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Let’s look back on 2015 with Milwaukee’s favorite troll, Sheriff David Clarke

January 7, 2016

// How's your 2016 going so far? Good? Kind of shitty? We hear you. How about 2015? Sure, we may be a full week into the new year, but that doesn't mean it's too late to look back and take stock of the year...

Nick Sanborn’s solo project, Made Of Oak, will play Cactus Club April 8

Matt Wild

January 6, 2016

// Milwaukee expat and former Decibully member Nick Sanborn is one busy fellow. In addition to his current high-profile gig as one-half of Sylvan Esso, Sanborn occasionally records and performs under his lo...

Keep the holidays alive with Xposed 4Heads’ all-purpose holiday song, “Sing Along Again”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2016

// Having trouble returning to the real world after a seemingly endless and (hopefully) drunken holiday break? Of course you are. Happily, there's a solution: Keep the holidays alive all year long with Xpos...

One guess how Kato Kaelin felt about last night’s Packers game

Matt Wild

December 28, 2015

// Earlier this month, we dropped in on the Twitter feed of Kato Kaelin—he of faded “former O.J. Simpson houseguest” fame—and rounded up some of his delightfully angry tweets during the Green Bay Packers / ...

I saw ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Oriental Theatre at 4:15 a.m. and it was glorious

Matt Wild

December 18, 2015

Back in October, a galaxy-full of Star Wars fans descended on the Internet, Death-Star-trench-run-style, to buy advance tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I was not among them. Instead, as untold millions...

Christopher Lloyd will host a ‘Back To The Future’ screening at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

December 16, 2015

// Dear Milwaukee, On the night I go back in time of Saturday, February 20, 2016, you will be treated to a screening of Back To The Future at Riverside Theater, hosted by Doc Brown himself, Christopher L...

Listen to the latest and greatest Bleach Athletixx track, “Rotation Of The Earth”

Matt Wild

December 11, 2015

// Back in March, former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday began releasing music under his new moniker, Bleach Athletixx. Songs like the druggy and Vice City-channeling “California Future,” the druggy a...

Relive last night’s insane Packers win with these delightfully angry Kato Kaelin tweets

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

// As you may or may not know, infamous O.J. Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin is a big Wisconsin sports nut. Though now living and working (apparently) in Los Angeles, the 56-year-old Kaelin originally hails...

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

// Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...

This is what the Journal Sentinel’s website will look like next year

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

The don’t-call-it-a-buyout buyout of Journal Communications Inc. by Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., the subsequent spinning off of the company’s newspapers into the locally controlled Journal Media Gr...

Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’

Matt Wild

December 3, 2015

// Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...

Watch a short film about Kumar Pallana and his unlikely ties to the Milwaukee film scene

Matt Wild

December 1, 2015

// The name “Kumar Pallana” may not ring any bells with Joe Q. Moviegoer, but savvy film fans will recognize the quirky Indian actor from his brief but memorable roles in a handful of Wes Anderson classics,...

The Vanguard just added 5 new sausages to its menu

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

// Is there anything better than The Vanguard, Bay View’s preeminent sausage-slinging and Packer-watching hot spot? No. Well, scratch that: The only thing better than The Vanguard is The Vanguard with five ...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee T-shirts for people who hate Milwaukee T-shirts

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

// Nothing beats showing off your local pride via a snazzy, locally focused T-shirt. It’s cheap, easy, and keeps the upper half of your body free of nakedness. In Milwaukee, however, locally focused T-shirt...

Scrimshaw’s ‘Welcome To The Henry Herschel Commercial’ is wonderfully weird, just plain wonderful

Matt Wild

November 19, 2015

To enter the world of Scrimshaw is to enter a world where Dr. Demento rules the radio, Mad magazine is required college reading, and Don Knotts is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the 10th year running. Milwa...

Who owns “Milwaukee.com,” and why is nothing there?

Matt Wild

November 18, 2015

// Right now, at this very moment, there are approximately 8,000 websites you can visit to get information on what’s happening in Milwaukee. There’s the city’s official website. There’s the tourism-minded V...

Make your intimate, icky dreams come true by starring in a new ad for Sybaris Pool Suites

Matt Wild

November 17, 2015

// Remember that scene in Blue Valentine when Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams go to a cheesy “romantic” motel and have incredibly depressing sex? God, what an uncomfortable, disheartening scene. God, wha...

Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Riverside Theater, ruin your favorite movies

Matt Wild

November 16, 2015

// Back in December 2014, everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, champion of reason, and walking meme Neil deGrasse Tyson dropped by Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater for two enlightening shows dedicated to all th...

Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture?

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more. UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...

Wisconsin ranked No. 1 for trendy true-crime serial documentaries

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Netflix is jumping on that sweet, sweet Serial/Jinx bandwagon with a 1...

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