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Matt Wild weighs between 140 and 145 pounds. He lives on Milwaukee's east side.

Your down-and-dirty guide to getting in free (almost) every day of Summerfest 2019

Matt Wild
June 25, 2019
Summerfest! It runs June 26-30, and July 2-7! It's at Henry Maier Festival Park—a.k.a. the Summerfest grounds! General admission tickets usually cost $15 or $23! Not bad! Like Mad magazine always says: cheap! ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 16-22)

Matt Wild
June 25, 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...

Dear Milwaukee sportscasters: Stop shaming strangers (and children) on social media

Matt Wild
June 24, 2019
Sunday afternoon, 41,237 people enjoyed watching the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Cincinnati Reds 7-5 at Miller Park. Among those 41,000-plus people was local sports radio person Bill Michaels, who most decided...

If you like Nineteen Thirteen’s new EP, ‘If You Like It, It’s Good,’ it’s good

Matt Wild
June 24, 2019
Nineteen Thirteen is a group that's more normal than its lineup suggests, and one that's much, much weirder. On one hand, the duo of Victor DeLorenzo and Janet Schiff produces surprisingly accessible music, esp...

The National, Walk The Moon, more are playing intimate shows at Hacienda Beer Co.

Matt Wild
June 23, 2019
Summerfest 2019 is just around the corner. Like, it starts this Wednesday, folks. It'll be your chance to see acts like The National, Walk The Moon, Neon Trees, Taking Back Sunday, Young The Giant, The Head And...

19 pictures of the new Uline Warehouse Stage at Summerfest, plus 1 picture of a red-winged blackbird at Lakeshore State Park

Matt Wild
June 20, 2019
Thursday morning, Summerfest officials unveiled the new and much-improved Uline Warehouse Stage. It's pretty neat! The northern-most stage now sports an expanded footprint, expanded production capabilities, an ...

No more Mr. Passive Resistance: We’re bringing ‘UHF’ back to Avalon Theater July 17

Matt Wild
June 20, 2019
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, July 17. Yes, that's the night we're teaching poodle...

Listen to the new Devils Teeth EP, ‘Jet Jaguar,’ before the band releases it on a boat

Matt Wild
June 18, 2019
There are many ways to celebrate the release of an album. A standard album release show. An intimate concert in someone's living room. Renting out the Polish Falcon and going nuts like Sat. Nite Duets did years...

I went to Kopp’s on Father’s Day and ate “Nuts For Daddy”: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild
June 17, 2019
Yesterday was Father's Day, a.k.a. Post A Picture Of Your Dad From When He Was In High School And Wonder Why Everyone Back Then Looked Like They Were 36 Years Old Day. It was a day of love and respect for fathe...

Bay View will be the new East Side with its very own food hall, Flour and Feed

Matt Wild
June 17, 2019
Remember those stickers and signs that proclaimed Bay View to be the "better" East Side? Fun times! Anyway, Bay View is getting a food hall now, just like the East Side. We kid, we kid. Anyway, the so-called...

Megadeth’s July 4 Summerfest show canceled due to health issues; Summerfest will not reschedule

Matt Wild
June 17, 2019
Back in April, Ozzy Osbourne announced that due to health issues, he was canceling his 2019 tour—and with it, his scheduled July 4 Summerfest show at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. Summerfest soon ...

MooSa’s, a.k.a. former Northpoint Custard stand, opens today

Matt Wild
June 14, 2019
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

Watch a local harpist try to break the world record for marathon harp playing…right now!

Matt Wild
June 14, 2019
What are you doing right now? Reading this article and farting around on the internet, obviously, but what are you really doing? Are you trying to break a world record? Probably not. Well, New Berlin resident R...

It’s time to admit that it’s (nearly) the end of the Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it

Matt Wild
June 13, 2019
Earlier this week, the Milwaukee Public Museum announced its new president and CEO, Dr. Ellen J. Censky. A Cedarburg native, Dr. Censky started her career with MPM back in 1977, and has served as the interim pr...

Celebrate Pabst’s 175th anniversary with exclusive craft beers, limited-edition merch

Matt Wild
June 12, 2019
Pabst Brewing Company traces its origins back to a Milwaukee brewing company founded by Jacob Best in 1844. If our math is correct, that would make Pabst...175 years old! And hey, our math must be correct, beca...

South Shore Frolics won’t return in 2019, “foreseeable future”

Matt Wild
June 12, 2019
For more than six decades, the South Shore Frolics was a Bay View fixture stuffed with parades, live music, festival food, classic car shows, games, and the "Blow Up The Beach" fireworks display. That tradition...

‘Hotline Miami’ publisher releases official bootleg game, ‘Hotline Milwaukee’

Matt Wild
June 11, 2019
Milwaukee has made its fair share of appearances in film and music, but it remains largely unrepresented in the world of video games. There's the generic Milwaukee level in Rampage, we suppose, but that's about...

Purple Door Ice Cream to unveil “Dad Flavors” that will likely not be called “Nuts For Daddy”

Matt Wild
June 11, 2019
Last week, we brought you the thrilling tale of Kopp's Frozen Custard's special Father's Day flavor, "Nuts For Daddy." Again: not "Nuts For Dad"; "Nuts For Daddy." Amazing. Today, we bring you the scoop on some...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 2-8)

Matt Wild
June 10, 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...

Watch some magnet fishers catch a 20-inch Schwinn in the Milwaukee River

Matt Wild
June 10, 2019
In preparation for an upcoming story, we spent the morning fishing at Lakeshore State Park. (You know, that park just offshore from the Summerfest grounds.) We came up empty. But in a new YouTube video, the Wis...
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