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January 14, 2021

Want to stay updated on Wisconsin's COVID-19 response and vaccine progress? There's a new weekly email newsletter for that. The Department of Health Services (DHS) announced the newsletter Thursday morning. ...

Snack Boys makes pandemic pivot to “Plant Boys”

Matt Wild

January 14, 2021

For many Milwaukee businesses, 2020 and 2021 will go down as the "pivot" years: Taking once thriving business models and trying something new and different—anything new and different—in order to stay afloat ami...

Milwaukee health order limiting bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to 50% capacity will expire Friday, thus allowing bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to return to full capacity

Matt Wild

January 14, 2021

It couldn't be simpler: A Milwaukee health order limiting bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to 50% capacity will expire on Friday, January 15, thus allowing bars and resta...

Victor Buell IV scores the apocalypse with synth-drenched solo album, ‘Fallen Angels’

Matt Wild

January 13, 2021

The last time we checked in with Victor Buell IV, the Vinz Clortho leader was getting down—real low down—with a winning cover of Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy." The song was eventually included on Vinz C...

9 delightful regional pizza Instagram accounts you should follow for National Pizza Week

Matt Wild

January 12, 2021

This week (January 10-16) is National Pizza Week. Finally, an excuse to eat and celebrate pizza. Need some pizza-related levity on your Instagram feed, both during this week and beyond? Of course you do. Her...

Aaron Rodgers will guest host an upcoming episode of ‘Jeopardy!’

Matt Wild

January 12, 2021

A few years after appearing on Jeopardy! as a contestant, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will soon host the beloved game show. The BREAKING NEWS was broken today on the Pat McAfee Show: BREAKING...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (Jan. 3-9)

Matt Wild

January 11, 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...

Weird Storm gets, well, weird in video for “Brittle Pastimes”

Matt Wild

January 8, 2021

There's unfortunate timing, and then there's Milwaukee's Weird Storm. Formed in summer 2019, the group (Charlie Hoehnen, Bob Schaab, brothers Chris and Nicholas Ouchie) wrote, rehearsed, and recorded some demos...

Lauryl Sulfate and LUXI team up for “Basement Show”

Matt Wild

January 8, 2021

Ahhh, the basement show. That magical beast where 17 hardcore bands are on one bill, where three dozen people have to squeeze past the washer and dryer without accidentally unplugging the Christmas lights, and ...

Everything at West Allis Bakers Square is up for auction (sorry, no pies)

Matt Wild

January 8, 2021

Last month saw the closing of the last remaining Bakers Square in Wisconsin. The Elm Grove location followed the closing of a Shorewood location in 2016, and locations in Greenfield and West Allis earlier in 20...

When will the Marcus Center parking structure snow piles melt THIS year?

Matt Wild

January 6, 2021

Back in spring 2019, we asked a perennial Milwaukee question: When would the big snow piles on the sides of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts parking structure, 929 N. Water St., finally melt? We kept t...

Favorite Milwaukee Music We Forgot To Include In Our Year-End Favorites: Red Stuff, ‘Bless Us’

Matt Wild

January 6, 2021

In 2020 we dropped our usual year-end "25 Best Milwaukee Albums" list and went with something less stuffy. "Milwaukee Record's favorite Milwaukee music of 2020" contained lists of our favorite LPs and EPs, but ...

Greet the new year with Mere Of Light and the wistful “Moon From A Well”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2021

Entering a new year is a lot like waking up in the morning: it's best done slowly, quietly, and, if at all possible, without doomscrolling through Twitter. With that in mind, please let new Milwaukee project Me...

Ranking Milwaukee-themed polka songs by the number of times they say “Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2021

Back in December, Milwaukee-area polka king Mike Schneider released a video for his delightful "Christmas Kielbasa." The song ended up getting stuck in our heads for approximately three weeks. Go figure. htt...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Kicking icy chunks of slush out of your vehicle’s wheel wells

Matt Wild

January 4, 2021

Some things come and go, while some things become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: kicking icy chunks of slush out of your vehicle's wheel wells! Poke around the weird-but-not-t...

Rexxx goes to the toppermost of the poppermost in video for “Animal”

Matt Wild

January 4, 2021

Back when the Beatles were a struggling band playing dingy clubs and ratty ballrooms, John Lennon would cheer the group on with a rallying cry. "Where are we going, fellas?" Lennon would ask. "To the top, Johnn...

Milwaukee Admirals “opt out” of 2020-21 American Hockey League season

Matt Wild

January 4, 2021

Milwaukee Admirals owner and CEO Harris Turer announced on Monday that the team will "opt out" of the 2020-21 American Hockey League season. Why? Because of the "financial and related implications caused by the...

Reminder: Only four more days before Miller Park becomes American Family Field

Matt Wild

December 28, 2020

Yep. There are only four more days before Miller Park, long the home of your Milwaukee Brewers, becomes American Family Field. That's it. That's the article. Okay, here's a little more. The change becomes of...

Scott Walker supports local business with cropped pizza photo from 2019

Matt Wild

December 27, 2020

We need to support local restaurants and small businesses in these difficult and trying times. You know it, we know it, former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker knows it. Don't believe us on the last part? Behold...

Marijuana-themed Cheba Hut planned for corner of Oakland and Locust

Matt Wild

December 22, 2020

Way, way back in 2018, Fort Collins, Colorado-based marijuana-themed restaurant chain Cheba Hut announced plans to set up shop in Milwaukee. Now, during a particularly harsh time when we all need the chain's "t...

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