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They Might Be Giants bring damn good times to Pabst Theater

March 17, 2018

"My excellence at parkour might be unexpected / At the age of 58, it comes as quite a surprise." So sings John Flansburgh on the title track to They Might Be Giants' new album, I Like Fun. It's a typically oddb...

Who’s to blame for the closing of Wolf Peach?

Matt Wild

March 16, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • First, the facts: Popular farm-to-table restaurant Wolf Peach, 1818 N. Hubbar...

Here’s the lineup for Downer Theatre’s new “Almost Midnight” movie series

Matt Wild

March 16, 2018

Do you like movies? Do you like "midnight" movies? Do you like watching "midnight" movies at midnight? If so, then you're sure to love Downer Theatre's new "Almost Midnight" movie series. Beginning in April, th...

Weird music by weirdos, for weirdos: Chatting with Milwaukee-via-Oakland musician Conan Neutron

Matt Wild

March 15, 2018

Despite the decentralizing power of technology, there still exists the un-killable notion of musicians leaving whatever flyover states they grew up in and "making it" on one of the coasts. Conan Neutron has it ...

Have a little cry at the friendship between a 4-year-old girl and a Milwaukee bus driver

Matt Wild

March 15, 2018

Our un-ironic love for the Milwaukee County Transit System knows no bounds. We've sung the bus' praises on these pages and on the radio. The bus has sung our praises for doing so. We were filmed on the bus for ...

Take a look at Transfer Pizzeria’s 10th anniversary expansion

Matt Wild

March 15, 2018

Has it really been 10 years since Transfer Pizzeria Cafe opened on the corner S. 1st and W. Mitchell streets? Yes, yes it has. Co-owners John and Russell Rossetto are celebrating the big anniversary this week—a...

Waving the white flag on the “People’s Flag of Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

March 14, 2018

A few weeks ago, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about the ongoing drama surrounding the Milwaukee city flag. What, the reporter wanted to know, was the deal with the "People's Flag of Mi...

Justin Vernon will cook and sing for you, possibly move in with you and love you for all eternity

Matt Wild

March 9, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Is there anything Justin Vernon won't do for you? Shhhh... Don't answer that...

Discover the youthful, whimsical, and unlikely music of Mittelstadt

Matt Wild

March 9, 2018

"Why sing songs, why suffer on? Why wake up at all?" So ponders singer Benny Koziol on "Crimson," the opening track of Mittelstadt's debut EP Roll Ginger Roll. Those are big questions, to be sure, and if Koziol...

Here’s what Up-Down MKE arcade bar will look like when it opens later this year

Matt Wild

March 7, 2018

A lot has happened since August 2017, when owners of the Des Moines-based Up-Down arcade bar announced plans to open a Milwaukee location at 615 E. Brady St.—a.k.a. the site of the old Comedy Cafe. Another arca...

Watch former ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ writer hype #MinionSquad in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

March 7, 2018

Just the facts: Conner O'Malley is a former writer for Late Night With Seth Meyers. Conner O'Malley is a former Vine star (R.I.P. Vine) and a longtime troller of trolls like Donald Trump and Milo Yiannopoulos. ...

Bayshore iPic, restaurant, and bowling alley are closing

Matt Wild

March 6, 2018

UPDATE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says "negotiations already have been opened with another potential theater operator." Sad news, cinema and reserving-your-seat-at-a-movie-theater-for-no-reason fans: the iP...

Cast, crew, and crowd get messy in Nickelodeon game show-inspired ‘Winnerz Take All’

Matt Wild

March 6, 2018

A totally tubular game show host pumps up an already pumped-up crowd. Four teams slosh around in a super sloppy obstacle course stocked with buckets of popcorn, swimming pools of slime, and paper mache boulders...

Enter the hand-drawn, hasty world of Getting Shit Done Animation Club

Matt Wild

March 6, 2018

It's a joke as old as time: Mega Man and Samus Aran walk into a bar and talk about a crazy night at Dr. Wily's. Or how about this: Two space-faring explorers bicker amongst themselves while a dastardly villain ...

Our kingdom for one of these personalized South Milwaukee love songs from 1985

Matt Wild

March 5, 2018

Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "This song is great, but I wish the singer was singing directly to me. You know, like singing my name and everything. That would be swell." Of course you haven't. S...

FOX6 woke up to some UFOs that turned out to be a giant flock of seagulls

Matt Wild

March 2, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Every weekday from 4:30 a.m. until 9 a.m., FOX6 WakeUp does its best to enter...

We got it all at Avalon Theater on April 4 when we screen the “Weird Al” classic ‘UHF’

Matt Wild

March 1, 2018

Put down your remote control. Throw out your TV Guide. Put away your jacket. There's no need to go outside. Well, there is a need to go outside on Wednesday, April 4. Yes, that's the night we're teaching poodle...

Local developer buys BBC/Hotel Foster complex

Matt Wild

March 1, 2018

The G-Daddy's BBC and Hotel Foster complex on Milwaukee's East Side has been completely vacant for nearly a year, but it appears new life may be headed its way soon. BizTimes is reporting that the four building...

7 Milwaukee companies that definitely won’t get naming rights to the new Bucks arena

Matt Wild

February 28, 2018

UPDATE (7/26/18): It's Fiserv Forum. UPDATE (4/23/18): The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the naming rights are "imminent," and that they will go to a "local company with a national presence." Here are s...

Adam Sandler will perform two shows at Riverside Theater in April

Matt Wild

February 28, 2018

Much like the universe, and much like the Self, Adam Sandler contains multitudes. There's the early Saturday Night Live Sandler, scoring big on characters like Opera Man and the Herlihy Boy ("Please don't make ...

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