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Out today: Rosenau & Sanborn LP, Vacancy Chain EP, Offend Your Friends video

March 20, 2026

It's Friday, that magical day of the week when magical new music is magically released into the magic/awful world. In Milwaukee, we have three new releases from groups that aren't strictly Milwaukee groups, but...

Bob Uecker documentary will open 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

March 19, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival will take over the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30. You already know the Cinema Hooligante films. You already know the Cream City Cinema films. You alrea...

Hey! Here’s the 2026 Traveling Beer Garden schedule!

Matt Wild

March 18, 2026

Hey! Do you like drinking? Do you like drinking in parks? Then you're in luck, because Milwaukee County Parks' ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden is returning in 2026. YES. The beer/park extravaganza will on...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (March 4-17, 2026)

Matt Wild

March 18, 2026

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...

Here’s the Cream City Cinema program for the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

March 17, 2026

When the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival takes over the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30, audiences will thrill to nearly 250 short and feature-length films from around the world. And "the w...

Ratboys search for answers, sing to packed Vivarium

Matt Wild

March 16, 2026

The title of Ratboys' instant-classic 2026 album Singin' To An Empty Chair refers to a therapeutic exercise in which a patient talks to an imagined person. "So this empty chair that I was singing to is meant to...

Milwaukee Film Festival Cinema Hooligante films

Here’s the Cinema Hooligante program for the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

March 13, 2026

Guess what? The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30! (Advance ticket packages and passes are available NOW.) And MFF's annual program of a...

Here’s the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival’s Rated K: For Kids program

Matt Wild

March 12, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30. (Advance ticket packages and passes are available NOW.) Nearly 250 short and feature-length docum...

The Demix finds structure in destruction with ‘Action Building System’

Matt Wild

March 12, 2026

We live in noisy, nihilistic times. Foundations are crumbling—both literally and figuratively—and the ground beneath our feet seems to shift at a moment's notice. But what's the sound of our fraught era? In Mil...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about a busy weekend in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

March 12, 2026

Downtown Milwaukee will be buzzing this weekend! On Saturday, March 14, the 58th Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick's Day Parade will fill the streets with floats, folks, and fun. And beginning Friday, Marc...

Food/Drink Roundup: Jalisco’s is still coming to former Hacienda/BBC space on East Side

Matt Wild

March 11, 2026

In this installment of our semi-regular Food/Drink Roundup: Jalisco's Cocina y Bar is still coming to the former Hacienda/BBC space on the East Side. Remember back in January when we told you a new Mexican r...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Dioramas, Diorama-Rama

Matt Wild

March 10, 2026

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: dioramas! Fun fact: among its many delightful oddities, Milwaukee...

Milwaukee Film unveils first set of MFF26 films, festival artwork

Matt Wild

March 10, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival cometh! Yes, the 18th annual cinematic blowout is set to take over the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30. It's gonna be great. (The Downer, in case you mis...

‘We are on the right side of this’: Council advances resolution barring ICE from city property

Matt Wild

March 10, 2026

Milwaukee would like to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from staging on city-owned properties. And a new resolution, pending approval from the full Common Council and Mayor Cavalier Johnson, would...

Biggby Coffee is now closed in Red Arrow Park

Matt Wild

March 9, 2026

In November 2024, we brought you the headline "Biggby Coffee is now open in Red Arrow Park." Now, roughly 15 months later, we bring you the headline...well, you can see it above. Yep, the Red Arrow Park Bigg...

Nineteen Thirteen unleashes new lineup with ‘The Jaguar’

Matt Wild

March 9, 2026

It's been a minute since we've checked in with Milwaukee's premier drums-and-cello duo Nineteen Thirteen. It's been so long, in fact, that Nineteen Thirteen isn't even a duo anymore. A lot can happen in two yea...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (February 18 – March 3, 2026)

Matt Wild

March 6, 2026

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...

Out today: New MKE music from Known Moons, God’s Outlaw, Lords Of Apricity

Matt Wild

March 6, 2026

There are some weeks when one or two Milwaukee artists drop new music. And then there are some weeks when four three Milwaukee artists drop new music on the same day. This week, dear readers, is one of those we...

Here’s a Friday press release about MPS proposing to cut 260 non-classroom positions

Matt Wild

March 6, 2026

In a classic example of a Friday afternoon news dump, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) announced "a series of budget proposals designed to address the district's $46 million structural budget gap while continuing...

Highland Community School plays with fire, gets burned in ‘The Pyromaniacs’

Matt Wild

March 5, 2026

In 1953, Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch wrote The Arsonists, a dark comedy about the rise of Nazism and fascism. In the play, a businessman named Biedermann invites a group of undercover arsonists int...

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