Author Tyler Maas

Rollie Fingers, Minions, and bobbleheads: Your 2022 Lakeshore Chinooks promo schedule

April 27, 2022

Though baseball season is already 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. Yes, ...

Get ready for fast picking and bar hopping at this weekend’s Riverwest Bluegrass Bar Crawl

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2022

This weekend was already shaping up to be one for the ages in terms of Milwaukee entertainment options. If a bevy of local and touring musicians and comedians, as well as large-scale events like Midwest Gaming ...

Bobcat Goldthwait talks stand-up, filmmaking, his Hamm’s Bear tattoo

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2022

Bobcat Goldthwait has done it all. Over the course of his 40-year career, the comedian and actor who much of the world knows best as "Zed McGlunk" in the Police Academy film franchise has also fashioned quite a...

Hello. Joe Pera is coming to Pabst Theater August 24

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2022

Hello. Joe Pera—who just headlined two sold-out show at The Back Room @ Colectivo this past Saturday night—is returning to Milwaukee on Wednesday, August 24 to perform comedy at the Pabst Theater. The show will...

Tulum Latin Gastropub to open in former Odd Duck space this week

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2022

UPDATE: Tulum general manager Juan Magdaleon has told us in an email the restaurant's opening date will no longer be April 26, but "more towards the end of the week." The article's headline has been adjusted to...

Culver’s was mentioned on ‘Jeopardy!’

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2022

Culver's was mentioned on Friday's episode of Jeopardy! Though it's far from being actual news (and even further from being Milwaukee-related news), our history of writing about the Wisconsin-born fast food cha...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Trying/failing to make it to every event you’d like to attend

Tyler Maas

April 21, 2022

Some internal struggles come and go, while some internal struggles become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn internal struggles with fresh eyes, and ...

Here’s the 2022 Chill On The Hill lineup

Tyler Maas

April 20, 2022

For 15 years, Bay View Neighborhood Association’s Chill On The Hill brought music to Humboldt Park’s band chalet every Tuesday between the beginning of June and the end of August. Chill organizers made the diff...

Stream a song from Valerie Lighthart’s new EP, ‘Pt. III: The Banshee’

Tyler Maas

April 20, 2022

Over the past nine months, we've shared selections from multi-talented Milwaukee musician, model, and photographer Valerie Lighthart's "By Moonlight" EP series. On Saturday, April 23, the trilogy will be comple...

Here’s Downtown South Milwaukee’s 2022 “Music At The Market” lineup

Tyler Maas

April 19, 2022

Now that spring has fully arrived and we’re maybe not going to have any more snow for a few months , we can finally start to look forward to some of the fun outdoor activities that help make Milwaukee and its s...

A guide to Milwaukee’s April 20 events and specials

Tyler Maas

April 18, 2022

It’s almost the 20th day of April and you know what that means, riiiiiiiight?! Yeah, you know! Love it, hate it, or feel absolutely indifferent to it, this unofficial holiday is reason for a sizable portion of ...

Michael Imperioli’s band is playing Cactus Club in August

Tyler Maas

April 15, 2022

If you live in or around Milwaukee and you're one of the millions of people who watched The Sopranos at some point in the past two years, we have some very exciting news to share. Michael Imperioli—the actor, w...

Old world crafts and otherworldly creatures converge in ‘Caverns Below Milwaukee’

Tyler Maas

April 14, 2022

If you come to this website with any regularity, we can confidently say you've stumbled across the work of Andy Tyra. The Michigan (by way of Milwaukee) illustrator and is the artist responsible for our T-shirt...

Now is your chance to buy an old school building in Cudahy!

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2022

As the housing market continues to explode and real estate prices keep climbing in Milwaukee, lots of interested home buyers are now resetting their sights on the city's up-and-coming suburbs. If the currently-...

Watch this video of Gilbert Gottfried roasting the Milwaukee Art Museum

Tyler Maas

April 12, 2022

Gilbert Gottfried passed away today at the age of 67. Known for his incomparable delivery and his fearless material, the comedian and actor's vast body of work—which ranged from voiceover work in Aladdin and as...

A guide to Milwaukee Day 2022 events and deals

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2022

More than 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 holida...

Ryan Necci And The Buffalo Gospel pick up the pieces in “Lend Me Your Heart” music video

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2022

Even though Ryan Necci—the founding member, bandleader, and namesake of Ryan Necci And The Buffalo Gospel—now calls Tennessee home, we've continued keeping tabs on him since he left Milwaukee to start a career ...

Altruism and nihilism collide in Convert’s “Watch It Burn”

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2022

Last spring, we introduced you to Convert—a Milwaukee project featuring former and current members of Burning Sons, Get Rad, and Assault & Battery—by premiering a song called "Slow Choke." The track, from t...

A guide to finding Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers on USFL rosters

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2022

Remember the United States Football League? Well, the short-lived professional football league—which folded in 1986 after Donald Trump drove it into the ground in a foolish attempt to force a merger with the NF...

Cozy Danger’s new music video is a “tribute to female badassery”

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2022

When we last checked in with Cozy Danger, the funk-tinged indie rock trio was partying with pooches in its "Where Are All My Dogs At" music video. This time around, they're paying "tribute to female badassery" ...