Brewed City: Sprocket Café
Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs boast a wealth of great independent coffee shops, award-winning roasters, and other excellent area establishments where you can get a caffeine fix. We plan to celebrate som...
Choose your own adventure in Nuisance’s “four-dimensional triple double album”
Last winter, we introduced you to Nuisance. Composed of former and current collaborators in noted Milwaukee outfits like Decibully, Camden, The Promise Ring, and the similarly pronounced New Sense, the project ...
Travel back to the early ’90s with these full concert videos of Wild Kingdom and The Pacers
Wild Kingdom is one of those Milwaukee bands of yesteryear that local music fans continue to bring up with regularity to this day. Even though they broke up in the mid-'90s (with much of the band subsequently f...
Possible Aaron Rodgers offseason outcomes, ranked
Are you tired of hearing about Aaron Rodgers this offseason? I sure as hell am! Now that No. 12 has emerged from his weird darkness retreat and flurry of quarterback-related transactions will surely be occurrin...
Turner Hall Tiki Takedown returns April 2
Following successful installments in 2019 and 2021, Turner Hall Tiki Takedown will once again be bringing warm vibes and cool island cocktails back to the eponymous downtown ballroom in early April. Yes, after ...
Producers reimagine Convert’s debut record in ‘Unrestrained Remix EP’
Convert is a band on the rise. Last April, the Milwaukee post-punk/goth rock hybrid—with former and current members of Burning Sons, Get Rad, Assault & Battery, and Cry Coyote in its ranks—released its debu...
And “Milwaukee’s Best Bloody” is…
Sunday afternoon, thousands of people gathered at the Italian Community Center to partake in a beloved celebration of a tomato-based local delicacy. Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation's annual “MKE’s Best Bloody...
Milwaukee comedians come together for Carol-Aid fundraiser event
Dana Ehrmann is one of the most accomplished and all-around funny comedians in Milwaukee right now. She's performed with Bobcat Goldthwait, Joe Pera, Todd Barry, Hari Kondabolu, Steve Byrne, Dan Soder, and coun...
Get over here! We’re screening the original ‘Mortal Kombat’ at Avalon Theater on March 29
These days, video games are relied upon to be the source material for a wide variety of films and television shows. Long before the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise was dominating the box office, The Last Of Us was...
Brewed City: La Finca Coffeehouse
Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs boast a wealth of great independent coffee shops, award-winning roasters, and other excellent area establishments where you can get a caffeine fix. We plan to celebrate som...
Enjoy these 21 photos of Bay View’s new Cheba Hut, which opened last week and is awesome
Even though we try to highlight local, independently-owned restaurants as often as we can, we're not immune to the occasional chain restaurant craving. Over the weekend, we indulged in one when we checked out t...
Female beer reps from 9 different breweries to collaborate on Women’s Month events
For many years, the beer industry was one completely dominated by men. Male distributors sold products made by male brewers to bars, restaurants, and liquor stores that were typically owned by—you guessed it!—m...
Check out The Vanguard’s new stylized sausages and butcher boards
Earlier this week, we announced The Vanguard would be saying goodbye to 4 of its menu items. Even though some popular fare—most notably the delicious likes of the Diablo Verde and the Beer Nerd—have either been...
18 examples of Jrue Holiday’s awesomeness, ranked
Tuesday was a career-defining night for Jrue Holiday. The Bucks star scored 40 points—including a shot from beyond half court and a clutch three in overtime—and flashed some timely defense to lead Milwaukee to ...
Milwaukee Record’s guide to “official” Mama Tried events
This week, throngs of riders and motorcycle enthusiasts who have been cooped up since fall and whose choppers have been in storage for months will enjoy a brief escape from the cold, dark, dull bikelessness of ...
The Vanguard will say goodbye to 4 menu items this week
Over the last eight-plus years, The Vanguard has established itself as the pinnacle of tubed meat delicacies in Milwaukee. Even though the Bay View bar and restaurant has a winning mix of specialty sausages, "t...
Here’s the Wückfinter V beer list, food vendors
Last month, we told you Wauwatosa beer bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits will once again be joining forces with 3 Floyds Brewing and WarPigs to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with its annual "Wückf...
Milwaukee composers Krol-Scharber talk about their upcoming Busch Light Super Bowl commercial
If you’ve been to enough local shows, you’ve surely seen Quinn Scharber and Justin Krol on stage. The veteran Milwaukee musicians have spent years playing together in Hugh Bob & The Hustle and in Trapper Sc...
10 Valentine’s Day events in Milwaukee
Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundantly true...
Here are 25 pictures of Red Maple MKE, a new bar that officially opens February 19
Starting Sunday, February 19, Red Maple MKE will officially be open for business. The new bar—located at 100 W. Maple Street in the former site of Ollie's on the southern edge of Walker's Point—is the second dr...