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      Matt Wild
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      Matt Wild
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      Matt Wild
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      Matt Wild
      June 24, 2026
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      Mitch DeSantis
      June 21, 2026
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      Juan Miguel Martinez
      June 19, 2026
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      Milwaukee Record Staff
      June 19, 2026
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      Caleb Westphal
      June 12, 2026
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      June 12, 2026
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      January 9, 2020
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      Rick Katschke
      June 10, 2026
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      Tyler Maas
      March 25, 2026
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      Tyler Maas
      March 24, 2026
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      Matt Wild
      February 24, 2026
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      February 18, 2026
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      December 8, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      June 17, 2026
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      June 15, 2026
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      May 26, 2026
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      June 18, 2026
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      June 10, 2026
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      Matt Wild
      May 29, 2026
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      May 27, 2026
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      June 23, 2026
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      June 20, 2026
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      June 16, 2026
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      June 9, 2026
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      May 19, 2026
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Matt Wild weighs between 140 and 145 pounds. He lives on Milwaukee's east side.

Did Ringo Starr play Beatles songs at BMO Harris Pavilion? Yes. Did he play Toto’s “Africa”? Yes

Matt Wild
September 9, 2018
The pleasures of seeing Ringo Starr in concert are many, and they are weird. First, of course, is the fact that you're seeing a former Beatle, one of four men who, despite the internet's weekly required "The ol...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
September 7, 2018
Friday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter of Milwaukee public transportation (or would that be Friday The 7th?), the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar ...

Abby Jeanne, Lex Allen, Zed Kenzo, Crystal Knives selected for $20,000 Backline grants

Matt Wild
September 7, 2018
Friday afternoon, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and gener8tor announced the recipients of their Backline accelerator program. First unveiled in March, Backline is a "grant and educational initiative designed to help M...

No Studios announces grand opening, ‘Night School’ screening, new tenants, more

Matt Wild
September 6, 2018
Back in February, Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley (12 Years A Slave, American Crime) announced the creation of No Studios, a Milwaukee-based hub for the creative arts. The hub, located in a 40,000-square-fo...

Food (including Friday fish fry) is coming back to Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom

Matt Wild
September 6, 2018
It's been a wild ride for the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom. Since opening in April 2017, the microbrewery/taproom has revitalized a 144-year-old building in the once-shuttered Pabst Brewery site, resurre...

The Killers, Violent Femmes, Fiserv Forum shine at first Fiserv Forum show

Matt Wild
September 5, 2018
"We've been playing that haunted, dirty Eagles Ballroom for 15 years. Look at us now!" So said Killers frontman Brandon Flowers early in his band's set Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. (Flowers quickly followe...

Judd Apatow will do some Election Night stand-up at Turner Hall November 6

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Has anyone defined the past two decades of comedy more than Judd Apatow? Nope. From writing and producing '90s classics like Heavyweights and The Cable Guy, to directing modern-day classics like The 40-Year-Old...

Milwaukee preps for two EDM fests, awaits response from lawyer who hates EDM fests

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Plenty of big shows are headed Milwaukee's way (just check out the first two months at the Fiserv Forum), but few will delight EDM fans more than not one, but two electronic festivals coming next month. The ina...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Aug. 26-Sept. 1)

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
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...

Buckle up, Milwaukee, for the 2019 Budget Open House Series

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Who doesn't love a good open house meeting? We know we do: from problematic Pokemon players to scandalous Swing Park stuff, we're always first in line to attend these oft-ridiculous public meetings. (Oh, and do...

UPDATE: The elusive East Side comic book shop iguana has been captured

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
All good iguana hunts must come to an end: Today, according to a post on the Riverwest Neighborhood Facebook page, a five-foot-long iguana that escaped from his East Side comic book shop home earlier this summe...

Heeeere’s the theme for Odd Duck’s 2018 Halloween Feast

Matt Wild
September 3, 2018
Some quick, obvious, and fun facts: Halloween is great. Odd Duck is great. Halloween at Odd Duck is really great. Past Halloweens have seen the ever-busy Bay View restaurant go all out with themed, multi-course...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful “Goop” website likes our food

Matt Wild
August 31, 2018
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 deigns ...

Annual “Mindset List” looks into the lives of college freshmen born in the year 2000

Matt Wild
August 30, 2018
Beginning in 1998, Beloit College's annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors a peek inside the minds and world views of incoming college freshmen. "So-and-so has never been alive during thei...

Go inside the downtown Boston Store on its final day in business

Matt Wild
August 29, 2018
This is it, folks: Today, August 29, 2018, is the final day of business for Boston Store. The department store's parent company, Bon-Ton Stores Inc., declared bankruptcy earlier this year; recently, it announce...

The U.S. Postal Service is getting evicted from its downtown Milwaukee apartment

Matt Wild
August 29, 2018
You know what's great? The United States Postal Service. You give them something and they deliver it to anyone in the country. Or, better yet, they deliver something to you. Letters, postcards, that subscriptio...

World’s only lap steel metal band, Velocihamster, releases world’s only lap steel metal instructional video

Matt Wild
August 28, 2018
When one thinks of the lap steel guitar, one typically thinks of country music, whiskey-soaked honky-tonks, and dudes like Speedy West and Buddy Emmons. When Milwaukee musician/producer Sean Williamson thinks o...

Here’s the schedule for the third annual Strange Fruit Festival, which begins tomorrow

Matt Wild
August 28, 2018
In the fall of 2016, ever-busy Milwaukee musician Jay Anderson launched the inaugural Strange Fruit Music Festival. Inspired by the then-recent killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the fest set out ...

R.I.P. the dumpy Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland and Locust

Matt Wild
August 27, 2018
Fact #1: Cousins Subs is the best locally-owned-but-everyone-always-forgets-it's-locally-owned sub place on planet Earth, and don't let anyone tell you different. Better bread! Better subs! Fact #2: The Cous...

Take a look inside Up-Down Milwaukee, which opens today and is totally nuts

Matt Wild
August 24, 2018
Up-Down Milwaukee opens to the public today at 5:30 p.m. The long-awaited arcade bar, located at 615 E. Brady St. (the site of the former Comedy Cafe), boasts more than 60 retro video games, more than a dozen p...
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