Author Tyler Maas

Crafty Cow to honor Kwik Trip this Friday with “Kwik Cow” menu items

March 29, 2023

Kwik Trip is nothing short of a Wisconsin institution. You can't travel more than a few miles in the Badger State without encountering the distinct red and white convenience store (unless you're in Milwaukee, w...

Awkward Nerd Events announces geek-themed spelling competition

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2023

Our friends at Awkward Nerd Events sure know how to keep busy. Throughout the year, the Milwaukee organization curates "nerdy" events and "geeky" gatherings that celebrate a wide range of interests. Though ANE ...

Nite Owl’s 2023 season begins today

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2023

With longer days, a steady wave of festival announcements, and Bob Uecker’s voice on the radio, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee. The season technically started nine days ago, but something...

Marcus Performing Arts Center announces 2023-2024 Broadway season, MPAC Presents Jazz and Dance series

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2023

Milwaukee’s famed Marcus Performing Arts Center has it all: A snow pile! Rapidly-spinning advertising cubes! World-class musicals! Though the multi-faceted venue ably wears a lot of different hats, let’s focus ...

Kind Oasis made a batch of Milwaukee Record gummies

Tyler Maas

March 24, 2023

Yep! Milwaukee Record now has its very own Delta 8 gummies. These...nice 69 milligram edibles are produced and sold by Kind Oasis (2169 N. Farwell Ave., 414-877-0253), a local CBD, hemp, and Delta 8 and Delta 9...

Brewed City: Pilcrow Coffee

Tyler Maas

March 23, 2023

Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs boast a wealth of great independent coffee shops, award-winning roasters, and other excellent area establishments where you can get a caffeine fix. We plan to celebrate som...

Donna Diane talks new Djunah album, spring tour, what’s to come

Tyler Maas

March 21, 2023

While Djunah isn't a Milwaukee project, the genre-fusing duo from Chicago isn't a stranger to the metropolis that neighbors them to the north. Ex Voto—Djunah's loud and lush debut album—was released in partners...

Austin Powers and Powers Boothe star in our “April Powers” film series at Times Cinema

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2023

April is a time of rebirth. It's the first full month of spring. It's hopefully the last time we see snow on the ground until late fall. It's a period in which the flowers bloom and the temperatures climb as we...

Here’s the full Turner Hall Tiki Takedown lineup

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2023

Following successful installments in 2019 and 2021, Turner Hall Tiki Takedown will once again be bringing warm vibes and cool island cocktails back to the eponymous downtown ballroom. From 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, A...

NilexNile precedes SXSW show, spring tour with “Breakfast”

Tyler Maas

March 15, 2023

When we last checked in with NilexNile, the up-and-coming Milwaukee rapper was in the midst of a breakout 2022 that included a steady stream of great music videos, appearances at pretty much every major summer ...

Reba McEntire and 17 other celebrities who played Colonel Sanders, ranked

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2023

Over the course of her incomparable career, Reba McEntire has done it all. During the last 45 years, the “Queen Of Country” has recorded countless hits for her 30-plus albums that have sold more than 75 million...

20 pictures of Greenfield’s new Qdoba that officially opens March 14

Tyler Maas

March 13, 2023

Last fall, we were given the opportunity to have an early glimpse (and take an early taste) of Milwaukee proper's first Dave's Hot Chicken. With Dave's being one of the fastest-growing chains in the country and...

Brewed City: Sprocket Café

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2023

Choose your own adventure in Nuisance’s “four-dimensional triple double album”

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2023

Last winter, we introduced you to Nuisance. Composed of former and current collaborators in noted Milwaukee outfits like Decibully, Camden, The Promise Ring, and the similarly pronounced New Sense, the project ...

Travel back to the early ’90s with these full concert videos of Wild Kingdom and The Pacers

Tyler Maas

March 6, 2023

Wild Kingdom is one of those Milwaukee bands of yesteryear that local music fans continue to bring up with regularity to this day. Even though they broke up in the mid-'90s (with much of the band subsequently f...

Possible Aaron Rodgers offseason outcomes, ranked

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2023

Are you tired of hearing about Aaron Rodgers this offseason? I sure as hell am! Now that No. 12 has emerged from his weird darkness retreat and flurry of quarterback-related transactions will surely be occurrin...

Turner Hall Tiki Takedown returns April 2

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2023

Producers reimagine Convert’s debut record in ‘Unrestrained Remix EP’

Tyler Maas

February 28, 2023

Convert is a band on the rise. Last April, the Milwaukee post-punk/goth rock hybrid—with former and current members of Burning Sons, Get Rad, Assault & Battery, and Cry Coyote in its ranks—released its debu...

And “Milwaukee’s Best Bloody” is…

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2023

Sunday afternoon, thousands of people gathered at the Italian Community Center to partake in a beloved celebration of a tomato-based local delicacy. Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation's annual “MKE’s Best Bloody...

Milwaukee comedians come together for Carol-Aid fundraiser event

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2023

Dana Ehrmann is one of the most accomplished and all-around funny comedians in Milwaukee right now. She's performed with Bobcat Goldthwait, Joe Pera, Todd Barry, Hari Kondabolu, Steve Byrne, Dan Soder, and coun...