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Here are two more future Milwaukee Public Museum galleries, complete with snake button

May 9, 2023

How's everyone feeling so far about the new permanent galleries coming to the future Milwaukee Public Museum? We've seen sketches of the dino-tastic "Time Travel," the state-focused "Wisconsin Journey," and the...

Hunt and peck your way to typewriter-tastic QWERTYFEST MKE, June 23-25

Matt Wild

May 9, 2023

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In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (April 23 – May 6)

Matt Wild

May 8, 2023

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining." However you want to define it, it's safe to say tha...

The Nile Club sets sail with eclectic, excellent ‘Wake Up With A Sense Of Pride’

Matt Wild

May 8, 2023

Somewhere on Highway 33, between the bustling Wisconsin towns of Horicon and Beaver Dam, stands a 40-foot pyramid. Well, it's a long-vacant supper club in the shape of a pyramid, but close enough. Sometimes kno...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Oriental Theatre is a majestic movie palace of memories

Matt Wild

May 5, 2023

Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become iconic. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the Oriental Theatre! Is it possible to take something extraordinary—some...

Milwaukee Board of School Directors opposes plan to force police in schools

Matt Wild

May 4, 2023

Milwaukee Board of School Directors Opposes Plan to Force Police in Schools Local leaders stand against another unfunded mandate MILWAUKEE, WI – Members of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors will hold a ...

Bay View planning “wheel park” for skateboarders, other riders in Beulah Brinton Playfield

Matt Wild

May 4, 2023

Good news, skate rats and BMX bandits: Bay View may be getting a new "wheel park" in Beulah Brinton Playfield (2555 S. Bay St.)! The 5,000-square-foot-or-less park—dubbed the "Wheel Spot"—would cater to skatebo...

Here’s the musical lineup for Summer Soulstice 2023

Matt Wild

May 4, 2023

After two COVID years off, the East Side's Summer Soulstice Music Festival returned in 2022 with a slightly scaled-down look. Instead of a giant chunk of the North/Prospect/Farwell area serving as the fest's fo...

The original Milwaukee County Stadium Racing Sausages from 1993 are on eBay

Matt Wild

May 3, 2023

In his seminal 2003 jam "eBay" (a parody of Backstreet Boys' seminal 1999 jam "I Want It That Way"), "Weird Al" Yankovic rattles off a host of oddities found on the then-new-ish auction site: a PacMan Fever lun...

Downtown’s “Summer In The City” will include roller skating in Red Arrow Park, free concerts

Matt Wild

May 2, 2023

It's been 10 long, hot, throbbing years since Downtown Milwaukee released a promotional video scored to a Peaches song about oral sex. "Cause I wanna take you downtown / Show you my thing, show you my thing" co...

Demolition work on the site of Milwaukee Public Museum’s future home continues

Matt Wild

May 1, 2023

It's been nearly a year since demolition work began on the site of Milwaukee Public Museum's future home at Sixth and McKinley Streets, in the Haymarket neighborhood next to the Deer District. In June 2022, con...

Reminder: Shirtless sax guy from ‘The Lost Boys’ is playing Promises this Friday

Matt Wild

April 27, 2023

In case you missed it—or in case you need a hot, sweaty reminder—the shirtless saxophone guy from 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys is playing Milwaukee bar/venue/treasure Promises (538 W. National Ave.) on Frid...

Here’s the 2023 Washington Park Wednesdays lineup

Matt Wild

April 26, 2023

It's not quite summer music series season, but it is summer music series announcement season. Today, the fine folks from Washington Park Wednesdays revealed their 2023 musical lineup. Want to know who's playing...

Here are the 2023 lineups for Lake Park’s Musical Mondays and Wonderful Wednesdays

Matt Wild

April 26, 2023

What's better than hanging out in Milwaukee's iconic Lake Park? Hanging out in Milwaukee's iconic Lake Park while listening to live music, of course. Enter the long-running Musical Mondays and Wonderful Wednesd...

Egg & Flour Pasta Bar will leave Crossroads Collective after May 4

Matt Wild

April 25, 2023

The transitory nature of food halls not only makes it hard to keep track of which vendors are coming and going, it makes it hard to get attached to certain vendors. Still, Egg & Flour Pasta Bar has been suc...

Lee’s Luxury Lounge will close on May 20

Matt Wild

April 25, 2023

Lee's Luxury Lounge, a delightfully kitschy Bay View bar that has held down its spot at 2988 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. since 2004, is closing. According to social media posts, Lee's last day in business will be May ...

Lakefront Brewery launches their Ripple Effect give back program

Matt Wild

April 25, 2023

LAKEFRONT BREWERY LAUNCHES THEIR RIPPLE EFFECT GIVE BACK PROGRAM Lakefront, a Certified B Corp™, partners with Groundwork Milwaukee for their inaugural charitable drive. MILWAUKEE (April 25, 2023) – As...

Frostbite, concussions, and beaver suits: Inside the Wisconsin-made ‘Hundreds Of Beavers’

Matt Wild

April 24, 2023

"It might not be too exciting to hear how few beavers there actually were, but hopefully the scale of the movie is giant and it feels like a big adventure." That's director and Whitefish Bay native Mike Ches...

Okay, let’s vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will finally melt this year

Matt Wild

April 24, 2023

Honest question: Will this winter ever end? We're a week away from May and, save for that one stretch where it was 80 degrees for some reason, the last month has been nothing but 40-degree days and 30-degree ni...

Stuff We Missed: The end of sneaking into Northridge Mall?

Matt Wild

April 21, 2023

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Northridge Mall has been closed since 2003—that's 20 years!—but the still-st...

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