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

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...

Doors Open, Adventure Rock, and the ever-changing face of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 13, 2016

I'm scaling a 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall—in jeans and a button-up, because I'm an idiot—and all I can think about is empty space. Air, grass, an open field, an unobstructed view. A break from the mon...

Hey everyone! There’s ANOTHER Pokemon Go meeting tomorrow at the County Courthouse!

Matt Wild

September 12, 2016

Remember last week's bat-shit-crazy Pokemon Go meeting in Lake Park? Judging from the eight zillion of you who read our equally bat-shit-crazy recap, of course you do. But hey! Guess what! There's now ANOTH...

Lake Park’s Pokemon Go meeting was boring, livid, and gloriously absurd

Matt Wild

September 8, 2016

On the evening of Wednesday, September 7, in the year of our Lord 2016, nearly 100 grown adults and several weeping children gathered in the Marcia Coles Community Room located below Bartolotta's Lake Park Bist...

Green Bay Juggalo cuts off woman’s finger, drinks her blood

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

If nothing else, Insane Clown Posse's fans are devoted. It's not uncommon to see members of the brood—commonly called "Juggalos"—with the Detroit rap duo's hatchet-wielding logo tattooed on their skin. Last...

Steel your nerves for the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference

Matt Wild

September 6, 2016

Despite the recent rash of 80-degree weather, fall is in the air. Leaves are changing, sweaters are appearing, and CVS is going all-in on the Halloween junk. Oh, and the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 4, 2016

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee's festival season. Though the seasonal shift essentially puts a nine-mo...

Great job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th least attractive city in America

Tyler Maas

September 2, 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 ...

Palomino is hosting an adult pinewood derby

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2016

Remember the pinewood derby? For more than 60 years, Cub Scouts have been racing painted blocks of wood on plastic wheels down tracks with their sights set on pack bragging rights and a merit badge. Some of...

Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant winner and Shrekfest co-founder discusses schlongs, Smash Mouth, ‘Shrek’

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2016

Much like the very film the event honors, Shrekfest is an underdog story. In 2014, after learning a Madison festival dedicated to the hit DreamWorks series—which spawned four successful motion pictures, two...

East Side’s Tomato Romp Festival returns for 10th anniversary

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 31, 2016

Remember Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes? You know, the self-aware, pre-Sharknado B-movie send-up that spawned three sequels and an animated kids series? Wouldn't it be great if tomatoes really did come to li...

Milwaukee County Parks would like to clear up the “confusion” surrounding Pokemon Go

Matt Wild

August 30, 2016

To recap: Last Tuesday, it was revealed that Milwaukee County Parks had written a letter to the developer of Pokemon Go, Niantic, Inc., asking for the removal of PokeStops from Lake Park. Later that day, th...

Here’s what $1,000 in rent gets you in Milwaukee (and 8 other U.S. cities)

Matt Wild

August 29, 2016

Back in July, Madison-based apartment listings site Abodo.com revealed that Milwaukee was home to the fastest increasing rent in the entire country. Milwaukee! An Abodo infographic put Milwaukee's average 1...

11 wonderfully weird classes in the fall Milwaukee Recreation guide

Matt Wild

August 29, 2016

broadstreet.zone(32806); With summer on its way out and fall slowly creeping in, "back to school" fever is in the increasingly chilly air. But you don't have to be a kid, a teen, or a college-age student to ...

Teletubbies, Viagra, and Elian Gonzalez: Here’s Beloit College’s latest Mindset List

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2016

Since 1998, Beloit College staffers Ron Nief, Tom McBride, and Charles Westerberg have welcomed incoming freshman to the school and simultaneously reminded the rest of us how fucking old we're getting with ...

MKE SEX: Let’s talk about squirting

Lucky Tomaszek

August 26, 2016

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX, I recently had an especially amazing sexual encounter with a partner on his hard wood floors. He continued to thrust as I reached orgasm, and on one of the out motions...

Here’s a statement from Milwaukee County “Exeggutor” Chris Abele on the whole Pokemon Go thing

Matt Wild

August 25, 2016

In case you need a refresher: On Tuesday, it was revealed that Milwaukee County Parks had written a letter to the developer of Pokemon Go, Niantic, Inc., asking for the removal of PokeStops from Lake Park. ...

Here’s an email from the Milwaukee County Exec office to concerned Pokemon Go fans

Matt Wild

August 24, 2016

UPDATE (8/25/16): Here's a statement from the Milwaukee County "Exeggutor" himself, Chris Abele. Yesterday we brought you the story of how Milwaukee County Parks had contacted the makers of Pokemon GO, a...

Milwaukee County Parks are trying to remove Pokemon Go from Lake Park

Matt Wild

August 23, 2016

UPDATE (8/25/16): Here's a statement from the Milwaukee County "Exeggutor" himself, Chris Abele. UPDATE (8/24/16): Here's an email from the Milwaukee County Exec office to concerned Pokemon Go fans. L...

For what it’s worth, there’s a petition to restore old Journal Sentinel issues to Google News Archive

Matt Wild

August 23, 2016

On Tuesday, August 16, old issues of the Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Sentinel, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel vanished from Google News Archive. According to Urban Milwaukee, new JS owner Gannett Co. Inc. ...

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