2021

    • Here’s the 2021 Milwaukee Comedy Festival lineup

      Tyler Maas
      September 21, 2021

    • Wow. Doughboys Podcast will return to Turner Hall on January 28

      Tyler Maas
      September 13, 2021

    • The sound effects Michael Winslow did at Summerfest, ranked

      Tyler Maas
      September 10, 2021
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    • "C'mon, movie, what are we doing here?" An interview with We Hate Movies co-host Stephen Sajdak

      Matt Wild
      July 11, 2018
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    • There will be riffs: Wisconsin-made cinema gets roasted with Laughing Tap’s “Movies On Tap”

      Matt Wild
      January 21, 2022

    • Milwaukee Film announces in-person films, events for Black History Month

      Matt Wild
      January 11, 2022

    • “The Betty White-Wisconsin connection” news roundup

      Matt Wild
      January 4, 2022

    • Like, oh my god! We’re screening ‘Clueless’ at Avalon Theater on January 26

      Tyler Maas
      December 16, 2021

    • Check out the festive films in Avalon Theater’s “12 Days Of Classics” series

      Tyler Maas
      November 23, 2021

    • Sit! ‘Clue’ is coming to Avalon Theater on December 15

      Josh Hoppert
      November 18, 2021
  • Arts
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    • Let's watch this wacky Milwaukee Art Museum commercial from 1983

      Matt Wild
      May 11, 2017
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    • Latino Arts announces winter and spring exhibitions, performances

      Tyler Maas
      January 13, 2022

    • Check out these “Milwaukee Museum Days” deals and events

      Tyler Maas
      January 11, 2022

    • Mike Crivello’s employee plans to run an in-store 5k to save YOU money

      Matt Wild
      November 18, 2021

    • Krampus is coming to town: Milwaukee Krampusnacht returns to Bavarian Bierhaus December 5

      Matt Wild
      November 12, 2021

    • Ranking 20 video game systems for the 20th anniversary of the Midwest Gaming Classic

      Matt Wild
      November 2, 2021

    • Note to self: See Zack Pieper’s “Ghost-Its” in the windows of Real Tinsel Gallery

      Matt Wild
      November 1, 2021
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    • Marques Johnson's TV and film credits, ranked

      Tyler Maas
      May 21, 2020
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    • Remembering the time I wore a disgraced Packer’s Super Bowl ring at a Michael Bolton charity softball game

      Tyler Maas
      January 20, 2022

    • Moneyline Mo’s Pigskin Picks: Divisional Round

      Moneyline Mo
      January 19, 2022

    • Eddy J. Lemberger’s new Packers song is out of this world

      Tyler Maas
      January 17, 2022

    • 20 things to do during the Packers playoff bye

      Tyler Maas
      January 13, 2022

    • Moneyline Mo’s Pigskin Picks: Wild Card Round

      Moneyline Mo
      January 12, 2022

    • Looking back at the long, storied history of Packers games in Milwaukee

      Tyler Maas
      January 6, 2022
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    • My First Band: Trapper Schoepp

      Milwaukee Record Staff
      September 11, 2020
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      Milwaukee Record Staff
      January 21, 2022

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      Milwaukee Record Staff
      January 14, 2022

    • My First Band: Talking about Green Bay Packers music

      Milwaukee Record Staff
      January 7, 2022

    • My First Band’s year in review: The 10 most-listened-to episodes of 2021

      Tyler Maas
      December 31, 2021

    • My First Band: Andy Baxter (Penny And Sparrow)

      Tyler Maas
      December 23, 2021

    • My First Band: Adam Bartlett (Gilead Media, Eroding Winds Record Shop)

      Milwaukee Record Staff
      December 17, 2021
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Emily Johnson is a copywriter/editor based in Shorewood. Originally from Minneapolis, Emily ended up in Milwaukee for college and decided to stay forever. She lives in a 112-year-old (possibly haunted) house with her husband, toddler, and Blue Heeler, Ripley.

The night an MCTS driver saved my life (maybe)

Emily Johnson
January 13, 2021
The other day I was video chatting with my mom about, of all things, the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS). If you read my Pulitzer-winning piece about cheese-filled burgers and depression, you might remem...

A Milwaukee transplant finds comfort in a Crafty Cow “Jucy Lucy”

Emily Johnson
December 22, 2020
To me, Milwaukee has always seemed like the city equivalent of that terrible trope where the "ugly" girl in the movie takes off her glasses, and you realize she was beautiful all along. I moved here from Minnea...
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