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Want to get married at Lakefront Brewery on Valentine’s Day? Sign up now!

January 13, 2020

Getting married for the first, second, or third time? Tired of getting married at churches, courthouses, or tastefully restored barns? Then why not get married at Milwaukee's famous Lakefront Brewery! On Valent...

Caribbean restaurant planned for former Cocina, Chez Jacques space in Walker’s Point

Matt Wild

January 13, 2020

A new "full-service, sit-down Caribbean restaurant" called Mobay Cafe is planned for 1022 S. 1st St. in Walker's Point. The building formerly housed Mexican restaurant Cocina 1022, which closed in February 2019...

Milwaukee streetcar to remain free through 2020, still seeking sponsors

Matt Wild

January 10, 2020

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • As we patiently wait for The Hop's December ridership numbers (prediction: t...

Committee questions legality of proposed food delivery fee, holds matter for further discussion

Matt Wild

January 8, 2020

A proposed ordinance to add a fee to food delivery orders placed through third-party services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Postmates was held for further discussion Wednesday morning at a Milwaukee Public Works...

4 things we know about Disney’s Giannis movie, despite the very nature of existence being unknowable

Matt Wild

January 8, 2020

Back in November, it was reported that a feature film about Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo was in the works for Disney's new streaming service, Disney+. According to Deadline, Disney+ has put t...

Mad Chicken will open this Friday on the East Side

Matt Wild

January 8, 2020

Remember when there was a Burger King on the East Side? You know, at 2045 E. North Ave., on the corner of North and Prospect? Remember when it was really bad, even though Burger King is really good? Remember wh...

Late-night mac and cheese parlor, Makk ‘n’ Cheese, coming to former Pizza Di Famiglia in Bay View

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story mistakenly reported the name of the new business as Cheezeheads. Milwaukee Record apologizes for the error. For the past few months, Bay View pizza joint Pizza Di F...

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s winter 2020 lineup

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

The UWM Union Cinema has been a hidden-not-really-hidden gem of Milwaukee's East Side since 1972. Located inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union, the unassuming theater has long served as a ...

Behold the new Yelich, Bango, Bernie Cheesehead bobbleheads

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

Today, as we all know, is National Bobblehead Day. A day to celebrate all the joy these collectable, spring-necked toys bring us. A day to maybe mess around with that crazy Giannis/Yelich/Rodgers triple Wiscons...

The Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland and Locust is back, baby

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

It's been roughly 18 months since that dumpy Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland Avenue and Locust Street was closed, knocked down, and mourned. But now, in the bright new year of 2020, it's back, baby! In a ...

Want to paint a mural on the 2nd Street skywalk of The Avenue? Apply now!

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

It's been a while since the once-mighty, long-withering Shops of Grand Avenue closed up shops (heh). Now dubbed "The Avenue," the downtown complex is currently being redeveloped. The east end has already been c...

Milwaukee skyline prominently, strangely featured on Netflix reality show ‘The Circle’

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

If, for whatever reason, you've pushed play on new Netflix content The Circle, this is what you've seen: a Real World/Big Brother-crossed-with-Catfish/Black Mirror reality show where contestants live in the sam...

Should Ravine Road be reopened to vehicular traffic? Lake Park Friends thinks so

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

The saga of Lake Park's Ravine Road is a complicated one. Located near Bartolotta's Lake Park Bistro, the road—long used to connect Lincoln Memorial Drive to the upper East Side—was blocked off in 2014 when the...

Help magic-themed Wizard Works Brewing materialize this April

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

It has happened to all of us: You're out on the town with some friends, enjoying some beverages at your favorite craft brewery and taproom, and there's no magic. Not "magic" as in "chemistry and excitement," bu...

Milwaukee may add fee to food delivery apps to help pay for roads, public transportation

Matt Wild

January 3, 2020

A few weeks ago, Milwaukee restauranteurs blasted food delivery companies like Grubhub, Postmates, and DoorDash for adding their businesses without their permission. Now, according to an upcoming Public Works C...

50 pictures (and 1 video) of the gloriously dead Forest Mall in Fond du Lac

Matt Wild

December 27, 2019

UPDATE (12/10/20): R.I.P. Forest Mall. Roughly 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee is Fond du Lac, home to Walleye Weekend, the Kristmas Kringle Shoppe, and the once-mighty Forest Mall. Emphasis on "once" on tha...

“City of Milwaukee” Facebook page is fake, full of folks who don’t realize it’s fake

Matt Wild

December 19, 2019

Potholes. Road construction. Snow removal. Potholes. Probably something about the streetcar. If you live in Milwaukee, you've likely seen these topics endlessly debated and ALL-CAPS YELLED ABOUT online. Faceboo...

Watch WWE wrestlers Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose eat some cheese curds in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 18, 2019

In case you missed it, the WWE was in town last week, bringing some sweet, sweet SmackDown goodness to Fiserv Forum. Along for the ride were full-time wrestlers and part-time food-vloggers Daria Berenato (a.k.a...

Go through the looking-box with the video for Surgeons In Heat’s “By The End Of The Night”

Matt Wild

December 17, 2019

It's been more than a year since effortlessly cool Milwaukee band Surgeons In Heat released the effortlessly cool Bored Immortals. The record was a perfect distillation of the group's chilled-out Spoon vibe, ac...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (December 8-14)

Matt Wild

December 16, 2019

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...

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