Author Tyler Maas

Here’s the lineup for The Brewery District’s inaugural Frühling Fest

April 19, 2019

Last May, Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom celebrated its first birthday with a full-fledged block party. The "one-year anniversary street festival" featured an eclectic mix of musical acts, including Nnam...

Lost Whale to celebrate Earth Day, raise money for Mitchell Park Domes with ‘Bio-Dome’-themed party

Tyler Maas

April 19, 2019

Since opening last summer, Lost Whale has been an excellent source of sustainable craft cocktails served in a whimsical setting. On Saturday, April 20, the Bay View cocktail bar's focus on fun and the environme...

Little Cancun’s Bay View location will open April 23

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2019

Last May, we learned that a property at 3040 S. Delaware Ave.—which was the longtime home of Hector's and the not-so-longtime home of R&D Pub—would become the future site of a Mexican restaurant called Litt...

Your 2019 Green Bay Packers schedule (with game-by-game predictions)

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2019

Last night, while much of the state was watching the Bucks clobber the Pistons in Game 2 of the NBA Playoffs, Wisconsin's favorite (and third most successful, at the moment) professional sports team released th...

Here’s Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2019

Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city’s celebratory spirit to the water wit...

Here’s the One Trick Pony spring vendor list

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2019

Since early 2013, One Trick Pony has been doing—by its own modest assessment—"a pretty okay job" as a platform for Milwaukee, artists, makers and vintage retailers to sell their products in a fun, public settin...

Take a look inside The Mothership, which officially opens to the public on April 25

Tyler Maas

April 16, 2019

Last month, we broke the news that Urban Bay View would be closing and a new bar called The Mothership would be opening in its place. Ever since Urban quietly ceased operations in late March, Mothership owner R...

Here’s the 2019 Lakeshore Chinooks promotions schedule

Tyler Maas

April 16, 2019

Though baseball season is already well underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers currently sit in first place a few weeks into the season, there’s another team in the region that’s getting ready to take the field. ...

Ari Shaffir, Todd Barry to headline Milwaukee Comedy Festival

Tyler Maas

April 15, 2019

Originating long before the city had anything even resembling a sustainable comedy community, Milwaukee Comedy Festival has grown and evolved in kind with Milwaukee’s humor scene. From July 31 to August 4, the ...

Fuji Poké to open April 17

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2019

Back in January, we learned Bay View would be getting in on the poké trend that's already swept Milwaukee's East Side with news that a storefront in the Bay View Commons would be the future home of Fuji Poké. O...

Prepare for Midwest Gaming Classic with videos of Arcade Jackpot Pro winning big at Wisconsin arcades and carnivals

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2019

This weekend, Midwest Gaming Classic will bring more than 10,000 gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, cosplayers, vendors, entertainers, and extra special guests to more than 150,000 square feet of the W...

10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2019

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2019

Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...

A guide to Milwaukee Day 2019 events and deals

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2019

About a decade ago, a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and decided to turn that coincidence into a full-blown local holiday. S...

Stream Nicholas Elert’s new EP, ‘Speculative Fiction’

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2019

When we last caught up with Nicholas Elert, the Milwaukee musician had just delved into the world of film by composing the score for a dreary Wisconsin-made short called Pity. Since then, the guitarist and mult...

Dollars For Donuts: Papas Bakery

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2019

Milwaukee loves donuts. Dozens of bakeries in the city and its surrounding suburbs help people get a sweet start to their day with long johns, crullers, jellies, powdered, cream-filled, cake donuts, and more. I...

Here’s the awesome Washington Park Wednesdays lineup

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2019

Like each and every summer, metro Milwaukee will play host dozens of festivals, block parties, and free weekly music celebrations between June and September that all help make enduring the six to eight other sn...

Bay View Missed Connections is a landing page for localized lust

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2019

Though useful, neighborhood Facebook groups can sometimes be too much to handle. Between endless bickering, unnecessary politicizing, and people bringing up topics that don't even remotely apply to the region t...

15 (more) unconventional Milwaukee performance venues

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2019

Back in February, we rounded up 20 "unconventional" performance venues that bring music, comedy, and other live entertainment to unlikely places in and around the city. As we said in that article, "in addition ...

Inaugural Canni Fest to bring music, fun, cannabis workshops to The Cooperage on May 18

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2019

Last September, Milwaukee got its first hemp and CBD specialty shop when Canni Hemp Co. opened a retail store on 5th Street. In the handful of months since Canni came to Walker's Point, a number of other hemp a...

WMSE will release a GGOOLLDD 7-inch for Record Store Day 2019

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2019

Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...