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Ouzo Cafe is closed, and here’s the closing note they taped to the front entrance

October 24, 2025

News broke Thursday that downtown Greek restaurant Ouzo Cafe, 776 N. Milwaukee St., had closed its doors after more than two decades in business. Both the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Urban Milwaukee reported...

Get into the gloom with Genau’s “Live By The Water,” “Margaret In Dub”

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

It's been faaaaar too long since we checked in with dreamy post-punk duo Genau. We wrote about the Milwaukee group's self-titled debut way back in 2016 ("If you're feeling a little bit noisy and a little bit go...

When life is at its hardest, just remember there’s a 24-hour live webcam of the Bronze Fonz

Matt Wild

October 23, 2025

There's a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 masterpiece Magnolia where the dying Earl Partridge looks back on his life of betrayal and regret. "This fucking life...it's so fucking hard, so long!" the dying m...

MKE Music Rewind: Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentary (1991)

Matt Wild

October 23, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentar...

22 photos of Your Office, a new downtown dive bar and restaurant that looks pretty great

Matt Wild

October 20, 2025

Remember My Office? That little dive bar and restaurant at 763 N. Milwaukee St.? Where you could get a drink and if you were hungry the lady behind the bar might randomly make you some spaghetti? Yeah, that was...

Milwaukee “twee punk band” Chit Chat returns to find “Love In A Graveyard”

Matt Wild

October 20, 2025

If the name Chit Chat doesn't ring a bell in your Milwaukee music brain, you can hardly be blamed. It's been nearly four years since the trio of Harrison Colby, Carmella D'Acquisto, and Jeremy Ault released the...

Breakup Tour mixes memes and melancholy on ‘Sorry For Your Loss’

Matt Wild

October 16, 2025

About halfway through Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album from Milwaukee "bubble grunge" group Breakup Tour, two characters grapple with the unrelenting march of time. "The older that you get, the harder the h...

Smokin’ Jack’s BBQ will open new location in Izzy Hops, new concept in former L’Incontro

Matt Wild

October 15, 2025

Two East Side restaurant locations will see new life in the upcoming months—all thanks to one new operator. Smokin' Jack's BBQ is set to open a new location in the current home of Izzy Hops Swig & Nosh, ...

Here are the first 5 shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live, and that’s it

Matt Wild

October 15, 2025

The first five shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live are... February 27, 2026 Rainbow Kitten Surprise + Common People February 28, 2026 BossMan Dlow + BabyChiefDoIt, Skrilla, VonOff1700, Raq baby, ...

The Laughing Tap will move to historic George Watts building in downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

It's been four months since long-running Milwaukee comedy club The Laughing Tap closed its doors at 706B S. 5th St. in Walker's Point and announced it would be moving to an unspecified new location in early fal...

Post Malone will headline Summerfest June 27, 2026

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

Summerfest 2026 is a mere eight months away, and the headliner announcements are HEATING UP. Garth Brooks will play not one, but TWO Summerfest kick-off shows. Ed Sheeran will play. And on Monday, Summerfest an...

One year ago today, on October 13, 2024…

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

...a Mississippi couple ran their 43-foot Chris-Craft Roamer boat ashore between Bradford and McKinley beaches. The boat—officially named "Deep Thought" but sometimes known as the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwauke...

26 photos of West Allis’ new Slingshot Bar, where you can shoot slingshots in a bar

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Ready...aim...fire! Slingshot Bar—a.k.a. Bars & Recreation's new activity bar at 6325 W. National Ave. in West Allis—is open for business! Just be sure to wear proper eye protection (provided) and sign a wa...

IfIHadAHiFi is the (great) band for the (awful) times on ‘Paws In The Bacon Grease’

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Sometimes there's a band. Well, they're the band for their time and place. They fit right in there. And that's IfIHadAHiFi, in Milwaukee. On their latest EP, Paws In The Bacon Grease, the veteran Midwest noise-...

Milwaukee Record’s 66 Days of Halloween (Part III)

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Welcome to Milwaukee Record's 66 Days of Halloween countdown! You can find Part I, which covers Days 0-22, HERE. You can find Part II, which covers Days 23-44, HERE. DAY 66: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Is this...is this...

Here’s the schedule for MobCraft Beer’s Grand Re-Opening Weekend, October 10-12

Matt Wild

October 9, 2025

In case you missed it, MobCraft Beer is back! The popular Walker's Point "crowdsourced" brewery at 505 S. 5th St. closed in November 2024 after eight years in business. But it didn't stay shuttered for long: In...

It’s alright, it’s okay, Mark Borchardt will introduce ‘Coven’ October 16 at the Times

Matt Wild

October 9, 2025

As we all know, Mark Borchardt's 1997's film Coven is a 35-minute direct-market thriller film shot on 16mm black and white reversal. It's about an alcoholic, man, compelled to go to this group meeting by his on...

New Live Nation / FPC Live concert venue will be called Landmark Credit Union Live

Matt Wild

October 8, 2025

At an on-site media event Wednesday featuring multiple speakers and a bunch of clear plastic chairs that looked straight out of Star Trek, the name and naming sponsor of that new concert venue being built at 10...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (September 24 – October 7, 2025)

Matt Wild

October 8, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about pinball

Matt Wild

October 8, 2025

Are you like me (Matt), and enjoy pinball? Do you enjoy hopping from one Milwaukee bar to the next every other night, playing different pinball tables? Do you enjoy ducking into 3rd St. Market Hall on random af...

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