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Food/Drink Roundup: Martino’s will close December 19, Brady Street area might get chicken wings

November 5, 2025

In this installment of our bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup: Martino's is closing, and the Brady Street area might get a new wings joint. • After nearly a half-century in business, Milwaukee hot dog staple Marti...

Boat is bobblehead now

Matt Wild

November 5, 2025

Thanks to the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, the Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwaukee, "Deep Thought," or just The Boat—is a bobblehead now. We got ours in the mail yesterday:...

Step right up for the miracle cure of IfIHadAHiFi’s “Everyone’s A Doctor” video

Matt Wild

November 4, 2025

"There's no hippocratic oath in the punditry biz / When no one is a doctor, then everyone is!" That's a key line in "Everyone's A Doctor," a standout track from IfIHadAHiFi's new EP Paws In The Bacon Grease....

We got a piece of the Milwaukee Boat, and you can, too (for free)

Matt Wild

October 31, 2025

Remember the Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwaukee, "Deep Thought," or just The Boat? The Boat that was stranded on the shores of Lake Michigan from October 2024 to May 2025? Of course you d...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Halloween in Bay View

Matt Wild

October 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: celebrating Halloween in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood. Happy ...

Alderman Scott Spiker does not like the streetcar, does like issuing press releases about it

Matt Wild

October 30, 2025

Milwaukee Alderman Scott Spiker does not like the Milwaukee streetcar, a.k.a. The Hop. How can we tell? Because Spiker has issued at least four press releases about the streetcar in October alone. And argued...

Ladybird shoots its shot on country classic ‘Clementine’

Matt Wild

October 29, 2025

There's a warmth that radiates from Clementine, the second full-length album from Milwaukee alt-country band Ladybird. It's there in the good-times songs about rock star dreams and barstool camaraderie. It's th...

The Saucy Swine in St. Francis will close, leave Redbar on November 2

Matt Wild

October 29, 2025

After eight years of serving barbecue (and fish) inside St. Francis bar Redbar (2245 E. St Francis Ave.), The Saucy Swine will shut down on Sunday, November 2. The Swine made the announcement Sunday, October 26...

Here are the just-announced dates for Bastille Days 2026, and that’s it

Matt Wild

October 29, 2025

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Driveway Thriftdwellers return, take pop detour with “Dance With You”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

Has it really been seven years since Milwaukee/Madison rock/Americana band Driveway Thriftdwellers released new music? "So it's been seven years since we've released new music and we think that's long enough," ...

WMSE will broadcast special “Hustle & Faux” show live from The Hop on November 10

Matt Wild

October 28, 2025

What do you get when you combine one of Milwaukee's favorite non-commercial radio stations with one of Milwaukee's favorite non-controversial modes of public transportation? "Hustle & Faux," WMSE 91.7FM's u...

Solemn Oath Brewery will open in former 1840 space in mid-2026

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

Amidst a seemingly never-ending barrage of bad brewery news, here's some good brewery news: Midwest brewery Solemn Oath announced on Friday that it will open a "comfortable, neighborhood‑first taproom" in Milwa...

Ouzo Cafe is closed, and here’s the closing note they taped to the front entrance

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

News broke Thursday that downtown Greek restaurant Ouzo Cafe, 776 N. Milwaukee St., had closed its doors after more than two decades in business. Both the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Urban Milwaukee reported...

Get into the gloom with Genau’s “Live By The Water,” “Margaret In Dub”

Matt Wild

October 24, 2025

It's been faaaaar too long since we checked in with dreamy post-punk duo Genau. We wrote about the Milwaukee group's self-titled debut way back in 2016 ("If you're feeling a little bit noisy and a little bit go...

When life is at its hardest, just remember there’s a 24-hour live webcam of the Bronze Fonz

Matt Wild

October 23, 2025

There's a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 masterpiece Magnolia where the dying Earl Partridge looks back on his life of betrayal and regret. "This fucking life...it's so fucking hard, so long!" the dying m...

MKE Music Rewind: Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentary (1991)

Matt Wild

October 23, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentar...

22 photos of Your Office, a new downtown dive bar and restaurant that looks pretty great

Matt Wild

October 20, 2025

Remember My Office? That little dive bar and restaurant at 763 N. Milwaukee St.? Where you could get a drink and if you were hungry the lady behind the bar might randomly make you some spaghetti? Yeah, that was...

Milwaukee “twee punk band” Chit Chat returns to find “Love In A Graveyard”

Matt Wild

October 20, 2025

If the name Chit Chat doesn't ring a bell in your Milwaukee music brain, you can hardly be blamed. It's been nearly four years since the trio of Harrison Colby, Carmella D'Acquisto, and Jeremy Ault released the...

Breakup Tour mixes memes and melancholy on ‘Sorry For Your Loss’

Matt Wild

October 16, 2025

About halfway through Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album from Milwaukee "bubble grunge" group Breakup Tour, two characters grapple with the unrelenting march of time. "The older that you get, the harder the h...

Smokin’ Jack’s BBQ will open new location in Izzy Hops, new concept in former L’Incontro

Matt Wild

October 15, 2025

Two East Side restaurant locations will see new life in the upcoming months—all thanks to one new operator. Smokin' Jack's BBQ is set to open a new location in the current home of Izzy Hops Swig & Nosh, ...

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