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

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...

Now there’s a mysterious pony hanging around the south side of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 24, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • What is it with Milwaukee and elusive animals? Lions, turkeys, iguanas, and w...

Safety, fences, ancient Mayan color theory discussed at Swing Park meeting

Matt Wild

August 23, 2018

Wednesday night, in a standing-room-only town hall meeting held on the second floor of Brady Street restaurant Casablanca, city officials and concerned neighbors came together to discuss Milwaukee's so-called "...

Char’d owners will open new restaurant in former Yokohama

Matt Wild

August 23, 2018

Remember East side ramen joint Yokohama? If not, don't worry: the thing came and went in fewer than nine months. The former restaurant has remained empty since February 2018, a wood-paneled blot on an otherwise...

Up-Down Milwaukee arcade bar will open tomorrow

Matt Wild

August 23, 2018

Good news, retro video game fans: Up-Down Milwaukee, the arcade bar long in the works for the old Comedy Cafe (615 E. Brady St.) is opening. On Friday, August 24. Like, tomorrow. YES. To celebrate its openin...

Boone Row returns with more music, more mayhem, more walls of death

Matt Wild

August 22, 2018

Harley-Davidson will celebrate its 115th anniversary this Labor Day weekend with oodles of parties, parades, and clearly promoted concerts that absolutely won't feature The Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen. ...

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