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Riverside Theater is getting a sweet new marquee and a 40-foot vertical sign

September 14, 2015

// The Riverside Theater has seen a plethora of changes in its 87-year history. Originally opened in 1928 as an RKO vaudeville house (hosting everyone from The Three Stooges to Glenn Miller), the Wisconsin Av...

Vic And Gab open up about playing their final show as Vic And Gab

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// From 2012-2014, Vic And Gab were a reliable, near-constant presence in Milwaukee’s music scene. The sister duo of Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela were known to play their effervescent, impeccably crafted ind...

Robert Thomas recreates “Dropping A Han Dynasty Urn” by dropping a signed 50 Cent vodka bottle

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// Back in July, we made a pilgrimage to the Oak Creak Woodman’s and braved blistering temperatures, an endless line, and a runaway trash can to get a bottle of EFFEN Vodka signed by 50 Cent. We left feeling ...

Will Juiceboxxx make an appearance on the season 5 premiere of ‘Girls’?

Matt Wild

September 8, 2015

// When we last talked to world-by-way-of-Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, the 28-year-old musician/entrepreneur was opening up about his childhood, grappling with being the quasi-subject of a new book, and nursi...

Common Ground triumphs, anti-streetcar crowd fizzles

Matt Wild

September 3, 2015

Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none of the ...

MFF2015 announces full lineup, including teenage Raiders Of The Lost Ark remake

Matt Wild

September 3, 2015

It’s September, which can mean only one thing: the Milwaukee Film Festival is almost upon us. The 2015 fest—which runs September 24-October 8 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay C...

Summerfest returns (sort of) with two free end-of-summer concerts

Matt Wild

September 1, 2015

Summerfest isn’t just a two-week extravaganza of music, food, soul-searching, and Paris Hilton—it’s a gift that keeps on giving. Take today, for instance, which finds Summerfest Foundation, Inc. announcing Tap ...

I floated in a sensory deprivation tank at Float Milwaukee and, well, it was something

Matt Wild

September 1, 2015

The first thing to know about Float Milwaukee—the city’s newest and only sensory deprivation flotation tank business—is that the folks who run it have heard all the Altered States jokes before. The 1980 sci-fi ...

Mythinformation Conference to bring secularism, Wu-Tang associate Killah Priest to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 28, 2015

A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that the percentage of Americans who identify as atheist or agnostic has risen in the last seven years from 16 to 23 percent. And while a staggering 71 percent of...

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s fall 2015 lineup

Matt Wild

August 26, 2015

The UWM Union Cinema (formerly Union Theatre) 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 thea...

Help put the finishing touches on MPM’s revamped Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit

Matt Wild

August 25, 2015

If your appetite for turn-of-the-century cobblestone roads and vaguely creepy, not-quite-life-sized storefronts has gone curiously unfilled this summer, there’s a reason for that. Milwaukee Public Museum’s icon...

Exclusive: Listen to Testa Rosa’s shapeshifting third album, III

Matt Wild

August 25, 2015

The word “pretty” gets tossed around a lot when talking about Testa Rosa. It’s easy to see why: Over the course of two full-length albums—2007’s I and 2011’s II—the veteran Milwaukee band has trafficked in lovi...

UW-Oshkosh professor and Big Lebowski superfan Paul Niesen talks Lebowski Fest, “The Dude,” cats

Matt Wild

August 21, 2015

To say the Coen brothers' shaggy dog story The Big Lebowski has gained a cult following since its release in 1998 would be a bowling alley-sized understatement. The twisting tale of Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski ...

35mm screenings of Jaws, The Shining highlight MFF2015’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 20, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is one month and four days away. That’s one month and four days to prepare for an onslaught of films ranging from the highbrow and challenging to the rowdy and crowd pleasing. A...

For this year’s entering college class, the Beloit College Mindset List is hilariously bad

Matt Wild

August 19, 2015

Since 1998, Beloit College’s annual Mindset List has given college professors and administrators a peek inside the minds of incoming college freshmen by rounding up a series of “fun facts” about the world they’...

The story behind Fink’s “Couples Are Boring” sign (and how you can change it)

Matt Wild

August 18, 2015

If you’ve walked, biked, driven, or stumbled past the corner of N. Humboldt Ave. and N. Water St. / E. Kane Pl. this summer, you’ve undoubtedly seen a striking addition to one of the intersection’s main draws, ...

Tommy Wiseau and The Room will return to Oriental Theatre in September

Matt Wild

August 18, 2015

In a world of cynical imitators and cheesy-on-purpose clones (we’re looking at you, Sharknado), The Room remains the gold standard for completely sincere, completely stupefying so-bad-it’s-good cinema. The empt...

Tracklist: The Milwaukee Lion, and 16 other local social media accounts dedicated to animals

Matt Wild

August 17, 2015

// Remember back in July, when Milwaukee was captivated by the rumor/maybe-not-a-rumor of a wild lion roaming the streets? Of course you do. The initial sighting of a “lion-ish” creature milling about the 2...

Who Said It Best (And Worst): August 10-14

Matt Wild

August 14, 2015

Who Said It Best (And Worst) rounds up the week’s best and worst quotes from notable Milwaukee figures and folks-about-town. SAID IT BEST Edge Advisors principal Mike Bark, on the endless obsession with “at...

Waukesha man took some stuff (LSD), drove a truck (into two police cars), and was buck (naked)

Matt Wild

August 14, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • If you follow the news these days, it’s easy to dwell on the things that divi...

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