Here’s the menu for DanDan
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Has there been a more anticipated Milwaukee restaurant opening in recent years than DanDan? Probably not. The new Asian-inspired restaurant from chefs Dan Van Rite and Dan Jacobs is slated to open in the...
Prep for Synth Fest MKE with Liquid City Motor’s mood-enhancing ‘Untitled 2’ EP
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Dozens of electronic- and experimental-minded artists will set up shop at Acme Records and Cactus Club this weekend for the inaugural Synth Fest MKE. Among the fest's more well-known acts (Jon Mueller, a...
Premiere: Get pumped with NO/NO’s neon-drenched “Television” video
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Nearly two months after its release, NO/NO's gorgeous Sound And Light continues to surprise. It's an album with surface pleasures aplenty—a glitter-and-gloom dream-pop vibe, insistent synth riffs, endles...
Drift away to KaneTheRapper’s druggy, Kurt Cobain-laden debut, ‘The Influence’
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If you've been blindly stumbling around Milwaukee's music landscape wondering where to find the most energy, excitement, and ambition, look no further than the city's hip-hop scene. Spearheaded by the li...
Slenderman doc, more announced for 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival
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By our count, the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival is roughly two months away. That's two months of anticipation, mental planning, and more anticipation. Oh, and don't forget announcements: Today, Milwaukee ...
Counter-Craft Night Market prepares to light up Riverwest
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Milwaukee's past and present are stuffed with maker-friendly arts-and-crafts extravaganzas. Influential events like Art Vs. Craft and Gallery Night And Day have laid the handmade groundwork for the Urban...
Introducing the “People’s Socks of Milwaukee”
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On June 14, following a highly publicized contest that drew more than 1,000 entries, a group called "The People's Flag of Milwaukee" unveiled, well, the "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The new flag was mea...
Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent is increasing faster than any other U.S. city
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Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication...
Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September
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The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Ni...
Poor turnout at “People’s Flag” meeting points to potential problems with “People’s Flag” movement
Wednesday night, in a show of community support not seen since that time 71 people signed a Change.org petition to book DJ Paris Hilton at every Summerfest until the apocalypse, a dozen people, three journali...
Here’s the music lineup for the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival
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On Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28, the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival will throw its hat into the delightfully crowded Milwaukee summer festival ring. The fest will showcase more than 50 ...
Nick’s House / Y-Not III has been demolished
The building of the former Nick's House—the ultimately ill-fated Bar Rescue experiment that turned the Y-Not III into a '70s-themed bar—has been demolished. Per a photo from Urban Milwaukee, the property at 185...
Revel in the public domain weirdness of Scrimshaw’s “Town Lazer” video
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There's no other Milwaukee band like Scrimshaw. Hell, there may be no other band anywhere like Scrimshaw. The delightfully weirdo art-rock band has been kicking it for more than a decade now, releasing alb...
Here’s the lineup for the inaugural Synth Fest MKE
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Milwaukee, as you may have heard, is the "City of Festivals." It doesn't take that title lightly. Between June and August the city is absolutely stuffed with events bearing the "fest" suffix, from big-ti...
“American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” gets its close-up at MAM
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There's a scene in the Coen brothers' underrated 2016 film Hail, Caesar! when brassy 1950s starlet DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is shooting a synchronized swimming film. She rises from the water, c...
Celebrate the first day of Summerfest with a bunch of videos of “Weird Al” playing Summerfest
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Hey! It's Summerfest! Fun! From June 29-July 3, and July 5-July 10, the 49th annual Big Gig will fill the sprawling Henry Maier Festival Park with hundreds of thousands of attendees, hundreds of musical ...
30th anniversary screening of ‘Blue Velvet,’ more announced for 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival
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By our count, the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival is roughly three months away. That's three months of anticipation, mental planning, and more anticipation. Oh, and don't forget announcements: Today, Milwau...
Summer Soulstice 2016: A minute-by-minute, soul-searching recap
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This past Saturday, the Summer Soulstice Music Festival celebrated its 16th year on the East Side. This fall, I'll celebrate my 20th. By all living-in-Milwaukee logic (not to mention all good sense), I s...
Exclusive: Suit up for Devil Met Contention’s debut full-length, ‘Fuel The Lights’
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Devil Met Contention cut a distinctive figure in the Milwaukee music scene. Catch them live and it's impossible to miss their impeccably styled suit-and-tie aesthetic, cribbed straight from the dress cod...
Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 8th best city for Fourth of July celebrations
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Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee's Jeff Sherman Bot 8000) to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online ...