Author: Matt Wild

Behold Crafty Cow’s “April Fast Foods Day” menu

March 20, 2025

We love Crafty Cow. We love the Bay View Crafty Cow, the Wauwatosa Crafty Cow, and the Oconomowoc Crafty Cow. We also love fast food. We love Taco Bell, we love McDonald's, and we love Arby's. (Hey, we're only ...

MKE Music Rewind: Farms In Trouble, “Like A Needle In Heaven” (2008)

Matt Wild

March 20, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Farms In Trouble's "Like A Needle In Heaven."...

Milwaukee Film reveals more MFF25 selections, Opening Night film and party

Matt Wild

March 19, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is just around the corner—April 24 - May 8, to be exact. It will feature approximately 200 short and feature-length documentary and fiction films from around the world (and Milw...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Admirals hockey is a hard-hitting good time

Matt Wild

March 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the Milwaukee Admirals! When was the last time you went to a Milw...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Condé Nast Traveler names Lakeshore State Park one of “best weekend getaways” in U.S.

Matt Wild

March 17, 2025

Here at Milwaukee Record we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot. It keeps track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists and studies, as well as any time a national publ...

I dropped by ‘The Morning Blend’ to talk about you-know-what

Matt Wild

March 17, 2025

It's been a minute since I (Matt) dropped by TMJ4 morning show The Morning Blend to shoot the breeze about some random Milwaukee topic. In fact, it's been five years! And my first appearance on the show was 1...

5 months of the Milwaukee Boat

Matt Wild

March 14, 2025

The Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Milwaukee, the S.S. Minnow, the Minnow, Deep Thought, or just The Boat—has been stranded between McKinley and Bradford beaches for five months. Incredible. What's new with ...

Locust Street Festival, Beer Run/Walk moving to June 1

Matt Wild

March 14, 2025

Last month, in the dead of winter, we gave you two summertime events to look forward to: Locust Street Festival and Center Street Daze. Well, the date of one of those events has changed, so update your calendar...

Join us at Boswell March 20 when we talk to Christine Wenc, author of new book about The Onion

Matt Wild

March 13, 2025

The Onion. You know it, you love it, you probably have a favorite headline. (Ours: "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster.") But how much do you really know about The Onion? Yes, it...

Here’s the schedule for Oriental Theatre’s David Lynch retrospective

Matt Wild

March 13, 2025

If you're a David Lynch obsessive like we are, you've been mainlining Lynch movies, Lynch TV, Lynch documentaries, Lynch music, and Lynch clips ever since the director's death in January. Ugh. Just typing that ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (February 26 – March 11, 2025)

Matt Wild

March 12, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Drinking a beer in the Domes: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

March 11, 2025

In 2024, following nearly a decade of endless campaigns and task forces, Milwaukee County finally embraced an ambitious plan to "reimagine" the Mitchell Park Domes. The $134 million multi-year plan will not onl...

Nelly, Shaq will play Brewers postgame concerts in 2025

Matt Wild

March 10, 2025

Remember when Vanilla Ice, Naughty By Nature, and Rob Base played a Milwaukee Brewers postgame concert in 2022? Well, buckle up for something in kinda-sorta the same wheelhouse in 2025. On Monday, the Brewer...

Cyndi Lauper will bring farewell tour to AmFam Amphitheater August 3

Matt Wild

March 10, 2025

We'll keep this short and sweet, folks: Music icon Cyndi Lauper will bring her "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour" to Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Sunday, August 3. The show is pa...

Enjoy this bootleg recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan at Oriental Theatre in 1985

Matt Wild

March 10, 2025

Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre isn't just a historic movie palace, it's a historic concert venue. Dedicated musical concerts at the East Side theater may be few and far between these days, but, over the decades, ...

Bug Moment sets new high score with ‘The Lazer Collection’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2025

On 2023's The Flying Toad Circus, Milwaukee "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" group Bug Moment spun a hushed and haunting spell. There were moments of brilliant noise and anguished cries, but the bulk of the reco...

MKE musicians headed to SXSW; wish them luck at tonight’s Cooperage sendoff party

Matt Wild

March 6, 2025

Beginning this weekend, the 2025 South by Southwest music conference/festival/blowout will take over every venue/bar/corner of Austin, Texas. And amidst all the madness will be a contingent of artists giving Au...

Food/Drink Roundup: Milwaukee named 8th best beer city in U.S., which seems low

Matt Wild

March 5, 2025

Looking for a roundup of Milwaukee food and drink news? Then take a bite of our cleverly titled, bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup! This week: Milwaukee is only the 8th best beer city in the U.S.? • Milwaukee exi...

Money talks, rockets launch in Highland Community School’s ‘A Very Special Visit’

Matt Wild

March 4, 2025

More than two dozen 4th, 5th, and 6th graders dash around a dimly lit gymnasium. Discussions of money and morality are punctuated by the sounds of fire alarms and mid-period Styx. The richest person in the worl...

Here’s Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s 2025 State of the City address

Matt Wild

March 4, 2025

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson delivered his 2025 State of the City address at the Baird Center on Monday. He was introduced by his predecessor, former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Johnson's wide-ranging a...

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