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Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent went up another 7% from September to October

October 13, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication dei...

Oh yeah, Judge’s on North Ave. will probably become luxury apartments, too

Matt Wild

October 12, 2016

Like Joni Mitchell once sang: they paved an East Side dive bar, and put up some luxury apartments. Yes, Judge's Irish Pub, located at 1431 E. North Avenue, vacant since 2013, and once a beacon for so...

PokeStops are slowly disappearing from Lake Park

Matt Wild

October 6, 2016

Back in September, we gave you a blow-by-blow account of a contentious, ridiculous, boring, and ultimately "gloriously absurd" meeting between Milwaukee County officials and Pokemon Go players. The meeting wa...

Milwaukee celebrates life of Dave Monroe with birthday spin, memories

Matt Wild

October 6, 2016

Last year, Milwaukee mourned the death of a true original: Dave Monroe. The ever-present Monroe was a familiar face behind the turntables at decades' worth of DJ nights and dance parties, spinning everything ...

Hey Milwaukee: If we want to save the Domes we should probably start going to the Domes

Matt Wild

October 5, 2016

In late September, Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory's Tropical Dome became the second of the park's three iconic domes to reopen to the public. As every Milwaukee man, woman, and child will recall, coun...

Here are your Milwaukee-area “creepy clown” updates for Wednesday, October 5

Matt Wild

October 5, 2016

Plug "creepy clowns" into the ol' Google machine and you'll be flooded with countless headlines about mysterious and malevolent-looking clowns being spotted throughout the U.S. and beyond. Seriously, this shi...

Charlie Sykes is leaving Milwaukee radio, finally

Matt Wild

October 4, 2016

Charlie Sykes, insanely popular conservative talk show host, author, and full-time college hater, is leaving Milwaukee radio. According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, Sykes will depart from the WTMJ-AM (6...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 3, 2016

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "development boom" or a "construction boom." Or maybe it's a "reimagining," li...

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

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2016

In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee’s brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainm...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th most dangerous city in America

Matt Wild

September 30, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists. In the past, the infernal machine has brought ...

MKE SEX: Feminist porn

Lucky Tomaszek

September 30, 2016

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX, Occasionally, I indulge myself and watch a little porn. I'm a visual person, and I'd probably watch more if I could find some that appealed to my sense of decency as m...

Batman cars, dorky dads, and finishing last: Exorcising our pinewood derby memories

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 28, 2016

On Wednesday, September 28, Palomino will host its inaugural adult pinewood derby competition. Yes, the long-running Cub Scout event—in which children thrill to hand-crafted wooden cars on plastic wheels ra...

St. Francis needs to step up its bench game

Tyler Maas

September 27, 2016

Sitting between the bustle of Bay View and Cudahy's thriving industry is a small, sparsely populated section of Milwaukee County called St. Francis. Given its size, the 2.5-square-mile chunk of land is the ty...

Great job, Milwaukee (Record)! Milwaukee Magazine named us the city’s best arts and entertainment outlet

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists, or any time a national publication deigns to ...

Dispatches from the Feline Groovy Cat Show

Tyler Maas

September 20, 2016

Milwaukee was abuzz with activity last weekend. After years away, Rock The Green made its triumphant return to, uh, rocking the green. Bay View Bash emphatically ended the city's summer festival season. Bot...

Hide your pets and make your out-of-town plans now: Milwaukee Air & Water Show will return in 2017

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

If summer 2016 seemed more quiet than past summers, there's a good reason: the Milwaukee Air & Water Show, long a source of SCREAMING SUPERSONIC JETS BUZZING THE ENTIRE CITY FOR DAYS ON END took a break...

Beet Street extends Milwaukee’s festival season into autumn

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2016

Most years, Bay View Bash signals an unofficial end to Milwaukee's glorious festival season. Fortunately, that won't be the case this year. Thanks to a trio of Bay View businesses, a new block party will ke...

I went to NEWaukee’s Night Market and it was nice

Matt Wild

September 16, 2016

Wednesday night, as I surveyed the action of my very first NEWaukee Night Market from the balcony of the desolate Shops of Grand Avenue food court, a woman asked me what, exactly, my beef had been with the ...

MKE SEX: Sex, masturbation, and pregnancy

Lucky Tomaszek

September 16, 2016

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX, I'm a single woman and I'm about halfway through my first pregnancy. In the first few months I was so sick and tired that I never even thought about sex. Right after I...

The “Milwaukee Fuck It List”: My city through my mom’s eyes

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2016

I love my mom. Any good that resides within me is the direct result of something she, my dad or my stepfather instilled in me. As lame as it probably makes me sound, she's one of my best friends on this dum...

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