First Impression: Beerline Cafe
As recently as five years ago, the culinary landscape surrounding the Humboldt Bridge had a much different look. Ironically, an unthinkably long construction project on the causeway connecting Riverwest and Mil...
Burnhearts’ Three Floyds Punk House Kegger Party returns November 19
After an incredibly well-received inaugural installment that featured music from Volunteer and Soup Moat and rare fermented delicacies from Three Floyds Brewery pushed the bar to Mitten Fest-like capacity last ...
South America’s Team?: A Q&A with Packers Brasil founder Marcus Rovere
Every NFL season, an ongoing dispute rages between fans of teams like the Packers, Steelers, Cowboys, Patriots, and (lately) Seahawks about which franchise holds the impossible-to-confirm title of "America's Te...
A Friday on the “Fruit Loop”: A straight man’s gay bar crawl
By all accounts, it's a great time to be gay in America. It took far too long and required incalculable amounts of pain, hardship, and opposition to get here (and there's still so much work to be done), but now...
Welcome to October: Here’s what you’re doing this month
In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee's brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainmen...
Stream Moon Curse’s heavy new song, “Vicious Sky”
Save for putting out its previously-unreleased single, "Seminary Woods" in early 2014, Moon Curse—far and away one of the city's loudest and most abrasive acts—has been ironically quiet since stomping into loca...
Herman Astro moves on, morphs into Mercy Company
Just over a year ago, long-running Milwaukee blues-rock quartet Herman Astro announced it was calling it quits after close to eight years together and three releases, including Mean Gene, which they released ju...
I went to Chicago to (try to) get drunk at Taco Bell
After I arguably risked death and certainly demolished my spirit whilst eating something at every Taco Bell in Milwaukee over the course of eight hours back in mid-May, I've severely limited my runs to the bord...
Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee-made songs used in feature films
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Movies and music have an important relationship. If used correctly, a film’s score can carry a cinematic work to higher artistic ground and capture viewer’s attention. Other times, a film’s aural accompani...
Extra Points: 5 reasons Aaron Ripkowski will be your new favorite Packer
If you missed his four combined tackles and his three-yard reception in the preseason, or you didn't pay attention to the Packers special teamer who covered up a kickoff for no gain against the Bears in week on...
Exclusive: Stream “DOMINION” off Queen Tut’s ‘Psychedelic Traphouse’
To this point, Milwaukee rapper Queen Tut's work has been mostly relegated to featured roles on tracks by artists like Lex Allen and AR Wesley, or buried below a heft of other local hip-hop talents on show line...
Comet Denominator: How one restaurant nourishes Milwaukee music
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As one of Milwaukee’s best known restaurants, Comet Cafe is seen in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. To some, it’s a beacon of comfort food anchoring the city’s east side. Others regar...
Tim Higgins talks improv, acting, elaborate beer passing
//If you've spent enough time in Milwaukee, you've probably seen Tim Higgins. The humorist has been teaching and performing improv at ComedySportz since 1992. He's dabbled in stand-up and acting. Perhaps h...
Barry Crimmins adds a comedy show to his Milwaukee Film Festival itinerary
On Monday, the Milwaukee Film Festival announced that veteran comedian Barry Crimmins would be coming to town to attend two screenings of Call Me Lucky, the Bobcat Goldthwait documentary about the influential h...
Hannibal Buress rises to the occasion at Riverside Theater
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Hannibal Buress is having a moment right now.Since packing Turner Hall in February of 2014, the comedian/actor's star has grown exponentially, oddly, due in part to being among the first to publicly re...
Why Milwaukee could, should (but probably won’t) host Riot Fest
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Last weekend, Chicago hosted its 11th iteration of Riot Fest. The annual festival, which was founded in the Windy City, started as a punk-, ska-, and hardcore-focused affair that bounced around exclusively...
Here are some updates for next week’s Wet Hot American Summer screening
// It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to summer, but at least about 200 of us will be able to do so in one of the best ways imaginable. Last month, we were proud to announce that we convinced Avalon Theater i...
Direct Hit! now has its own hot sauce
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It’s been a big 2015 for Direct Hit! This year, the Milwaukee pop-punk quartet toured Europe, headlined a stage at Summerfest, created a widely successful all-ages festival of their own, released a re-reco...
Jade Tree is reissuing The Promise Ring’s Nothing Feels Good on vinyl, cassette
Earlier this week, we chronicled 15 notable reunions in Milwaukee music. Of those, none were more meaningful than the return of emo kingpins The Promise Ring, who remain one of emo's most important acts and arg...
Nate Seek returns home with new perspective
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Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene experiencing a state of transition. This summer alone has seen four of the city's best and most active comedic performers leave Milwaukee to see how their material fares i...