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Wisconsin ranked No. 1 for trendy true-crime serial documentaries

November 13, 2015

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Netflix is jumping on that sweet, sweet Serial/Jinx bandwagon with a 1...

Sheriff Clarke parked in a handicapped-accessible spot at the War Memorial on Veterans Day because he’s lazy and morally bankrupt

Matt Wild

November 12, 2015

// When he’s not busy squeezing out liberal-baiting tweets so tired and by-the-numbers they make Rush Limbaugh look like Oscar fucking Wilde, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. is keeping Milwauk...

Uncanny Soup Co. is closed

Matt Wild

November 12, 2015

// Back in November 2014, we paid a visit to then-new Water St. soup joint Uncanny Soup Co. (612 N. Water St., 414-231-3706). Here was our verdict: Of all the soup places in Downtown Milwaukee, Uncanny Sou...

Yep, the Packers haven’t won since Mike Ditka donned a Packers sweater for McDonald’s

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

// If you’re still smarting from the Green Bay Packers’ two consecutive losses (the first time this has happened under QB Aaron Rodgers since 2010) here’s something else that will have you gnashing your gre...

Tracklist: 10 “outrageous” Sheriff Clarke tweets (from the past 72 hours)

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

// There’s an old Onion article where a just-past-his-prime Marilyn Manson is going door-to-door in a small Kansas City suburb trying to shock people. Draped in sheep entrails, Manson arrives at the home of...

Get fucked up (in more ways than one) with the video for Soul Low’s “Always Watchin’ Out”

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

// Soul Low is the kind of band you’d like to take home to your mom: youthful, charming, dapperly dressed. But even nice guys (or, in the parlance of Soul Low, nice dads) have a hard time meeting that speci...

“Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage” will voyage to Riverside Theater March 13

Matt Wild

November 9, 2015

// The Star Trek franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. That’s five decades of Star Trek books, Star Trek comics, Star Trek video games, Star Trek action figures, Star Trek conventions, Star...

Where are they building luxury apartments you’ll never be able to afford THIS week?

Matt Wild

November 6, 2015

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Where are ...

Watch Red Letter Media predict exactly what will happen in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

Matt Wild

November 5, 2015

// It’s hard to overstate just how much Red Letter Media has influenced the way the Internet talks about Star Wars. The Milwaukee-based production company—made up of Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, the cherubic ...

Holy fucking shit the Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season

Matt Wild

November 4, 2015

// Holy fucking shit the Milwaukee Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season. As revealed today by the club, the All-Fan Giveaway will be available at the July 10, 2016 Brewers/Ca...

Former Schwartz booksellers spin tale of mystery, murder, shady animals in ‘Shady Hollow’

Matt Wild

November 3, 2015

A small-town gossip columnist stumbles across a body floating in a pond. An intrepid reporter takes up the case and starts sniffing around. A peaceful village is revealed to be a mysterious place full of dark s...

Update: New Bucks arena, streetcar (OH GOD THE STREETCAR) coming in 2018

Matt Wild

October 30, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • The city-, state-, and world-changing power of the new downtown Bucks arena w...

Update: Rejoice, ladies, for Wisconsin is one step closer to legalizing blaze pink hunting gear

Matt Wild

October 29, 2015

UPDATE: Yes, the dreams of millions of Wisconsin women who have long refrained from deer hunting due to the decidedly un-ladylike clothing requirements are coming closer to reality. According to the Journal Sen...

Sheriff Clarke breaks news that Black Lives Matter, ISIS will “join forces,” bring down government

Matt Wild

October 28, 2015

Tired and weary from another day of serving as Milwaukee County Sheriff joylessly trolling the Internet, David A. Clarke, Jr. broke the shocking news last night that the grassroots Black Lives Matter movement a...

Tracklist: 11 spooktacular Milwaukee music videos

Matt Wild

October 26, 2015

Music videos come in all shapes and sizes: high-concept, lo-fi, jokey, performance-y, that one U2 video where it was just The Edge staring at the camera for five minutes, etc. But ever since Micheal Jackson thr...

They Might Be Giants will play Turner Hall in March

Matt Wild

October 26, 2015

A They Might Be Giants show is one of the few live shows that requires an explicit “FOR AGES 14+ ONLY” warning. For the past 30 (!) years, Johns Flansburgh and Linnell have effortlessly moved and blurred the li...

Yep, Milwaukee showed up on another “most dangerous cities in America” list

Matt Wild

October 23, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Is it Friday? Yes, it’s Friday. That means it’s time to put yet another week ...

“Larry Sultan: Here And Home” brings suburban ennui, flaming oranges to MAM

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There’s a moment in the Manos: The Hands Of Fate episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Joel comments on the unnerving nature of the infamously terrible film: “Every frame of this movie looks like someon...

Exclusive: Revel (and wallow) in the old-school country of Doghouse Flowers’ ‘Cold Comfort’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There exists a grey zone between radio-friendly mainstream country and critic-friendly alt-country. For all intents and purposes, let’s call that zone, well, “country.” Milwaukee’s Doghouse Flowers occupy that ...

Eaux Claires festival will return August 12-13, 2016

Matt Wild

October 21, 2015

The inaugural Eaux Claires festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin was a breath of fresh air in a music festival climate dominated by overhyped shit-shows like Coachella and Bonnaroo. The Justin Vernon- (Bon Iver) an...

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