MKE SEX: Trans sex and sexuality
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Dear MKE SEX,
What's the deal with transgender people and sex? I mean, can they have sex? If so, how does it work? Thanks!
Just Curious
Dear Curious,
This is one of those times when a seemingly s...
A guide to PrideFest’s Milwaukee Record Stage
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Excuse us if this post comes off as a bit self-serving, but holy shit! Milwaukee Record has its own fucking stage at PrideFest this year and we're really excited about it! Given the wide breadth of local...
The spot of the former “Spot 4MKE” is for sale, will be used to pay for streetcar expansion
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Back in March, we wrote about the end of "The Spot 4MKE," an ill-fated "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee that sought to inject some life into a disused downtown parking lot on the co...
Welcome to June: Here’s what you’re doing this month
Though July comes close to matching it, there’s simply no month in Milwaukee that’s more jam-packed with entertainment than June. Festival season officially kicks off with PrideFest, which gives way to Polish F...
MKE SEX: Age of consent
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Over brunch with a group of like-minded mothers recently, one woman asked what she should be telling her newly pubescent daughter about Wisconsin's age of consent laws. This mom isn't from America, and o...
Dustin Diamond is back in jail for violating his probation
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Zoinks! According to FOX6, Dustin Diamond, a.k.a. Screech from Saved By Bell, is back behind bars at the Ozaukee County Jail, a month after he was released for a 2014 Christmas Day stabbing incident in a...
Here’s the PrideFest Milwaukee 2016 entertainment lineup (including the Milwaukee Record Stage!)
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With all due respect to earlier-occuring newcomers Riverwest FemFest, Arte Para Todos, Gloss Weekend, and Tasty Fest, Milwaukee's festival season truly and officially begins with PrideFest. The first fes...
“Highlights” from Dustin Diamond’s post-jail interview with Mario Lopez
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In the annals of close-but-not-quite-Milwaukee-related pop-culture ephemera, Dustin Diamond's arrest and subsequent jail time for stabbing a motherfucker in a Port Washington bar on Christmas Day sits lo...
Joshua Jones sings our praises in new Milwaukee Record song
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Last month, we introduced you to Joshua Jones, a Milwaukee (by way of Memphis) auto detailing and carpet cleaning professional who also dabbles in marketing. We loved his auto-tuned bit of multimedia mas...
Leon’s Frozen Custard owner wants to settle things “the old-fashioned American way, in the alley”
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Leon's Frozen Custard, long a symbol of Milwaukee's old-fashioned American Happy Days charm, is currently is some old-fashioned American hot water. It seems that old-fashioned American and Leon's owner R...
Tracklist: Summerfest Place and 10 other ultra-specific Milwaukee streets
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Last Tuesday, a chunk of Third Ward concrete that had long existed outside Henry Maier Festival Park as "Polk Street" was officially renamed "Summerfest Place" after an application filed by Milwaukee Wor...
MKE SEX: What what (in the butt)
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Dear MKE SEX,
Real talk: If a dude likes to get off with something up his butt, he probably really wants to be having sex with another dude, right?
Asking For A Friend
Dear "Friend,"
I like to th...
Milwaukee Record’s 2016 summer festival guide
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Is there anything better than summer in Milwaukee? No, no there is not. For four months out of the year, Milwaukee becomes a warm and joyous place stocked with an improbable number of summer festivals, s...
Celebrate our Summer Preview Week with videos of people cruising Hwy 100
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Summer in Milwaukee is the shit. After a seemingly never-ending winter that leaves you wondering why you choose to live in such a godforsaken place, and a frustrating spring that leaves you wading in sea...
Record Recommended: May 9-15
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Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...
May the 4th be with you: Celebrating “Star Wars Day” in Milwaukee and beyond
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We used to think "Star Wars Day" was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical faux-holiday celebrated on May 4, held together by a date-related pun, "May the 4th/Force be with you"? Crazy thing is...it's true. ...
Pfister Hotel still haunted as fuck, reports Angels rookie Ji-Man Choi
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It's no secret that Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel is haunted as fuck. Built in 1893, the historic downtown hotel has spooked everyone from the incomparable Joey Lawrence to pretty much every visiting Major L...
Welcome to May: Here’s what you’re doing this month
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May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we'll be gearing up for block parties, weekly concerts, and a massive wave of occurre...
MKE SEX: Old cat, new tricks
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Dear MKE SEX,
I have a little problem. Okay, a medium-sized problem. I'm in a long term relationship with someone I really dig. Basically things between us are great, except for one thing: I don't reall...
Here are pictures of the redesigned and reimagined Grand Avenue
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Ever since a new ownership group took control of The Shops of Grand Avenue back in December 2015, speculation has been high as to what, exactly, that ownership group will do with the long-struggling down...