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

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.")...

Nick Amadeus goes country on “Save Our Soul”

Matt Wild

September 2, 2025

Back in May, we spoke to Delta Routine frontman Nick Amadeus about a series of 20th anniversary shows for the beloved Milwaukee band, and about the group's plans for the future. "Honestly, this feels more like ...

It’s WMSE’s Halloween dance party, “Radio Dead Time,” October 30 at Anodyne. Who could ask for more?

Matt Wild

September 2, 2025

All dressed up with nowhere to go? Walking with a dead man over your shoulder? If you find these two things to be true on Halloween Eve, then don't run away—attend WMSE's Halloween dance party, "Radio Dead Time...

Help The Mothership recover from catastrophic flood damage

Matt Wild

August 28, 2025

We'll keep this simple: Beloved Bay View bar The Mothership (2301 S. Logan Ave.) suffered catastrophic damage in the flood earlier this month. Beloved Bay View bar The Mothership has been closed ever since. Bel...

American Science & Surplus will shutter warehouse and online sales, plans to sell stores to employees

Matt Wild

August 27, 2025

Back in May, citing slumping sales since the COVID-19 pandemic, beloved offbeat retail store American Science & Surplus launched a GoFundMe to relocate its warehouse. But despite raising nearly $200,000 in ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 13-26, 2025)

Matt Wild

August 27, 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...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Modern Tigers

Matt Wild

August 27, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, August 26, 2025: Mod...

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

Matt Wild

August 27, 2025

Welcome to Milwaukee Record's 66 Days of Halloween countdown! You can find Part II, which covers Days 23-44, HERE. You can find Part III, which covers days 45-66, HERE. DAY 22: ONE-THIRD OF THE WAY THERE Twen...

FM 102/1 makes tearful on-air announcement after news of sale to Christian radio network

Matt Wild

August 26, 2025

News broke on Monday, via Radio Insight and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that Milwaukee radio stations FM 102/1 (WLUM-FM) and B93.3FM (WLDB-FM) had been sold to Tennessee-based Christian radio network K-Love...

Some thoughts on Sunday’s Bob Uecker Celebration of Life (and official video of the whole thing)

Matt Wild

August 25, 2025

A few days before Sunday's Bob Uecker Celebration of Life at American Family Field, a friend said something about Uecker's death I hadn't considered. "I think we've all accepted that he's gone, that his voice i...

New burger and ice cream joint, Bebe Zito, will open in 3rd St. Market Hall August 29; drip chocolate, candy shops coming soon

Matt Wild

August 25, 2025

Some big new additions are coming to downtown food hall 3rd St. Market Hall. If you're a fan of burgers, chicken sandwiches, and ice cream, you're in luck! (Oh, and drip chocolate and candy, too.) First up i...

New bar and restaurant, Vick’s On Van Buren, planned for former Victor’s

Matt Wild

August 25, 2025

The former site of Victor's Nightclub, 1230 N. Van Buren St., may see some new life this fall. And that new life sounds a lot like the old life. License applications filed with the city indicate a new bar an...

Summer music series that are ending this week (and some that still have a little summer left in them)

Matt Wild

August 25, 2025

Summer doesn't technically end until September 22, but you know the deal: Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer. And Labor Day weekend...is this coming weekend. Sigh. Seasons end. Time moves on w...

5pm To Nowhere aims high on arena-ready ‘City Of Light, Act II’

Matt Wild

August 21, 2025

How do you follow up a six-track EP of moody, emotional, heart-on-its-sleeve, polished-to-a-sheen indie-rock called City Of Light, Act I? If you're Milwaukee band 5pm To Nowhere, you release a four-track EP of ...

Overheard in line for a free George Webb burger in downtown Milwaukee: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

August 20, 2025

On Wednesday, August 20, in the Year of Our Lord 2025, Wisconsin burger chain George Webb handed out free burgers at all of its 23 locations. Why? To celebrate the Milwaukee Brewers' recent 12-game winning stre...

Here’s the (tentative) schedule for Riverwest’s second annual Argren Faire

Matt Wild

August 20, 2025

Last September, Riverwest got its own neighborhood renaissance faire in the form of Argren Faire. The daylong event was held at and around Black Husky Brewing, and was based on the mythical land of Argren—a.k.a...

Milwaukee Film unveils six films coming to 2025 Dialogues Documentary Festival

Matt Wild

August 19, 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 Document...

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