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Marquette University did something unpredictable with its Twitter account

May 12, 2018

It's graduation season, which means millions of graduating high school students are preparing for the real world, and millions of graduating college students are preparing for the real possibility of 20 years o...

Milwaukee media’s IKEA “sneak peeks,” ranked

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • On Tuesday, OnMilwaukee got a "first look" at the new IKEA store in Oak Creek...

East Side Oak Leaf Trail will be closed for repairs beginning May 14

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

The Oak Leaf Trail is a Milwaukee gem, a 100-plus mile recreational trail that circles Milwaukee County. Unfortunately, a popular chunk of the popular trail will soon go dark: On Friday, Milwaukee County Parks ...

Summerfest adds OutKast’s Big Boi, other stuff

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

We're roughly a month and a half away from Summerfest 2018, but the excitement is already humming in the kinda-summer air. The music! The food! Our inevitable and increasingly confounding review of Taped Music ...

Milwaukee County voters might be asked about kinda-sorta legalizing marijuana this November

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Thursday morning, in a meeting of the Committee on Judiciary, Safety and General Services, a resolution was unanimously passed that will add an advisory referendum question about marijuana to Milwaukee County b...

Feel the pain of the new economy with Dogs In Ecstasy’s buzzy “Scale 2 Infinite”

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Are you enjoying the new "gig" economy? Are you enjoying the relentless blurring of the line between "online" and "real life"? Of course you're not! Luckily, Milwaukee's ever-delightful pop smart-asses Dogs In ...

Prepare for a summer of fun with this Milwaukee County Parks commercial from 1984

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Hey! It's summer! Sort of? Yeah, it's gonna be cold and rainy this weekend, but whatever. Now's the time to get out of the house and enjoy all the summer-y things Milwaukee has to offer: festivals, concerts, an...

Sprecher will bring five “Feasts on the Beach” to the Traveling Beer Garden at Doctors Park

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

What's better than Milwaukee County Parks? How about beer in Milwaukee County Parks, courtesy of the ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden? And what's better than beer in Milwaukee County Parks, courtesy of the ev...

Here’s who’s playing the Riverwest Public House stages at Locust Street Festival 2018

Matt Wild

May 9, 2018

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 10, the 42nd installment of the ...

Justin Timberlake and Ringo Starr: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

Matt Wild

May 8, 2018

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

8,000 years and dozens of lawsuits later, Silk Exotic is finally opening a downtown strip club

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Yep, after many, many years and many, many lawsuits, that downtown Silk Exoti...

‘American Gods’ has started filming at House on the Rock

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Last summer, we paid a visit to the most quintessential of bat-shit Wisconsin oddities, House on the Rock. "House on the Rock is a glimpse into the mind of a madman," we said back in August 2017. "It's an illus...

People are still talking about those Milwaukee UFOs that were really a flock of seagulls

Matt Wild

May 3, 2018

In the early morning hours of February 27, Milwaukee's FOX6 WakeUp program caught a glimpse of some strange lights flying over downtown. "Are those fireworks? What is that?" the crew initially wondered, before ...

The Delphines will reunite May 19 for the third annual Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

On Saturday, May 19, seminal Milwaukee band The Delphines will reunite for a one-night only show at Mad Planet. The previously hinted-at headlining performance will be part of Gloss Records' third annual Gloss ...

Someone just gave the Friends of the (Mitchell Park) Domes a cool $2M

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

The last time we checked in on the Mitchell Park Domes, the embattled icons were no longer falling apart and were instead hosting the delightfully old-fashioned Kooky Cooky House. Fun! Even more fun: the non-pr...

Christopher Moore will bring a touch of ‘Noir’ to Boswell Books May 2

Matt Wild

May 1, 2018

In a career that stretches back more than 25 years, Christopher Moore has tackled it all. Christianity, lovelorn vampires, Shakespeare's England, put-upon "death merchants," and pesky demons have all populated ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (April 22-28)

Matt Wild

April 30, 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...

Like the flags themselves, the Milwaukee vs. Reno flag controversy is really dumb

Matt Wild

April 27, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Are we really going to talk about the "People's Flag of Milwaukee" again, a m...

Smash that “like” button for Soup Moat’s “Navel Gaze,” from the upcoming ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

April 26, 2018

Soup Moat describes its sound as "heavy, silly sludge." Over the course of seven years, a pair of full-length albums, and a handful of EPs and demos (not to mention a host of lineup changes), the band has lived...

Remembering the New Barbarians / MECCA Arena riot of 1979

Matt Wild

April 25, 2018

Buried in the long, storied, and debauched history of The Rolling Stones is a peculiar footnote: The New Barbarians. A side project, of sorts, of Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, the band formed in the spring of 1...

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