Down & Over’s comedy open mic is down, over

Tyler Maas
Last Friday night, Down & Over Pub hosted a special weekend stand-up showcase to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its weekly comedy open mic, the longest-running in Bay View. Saturday morning, the venu...

Lakeshore Chinooks season preview

Tyler Maas
It’s safe to say that baseball season is in full swing. The Brewers are about a third of the way through the year. Rickie Weeks has already experienced his hot streak that inevitably precedes his season-ending ...

Brett Newski is at home on the road

Tyler Maas
Brett Newski looks exhausted. He’s stationed at a table in the upper level of a Bay View café, beside a pair of laptop-toting girls, near a man dressed in business attire who appears to be telecommuting, and...

Brewers translator Jay Hsu speaks for himself

Tyler Maas
Currently nursing a 17.61 ERA that includes 15 earned runs off 19 hits (five of which were home runs) and five walks, the Milwaukee Brewers have kept the use of reliever Wei-Chung Wang to a minimum so far this ...

Direct Hit! overcomes the wrath of Brainless God

Tyler Maas
It could be argued that Direct Hit! is Milwaukee’s biggest band. The quartet routinely tours both throughout the U.S. and internationally in support of some of punk’s most notable modern acts. It has earned eve...

Deer Diary: 6 Milwaukee Bucks lottery losers

Tyler Maas
Following the worst season in franchise history and the sale of the team (which was approved this week, by the way!), the exciting new era of Milwaukee Bucks basketball begins with a game of chance. As one of 1...

Stand-Up Cinema brings comedy to classics

Tyler Maas
Movie buffs can confirm that Back To The Future finished five whole weeks of filming before Eric Stoltz was ultimately replaced by Michael J. Fox in the role of Marty McFly, forever altering the timeline of the...

Extra Points: 16 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix tweets

Tyler Maas
With the 21st pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers set out to improve its under-performing (and M.D. Jennings-less) secondary that dragged the team down to the 25th ranked defense last season by ta...

Tyler Maas talks to Jay Spanbauer about things

Tyler Maas
You get to listen to Matt Wild discuss occasionally-researched topics of local note almost every week on The Disclaimer. Now is your chance to hear the other Milwaukee Record co-founder and resident shy guy ...

First Impression: Rocket Baby Satellite Café

Tyler Maas
It usually works the other way around. Traditionally, restaurants and bars test their mettle within Milwaukee's stringent city limits before casting franchise feelers to the suburbs. Bel Air Cantina opened in '...

Kyle Kinane slays in endearing Shank showing

Tyler Maas
Among comedy nerds, Kyle Kinane is already a modern deity of sorts. Since 2010, the suburban Chicago native’s popularity has seen a significant uptick, largely due to his hilarious debut album Death Of The Part...

New festival is the taco the town

Tyler Maas
The taco is a food that's deeply connected to Milwaukee's rich and distinct culinary tradition. With that in mind, Swarmm Entertainment Group—whose mission statement is "to ignite and fulfill the human imaginat...

Tracklist: 16 recommended Twitter unfollows

Tyler Maas
Twitter can be daunting. Literally every nanosecond of every day, somebody somewhere feels compelled to expend between one and 140 characters tweeting about something–anything–they want to express that particul...

Off Base: 11 Milwaukee Brewers beer pairings

Tyler Maas
As Milwaukee Beer Week nears its bleary and drunken conclusion, it’s only natural to turn our attention to the obvious connection between beer and the Milwaukee Brewers. After all, unless the Philly Phanatic wh...