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Food/Drink Roundup: That building on Humboldt and North is still gonna be a food truck park

January 31, 2024

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: that building on Humboldt and North is still gonna be a food truck park....

Try your hand at competitive Rock Paper Scissors at Company Brewing

Matt Wild

January 30, 2024

Rock Paper Scissors: it's not just for children and for deciding who goes first in board games anymore. That's right, Milwaukee has its own competitive Rock Paper Scissors league! Looking to throw down and m...

Do the “Mess Up” with Xposed 4Heads before Friday’s Power Pop Dance Party at Linneman’s

Matt Wild

January 30, 2024

As the world continues to devolve into an inhospitable post-apocalyptic hellscape, only two things are certain: we're all doomed, and longtime Milwaukee new wave/goof-rock band Xposed 4Heads will provide the pr...

Festa Italiana will return to Summerfest grounds in 2024, move to late spring

Matt Wild

January 30, 2024

For the first time since 2019, Milwaukee festival staple Festa Italiana will return to the Summerfest grounds in 2024. And there's more: the summertime staple will move to late spring, doing its thing the weeke...

Shontrail and Sam Whitten are out all night and going “Thru The Rafters”

Matt Wild

January 29, 2024

When we last checked in with Milwaukee musician Shontrail, he had just scored a certified Summer Jam with the infectious "When I'm Alone I Get Real High." The blissed-out electro banger was tailor-made to be bl...

Summer concert announcements: Brittany Howard, Heart, Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper

Matt Wild

January 29, 2024

It's a busy morning for Milwaukee summer concert announcements, so let's get right to it... First up is Brittany Howard! The powerhouse singer-songwriter (and Alabama Shakes frontwoman) will headline the BMO...

Stuff We Missed: Brady Street Fest may change date because this summer is gonna be PACKED

Matt Wild

January 26, 2024

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: Brady Street Fest changing its date? • Summers in Milwaukee have al...

Astronaut Husband finds beauty and (meteor) salvation on ‘Off To Nowhere’

Matt Wild

January 26, 2024

Milwaukee musician Alec Grefe lists Mazzy Star, Acetone, King Krule, and "a ton of other stuff" as his biggest musical influences. If you, too, enjoy those artists—and/or Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, or Some...

Numerous events and initiatives planned for “Year of Vel Phillips”

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Vel R. Phillips (1924-2018) was a woman of many "firsts." The Milwaukee native was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. She was the first woman and the first Bl...

Gold Steps and MKNLY go their separate ways at “The Terminal”

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Milwaukee alt/pop/rock band Gold Steps can't stop, won't stop. In the last few years the group has released a record on Revival Recordings, toured the U.S., played a metric ton of local shows (including a sweet...

Help make locally created card game ‘Mythy’ a reality

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Greetings, fellow card and board game geeks! Are you looking for a light, fun, and constantly changing 2-to-6-player card game to slot between marathon sessions of Ark Nova and Gloomhaven? Are you interested in...

Chefs from Amilinda, Odd Duck, EsterEv, Birch are 2024 James Beard Award Semifinalists

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

The James Beard Foundation announced its 2024 Restaurant and Chef Awards Semifinalists on Wednesday, all part of its prestigious food-celebratin' James Beard Awards. As always, a host of Milwaukee chefs made th...

‘Hundreds Of Beavers’ (the film, not the real beavers) will return to Oriental Theatre January 31

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

If you attended the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival and you have vague memories of a bunch of costumed critters running around outside the Oriental Theatre, it wasn't a dream (and it wasn't just another night on t...

New & Wonderful Things: Northridge Mall saga continues

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

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...

SIN BAD returns with long-lost (and fantastic) EP, ‘It’s Final’

Matt Wild

January 23, 2024

Has it really been five years since stellar Milwaukee rock/punk/power-pop group SIN BAD issued its final release and went on indefinite hiatus? It's true! Back in early 2019, the trio (Audrey Pennings, Ben Woya...

Music Go Round and Volta Records bring Midwest musicians together on same bill

Matt Wild

January 23, 2024

With such a wealth of talent at its disposal, the Milwaukee music scene can sometimes feel a bit insular. Local artists playing with other local artists. Friends playing with friends. Lather, rinse, repeat. And...

That Culver’s mural/sign on the East Side: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Milwaukee is currently in the throes of a mural renaissance. It seems a week can't go by without the unveiling of another gorgeous mural on a previously unadorned side of a prominent building. There are colorfu...

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser will return to Kern Center April 7

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

It may feel like winter will never end, but—believe it or not—spring is right around the corner. Need proof? Behold the annual announcement of WMSE's Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser! The springtime shindig will ret...

Avril Lavigne will bring greatest hits tour to AmFam Amphitheater September 9

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Tell me: Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated? 'Cause right now I'd do anything to just get my bowels evacuated. In the bathroom I sit and I wait and I strain and I sweat and I clench and I feel the ...

MKE Music Rewind: Grey-Star, “You Don’t Even Know” (1983)

Matt Wild

January 18, 2024

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Grey-Star, "You Don't Even Know." "Criminally overlooked!" "Should ha...

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