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Get ready for Gloss Weekend with this festival compilation

May 16, 2017

Though there's still another full month of spring left, Milwaukee's colossal "summer" festival season in almost in full swing. One of the first events to usher in the epoch of entertainment is Gloss Weekend. Fo...

A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2017

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2017

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized "Milwaukee's largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community." The massive early June event brings together talented area artists and mus...

Useful life tips from the 1991 Milwaukee Brewers

Tyler Maas

May 12, 2017

Though the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers are unabashedly rebuilding, the young and exciting team is over the .500 mark through the season's first 35 games. Eric Thames is breaking franchise records with his colossal d...

Looking back at the life (and death) of Robert “Tractor” Traylor

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

On May 11, 2011, Robert "Tractor" Traylor died alone in an apartment in Puerto Rico, succumbing to a heart attack at just 34 years of age. Before Traylor's abbreviated life suddenly and silently ended exactl...

Feast your eyes on 18 more Milwaukee-area patios for some reason

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

Over the last two years, we’ve listed seven patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee, 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios, then 13 more goddamn patios. Finally, we found another 15 patios. Surely, ...

Here’s the lineup for the inaugural Bumstead Block Party

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

Since opening last fall, Bumstead Provisions has supplied Bay View with another option for excellent food, as well as a place to buy beer and liquor to-go, a site to try to consume gigantic pretzel sandwiches, ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2017 Locust Street Festival

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2017

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city’s best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 11, the 41st installment of the ...

Watch The Promise Ring perform on a 2002 episode of ‘Late Night With Conan O’Brien’

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2017

Though The Promise Ring has been known to play semi-frequent reunion shows, the band officially called it quits in 2002. Before parting ways that year, the seminal Milwaukee emo act released its underappreciate...

Tucked Away: Holy Land Grocery & Deli

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2017

Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...

Here’s the 2017 Cream City Comedy Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2017

In its inaugural year, Cream City Comedy Festival brought 11 stand-up, improv, and variety shows to venues in four Milwaukee neighborhoods over the course of four days. Better yet, all the shows were free. Best...

Watch Sylvan Esso and Big Freedia perform “Pony” on ‘The Gorburger Show’

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2017

Durham, North Carolina indie pop duo Sylvan Esso—which formed after Mountain Man singer Amelia Meath and Decibully/Made Of Oak member Nick Sanborn met in Milwaukee—released its downright delightful sophomore re...

Goodbye, Jay Cutler: Remembering Green Bay’s greatest villain

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2017

The writing was on the wall when Chicago released him back in March. The picture became even clearer when the Bears foolishly signed veteran backup quarterback Mike Glennon to a three-year, $45M contract days l...

Proposed Bay View ‘Art Stop’ mural officially rejected

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2017

Last month, we reported on an intriguing and conversation-inspiring idea Milwaukee artist Jeff Redmon had to "improve" Bay View's highly-debated and critically-panned "Art Stop." As a response to a recent rash ...

Why Todd Rundgren’s “Bang The Drum All Day” matters in Wisconsin (and almost nowhere else)

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2017

Tonight, Todd Rundgren will drop by the Pabst Theater to perform his catalog that spans more than 50 years, includes hundreds of songs, and boasts numerous hits. Of the songs the venerable soft rocker is to pla...

Ahoy! Here’s Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2017

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...

Watch Brewers minor leaguer fool runner with hidden-ball trick

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2017

The hidden-ball trick is such a rarity in baseball because so many things have to go right—and even more things have to go wrong—for it to work. One player must be perfectly prepared, while another is completel...

Here’s the 2017 Chill On The Hill lineup

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2017

It’s amazing that Chill On The Hill has only been around for 13 years. The concept of the mid-week Bay View occurrence is so simple: laying out on a blanket and imbibing food and beverages brought from home (or...

This Is It! and 10 other notable Milwaukee logo redesigns

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2017

Milwaukee's oldest gay bar, This Is It!, officially unveiled its new logo last month. The imagery, which was the result of a month-long contest, will replace the logo the Cathedral Square bar has used for decad...

First Impression: Broken Bat Brewing Company

Tyler Maas

May 2, 2017

Last month, a roster of new, largely-unknown Brewers took the field in Milwaukee. Days later, two more unproven brewers—Tim Pauly and Dan McElwee—made their way into an already stacked lineup of established vet...

Here’s who’s playing Milwaukee’s first PRF BBQ in June

Tyler Maas

May 2, 2017

Since starting as an online community for like-minded rock and roll, noise rock, and experimental music aficionados, PRFBBQ.com has evolved to a focused entity that hosts awesome microfestivals around the count...

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