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Milwaukee will be featured in a “News Clues” category during tonight’s ‘Jeopardy!’

June 15, 2022

Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo? Who is Cavalier Johnson? What is that snow pile outside the Marcus Center parking structure that Milwaukee Record meticulously monitors every winter? We're guessing those ...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Bringing the air conditioners up from storage because it’s gonna be 90 today

Matt Wild

June 14, 2022

Some places summer traditions come and go, while some places summer traditions become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples summer traditi...

Join Ruth B8r Ginsburg on June 25 for a parade and fundraiser for reproductive freedom

Matt Wild

June 14, 2022

"We will not stop fighting for ourselves and each other. This event is part of that fight." That's a statement from venerable Milwaukee band Ruth B8r Ginsburg. For the past seven years, the femme-led force o...

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s The Smile will play Riverside Theater November 29

Matt Wild

June 13, 2022

The Smile—a new band featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, plus Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner—recently released its debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention. It's great. The Smile—a ...

Post Malone will play Fiserv Forum September 15

Matt Wild

June 13, 2022

And the (late) summer just keeps getting busier: Wildly popular/tattooed rapper Post Malone will make his Milwaukee debut Thursday, September 15 at Fiserv Forum. The show will be the fourth of Malone's 2022, 33...

Brad Dassey returns with new rap track and Tony Evers skit, “Free Brendan Dassey”

Matt Wild

June 10, 2022

It's been 17 years since photographer Teresa Halbach was murdered, and seven years since a Netflix documentary covering the case (and much more), Making A Murderer, kicked off the current true-crime craze. In t...

Stuff We Missed: Kia Boys get interviewed, World Naked Bike Ride returns

Matt Wild

June 10, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: the Kia Boys and the Naked Bike Ride. Another infuriating and weird...

Oh hell yeah the Domes’ summer floral show is “Faerie Gardens” and it opens June 11

Matt Wild

June 10, 2022

We love the Mitchell Park Domes. We also love faerie gardens, because we used to be big Sherlock Holmes fans and Arthur Conan Doyle had a weird thing for faeries. So we say this with absolutely no snark or sarc...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (May 29 – June 4)

Matt Wild

June 9, 2022

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,” like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Black Lens program will celebrate Tupac Shakur with ‘Juice’ screening, career retrospective

Matt Wild

June 9, 2022

Thursday, June 16, 2022 will be / would have been Tupac Shakur's 51st birthday. (Is it mind-boggling to think that Shakur would have been only 51? Yep.) To mark the occasion, Milwaukee Film's Black Lens program...

Here’s the lineup for the 2022 Música del Lago series at Colectivo Lakefront

Matt Wild

June 9, 2022

Is there a day of the week that doesn't feature a free music series this summer? Our ever-growing guide to summer festivals, fairs, music series, and more says NO. Recently added to that guide is Colectivo's...

Demolition work has begun on the future home of the Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild

June 7, 2022

We've said it before and we'll say it again: the Milwaukee Public Museum as you know it is not long for this world. Like, they plan to forever close the old one and open a new (state-of-the-art, much-smaller) o...

Yep, there are even MORE Locust Street Festival alternatives happening Sunday, June 12

Matt Wild

June 7, 2022

Were you disappointed when this year's Locust Street Festival of Music & Arts—set for Sunday, June 12—was abruptly canceled? Were you cheered up when we told you that Black Husky Brewing would be hosting it...

Not everyone is thrilled with the whole “Milwaukee hoping to host the 2024 RNC” thing

Matt Wild

June 6, 2022

Previously on When Milwaukee And Major Political Conventions Mix... Remember when Milwaukee "hosted" the 2020 Democratic National Convention? Except that the thing ended up being 99.9% virtual due to the sti...

Not one, but TWO alternate Locust Street Festivals are set for Sunday, June 12

Matt Wild

June 6, 2022

Were you disappointed when this year's Locust Street Festival of Music & Arts was abruptly canceled? You're not alone. Thankfully, not one, but two Locust Street businesses have taken it upon themselves to ...

Buy some art (and strike a rock pose) at WMSE’s 6th annual Art & Music auction

Matt Wild

June 6, 2022

For the past half-decade, WMSE's Art & Music has combined, well, art and music for a one-of-a-kind event. At the center is an auction of hundreds of album-sized, 12" x 12" pieces of original art from local ...

Summerfest will offer 5 continuously running bus shuttles for 2022 Big Gig

Matt Wild

June 2, 2022

In case you missed it, Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) is, um, going through some stuff. Because of that stuff, it will likely not offer direct Freeway Flyer buses to Summerfest this year—similar to last...

Nice Times—a.k.a. the old Snack Boys, Hotel Foster, Globe East—is closed

Matt Wild

May 31, 2022

Approximately six months after opening, plant-based eatery and bar Nice Times—a.k.a. the old Snack Boys/Hotel Foster/Globe East space at 2028 E. North Ave.—has closed. Why the sudden closure? Well... ...

This week at Oriental Theatre: ‘Rise Roar Revolt,’ red carpet premiere of ‘Small Town Wisconsin’

Matt Wild

May 31, 2022

Feeling lost since the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped earlier this month? Seen Everything Everywhere All At Once three times already and looking for something new at the Oriental Theatre? Then you're in l...

God damn it, you’ve got to heed the words of this new “BE KIND” pop-up on Water Street

Matt Wild

May 31, 2022

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." That's Kurt Vonnegut, in one of those Kurt Vonnegut-y quotes that makes you want to read Kurt Vonnegut again. It's simple, d...

Author Matt Wild