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Milwaukee Record’s 66 Days of Halloween (Part II)

September 18, 2025

Welcome to Milwaukee Record's 66 Days of Halloween countdown! You can find Part I, which covers Days 0-22, HERE. You can find Part III, which covers Days 45-66, HERE. DAY 44: DINOSAUR DRACULA As we wrap up Pa...

Food/Drink Roundup: Central Standard opening in airport, Twisted Plants closing in Cudahy

Matt Wild

September 17, 2025

In this installment of our bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup: Central Standard Craft Distillery is opening soon in Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, and Twisted Plants is closing soon in Cudahy. • In case...

Shontrail gets dreamy, gritty on genre-bending ‘Sonata’

Matt Wild

September 16, 2025

At some point in recent-ish music history, the concept of "genre" was put out to pasture. Why constrain yourself to just one musical style, many emerging artists asked, when you could embrace all of them? Like ...

Get Pumpkin Spice and Apple Crisp Cream Puffs at Harvest Fair (or order them for drive-thru pickup)

Matt Wild

September 15, 2025

The 2025 edition of the fall-tastic Harvest Fair is set to take over Wisconsin State Fair Park September 26-28. Music! Food! Drinks! Lumberjack shows! Hay bales! Oh, and Deluxe Speciality flavor Cream Puffs! ...

Turns out that emotional letter from Bob Uecker wasn’t REALLY from Bob Uecker

Matt Wild

September 15, 2025

By now you've read, watched video of, and bawled your eyes out over that emotional letter from the late Bob Uecker to the current Milwaukee Brewers. Brewers manager Pat Murphy read the letter out loud to the pl...

Thursday’s Hoancoming will feature a taste (and the chairs) of UW-Madison’s Terrace

Matt Wild

September 15, 2025

On Thursday, September 18, the third annual Hoancoming will celebrate the end of summer with a free festival dedicated to Milwaukee's iconic Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge. The water, air, and general area surroun...

Milwaukee County Supervisor proposes cutting Christmas Day bus service, withdraws proposal 4 days later

Matt Wild

September 15, 2025

From the "Life Moves Pretty Fast" and "Never Mind" Departments... Last week, on Monday, September 8, Milwaukee County Supervisor Sheldon A. Wasserman introduced a resolution that would discontinue Milwaukee ...

Diaspora Sports Bar and Lounge planned for former Company Brewing space

Matt Wild

September 12, 2025

The former home of Company Brewing—empty since May 2024—may soon see new life. An ownership group has filed applications with the city to open Diaspora Sports Bar and Lounge in the space, 735 E. Center St. S...

Riverwest Co-op’s final day of regular service will be September 21

Matt Wild

September 12, 2025

The Riverwest Co-op grocery store and cafe (733 E. Clarke St.) has been a fantastic and invaluable neighborhood resource for more than two decades. But now, the Milwaukee staple is coming to an end. "Our fin...

Paul Cebar is Paul Cebar on fantastic eponymous album

Matt Wild

September 12, 2025

What does it mean when a musician releases an eponymous album decades into their career? For Milwaukee music icon Paul Cebar, it apparently means that the album is his best work yet. Cebar's 40-plus-year his...

Garth Brooks adds second Summerfest “kick-off concert,” June 16 at AmFam Amphitheater

Matt Wild

September 12, 2025

Blame it all on my roots overwhelming demand, but country superstar Garth Brooks has added a SECOND Summerfest "kick-off" concert to his itinerary. The first show, announced earlier this week, will take place a...

Get a whiff of the trailer for Milwaukee-made sci-fi/horror short ‘Aroma-Vision’

Matt Wild

September 11, 2025

"With the invention of a new television that broadcasts scent, an ordinary man is pulled into a daunting new cooking show." As far as loglines go, that one's a winner. It's for Aroma-Vision, an entirely Milw...

Domes Reimagined: An updated breakdown of what will happen when, and how much it will cost

Matt Wild

September 10, 2025

In case you missed it, after nearly a decade of endless meetings, task forces, and wild ideas, Milwaukee County is committed to saving the Mitchell Park Domes. How committed? A cool $30 million—paid out over si...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 27 – September 9, 2025)

Matt Wild

September 10, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is running for governor

Matt Wild

September 9, 2025

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley officially announced his campaign for Governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday morning. A press release subtitled "Running to be a governor for all of us" came complete with a v...

“Gig’s Up” will showcase 50 years of Milwaukee punk posters

Matt Wild

September 9, 2025

What's the best way to relive 50 years of Milwaukee punk music? Listen to the music, of course. (May we suggest MKEPunk.com?) The second-best way? Check out an exhibition of 50 years of Milwaukee punk posters c...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are Milwaukee’s Lightning & Thunder in ‘Song Sung Blue’ trailer

Matt Wild

September 9, 2025

It's a Milwaukee story through and through: a man and woman meet at Ma Fischer's in 1989 and decide to start a Neil Diamond tribute act called Lightning & Thunder; the tribute act takes off and becomes a lo...

Garth Brooks will headline Summerfest “kick-off concert” June 17 at AmFam Amphitheater

Matt Wild

September 8, 2025

We'll keep it short and sweet: Garth Brooks will headline a Summerfest "kick-off concert" June 17 at American Family Insurance Amphitheater. That's one day before the official start of Summerfest 2026, which wi...

Third Ward home and garden shop MOD GEN will close after Christmas Eve

Matt Wild

September 8, 2025

Long-running home and garden shop MOD GEN, 211 N. Broadway St., will close its doors for good after December 24, 2025. The Third Ward business made the announcement on social media Monday morning. "This will...

Everyone’s entitled to 27 good scares during Shocktoberfest at Avalon, Rosebud, Times

Matt Wild

September 5, 2025

Are you already prepping for the Halloween season in mid-September? Of course you are. Are you looking forward to October, when the Halloween season really gets cooking? Again, of course you are. So without ...

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