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Record Recommended: Summerfest Weekend 2

June 24, 2025

broadstreet.zone(152022); Summerfest! Like the last four installments, the Big Gig is staking out three Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks instead of the old 11-day run. In an effort to help you make some potenti...

ArtBlaze beach parties will bring new “HydroBloom” inflatables to McKinley Beach this summer

Matt Wild

June 24, 2025

Last year, local public art nonprofit Joy Engine gave the Milwaukee summer a jolt of unexpected fun with a series of so-called ArtBlaze beach parties. The free all-ages shindigs on Bradford and South Shore beac...

Yep, Milwaukee is creating a task force to come up with a new city flag

Matt Wild

June 24, 2025

It's official: It's happening again. Oh god, it's happening again. On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Common Council approved the creation of a nine-member task force that will oversee an effort to design and approve...

NIVA ’25 Conference lands in Milwaukee. Here are some open-to-the-public events to check out.

Matt Wild

June 23, 2025

Summerfest may be currently catching its breath and cooling off, but another big-ticket Milwaukee event is just getting started. The NIVA '25 Conference—a.k.a. the fourth annual gathering of the National Ind...

Summerfest 2025 Weekend 1 Recap: All local, all the time

Matt Wild

June 23, 2025

THURSDAY Summerfest fans of a certain age will remember the so-called "local stage." This was an official Summerfest stage—initially sponsored by Cascio, later sponsored by K-Nation Entertainment—that was stoc...

1840 Brewing Company will close June 29

Matt Wild

June 22, 2025

After nearly eight years in business, Bay View brewery 1840 Brewing Company, 342 E. Ward St., will close its doors next week. Its final taproom service will be Sunday, June 29. "You may already be aware of t...

Celebrate the first day of Summerfest 2025 with some random old Summerfest videos

Matt Wild

June 19, 2025

Happy Summerfest, Milwaukee! The 2025 edition of the monster lakefront festival takes place June 19-21, June 26-28, and July 3-5. Which makes today...opening day! So let's celebrate the first day of Summerfe...

Oh no, Milwaukee might create a task force to possibly come up with ANOTHER new flag

Matt Wild

June 18, 2025

It's been nearly a year since the Milwaukee Common Council talked about, got angry about, and ultimately did nothing about the nearly decade-old issue of replacing the city's official, 1950s-era flag with the s...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (June 4-17, 2025)

Matt Wild

June 18, 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...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The popcorn at the Oriental and Downer theaters is the best

Matt Wild

June 17, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the popcorn at Oriental and Downer theaters! Popcorn and movie th...

Here’s the musical lineup for Summer Soulstice 2025

Matt Wild

June 14, 2025

The Milwaukee summer festival season is just around the corner, and with it, the annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival. The 2025 installment of Summer Soulstice is set for Saturday, June 14, from noon to midni...

Wisconsin State Fair’s 2025 Sporkies and Drinkies: Blueberry Breakfast Bratwurst, Dirty Pancakes, more

Matt Wild

June 12, 2025

It's almost time for the 2025 Wisconsin State Fair! (It runs July 31 - August 10.) And that means it's time to unveil, ponder, drool over, and/or worry about this year's Sporkies and Drinkies finalists! You kno...

Food/Drink Roundup: Why are Dairyland and Mid-Way Bakery leaving 3rd St. Market Hall?

Matt Wild

June 11, 2025

Looking for a roundup of Milwaukee food and drink news? Then take a bite of our cleverly titled, bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup! This week: Why are Dairyland and Mid-Way Bakery leaving 3rd St. Market Hall? • L...

County set to auction off abandoned Milwaukee Boat as “piece of art”

Matt Wild

June 10, 2025

It's been just over a month since Milwaukee company All City Towing successfully towed the Milwaukee Boat, a.k.a. the S.S. Minnow, the S.S. Milwaukee, Deep Thought, or just The Boat. The Boat had been abandoned...

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees dance through it on joyous ‘Celebrities’

Matt Wild

June 10, 2025

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees aren't what you'd call a "dance" band. The long-running and ever-evolving Milwaukee group specializes in intricate post-rock architecture and volcanic explosions of sound, not fo...

Spend your Friday the 13th playing Goth Bingo (and maybe winning “Bong Yoda”)

Matt Wild

June 9, 2025

Friday the 13ths don't come around too often, so one must use them wisely when they do. And while there are tons of things happening this Friday the 13th, there's only one event that involves A.) goths, B.) a g...

The Hallelujah Ward explodes on phenomenal ‘Everybody Swoons’

Matt Wild

June 6, 2025

"I know a good man who will sing until his own heart explodes." So sings Mark Waldoch on "Your Uncertain Shadow," the opening track of The Hallelujah Ward's long-awaited full-length debut Everybody Swoons. I...

Vile Bees are anything but ‘Joy Coughs’ on new album

Matt Wild

June 5, 2025

One of the great Milwaukee bands of the 2010s was Like Like The The The Death. The group's 2012 album Ghosts Of Dead Bros landed on our 50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far) list in 2014; a few years l...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (May 21 – June 3, 2025)

Matt Wild

June 5, 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...

New gaming bar, The Familiar Place, planned for Oakland Avenue

Matt Wild

June 4, 2025

Sheenna Kleveno and Michael Taylor are getting married this year. But that's not the only big project on the couple's plate. Kleveno and Taylor are also planning on opening a gaming bar—stuffed with card games,...

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