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Watch the Johnson’s Park dinosaur get broken down, taken to its new habitat

January 5, 2017

The Johnson's Park dinosaur is extinct. Love live the Johnson's Park dinosaur. Last month, we broke the meteor-sized news that the beloved Johnson's Park dinosaur—the last remnant of the once-thriving 76th...

FOX6 sports anchor Tom Pipines is retiring

Matt Wild

January 5, 2017

Nearly a year after veteran meteorologist Vince Condella took his leave from the Milwaukee airwaves, another familiar local news personality is signing off: Today, FOX6 senior sports anchor Tom Pipines announ...

Let’s talk about Milwaukee’s connection to the New Monkees

Matt Wild

January 4, 2017

Here's the story: Back in 1966, the world was given the gift of the Monkees. The so-called "Pre-Fab Four" (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork) were assembled by a pair of producers (Rob...

Patti Smith will perform ‘Horses’ at the Milwaukee Theatre in March

Matt Wild

January 3, 2017

Let's just boil this down to some facts: The incomparable, iconic, and forever awesome Patti Smith recently celebrated her 70th birthday. Smith's equally incomparable, iconic, and forever awesome album Horses...

Here’s what Milwaukee needs to accomplish in 2017

Matt Wild

January 3, 2017

Twenty-sixteen was something of a banner year for Milwaukee. Hardly a day went by without some exciting new shit being built, some boring old shit being turned into exciting new shit, and 8,000 Bublr Bike sta...

In Defense Of: Milwaukee winter parking rules

Matt Wild

January 3, 2017

In a city as relatively small as Milwaukee, certain people, places, or things can get saddled with bad reputations. Even if these reputations are somewhat deserved, Milwaukee Record strives to look past the n...

Cards Against Humanity is hiding a bunch of boxes throughout Milwaukee

Matt Wild

January 3, 2017

Cards Against Humanity—a.k.a. the edgy Apples To Apples that will inevitably find you explaining "bukkake" to your parents on Christmas Eve—is hiding a bunch of boxes throughout Milwaukee this week. The popul...

The Value Village on North Avenue is closing today

Matt Wild

December 30, 2016

Sad news, longtime Milwaukee thrifters: The Value Village at 324 W. North Ave. is closing today. Signs in the windows and a call to management confirmed that Friday, December 30 is the store's final day in bu...

Study: Milwaukee ranks 47th in cities “most attractive to immigrants”

Matt Wild

December 21, 2016

Over at Abodo.com—a Madison-based apartment listings site that enjoys reminding everyone how much their rent is going up—a new study identifies the top U.S. cities that are "most attractive to immigrants." Ne...

Milverine has his own cat-themed Christmas card now

Matt Wild

December 20, 2016

In the years since the discovery, unmasking, and mirthful exploitation of Milverine—a.k.a. Milwaukeean John Hamann, who looks like the X-Men's Wolverine—the oft-shirtless power-walking icon has graced everyth...

11 wonderfully weird classes in the winter Milwaukee Recreation guide

Matt Wild

December 19, 2016

Unless you're 8 years old, winter sucks. Happily, the winter edition of the Milwaukee Recreation guide is loaded with hundreds of reasons to venture outside, including classes in arts and crafts, cooking, fit...

Mysterious Milwaukee rapper Stallion Buckwild featured on ‘Jimmy Fallon’

Matt Wild

December 16, 2016

Here's the story: Earlier this year, The A.V. Club's Josh Modell launched a column called Binge And Purge, an excellent series that found the former Milwaukeean picking through his collection of more than 2,0...

Doors Open Milwaukee wins $20,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts

Matt Wild

December 13, 2016

For the past six years, Historic Milwaukee's insanely popular Doors Open event has given the public behind-the-scenes access to hundreds of Milwaukee-area buildings. Theaters, churches, office buildings, muse...

Exclusive: Stream Dashcam’s smoldering “Fire Escape,” featuring GGOOLLDD’s Margaret Butler

Matt Wild

December 13, 2016

Thanks to the success of shows like Stranger Things and films like Drive, the gauzy, retro-future sounds of the 1980s are enjoying a surge in popularity not seen since, well, the actual 1980s. In Milwaukee, t...

Chris Rock is coming to the Milwaukee Theatre in March

Matt Wild

December 13, 2016

Legendary comedian, former Saturday Night Live star, and CB4's MC Gusto Chris Rock will set out on his first world tour in nearly a decade when he takes his Total Blackout tour on the road in 2017. Per Rollin...

County Board Supervisors to consider external investigations of deaths under Sheriff Clarke’s watch

Matt Wild

December 12, 2016

While professional internet troll, hat-wearer, television pundit, podcast host, speaker, and, oh yeah, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke spent much of 2016 performing five of the above duties, four people...

That’s no moon: 6 ways to celebrate the opening of ‘Rogue One’ in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 12, 2016

On Friday, December 16 (well, Thursday, December 15, per confounding new movie-release rules), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story attacks theaters nationwide. The prequel to the original Star Wars that also serves ...

Jay Anderson aligns the stars for new VoodooHoney record label

Matt Wild

December 9, 2016

Jay Anderson is working. The prolific Milwaukee musician is in the middle of a rehearsal—his second-floor Riverwest apartment pulling triple duty as a practice space and office—but he's not thinking about,...

In case you blinked this week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (December 4-10)

Matt Wild

December 8, 2016

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "development boom" or a "construction boom." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "re...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times loves Boswell Book Company

Matt Wild

December 6, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication dei...

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