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Enjoy some random Milwaukee Christmas videos from decades past

December 20, 2023

Milwaukee! Christmas! Nostalgia! You'll get a healthy dose of all three when you watch these clips! Enjoy! HELLO MILWAUKEE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHDCGWaTHg4 MORE HELLO MILWAUKEE! https://...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (December 3-16)

Matt Wild

December 18, 2023

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...

“We are just weeks away from having to close our doors.” Save the Riverwest Co-op!

Matt Wild

December 15, 2023

The Riverwest Co-op grocery store and cafe (733 E. Clarke St.) has been a fantastic and invaluable neighborhood resource for more than two decades. But now, in the waning days of 2023, the Riverwest Co-op needs...

Here are some recent streetcar ridership numbers to argue about

Matt Wild

December 14, 2023

Back in October we informed you that "47,552 people rode that darn streetcar in August 2023." This made people who always get angry about The Hop extremely angry. "HOW MUCH MONEY DID IT MAKE ON FARES?" bellowed...

Summerfest’s Sound Waves Stage will become Aurora Pavilion in 2024, receive upgrades

Matt Wild

December 7, 2023

It's been a busy couple of years for that covered stage in the middle of the Summerfest grounds. Long known as the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage, it was rebranded as the DJ/dance-only Sound Waves Stage Sta...

Remembering when I was 11 and I got a Guns N’ Roses cassingle for St. Nick’s Day

Matt Wild

December 6, 2023

This heartwarming tale of St. Nick's Day and Guns N' Roses was first published in 2022. If there's one thing that Wisconsinites love, it's celebrating all the "quirky Wisconsin things" that make our state un...

Alvvays will return to Pabst Theater on April 22

Matt Wild

December 5, 2023

Since playing The Pabst Theater way back in 2018, Canadian dream-pop band Alvvays has been a stranger to Milwaukee. That's five years, folks! BUT NO MORE. As part of the group's just-announced spring tour, Alvv...

Clock Shadow Creamery leaving Walker’s Point storefront, Hill Valley Dairy taking over

Matt Wild

December 4, 2023

After more than a decade in business, Milwaukee urban cheese factory Clock Shadow Creamery is leaving its Walker's Point retail space at 138 W. Bruce St. Lake Geneva-based cheese shop Hill Valley Dairy, who had...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (November 19 – December 2)

Matt Wild

December 4, 2023

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...

Pete Davidson will do his Pete Davidson thing January 4 at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

December 4, 2023

You either get Pete Davidson or you don't. "He's just Pete," reads a Pete Davidson press release. Yep, it's as simple as that! And now Milwaukee will get a chance to get Pete Davidson (or not) in person when th...

Run to our December 27 screening of ‘The Fugitive’ at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild

November 30, 2023

All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, we're screening 1993's The Fugitive at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater on Wednesday, December 27. Runtime of the film, barring trailers and messages from screening spo...

Reminder: Milwaukee winter parking regulations begin December 1

Matt Wild

November 30, 2023

Parking in Milwaukee during the winter! Yep, it's that time of year again. Ugh. Here's what you need to know: • Winter parking rules are in effect from December 1 through March 1. Everything below applies to t...

The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie will play Miller High Life Theater May 6

Matt Wild

November 30, 2023

Let's just get this out of the way: The Postal Service's seminal album Give Up turned 20 in 2023, as did Death Cab For Cutie's seminal album Transatlanticism. Twenty years! And next spring, The Postal Service a...

Bubble tea place coming to old Hotel Foster/Globe space, 132 steps from other bubble tea place

Matt Wild

November 28, 2023

Do you like bubble tea, Milwaukee? Yes, you LOVE bubble tea. How can we tell? Because bubble tea places have been popping up like, well, bubbles lately, especially on the East Side. There's Elite Boba MKE at 19...

Reminder: MPM’s Streets of Old Milwaukee and European Village are decked out for the holidays

Matt Wild

November 23, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving, Milwaukee! Is it officially the beginning of the "holidays"? Sure! Why not! So here's a friendly reminder: Milwaukee Public Museum's Streets of Old Milwaukee and European Village exhibits ar...

New and improved Sex Scenes get to the good stuff on 5-minute ‘Fed Up’ EP

Matt Wild

November 22, 2023

There are dozens of suggestive and vaguely inappropriate puns we could deploy when writing about Milwaukee hardcore punk band Sex Scenes. But, other than the headline, we'll spare you. It's enough to say that t...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (November 5-18)

Matt Wild

November 21, 2023

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...

In defense of Milwaukee’s “worst restaurants”

Matt Wild

November 14, 2023

If you frequent the Milwaukee subreddit—and you should!—you've likely come across a seemingly weekly question. Seriously, this karma-farming beauty comes up all the time. No, not the running gag about the "Arby...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Shah Jee’s continues to bring Pakistani cuisine to unlikely downtown location

Matt Wild

November 13, 2023

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Shah Jee's! (The following article is an updated version of a 2016 article.) Downtown Milwauke...

After 18 years, Balzac will close November 22

Matt Wild

November 13, 2023

Brady Street neighborhood mainstay Balzac announced on Monday that it will close its doors after service on Wednesday, November 18. The wine bar and restaurant opened just off of Brady, at 1716 N. Arlington Pl....

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