Author: Matt Wild | Page 165 | Milwaukee Record

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

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. ...

The search for the missing East Side comic book shop iguana is heating up

Matt Wild

August 22, 2018

The story so far: Earlier this summer, a five-foot-long iguana named Nail escaped from the second-story window of East Side comic book shop The Turning Page. Nail owner/Turning Page owner Zach Hauser turned to ...

C’mon and listen to the new Indonesian Junk EP, ‘Darkness Calling’

Matt Wild

August 21, 2018

Death. Taxes. Another snotty, glammed-up record from Milwaukee's Indonesian Junk. These are the three certainties in life, folks. One is grim, the other grimmer; happily, the third makes the whole thing worthwh...

Now you can play board games outside the big blue federal building in downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 21, 2018

Board games are a big business these days. Throw a stone and you're sure to hit a newly minted gaming pub. Go to any family function and you're sure to get stuck playing Apples To Apples or, sigh, Cards Against...

Pabst Milwaukee Brewery is bringing back classic Andeker lager

Matt Wild

August 21, 2018

Back when it opened in April 2017, Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom promised it would focus on craft and historical brews from the Pabst vault. The brewery made good on that promise earlier this summer when ...

Here’s the complete schedule for this week’s Hip-Hop Week MKE

Matt Wild

August 20, 2018

Way back in February, the Milwaukee Common Council unanimously approved the creation of Hip-Hop Week MKE. "Hip-hop has the unique ability to bring communities together and stimulate conversations about relevant...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Aug. 12-18)

Matt Wild

August 20, 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...

Milwaukee will try to break the Guinness record for “simultaneous beer can opening,” which seems doable

Matt Wild

August 20, 2018

Despite the occasional "Oof, we've gotta slow down," Milwaukeeans love to drink. Is that a good thing? It can be. Is that a bad thing? It can be. Can we use our drinking prowess for good and break the Guinness ...

“Double Dare Live” (with original host Marc Summers!) coming to Miller High Life Theatre November 7

Matt Wild

August 20, 2018

On your mark...get set...GOOOO to Nickelodeon's frickin' "Double Dare Live," coming to Milwaukee's Miller High Life Theatre Wednesday, November 7. Original host Marc Summers and sidekick Robin Russo will be the...

Weezer played The Rave, and dammit, it was a great show

Matt Wild

August 18, 2018

What's the deal with Weezer? There was the band's classic 1994 debut ("The Blue Album"), its difficult but eventually beloved 1996 followup (Pinkerton), its belated 2001 return ("The Green Album"), and then...a...

Did anyone figure out who stole that State Fair golf cart and drove it all the way downtown?

Matt Wild

August 17, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • The 2018 Wisconsin State Fair is in the books, and it was a big one: a record...

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