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

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 ...

The social network: New records out today from Social Cig, Socially Suspect

Matt Wild

September 5, 2025

Sometimes the stars align. Sometimes multiple things happen at once. Sometimes Milwaukee has a lot of currently active "bees" bands for some reason. (Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, Vile Bees, The Last Bees.) ...

Irish Cultural and Heritage Center will suspend operations by end of October, sell building

Matt Wild

September 5, 2025

After more than 30 years of operating out of 2133 W. Wisconsin Ave., the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center (ICHC) announced on Friday that it will be suspending operations "by the end of October," and that it'...

Milwaukee Record Traffic Report: Water Street Bridge will be closed for about 2 months

Matt Wild

September 4, 2025

Heads up, folks who drive, bike, walk, or skip over the Water Street Bridge that spans the Milwaukee River at the border of the Third Ward and Walker's Point: the bridge is gonna be closed for about two months....

Food/Drink Roundup: Koppa’s has new Indian eats (and they’re good)

Matt Wild

September 4, 2025

In this installment of our bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup: Koppa's! • If you haven't heard the news, Koppa's Fulbeli Deli (1940 N. Farwell Ave.) is good again! New owners have been gradually bringing the belov...

Buckle up for “longest drone show ever staged,” coming to Veterans Park

Matt Wild

September 4, 2025

Remember that July 4 Milwaukee County drone show that everyone has been trying to forget? Well, if you wish that drone show was a bit longer (?) and had more live Antonio Vivaldi music and less pre-recorded Bea...

Here’s the full lineup for the 2025 Dialogues Documentary Festival

Matt Wild

September 3, 2025

If you think Milwaukee Film is just about the annual Milwaukee Film Festival (and, um, running the Oriental and Downer theaters all year round), think again! Milwaukee Film's second annual Dialogues Documentary...

Here’s the story behind the name of the new Whitefish Bay music and cultural venue, The Argo, and that’s it

Matt Wild

September 3, 2025

According to a press release, the name of The Argo (opening later this year in the former Fox Bay Theater in Whitefish Bay) is "a tribute to a hand-built family boat called the R-GO that carried generations acr...

Doors Open Milwaukee will celebrate 15 years September 27-28; full list of locations available now

Matt Wild

September 2, 2025

Has Doors Open Milwaukee really been around for 15 years? It has! Historic Milwaukee's citywide open house will celebrate its quindecennial this year, September 27-28. (Yeah, we had to look up "quindecennial.")...

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