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The Oriental Theatre during the 2026 Milwaukee Festival

Mandatory Milwaukee: Looking back on Week 1 of the Milwaukee Film Festival, buckling up for Week 2

April 23, 2026

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the Milwaukee Film Festival! In case you missed it, the 2026 Milw...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about slightly unconventional summer road trips

Matt Wild

April 23, 2026

What do mom-and-pop amusement park Little Amerricka (located in Marshall, Wisconsin), the soon-to-be-reopened Highway 18 Outdoor Theatre (Jefferson), and Wisconsin's largest McDonald's (Wisconsin Dells) all hav...

Yes, Justin Vernon will perform as ’90s-era ‘Bon Dylan’ at Eaux Claires

Matt Wild

April 23, 2026

What do you get when you combine Bon Iver, Bob Dylan, and the long-awaited return of an idiosyncratic music festival in northwestern Wisconsin? "Bon Dylan" playing Eaux Claires, of course. Yes, as previously...

Food/Drink Roundup: PufferFish, 3rd St. Market Hall nab national nods

Matt Wild

April 22, 2026

In this installment of our semi-regular Food/Drink Roundup: national recognition for PufferFish and 3rd St. Market Hall! • In case you missed it, the Michelin Guide is coming to Milwaukee (and the Midwest in...

Badfinger tribute show benefiting music foundation of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer coming to Waukesha Beatles club

Matt Wild

April 21, 2026

You'd be hard pressed to find a rock and roll tale more tragic and convoluted than that of Badfinger. The '60s and '70s Welsh power-pop band enjoyed incredible highs—timeless hit records, a close association wi...

Beck performing at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater in 2017

Beck will play Landmark Credit Union Live October 6

Matt Wild

April 21, 2026

ALERT! ALERT! New Milwaukee venue Landmark Credit Union Live has announced another show that folks who say they'll never go to Landmark Credit Union Live due to its ties to Live Nation and Ticketmaster may actu...

Ask an animal anything at ‘Voices From The Animal Kingdom,’ April 24 at Washington Park Media Center

Matt Wild

April 20, 2026

Are you tired? Burned out? In need of tangible advice from local artists dressed as zebras, lobsters, and horseshoe crabs? Of course you are. So be sure to check out "Voices From The Animal Kingdom," coming to ...

11 things the guy behind me yelled at last night’s midnight screening of ‘A Bay Of Blood’

Matt Wild

April 18, 2026

Friday night / Saturday morning, the Milwaukee Film Festival stayed up late for a midnight screening of Mario Bava's 1971 Italian giallo film A Bay Of Blood. The influential proto-slasher (sometimes known as Ca...

Exterior of Ruta's Fresh Indian Fare in Walker's Point

Ruta’s Fresh Indian Fare will close Walker’s Point location April 30

Matt Wild

April 17, 2026

Walker's Point is losing a terrific restaurant. On Friday, the always delicious Ruta's Fresh Indian Fare announced that it will be closing its Walker's Point location at 207 W. Freshwater Way. The restaurant...

Did I cry during the Bob Uecker documentary ‘Ueck’? You better believe I did.

Matt Wild

April 17, 2026

Here's something you may not know about me: I cry at movies. Like, all the time. I cry at sad movies, I cry at sort-of-sad movies, I cry at not-sad-at-all movies. It sounds corny but I find the act of sitting i...

Bitch Creek debut was ‘written and developed with love,’ and it shows

Matt Wild

April 17, 2026

The liner notes to the debut record from Milwaukee band Bitch Creek are simple and to-the-point: "written and developed w love." Countless records are written and developed with the same crucial ingredient, but...

Ellie Jackson questions ‘American Dream’

Matt Wild

April 16, 2026

What's the state of the American Dream in 2026? Who is it for? Who's living it? Does it still exist? Hell, did it ever exist? If you're looking to ponder those questions in song form—really, really good song fo...

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival screening schedule

My wildly ambitious, never-gonna-happen-but-I’ll-try-anyway MFF26 itinerary

Matt Wild

April 15, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival cometh! From April 16-30, more than 100 feature films and 130 short films will light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters. (The full lineup can be found HERE. Tick...

Here’s the lineup for WMSE’s inaugural 12-hour EDM festival, Radiate

Matt Wild

April 15, 2026

When it comes to events, Milwaukee's 91.7 WMSE always brings the goods. The 45-year-old independent, listener-supported, freeform radio station is responsible for the annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser, the ann...

Diaspora MKE will celebrate grand opening in former Company Brewing space April 14

Matt Wild

April 13, 2026

When we last checked in with Diaspora MKE, the oft-discussed/oft-delayed sports bar and lounge set to take over the former Company Brewing space at 735 E. Center St. in Riverwest was all systems go. But then, a...

We’re calling it: The (main) Marcus Center snow pile is gone

Matt Wild

April 13, 2026

It's official, folks: the Marcus Center snow pile—a.k.a. the big pile of snow on the east side of the Marcus Performing Arts Center parking structure in Downtown Milwaukee, 929 N. Water St.—has melted. Date of ...

The Strokes will play AmFam Amphitheater July 17

Matt Wild

April 13, 2026

Let's keep this real simple: The Strokes will play Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Friday, July 17. They'll be joined by Cage The Elephant and Thundercat. "Further information and fan r...

Here are the next four installments of the Lion’s Tooth + Milwaukee Record Music Book Club

Matt Wild

April 13, 2026

Do you like books? Do you like music? Do you like books about music? Then you're in luck, because we've partnered with beloved Bay View bookstore Lion's Tooth (2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) for the Lion's Tooth + ...

Rendering of the new Torosaurus Clash diorama at the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin

Reminder: Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin will have dioramas

Matt Wild

April 10, 2026

We said it earlier this week and we'll say it again: The Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it will close forever on January 3, 2027. Then, in the spring of 2027, the new Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsi...

New Milwaukee metal project Thunderkill ushers in ‘Global Cataclysm’

Matt Wild

April 10, 2026

Bleak times, right? Miserable, grueling, humiliating, soul-deadening times. Well, at least it's Friday. And at least there's a new Milwaukee thrash-metal project called Thunderkill to provide the perfect soundt...

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