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This Bay View house is also a bar (Swigs Pub & Grill) and it’s for sale for $260,000

June 11, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: a Bay View house that's also a bar! • This Bay View house is also a...

If you send us Whiskey Kringle, we will absolutely write about it and eat it

Matt Wild

June 10, 2021

We get a lot of things sent to us here at Milwaukee Record HQ: albums, books, bobbleheads, hate mail, etc. We write about some of the stuff we receive, and we don't write about some of the stuff we receive. We'...

You can finally play pickleball under the I-794 freeway

Matt Wild

June 9, 2021

If you thought a bunch of tire swings hanging underneath the Marsupial Bridge on Water Street was a swell idea (that would be Swing Park, btw), how about some brand new pickleball courts under the I-794 freeway...

This Friday: Present Music closes 39th season with virtual “Neon Life” concert

Matt Wild

June 9, 2021

Call it "normal" or a "new normal," but it feels like we're collectively returning to...something. That mixed feeling of closure and relief and uncertainty will course through "Neon Life," the season-closing co...

Patio of old La Fuente on 5th looks like it’s been bombed, will likely be demolished

Matt Wild

June 8, 2021

As anyone who has driven down the 600 block of 5th Street—and/or hung out at the 5th Street Fuel Cafe—can tell you, the patio of the old La Fuente restaurant (625 S. 5th St.) looks...a little rough. In fact, it...

2022 Milwaukee Film Festival set for April 21 – May 5, intends to be in-person

Matt Wild

June 8, 2021

If it feels like the 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival just wrapped up, well, it kind of did. The event ran May 6-20; like the 2020 fest, it was all-virtual. But today, Milwaukee Film not only announced the dates fo...

Lap steel metal band Velocihamster covers “Sleepwalk,” releases vinyl

Matt Wild

June 8, 2021

When a group describes itself as the "world's only lap steel metal band," what's not to like? Especially when that group is from Milwaukee, and the name of that group is Velocihamster. Yes, Velocihamster has...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The Summerfest Lakewalk is pretty neat

Matt Wild

June 7, 2021

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

Chappelle. Summerfest. September 11

Matt Wild

June 7, 2021

Dave Chappelle will headline the American Family Insurance Amphitheater during Summerfest on Saturday, September 11. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 11, at noon at Summerfest.com and Ticketmaster.com. Ticket...

“Black Is Beautiful” bike ride will return to the streets June 27

Matt Wild

June 4, 2021

"What was once personal for me turned into a mass thing. I thought, 'Let's get other people on bikes. Let's get more people of color on bikes.'" That's Milwaukee rapper WebsterX, talking to us last August ab...

SafeHouse will begin new mission (a.k.a. reopen) June 9

Matt Wild

June 4, 2021

The spy-themed SafeHouse (779 N. Front St., 414-271-2007) is one of those Milwaukee institutions that's easy to take for granted. "Oh, I've already been to the SafeHouse," you might sniff when turning down an o...

July 3 lakefront fireworks? Canceled. July 5 fireworks in 10 Milwaukee parks? Happening.

Matt Wild

June 4, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: Milwaukee fireworks! • Okay, let's get this straight: Milwaukee Cou...

Previously canceled Downer Classic bike race is back on for June 24

Matt Wild

June 3, 2021

Back in March, it was announced that the annual Downer Classic bike race—a.k.a. the Otto Wenz Café Hollander Downer Avenue Classic—was canceled for 2021. Boo! But now, less than three months later, it's back on...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (May 23-29)

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

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...

It’s our solemn duty to report that Milwaukee is actually getting THREE “selfie studios”

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

Yesterday we blessed you with the news that the Milwaukee area is getting not one, but TWO so-called "selfie studios." Selfie WRLD MKE—a local outpost of a Des Moines-based chain—will open June 12 in Brookfield...

NEWaukee Night Market, now just Milwaukee Night Market, now just August 18

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

Remember the NEWaukee Night Market? The big art fair/food truck fair/"Hey, it's the Milwaukee Blacksmith family!" fair that would take over a prime chunk of Wisconsin Avenue outside the old Shops of Grand Avenu...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re horny

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

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 ...

Oh god, the Milwaukee area is getting not one, but TWO “selfie studios”

Matt Wild

June 1, 2021

To quote Nate Gunray from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND. NOW THERE ARE TWO OF THEM. (Two Milwaukee-area selfie studios, that is.) You've probably already read about S...

“Hardest festival tickets to buy in the world”? According to one website: Summerfest

Matt Wild

June 1, 2021

Here at Milwaukee Record, we regularly employ our Great Job, Milwaukee! bot to cover the city's many appearances in online travel stories and dopey online listicles. Did you know that Milwaukee is one of the "5...

Foo Fighters will play American Family Insurance Amphitheater July 30

Matt Wild

June 1, 2021

And the NATURE IS HEALING concert announcements keep on comin': Yes, the Foo Fighters will play Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Friday, July 30. They'll be joined by Radkey. Tickets go on ...

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