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Delay the start of your work week and look at some photos from Milwaukee Pug Fest

May 21, 2018

Did you know that metro Milwaukee was home to North America's largest pug festival? Now you do! Since 2005, Milwaukee Pug Fest has celebrated the so-ugly-they're-cute dog breed, while also advancing the interes...

Here’s the 2018 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2018

Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations, there ...

Gallery Bookstore is closing

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2018

Gallery Bookstore has been a quiet-but-consistent resource for used books in Bay View since 1983. After 35 years in business, the secluded neighborhood book shop's story is about to come to an end. The store—tu...

Here’s the Bay View Jazz Fest 2018 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2018

For the fifth straight year, the organizers behind Bay View Gallery Night, in association with Milwaukee Jazz Vision, are melding the massive 50-business artistic endeavor with Bay View Jazz Fest. Earlier this ...

Jump into summer with a June 20 screening of ‘Hot Rod’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2018

The fine folks at Avalon Theater have been kind enough to let Milwaukee Record screen a different under-appreciated classic at the Bay View movie house every month lately. Last night, we followed up April's sol...

After 12 years in session, Comet’s Beer School will end next month

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2018

In its 22-plus years in existence (and counting), The Comet Cafe has worn many hats. What started as a quaint and character-laden cafe that employed the city’s entire music scene has slowly turned into a local ...

20 edgy album covers from Milwaukee music past

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2018

The album cover is a dying art form. Once relied upon to be a gateway to attract customer attention, album art seems more expendable than ever these days. Imagery that, until recently, was used to help sell rec...

Genesis strives to create, disrupt with downtown gallery and all-ages space

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2018

As we've mentioned before (a few times, actually), Milwaukee is hurting for all-ages opportunities in the city's music spaces. Between dated local ordinances and businesses weighing the economic ramifications o...

Milwaukee chef writes open letter to industry “plagued with predators and vultures”

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2018

Recently, the culinary world was rocked by numerous allegations of abuse perpetrated by restaurateurs, chefs, and various others in positions of power in the dining industry. These troubling revelations have pu...

I spent 24 consecutive hours at WMSE

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2018

Since May 4, WMSE has been in the throes of its Spring Membership Drive. Over the span of one week, the listener-supported station that's been "the big sound downtown" for 37 years has been trying to raise a to...

Here’s the Riverwest FemFest 2018 lineup, schedule

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2018

Last year, the third annual Riverwest FemFest featured more than 70 performances at seven venues over the course of four winter days and nights. More than a year after the female-focused and femme-identified ph...

Why not, here are 13 more Milwaukee area patios

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2018

Over the last three 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. After that, we rounded up another 15 patios...

New festival, Black Arts Fest MKE, will come to Henry Maier Festival Park

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

Milwaukee's "City Of Festivals" nickname is well-deserved. From the early weeks of spring through the arrival of autumn, the city plays host to dozens of fests, block parties, and celebrations of different heri...

Strangers’ lives entangle in Milwaukee-made feature, ‘Lesser Beasts’

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

In addition to the all-around excellence of the Milwaukee Film Festival and frequent screenings of time-tested favorites and cult classics (cough!) at the city's various neighborhood theaters, the state of cine...

New bar, The Lost Whale, has found a home in the former site of Boone & Crockett

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

Now that Boone & Crockett has officially moved to its awesome new digs in Walker's Point, there was an underlying question about who (or what) would be taking over the cocktail lounge's original Bay View lo...

Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom announces headliner for its one-year anniversary street festival

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

Last month, we announced that Pabst Milwaukee Brewery & Taproom would be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a May 19 street festival. The follow-up to last May's grand opening party will bring an out...

Here’s the 2018 PrideFest entertainment lineup

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

With all due respect to earlier-occurring newcomers Riverwest FemFest, Arte Para Todos, Gloss Weekend, and Cream City Comedy Festival, Milwaukee’s festival season truly and officially begins with PrideFest. The...

Hear Something To Do channel Gob Bluth on new single, “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake”

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, Wisconsin's premier ska outfit was pining for Tina Fey in the multi-cam music video for "Tina Fey II." In the year-plus since that video's release, the band has bee...

Here’s the artist lineup for Milwaukee Fringe Fest 2018

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2018

Over its first two years, Milwaukee Fringe Festival showcased more than 75 live acts from the worlds of theater, music, dance, and visual art in Pere Marquette Park, Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall...

Bobbleheads, pro wrestlers, and mystery envelopes: Here’s the Lakeshore Chinooks promotions schedule

Tyler Maas

May 3, 2018

Though baseball season is already well underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers currently sit in first place a month into the season, there's another team in the region that's getting ready to take the field. Yes,...

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