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“Highlights” from Dustin Diamond’s post-jail interview with Mario Lopez

May 24, 2016

// 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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 23, 2016

// 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”

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

// 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

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2016

// 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)

Lucky Tomaszek

May 13, 2016

// 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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 10, 2016

// 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

Matt Wild

May 9, 2016

// 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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 9, 2016

// 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

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

// 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

Matt Wild

May 3, 2016

// 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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 2, 2016

// 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

Lucky Tomaszek

April 29, 2016

// 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

Matt Wild

April 25, 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...

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

Tyler Maas

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...

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