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X-Ray Arcade is going to offer pizza bagel and virtual concert “combo meals”

February 11, 2021

Earlier this week, X-Ray Arcade celebrated two years in business. Unfortunately, the Cudahy-based arcade, bar, and music venue has been unable to safely host concerts or allow people inside to play games for ne...

Carryout Chronicles: Bamboo Restaurant

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2021

It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...

10 Milwaukee-specific ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day at home

Tyler Maas

February 9, 2021

Almost one full year into the COVID-19 crisis, Valentine's Day is now one of the only holidays that hasn't been impacted by the pandemic yet. Emphasis on "yet" in that sentence. With the romantic occurrence com...

Most of the Super Bowl ads sucked, so here are some Menards commercial bloopers

Tyler Maas

February 8, 2021

Some Super Bowl, eh?! Okay...so the game kind of disappointed, but at least The Weeknd performed at halftime. Nice! Well, we'll be honest, the halftime show wasn't exactly the best we've ever seen...BUT there w...

Watch Trixie Mattel strut her stuff and cover Violent Femmes’ “Blister In The Sun”

Tyler Maas

February 5, 2021

It's been a big week for Trixie Mattel. A few days ago, the former RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars champion and current host of The Pit Stop officially became part-owner of This Is It. As if injecting new life and...

Carryout Chronicles: Gold Rush Chicken

Tyler Maas

February 4, 2021

It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...

Milwaukeeans share their Mitten Fest memories

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2021

For the past eight years, Burnhearts has curated a winning wintry mix of live music, rare and delicious craft beer, tasty food and barrel-aged cocktails, locally-made goods, and charity that all came together o...

Meet Fight Dice, a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired music collective featuring members of The Promise Ring and Braid

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2021

They say to write what you know. Well, the members of Fight Dice know Dungeons & Dragons. Before the Milwaukee music and arts collective got its start, its members had spent a few years playing the game tog...

Bask in the impromptu ambiance of Whaler’s ‘ex-tem-po-re’

Tyler Maas

February 2, 2021

When he isn't making excellent prints for his Bureau Of Print Research And Design business or helping to release music from a vast roster of Midwest bands as co-owner of Triple Eye Industries, Francisco Ramirez...

Phobruary forges on with “Pho To Go!” format in 2021

Tyler Maas

February 1, 2021

Since 2014, VIA CDC (a community organization formerly known as Layton Boulevard West Neighbors) has organized a month-long celebration aimed at highlighting the abundance of excellent Asian-owned eating establ...

Rocky Rococo movie posters, ranked

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2021

Thousands of people dying terrible, isolated deaths each and every day as millions of selfish and/or brainwashed Americans blatantly and repeatedly show they simply do not care about others. The probable end of...

Carryout Chronicles: Transfer Pizzeria Café

Tyler Maas

January 27, 2021

It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...

Listen to Kesha and Laura Jane Grace talk about their love for The Rave

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2021

There's no other venue in Milwaukee (or anywhere else, for that matter) that's quite like The Rave/Eagles Club. In "normal times," the longstanding events space can host upwards of three or four different conce...

PrideFest Milwaukee 2021 cancels June dates, plans to move to later date

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2021

Last year, PrideFest Milwaukee was among the first local festivals to postpone (and later cancel) its event. Unfortunately, with the COVID-19 crisis still very much a part of our lives, Pride organizers have de...

Watch Trixie Mattel and Jaida Essence Hall talk about MPS, This Is It, their “Milwaukee sister” Joey Jay on ‘The Pit Stop’

Tyler Maas

January 25, 2021

In the long and illustrious history of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, only three queens have hailed from Milwaukee. Two of them—Trixie Mattel and Jaida Essence Hall—have won it all. Over t...

Iron Grate BBQ Co. has launched a “South Side Soup MKE” virtual restaurant

Tyler Maas

January 25, 2021

In case you missed last week's installment of our Carryout Chronicles series, Iron Grate BBQ Co. is committed to serving up excellent barbecue and incredible southern sides in an exclusively to-go capacity. If ...

Live Tetherball Tonight channel 4 Non Blondes in “What’s Up?” cover

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2021

What's going on? That's a question many of us have been asking a lot these past few years. However, the query has been around far longer than the last, say, four years or so. In fact, it was brought to mainstre...

Carryout Chronicles: Iron Grate BBQ Co.

Tyler Maas

January 21, 2021

It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...

We made up a bunch of cocktails using LeRoy Butler’s Leap Premium Vodka

Tyler Maas

January 21, 2021

We're no stranger to writing about LeRoy Butler here at Milwaukee Record. Through the years, we've interviewed the Green Bay Packers legend and Pro Football Hall Of Fame finalist. We released an animated video ...

Egg & Flour Pasta Bar to open Wauwatosa location in March

Tyler Maas

January 21, 2021

Back in early 2019, a new pasta bar concept called Egg & Flour opened its first location in the Crossroads Collective food hall on Milwaukee's East Side. Less than a year after that, the restaurant—which wa...

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