City Life

February 3, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Welcome to February: Here’s what you’re doing this month

February 1, 2024

February holds the distinction of being the year’s shortest month, one of Wisconsin’s coldest spans of time, and landing pretty much directly in the middle of winter. However, this particular February finds Mil...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Potholes!

February 1, 2024

Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: potholes! There's a dusty joke about Wisconsin having only two seasons: wi...

Here’s everything you need to know about Mitten Fest 2024

January 30, 2024

Over its 10-year run, Burnhearts Mitten Fest has earned the undisputed distinction of being Milwaukee’s favorite wintertime celebration. We’re pleased to report the sprawling block party and one-day escape from...

Festa Italiana will return to Summerfest grounds in 2024, move to late spring

January 30, 2024

For the first time since 2019, Milwaukee festival staple Festa Italiana will return to the Summerfest grounds in 2024. And there's more: the summertime staple will move to late spring, doing its thing the weeke...

50 things to do in Milwaukee during the 50 remaining days of winter

January 29, 2024

Doesn’t it seem like it's already been a long winter? Believe it or not, there are still 50...yes, FIFTY, days of Wisconsin winter ahead of us. Since the season isn't even half over and that's honestly a little...

Party’s ogre! Shrekfest has come to an end

January 28, 2024

We're sad to inform you that after 10 years of celebrating "self-love and counterculture” that’s largely based around the Shrek film franchise, Shrekfest has come to an end. Organizers officially announced the ...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Nora

January 27, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Stuff We Missed: Brady Street Fest may change date because this summer is gonna be PACKED

January 26, 2024

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: Brady Street Fest changing its date? • Summers in Milwaukee have al...

Numerous events and initiatives planned for “Year of Vel Phillips”

January 25, 2024

Vel R. Phillips (1924-2018) was a woman of many "firsts." The Milwaukee native was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. She was the first woman and the first Bl...

New & Wonderful Things: Northridge Mall saga continues

January 24, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Cookie

January 19, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

You better believe Milwaukee Public Market’s “Dinky Rink” will return January 19

January 18, 2024

For the last several years, the Milwaukee Public Market has been making the dead of winter a little more bearable (emphasis on "little") with its outdoor, 950-square-foot "Dinky Rink." Is the so-called "area's ...

“Come Just As You Are”: Latine-run New Life Warming Center offers shelter from bitter cold

Juan Miguel Martinez

January 17, 2024

Wisconsin is a place where the weather is a fickle monster. A 50-degree Christmas every couple of years is quickly followed by a slushy snow storm that gives way to a deep freeze. Twenty-twenty-four has been no...

Gary’s Pet Jungle to close soon

January 15, 2024

Following nearly 30 years in business, Gary's Pet Jungle (2857 S. Howell Ave., 414-744-3338) will soon be closing its doors once and for all. Opened by owner, operator, and namesake Gary Johnson, the pet and pe...

Watch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak at UWM in 1965

January 15, 2024

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day to celebrate the life and work of the civil rights pioneer, to reflect on the progress that's been made in the many decades since his assassination, and to realize tha...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Wanda

January 12, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Mitten Fest, Wückfinter and 13 other Milwaukee winter festivals

January 11, 2024

Even though autumn technically ended a few weeks ago, it’s finally beginning to set in: winter is actually here. The holidays are over and we’ve already had a little bit of snowfall. And there’s still more than...

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