Author Matt Wild

FPC Live is gonna build its two-room music venue on the old Bradley Center site now

May 23, 2022

It's Monday, which means Milwaukee is getting another new downtown music venue.Madison-based FPC Live, a division of Live Nation subsidiary Frank Productions, plans to build a $50 million two-room music ven...

Gov. Evers announces $2.2 million for Milwaukee violence prevention, including “security fencing”

Matt Wild

May 23, 2022

Gov. Tony Evers announced on Monday $2.2 million in funding "directed towards the city of Milwaukee for violence prevention and to help the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) to take immediate steps to address c...

A Weird Al album ranking that totally betrays the age of the author, and that’s it

Matt Wild

May 22, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Washington Park Wednesdays are back! Here’s the 2022 lineup

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

And the summer music lineups keep on coming (and coming, and coming, and coming). Today, Washington Park Wednesdays revealed its 2022 lineup—its first full, in-person lineup since 2019. Here's who's playing the...

Mask up like it’s 2020: Milwaukee Health Department issues new mask advisory

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

Yep. Here's the press release. And yeah, it's "just" an advisory, not a mandate or whatever. On May 19, 2022, Milwaukee County moved into the CDC’s “high” level of COVID-19 community spread. This level is base...

Holy crap, Milwaukee is getting a new 8,000-seat soccer stadium and 3,500-person concert venue

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

Just when you thought Milwaukee's sports and concert venue news couldn't get any twistier, along comes a new twist: a just-announced 8,000-seat soccer stadium complete with an adjacent 3,500-person concert venu...

13 pictures from our sold-out ‘UHF’ screening and Twinkie Wiener Sandwich afterparty

Matt Wild

May 19, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record's Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al's May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Weird Al Week (In 3-D) begins with a chat with Weird Al drummer Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

Soak up the lineup for the 2022 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

In case you missed it, the Great Milwaukee Summer is back! And one of the many Milwaukee music festivals making its return after two COVID-heavy years, the Summer Soulstice Music Festival, just announced its li...

Here are the 2022 lineups for Lake Park’s Musical Mondays and Wonderful Wednesdays

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

There are approximately 8,000 live music series returning to Milwaukee in 2022. Two of them happen to take place at Lake Park's Summer Stage, just south of the playground and tennis courts: Musical Mondays and ...

Jazz at The Vine coming to The Vine beer garden in Humboldt Park

Matt Wild

May 18, 2022

We've said it before and we'll say it again: There are approximately 8,000 live music series returning to Milwaukee in 2022. But what's this? A new live music series? Yep, for the first time ever, Humboldt Park...

We talked to Steve Martin and Martin Short before their May 12 show at Riverside Theater and it was delightful

Matt Wild

May 11, 2022

Steve Martin and Martin Short need no introductions. So...Before the comedy legends bring their latest live show, "You Won't Believe What They Look Like Today!" to The Riverside Theater on May 12, Milwaukee...

Here’s the release date and trailer for the Disney+ Giannis biopic ‘Rise,’ and that’s it

Matt Wild

May 10, 2022

June 24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=numzJtJWT8cOkay, and the poster, too:Exclusive articles, podcasts, and more. Support Milwaukee Record on Patreon.RELATED ARTICLES• Here’s your G...

3rd Street Market Hall adds Venezuelan restaurant Anytime Arepa, open now

Matt Wild

May 10, 2022

Fact: 3rd Street Market Hall opened in the first floor of the old Shops of Grand Avenue, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave., earlier this year.Fact: Since then, the downtown food hall has added a new vendor approximatel...

2022 Milwaukee Film Festival announces attendance, awards, 2023 dates

Matt Wild

May 10, 2022

The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped last Thursday. Though it marked a return to in-cinema screenings after fully virtual outings in 2020 and 2021, it was very much a hybrid festival. Out of the 285 total f...

Here’s your Giannis mural update for Monday, May 9, at 7:41 a.m.

Matt Wild

May 9, 2022

If you follow Milwaukee Record, you know that Milwaukee/Chicago artist Mauricio Ramirez is painting a three-story mural of Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo on the east facade of the 600 EAST buil...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (May 1-9)

Matt Wild

May 9, 2022

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...

Celebrate the “414” with new Grace Weber video

Matt Wild

May 9, 2022

In case you missed it, April 14 was Milwaukee Day—a.k.a. 414 Day, a.k.a. the day every business in town cooks up something they can sell for $4.14. In between the annual video love letter from Imagine MKE and o...

8 headlines about VISIT Milwaukee’s new Cheese Curd Pass, ranked

Matt Wild

May 6, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: CHEESE CURD PASS.Earlier this week, VISIT Milwaukee unveiled a so-...

Crusherfest will return to South Milwaukee…in 2023

Matt Wild

May 5, 2022

You read that right, turkeynecks: Crusherfest—the not-quite-annual celebration of South Milwaukee wrestling legend Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski—will take 2022 off. The fest will return on June 3-4, 2023."Th...