Author Matt Wild

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s winter 2020 lineup

January 7, 2020

The UWM Union Cinema has been a hidden-not-really-hidden gem of Milwaukee's East Side since 1972. Located inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union, the unassuming theater has long served as a ...

Behold the new Yelich, Bango, Bernie Cheesehead bobbleheads

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

Today, as we all know, is National Bobblehead Day. A day to celebrate all the joy these collectable, spring-necked toys bring us. A day to maybe mess around with that crazy Giannis/Yelich/Rodgers triple Wiscons...

The Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland and Locust is back, baby

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

It's been roughly 18 months since that dumpy Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland Avenue and Locust Street was closed, knocked down, and mourned. But now, in the bright new year of 2020, it's back, baby! In a ...

Want to paint a mural on the 2nd Street skywalk of The Avenue? Apply now!

Matt Wild

January 7, 2020

It's been a while since the once-mighty, long-withering Shops of Grand Avenue closed up shops (heh). Now dubbed "The Avenue," the downtown complex is currently being redeveloped. The east end has already been c...

Milwaukee skyline prominently, strangely featured on Netflix reality show ‘The Circle’

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

If, for whatever reason, you've pushed play on new Netflix content The Circle, this is what you've seen: a Real World/Big Brother-crossed-with-Catfish/Black Mirror reality show where contestants live in the sam...

Should Ravine Road be reopened to vehicular traffic? Lake Park Friends thinks so

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

The saga of Lake Park's Ravine Road is a complicated one. Located near Bartolotta's Lake Park Bistro, the road—long used to connect Lincoln Memorial Drive to the upper East Side—was blocked off in 2014 when the...

Help magic-themed Wizard Works Brewing materialize this April

Matt Wild

January 6, 2020

It has happened to all of us: You're out on the town with some friends, enjoying some beverages at your favorite craft brewery and taproom, and there's no magic. Not "magic" as in "chemistry and excitement," bu...

Milwaukee may add fee to food delivery apps to help pay for roads, public transportation

Matt Wild

January 3, 2020

A few weeks ago, Milwaukee restauranteurs blasted food delivery companies like Grubhub, Postmates, and DoorDash for adding their businesses without their permission. Now, according to an upcoming Public Works C...

50 pictures (and 1 video) of the gloriously dead Forest Mall in Fond du Lac

Matt Wild

December 27, 2019

Roughly 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee is Fond du Lac, home to Walleye Weekend, the Kristmas Kringle Shoppe, and the once-mighty Forest Mall. Emphasis on "once" on that last one: Opened in 1973, Forest Mall (8...

“City of Milwaukee” Facebook page is fake, full of folks who don’t realize it’s fake

Matt Wild

December 19, 2019

Potholes. Road construction. Snow removal. Potholes. Probably something about the streetcar. If you live in Milwaukee, you've likely seen these topics endlessly debated and ALL-CAPS YELLED ABOUT online. Faceboo...

Watch WWE wrestlers Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose eat some cheese curds in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 18, 2019

In case you missed it, the WWE was in town last week, bringing some sweet, sweet SmackDown goodness to Fiserv Forum. Along for the ride were full-time wrestlers and part-time food-vloggers Daria Berenato (a.k.a...

Go through the looking-box with the video for Surgeons In Heat’s “By The End Of The Night”

Matt Wild

December 17, 2019

It's been more than a year since effortlessly cool Milwaukee band Surgeons In Heat released the effortlessly cool Bored Immortals. The record was a perfect distillation of the group's chilled-out Spoon vibe, ac...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (December 8-14)

Matt Wild

December 16, 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...

Brat Sounds wear their hearts on their sleeves on ‘Bad Luck’

Matt Wild

December 13, 2019

"I don't want to see 30 / I don't want to get married / I just want to stay hungry / I just want to stay bold."That's Brat Sounds singer Scott Cary in the opening seconds of "See Thirty," a standout track f...

Here are the November ridership numbers for The Hop, and that’s it

Matt Wild

December 12, 2019

A total of 52,998 people rode the Milwaukee streetcar, The Hop, in November 2019. That's an average of 1,767 per day. The lightest day of traffic was, unsurprisingly, Thanksgiving, when only 645 people rode the...

Reminder: Take the bus this New Year’s Eve, because it’s free

Matt Wild

December 12, 2019

Let's keep this simple: This New Year's Eve, for the 32nd year in a row, Miller Lite is teaming up with the Milwaukee County Transit System (and Beer Capitol Distributing) to provide free bus rides on all MCTS ...

Help support Riverwest Radio by joining in on a live, 13-hour “chant for prosperity”

Matt Wild

December 10, 2019

Riverwest Radio (104.1 FM) is a Milwaukee treasure. Born out of the Occupy movement back in 2011, the 24-hour freeform station is home to dozens of interesting, creative, and often bizarre programs helmed by Mi...

Milwaukee made an appearance on last night’s episode of ‘Supergirl’

Matt Wild

December 9, 2019

Look, we're not going to pretend to have any idea what's going on in the so-called Arrowverse. The CW Network's shared small-screen universe of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends Of Tomorrow, and Batwoman is ...

Behold Nomad World Pub’s new large-scale, interactive, Pandora-equipped mural

Matt Wild

December 9, 2019

Hot on the heels of that Giannis/Yelich/Rodgers triple Wisconsin MVP augmented reality bobblehead puzzle set comes another piece of Milwaukee art that features some hi-tech bells and whistles. On Monday, Nomad ...

How long can you watch Saturday Night Live’s “Wisconsin Women” sketch before turning it off?

Matt Wild

December 9, 2019

Unlike the typical Saturday Night Live sketch, let's keep this mercifully brief: On Saturday night, SNL ran a sketch called "Wisconsin Women." It featured Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and host Jennifer Lopez p...