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This local auto detailing and carpet cleaning service’s ad is the best

April 20, 2016

// Local commercials can be pretty rough. If the low production value, stilted acting, and dreadful graphics aren't bad enough, the music—oh the music!—can be downright painful. Since most of society is con...

New Grand Avenue will be mostly office space, maybe a grocery store

Matt Wild

April 20, 2016

// 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...

Now there’s a “Freeway” McCarter bobblehead

Matt Wild

April 15, 2016

// In all of yesterday's Milwaukee Day hubbub, we somehow missed this one: Milwaukee legend Michael/Roosevelt "Freeway" McCarter, a familiar face and delightfully unique presence at nearly every sporting ev...

MKE SEX: Dam the man! (And everyone else, too)

Lucky Tomaszek

April 15, 2016

// Often, when I do live "Ask the Sexpert" events, I find that questions from several different people will follow a theme. This happened again a few weeks ago: "Can you transmit HPV orally?" "Is ther...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times thinks we’re good and cheap

Matt Wild

April 13, 2016

// Dusty and long-dormant, Milwaukee Record's sentient Great Job, Milwaukee Bot 8000 has whizzed and whirred back to life—R2-D2-in-The-Force-Awakens-style—to bring you this important news: In a New York Tim...

Here’s the shocking, inevitable connection between Gov. Scott Walker and Dustin Diamond

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

// The state of Wisconsin was rocked by two big, ridiculous stories yesterday. The first involved Gov. Scott Walker suggesting folks could help him pay off his failed presidential campaign debt by purchasin...

Milwaukee-themed emojis are now a thing

Matt Wild

April 10, 2016

// Depending on who you are, the emoji-fication of modern communication is best represented by either an adorable whistling smiley face, or an equally adorable pile of poop with eyes. Now, the word-wary phe...

Remembering the world’s largest Pac-Man tournament at County Stadium in 1982

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

// Video games are currently a billion dollar industry, but it's easy to forget how ubiquitous they were in their infancy. Consider Pac-Man, the pellet- and ghost-chomping quarter-sucker that took the world...

It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

Matt Wild

April 7, 2016

// Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

Works in progress: Bay View’s “Art Stop,” Kanye West’s ‘The Life Of Pablo’

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 7, 2016

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Get your garden on and sign up for the Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Since 2009, Milwaukee's Victory Garden Initiative has built more than 2,500 raised-bed urban gardens for the city and its residents. The group's goal of creating a "community-based, socially just, enviro...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 4, 2016

// April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season begins, the first full month of spring is upon us, and rampant festival announcements combine with extended daylight and occasional days of unseaso...

Here’s video of a fox (with prey) roaming downtown Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

// Despite all its amenities and hit-and-miss "placemaking" efforts, it's not unfair to suggest downtown Milwaukee's nightlife can be a little lacking at times. In the early hours of Thursday morning—within...

We checked out the Trump rally in Janesville and it was a shit show

Tea Krulos

March 31, 2016

// Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea Krulos Presidential candidates were running every which way through the state on Tuesday: Sanders was at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Clinton was cruisi...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

// Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...

MKE SEX: Sex and identity in clinical practice

Lucky Tomaszek

March 25, 2016

// Just like in every profession, people become sex educators for very different, and very personal, reasons. For me, it was the realization that enjoying sex doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't make ...

Grand Ave.’s upcoming name change, Summerfest’s 2016 headliners

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 24, 2016

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

Matt Wild

March 24, 2016

// The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

// Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

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