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Here are the first 5 shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live, and that’s it

October 15, 2025

The first five shows coming to Landmark Credit Union Live are... February 27, 2026 Rainbow Kitten Surprise + Common People February 28, 2026 BossMan Dlow + BabyChiefDoIt, Skrilla, VonOff1700, Raq baby, ...

The Laughing Tap will move to historic George Watts building in downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

It's been four months since long-running Milwaukee comedy club The Laughing Tap closed its doors at 706B S. 5th St. in Walker's Point and announced it would be moving to an unspecified new location in early fal...

Post Malone will headline Summerfest June 27, 2026

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

Summerfest 2026 is a mere eight months away, and the headliner announcements are HEATING UP. Garth Brooks will play not one, but TWO Summerfest kick-off shows. Ed Sheeran will play. And on Monday, Summerfest an...

One year ago today, on October 13, 2024…

Matt Wild

October 13, 2025

...a Mississippi couple ran their 43-foot Chris-Craft Roamer boat ashore between Bradford and McKinley beaches. The boat—officially named "Deep Thought" but sometimes known as the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwauke...

26 photos of West Allis’ new Slingshot Bar, where you can shoot slingshots in a bar

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Ready...aim...fire! Slingshot Bar—a.k.a. Bars & Recreation's new activity bar at 6325 W. National Ave. in West Allis—is open for business! Just be sure to wear proper eye protection (provided) and sign a wa...

IfIHadAHiFi is the (great) band for the (awful) times on ‘Paws In The Bacon Grease’

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Sometimes there's a band. Well, they're the band for their time and place. They fit right in there. And that's IfIHadAHiFi, in Milwaukee. On their latest EP, Paws In The Bacon Grease, the veteran Midwest noise-...

Milwaukee Record’s 66 Days of Halloween (Part III)

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Welcome to Milwaukee Record's 66 Days of Halloween countdown! You can find Part I, which covers Days 0-22, HERE. You can find Part II, which covers Days 23-44, HERE. DAY 66: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Is this...is this...

Here’s the schedule for MobCraft Beer’s Grand Re-Opening Weekend, October 10-12

Matt Wild

October 9, 2025

In case you missed it, MobCraft Beer is back! The popular Walker's Point "crowdsourced" brewery at 505 S. 5th St. closed in November 2024 after eight years in business. But it didn't stay shuttered for long: In...

It’s alright, it’s okay, Mark Borchardt will introduce ‘Coven’ October 16 at the Times

Matt Wild

October 9, 2025

As we all know, Mark Borchardt's 1997's film Coven is a 35-minute direct-market thriller film shot on 16mm black and white reversal. It's about an alcoholic, man, compelled to go to this group meeting by his on...

New Live Nation / FPC Live concert venue will be called Landmark Credit Union Live

Matt Wild

October 8, 2025

At an on-site media event Wednesday featuring multiple speakers and a bunch of clear plastic chairs that looked straight out of Star Trek, the name and naming sponsor of that new concert venue being built at 10...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (September 24 – October 7, 2025)

Matt Wild

October 8, 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...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about pinball

Matt Wild

October 8, 2025

Are you like me (Matt), and enjoy pinball? Do you enjoy hopping from one Milwaukee bar to the next every other night, playing different pinball tables? Do you enjoy ducking into 3rd St. Market Hall on random af...

I dropped by ‘The Morning Blend’ to talk about fall festivals

Matt Wild

October 6, 2025

Milwaukee's packed summer festival season is over, which means it's time to relax and enjoy Milwaukee's quiet, relaxing, and festival-free fall season. Except that second part isn't true at all: Milwaukee falls...

AJ Bombers’ final day of service will be November 20

Matt Wild

October 2, 2025

Back in June, downtown burger joint AJ Bombers (1247 N. Water St.) announced that after 16 years of service, it would be closing its doors later this year. Now, we have actual date. On Thursday, AJ Bombers anno...

Nine Inch Nails will play Fiserv Forum February 23

Matt Wild

October 1, 2025

Like the man said, "Bow down before the one you serve / You're going to get what you deserve." And what you deserve is to see Nine Inch Nails live at Fiserv Forum on Monday, February 23, 2026. It's been a minut...

“A role of a lifetime”: Jeffrey Combs talks Herbert West, ‘Re-Animator’ ahead of 40th-anniversary screening

Matt Wild

September 30, 2025

There's no film quite like 1985's Re-Animator. Is it a horror film? A comedy? A Frankenstein/"mad scientist" spoof? A horror-comedy-Frankenstein/"mad scientist"-spoof? Whatever it is, it's an absolute hoot, and...

Outgoing FM 102/1 honored with official county proclamation

Matt Wild

September 29, 2025

In case you missed it, long-running Milwaukee rock radio station FM 102/1 (WLUM-FM) will cease its programming at the end of the month. Tennessee-based Christian radio network K-Love Inc. purchased the station,...

The Onion’s Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary will screen at X-Ray Arcade October 17

Matt Wild

September 29, 2025

Satirical warhorse The Onion made news last week when it unveiled the existence of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile, a 20-minute "yes, this is real" doc/mockumentary created by The Onion. "Forget everything yo...

New MKE-made retro video games coming soon: ‘Mega Kaiju Boom Ball,’ ‘Gumshoe Detective Agency’

Matt Wild

September 26, 2025

The world of homebrew retro video games has exploded in the past decade, and Milwaukee has been a part of the pixelated action. Local developer/musician Jordan Davis unveiled Space Raft: The Game in 2020, and T...

Here are more details on āya, an upscale Mediterranean restaurant coming to Ascent MKE

Matt Wild

September 26, 2025

Back in May, New Land Enterprises announced that an "upscale, elevated Mediterranean restaurant" called āya was coming to the ground floor of its mass timber Ascent MKE apartment building at 700 E. Kilbourn Ave...

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