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Oak & Shield Gaming Pub will open May 4, be all-ages until 10 p.m.

April 11, 2018

Back in February, the owners of Board Game Barrister and 42 Lounge announced a new geek-tastic venture, Oak & Shield Gaming Pub, which would take over the space formerly occupied by Karma Bar & Grill, 6...

Midwest Gaming Classic powers up with new events, new location

Matt Wild

April 11, 2018

"The Midwest Gaming Classic is a trade show, but we're really a social trade show. It's less about finding out about products, and more about coming to the show and finding people." So says Dan Loosen, co-or...

Here’s the setlist from Monday’s ridiculously self-indulgent Weird Al show at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

April 10, 2018

If there was any doubt that "Weird Al" Yankovic's Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour would be anything other than, well, ridiculously self-indulgent (and amazing), Monday's show at Pabst Theat...

Ringo Starr is too busy to sign autographs, not too busy to play BMO Harris Pavilion

Matt Wild

April 9, 2018

Let's just come out and say it: Ringo Starr rules. He's a living legend, a comforting presence in a world gone mad, and a genius drummer (arguments over that last point in the comments below, please). Plus, tha...

The Decemberists face the awful at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

April 9, 2018

"There are white supremacists in the White House! You have a douchebag for a governor!" Aaaaand that's how you start your set if you're The Decemberists and you're playing a sold-out Riverside Theater on a S...

Weird Al bandmates Stephen Jay and Jim “Kimo” West go solo on Parallel Universe Tour

Matt Wild

April 6, 2018

As longtime members of "Weird Al" Yankovic's band, Stephen Jay and Jim "Kimo" West are musical chameleons, disappearing into whatever style happens to be called for: rock, pop, hip-hop, country, polka. But in t...

It’s time for Olive Garden in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

April 6, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Hey, Olive Garden, it's me, Milwaukee, again. In 2010, I visited one of yo...

Little Duck will open with a Spring Foragers & Farmers Dinner May 20

Matt Wild

April 5, 2018

Back in January, sad news hit the Milwaukee restaurant scene when Hello Falafel suddenly closed up shop. But it wasn't all sad news: owners Melissa Buchholz and Ross Bachhuber announced that the space at 2301 S...

Our ‘UHF’ after-party at Vanguard will feature Weird Al music and videos, Twinkie Wiener Sandwiches

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Weird Al Week begins with, well, an interview with Weird Al

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Vote today, Milwaukee, because the NRA and Joe Biden are all up in this thing

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Back in February, when we last did the whole voting thing, Wisconsin decided that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet and Sauk County Circuit Judge Michael Screnock would go head to head in the race f...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (March 25-31)

Matt Wild

April 2, 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...

On the third day Dad rose again with the video for “Infinite”

Matt Wild

April 1, 2018

Hey! It's Easter! Happy Easter! And what would the most hallowed of Christian holidays be without a blessed new video from Milwaukee rapper Dad? Yes, Dad has risen again (in accordance with the Scriptures) in t...

Mayor Barrett’s DNC bid letter is dull, contain a grammatical errors

Matt Wild

March 30, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Thursday afternoon, in a letter that displayed all the panache of a book repo...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Von Trier remains the same, yet somehow better than ever

Matt Wild

March 28, 2018

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...

88Nine wants to make Milwaukee an “emerging music city,” will give four groups $20,000

Matt Wild

March 28, 2018

Today, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee announced it intends to put the city's film scene on the map by blowing up a car put the city's music scene on the map by launching an ambitious project called Backline. One of the...

Calliope returns with psychedelic, end-of-the-world ‘Chapel Perilous’

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Early on in Chapel Perilous, the third psyched-out full-length album from Milwaukee's Calliope, things slow down. "The Dunes" is a three-minute-plus drone of noise and feedback, with wisps of riffs and hints of...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Today, in an event akin to the arrival of a President, a Pope, or Jesus Christ himself come back to spread the good word about public transportation, the first of Milwaukee's new streetcars arrived downtown. Co...

Humboldt Park and Estabrook beer gardens will open May 3

Matt Wild

March 23, 2018

Good news, day-drinking-outside-at-Milwaukee's-8,000-wonderful-beer-gardens fans: Humboldt Park Beer Garden, 3000 S. Howell Ave., and Estabrook Beer Garden, 4600 Estabrook Dr., have announced they will open for...

Bob Uecker survived a deadly spider bite and he has pictures of the open wound on his phone

Matt Wild

March 23, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • One of Milwaukee's most hallowed traditions isn't the return of festival seas...

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