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Milwaukee County is up deferred maintenance creek without a paddle

September 21, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Are you a fan of Milwaukee County and all the things Milwaukee County offers?...

25 Milwaukee shows, festivals, and random events to check out this fall

Matt Wild

September 20, 2018

broadstreet.zone(32806); Our weekly Tracklist is brought to you by the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival. Hello, fall. Hello, sweater weather and crunching leaves. Hello, oodles of shows, festivals, and random e...

The Hop to host streetcar bike ride, despite discouraging “less comfortable cyclists” from riding near streetcar

Matt Wild

September 20, 2018

Today at 6 p.m. (weather permitting, we assume?), The Hop and the Wisconsin Bike Fed will host a free bicycle ride along Milwaukee's soon-to-be-fully-operational streetcar route. This "relaxed ride through the ...

Battle of the ‘Boygans: Sheboygan, Wisconsin vs. Cheboygan, Michigan

Josh Hoppert

September 19, 2018

Sheboygan is a city in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Michigan. Cheboygan is a city in Cheboygan County, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. Depending on whom you ask, the cities de...

You’ll always remember where you were when WalletHub named Milwaukee the 32nd “most fun” city in America

Matt Wild

September 18, 2018

There are certain events that are forever burned in America's collective memory: the moon landing, September 11, that time at the VMAs when Axl Rose got into it with Kurt Cobain. Provided you were actually aliv...

Relive Bay View Bash 2018 with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 17, 2018

Is it possible to sum up Bay View Bash 2018 with one photo? Certainly not. How about 40 or so photos? Not really, but let's give it a shot anyway. This year's Bash scored big on gorgeous weather, great music, g...

Fuel Cafe and Lakefront Brewery celebrate 20 years of collaboration with Doomsday festival (and beer)

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2018

Way back in 1998, a pair of young Milwaukee-based businesses joined forces to make something special. Along with the incorporation of some coffee from Colectivo (then known as Alterra, of course), Fuel Cafe and...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Sept. 9-15)

Matt Wild

September 17, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Take a look inside Dandy, Milwaukee’s newest vintage store and event space

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2018

Lately, Milwaukee has experienced an explosion of vintage shops, as the city's resale and maker scenes have both grown and improved considerably in recent years. Though there are exponentially more places to pi...

MKE SEX: Experimenting with different kinds of condoms and lube

Lucky Tomaszek

September 14, 2018

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX: Practicer of safe sex here! But we have a question to slip into your column. Up until intercourse, there's plenty of slippy slide-y excited wetness. I usually orgas...

Now there’s a petition to save Milwaukee County parks, preferably without the help of parking meters

Matt Wild

September 14, 2018

Back in February, a controversial plan to install paid parking meters in Milwaukee County parks and along the lakefront was roundly booed, protested, and eventually shot down. Milwaukee County Executive Chris A...

Beet Street Harvest Festival returns October 13

Tyler Maas

September 13, 2018

It's been quite a run, but this weekend's Bay View Bash pretty much concludes summer festival season here in Milwaukee, right? Wrong. The city will officially be festing into fall with Beet Street Harvest Festi...

Ever notice how Mayor Barrett and Alex Trebek kind of look alike?

Matt Wild

September 13, 2018

Hey. It's Thursday. It's getting late. The weekend is on the horizon. Just a few more hours and one more day to go. Yawn. Hey. Ever notice how Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Tre...

Remembering that weird “This Is My Milwaukee” video from 2008

Matt Wild

September 12, 2018

Take a stroll through YouTube these days and you'll find a bevy of gorgeously filmed, breathlessly narrated videos celebrating the city we call home. Big budget tourism videos share space with amateur love lett...

Right Wisconsin editor celebrates back to school season by calling MPS students “little convicts”

Matt Wild

September 11, 2018

Last week, in an editorial for website Right Wisconsin, editor James Wigderson celebrated the back to school season by grunting, drooling, banging away at his keyboard, and calling Milwaukee Public School stude...

Meet Joe Schonasky, the guy we mistakenly thought was Guy Fieri

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2018

Over the weekend, the Donkey Sauce was all over our face when we—more accurately, when I (Tyler Maas)—published an erroneous account of Food Network personality Guy Fieri dining at a Pewaukee pizza place. While...

Here’s an important update on Peapod, the suburban squirrel with a human friend

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2018

A few weeks ago, we sought to brighten up lives a little by documenting the budding friendship between a Glendale man named Bruce Dierbeck and an uncharacteristically brave suburban squirrel he named "Peapod." ...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild

September 7, 2018

Friday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter of Milwaukee public transportation (or would that be Friday The 7th?), the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar ...

We spent the day playing vintage video games at every vintage video arcade in Milwaukee

DJ Hostettler

September 6, 2018

In case you've been an internet-free shut-in for the last year, vintage arcade video games are back in a big way. The arcade bar scene has been percolating nationwide for the last few years—Logan Arcade in Chic...

Four years later, what are we still doing in Shrekfest’s swamp?

Tone Madison

September 4, 2018

The following piece by Scott Gordon was originally published on Tone Madison. In his defense, the guy who started this whole Shrekfest thing in Madison had no intention of actually putting on an event called...

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