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Behold that finished mural on Humboldt that used to feature Mrs. Incredible

October 30, 2024

Last week, approximately 8,000 readers informed us that that mural on the north wall of car stereo installation and window tinting joint Expert Electronics, 2231 N. Humboldt Ave., had changed. You know, that mu...

Yep, still there

Matt Wild

October 29, 2024

As of Tuesday morning, that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach is yep, still there. The boat's owners beached and abandoned the 33-foot Chris-Craft Roamer craft—named "Deep Thought," in a possible no...

Caley Conway navigates dreams, waking life on sublime ‘Partner’

Matt Wild

October 28, 2024

There are moments in Caley Conway's latest album, Partner, when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or...

Whoa! Here’s the schedule for Milwaukee Film’s “Keanuthon”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2024

If October is prime time for horror movies, what should folks binge in November? Thanksgiving movies? Christmas movies? Planes, Trains And Automobiles 24/7? If you're Milwaukee Film, the answer is a little more...

Jack White will play intimate shows at Cactus Club tonight, The Rave tomorrow

Matt Wild

October 25, 2024

One night after a last-minute surprise show at Madison's High Noon Saloon—and an even more last-minute and surprise show at Milwaukee's Vanguard restaurant—the one and only Jack White will play Milwaukee's Cact...

Bug Moment at its best on new single, “Purple Guy”

Matt Wild

October 25, 2024

Bug Moment's metamorphosis from a glitchy bedroom project to the city's finest "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" band is one of the great Milwaukee music scene success stories of the post-pandemic era. Twenty-twe...

Milwaukee Recreation is offering a Yoko Ono class this fall and we’re all for it

Matt Wild

October 24, 2024

Milwaukee Recreation rules. For more than 100 years (!) the Milwaukee Public Schools program has made the city a better place by offering innumerable recreational and educational opportunities to folks of all a...

Milwaukee has made nearly $500K from those darn electric scooters this year

Matt Wild

October 23, 2024

Those darn electric scooters have been incredibly popular in Milwaukee in 2024, and the city has the numbers—and the cash—to prove it. A total of 816,500 trips have been recorded on Lime and Spin scooters th...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Good Housekeeping thinks Milwaukee is among “best places in the world to visit in November”

Matt Wild

October 23, 2024

Here at Milwaukee Record we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot. It keeps track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists and studies, as well as any time a national publ...

R.I.P. that incredible Mrs. Incredible mural on Humboldt

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

Just two months after we featured it in the hallowed pages of Milwaukee Record, that mural on the north wall of car stereo installation and window tinting joint Expert Electronics (2231 N. Humboldt Ave.) has ch...

Get lost in the dream-pop goodness of Brief Candles’ ‘Unfinished Nature’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

In the final moments of David Lynch and Mark Frost's 2017 Twin Peaks revival, a puzzled and temporally adrift Agent Cooper asks "What year is this?" The same question comes to mind while listening to the music ...

Early in-person voting begins TODAY, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

There's a big election coming up on Tuesday, November 5. Perhaps you've heard of it? Well, if you're looking to skip the Election Day lines and avoid hanging out in a school gymnasium for 30 minutes while "e...

Here are the new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Forum for the 2024-25 Bucks season

Matt Wild

October 21, 2024

Your Milwaukee Bucks kick off their 2024-25 this week (get your tickets HERE), which can mean only one thing: The Bucks are back, baby! And with them, a host of new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Foru...

Enjoy new Halloween songs from Fuzzysurf, The Quilz

Matt Wild

October 21, 2024

It's that time of year, folks: Pumpkins! Pumpkin spice! Leaves! Scary movies! That old Garfield Halloween special where he fights ghost pirates or something! Oh, and spooky music! And spooky local music! So ...

14 photos of that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach and has just been sitting there for a week

Matt Wild

October 18, 2024

UPDATE (10/23/24): Still there! Have you heard about that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach—just south of MooSa's restaurant on Lincoln Memorial Drive—and has just been sitting there for a week? We...

Watch old Halloween TV shows (plus commercials!) with TV Grime, October 24 at X-Ray Arcade

Matt Wild

October 18, 2024

Back in 2022, Milwaukee author Luke Geddes released the first issue of his TV Grime zine. It was a 116-page collection of, in Geddes' words, "reviews and free associations of every Halloween episode I've ever s...

Watch “too-gross-for-theaters” trailer for 1994 Milwaukee-made horror film ‘Aswang’

Matt Wild

October 17, 2024

It's the spooky season, and Milwaukee Film is currently neck-deep in its vampire-tastic "Bite Club" series. On Saturday, October 26 at the Oriental Theatre, that series will go local with a screening of the 199...

Wave Chapelle and friends will play inaugural installment of Riverwest Radio Spotlight Series

Matt Wild

October 17, 2024

Back in January, a unique show took place at a unique location. Social Cig and Wave Chapelle played a co-headlining show in the cozy confines of Riverwest Radio. In case you missed it, here it is: https://ww...

The incredibly busy world of Nineteen Thirteen

Matt Wild

October 16, 2024

Victor DeLorenzo is throwing himself a birthday party—sort of—and everyone is invited. On Saturday, October 19, the veteran Milwaukee musician and Violent Femmes founding drummer will celebrate his 70th birt...

Entering final years, Milwaukee Public Museum unveils new exhibit about Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild

October 16, 2024

Here's your gentle, semi-regular reminder that the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) as you know it—the weird, wild, wonderful, cavernous, and charmingly out-of-time museum that has stood at 800 W. Wells St. since ...

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