Author Matt Wild

8,000th version of Milwaukee flag to be unfurled at City Hall on April 9

April 5, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

Madness, mayhem lurk below the surface of Milwaukee-made ‘Lake Michigan Monster’

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

"I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in ten days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it."So says the titular Steve Zissou in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Ste...

AJ Bombers will feature special Big Boy burger April 8-14

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

Big Boy restaurants—home to double-decker cheeseburgers, tasty fries, and the iconic suspender-clad Big Boy—opened in California in the 1940s, but they soon became a beloved Wisconsin tradition. The Marcus Corp...

Ozzy Osbourne postpones 2019 tour, Summerfest show, will play Summerfest 2020 instead

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

Bad news, Ozzy Osbourne fans: The legendary Prince of Darkness has postponed his 2019 tour due to an "injury sustained while dealing with his recent bout of pneumonia." That tour included a July 4 show at Summe...

MKE Music Rewind: Competitorr, “Stop Go”

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.I moved to Milwaukee in the fall of 1996, but sometimes it feels lik...

Times Cinema prepares to beam down “Sci-Fridays” movie series

Matt Wild

April 3, 2019

Do your weekends need a blast of geeky air? Of course they do. Well, if Friday nights with Svengoolie on MeTV and Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder aren't enough, you'll soon have another option. Times Cinema has annou...

Pixies played The Rave and they were great and here’s what they played and said between songs

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Similar to our "Pixies played Summerfest and they were great and here's what they played and said between songs" review from July 2018, let's keep this short and sweet: Legendary alternative rock band Pixies pl...

Vote today, Milwaukee, because it’s super important (again)

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Hey! Today is the 2019 Spring General Election! Fun! Okay, so it's not the flashiest election out there, but that doesn't mean it's bereft of some super important races. And because only a fraction of voting-ag...

Milwaukee Fools: 5 Milwaukee-related goofs, pranks, and hoaxes

Matt Wild

April 1, 2019

Don't you just love April Fools' Day? Don't you just love when every publication on planet Earth suddenly thinks they're The Onion and pens some rib-tickling "satire"? Yeah, ugh. Anyway, here are a few amusing ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (March 24-30)

Matt Wild

April 1, 2019

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...

Just in time for winter, Milwaukee calls on retired snow plow drivers to help plow snow

Matt Wild

March 29, 2019

Opening Day and Back Again: Scenes from Opening Day 2018

Matt Wild

March 28, 2019

This piece appears with permission as an exclusive from The Milwaukee Anthology, out on April 9 from Belt Publishing. You read more about and order the book HERE.In the shadow of Miller Park stands another ...

Pizza Sutra is making frozen pizza sexy again

Matt Wild

March 28, 2019

When lists are made of the world's sexiest foods, frozen pizza typically ranks somewhere between raisin bread and Cool Ranch Doritos. Jack's rarely shows up in gauzy direct-to-video sex scenes. Orv's almost nev...

AJ Bombers has turned into “Bernie’s Bombers,” complete with Braun Double Bacon Burger

Matt Wild

March 28, 2019

If you thought George Webb was the only Brewers burger buddy in town, think again. (Here's a friendly reminder that we buried a free George Webb burger in a time capsule in the woods last year, and that we will...

Under the cover of darkness, we snapped these pictures of the former, currently gutted BBC

Matt Wild

March 26, 2019

If you've walked by the old G-Daddy's BBC on the East Side lately, you know that the once-mighty sports bar is a shell of its former self. Literally: The building is currently boarded up and completely gutted, ...

Wrap your arms around “Arms,” the wonderful new single from Soda Road

Matt Wild

March 26, 2019

When we last checked in with Soda Road—a.k.a. the new project from former Sat. Nite Duets member Stephen Strupp—the band was in a mood. We described Soda Road's debut album, Varsity Of Winter, as a "melancholy,...

WAMI announces performers, People’s Choice nominees

Matt Wild

March 26, 2019

Who's got WAMI fever? On Sunday, April 14, the 39th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards will take over Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom for a night of fun, excitement, and, of course, music. The 2019 no...

Calliope says farewell (for now), morphs into cosmic Astral Hand

Matt Wild

March 25, 2019

Type "Milwaukee psych-stoner-biker-band" into the search engine of your choice and you'll land on Calliope. Beginning with a bluesy self-titled album in 2013 and culminating with the thunderous Chapel Perilous ...

Oops, forget about that whole National Avenue food truck ban

Matt Wild

March 23, 2019

Friday afternoon, ahead of a rally against Ald. Bob Donovan's proposed National Avenue food truck ban, Donovan issued a press released that stated everything had been resolved. No more food truck ban. A verbal ...

Everyone’s mad about that National Avenue food truck ban and there’s gonna be a rally tonight

Matt Wild

March 22, 2019