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“Enhanced streetcar service” may alleviate traffic, parking during lakefront festivals

May 8, 2024

Heavy downtown traffic and outrageous parking fees during major lakefront festivals got you down? There's a streetcar for that. And maybe some "enhanced" service to go along with it. On Wednesday, Milwaukee'...

Whether you like it or not, they’re building a new Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild

May 7, 2024

On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from the Milwaukee Public Museum held a ceremonial groundbreaking for MPM's new museum. Due to inclement weather, the event was held indoors, in the ballroom of the luxurio...

Milwaukee Film Festival announces 2024 attendance, 2025 dates

Matt Wild

May 2, 2024

The 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival drew a total of 32,624 attendees, Milwaukee Film announced Thursday. MFF2024 ran April 11-15 at the Oriental Theatre, Downer Theatre, Avalon Theater, and Times Cinema. It includ...

City seeking someone to demolish rest of former Northridge Mall by fall 2025

Matt Wild

May 1, 2024

Last month, roughly five years after raze orders were first issued, and roughly 21 years after it closed, Northridge Mall began to fall. FINALLY. City contractor HM Brandt, Inc. began knocking down the exter...

Jenny Lewis performing at Summerfest's American Family Insurance House in 2023

Here’s the 2024 lineup for Summerfest’s intimate American Family Insurance House

Matt Wild

May 1, 2024

You've already memorized the 2024 Summerfest lineup, right? Well, commit a few more names and dates to memory, because the Big Gig just released the lineup for its American Family Insurance House. Fun! The c...

Here are the 2024 lineups for Lake Park’s Musical Mondays and Wonderful Wednesdays

Matt Wild

April 30, 2024

Milwaukee summers are stuffed with outdoor events both big (Summerfest) and small (are they doing something at Kaszube's Park again this year?) Falling somewhere in the middle are two Lake Park music series: Mu...

Daniel James revives Daniel James Gang solo project, says hello to “Misery”

Matt Wild

April 29, 2024

Back in January 2023, longtime Milwaukee glam/punk/power/sleaze-pop group Indonesian Junk called it quits. "It's been a great 8 1/2 years playing with Mike, Johnny, and all of the other amazing people who have ...

Vic and Gab will reunite as Vic And Gab, open for Vic and Gab as REYNA

Matt Wild

April 26, 2024

It's been nearly 10 years since sisters Victoriah and Gabriela Banuelos retired their indie-rock outfit Vic And Gab and transformed into the more pop-leaning REYNA. And while the latter project has produced som...

Great Job, Wisconsin! We consider 2:44 p.m. “the green light for libations”

Matt Wild

April 25, 2024

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

Food/Drink Roundup: That old scooter shop on Water might be a food truck park now

Matt Wild

April 24, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); 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: a food truck park planned for that old scoote...

Alvvays returns to Pabst Theater for instantly iconic performance

Matt Wild

April 23, 2024

Back in March, indie-pop band Charly Bliss scored a semi-viral tweet about fellow indie group Alvvays: if a venue doesn't play "archie, marry me" before a three band indie rock bill you can report them to the c...

Here’s the full musical lineup for the 2024 Harley-Davidson Homecoming, July 25-28

Matt Wild

April 23, 2024

If you're looking for Milwaukee's most ridiculously packed weekend of summer 2024, look no further than July 25-28. There's German Fest July 26-28. There's the Riverwest 24 July 26-27. There's the Air & Wat...

Guided By Voices (!) will headline WMSE’s Backyard BBQ on August 24

Matt Wild

April 18, 2024

The club park is open. Yes, you read the headline correctly: Legendary high-kicking Dayton, Ohio indie-rock band Guided By Voices will headline WMSE's 14th annual Backyard BBQ concert in Humboldt Park on Sat...

We’re just gonna print the number of rides The Hop recorded in March (seriously, that’s it) and then let you fight about it, okay?

Matt Wild

April 16, 2024

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Pizza Man has closed its one-year-old home on Humboldt

Matt Wild

April 15, 2024

Just one year after leaving its longtime Downer Avenue location and setting up shop in the former Stubby's Gastrogrub at 2060 N. Humboldt Blvd., Pizza Man has abruptly closed the latter location. The restaurant...

Bob Reitman announces retirement, final show on WUWM

Matt Wild

April 15, 2024

It's not alright, ma: Legendary Milwaukee radio pioneer Bob Reitman is retiring. Reitman, 82, who currently co-hosts WUWM's It's Alright, Ma, It's Only Music with his son Bobby, will officially retire on Fri...

Typewriter-tastic QWERTYFEST MKE returns June 21-23

Matt Wild

April 15, 2024

That faint clacking sound you hear throughout the city isn't your imagination—it's just the impending return of QWERTYFEST MKE, a homegrown celebration of a homegrown Milwaukee invention. That's right! Working ...

On Milwaukee Day 2024, it’s time to “Reimagine Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

April 14, 2024

It's April 14 (4/14), so happy Milwaukee Day / 414 Day / 414 Milwaukee Day / 414 MKE Day, Milwaukee. (Our area code is 414, dontcha know.) Get out there and do some some stuff and enjoy some deals. Also, it's t...

Scam Likely breaks through with terrific sophomore album, ‘Yolk’

Matt Wild

April 12, 2024

Roughly 10 minutes into Scam Likely's new album Yolk, an unexpected sound arrives: an acoustic guitar. Huh. This is a band whose excellent 2023 debut Getting Worse was stuffed with crunchy indie-rock rocker ...

18 pictures of people taking pictures of the opening of the streetcar’s Couture Transit Concourse

Matt Wild

April 11, 2024

A long-in-the-works Milwaukee public transportation project officially opened on Thursday: the Couture Transit Concourse. Located in the street-level belly of the just-about-finished Couture luxury apartment to...

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