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What can two commercial jingles from the ’80s teach us about the Milwaukee of today?

March 8, 2016

// Imagine Kraftwerk played by a kindergartener. Imagine a John Carpenter soundtrack piped through a Commodore 64. Imagine Daniel Johnston getting ahold of a busted synth and trying to sell you a couch and ...

R.I.P. Hank the Dog and album reviews?

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 3, 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 ...

FOX6 meteorologist Vince Condella is retiring

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

// For the past 34 years, Vince Condella has been Milwaukee's favorite Harley-riding, cool-uncle-vibing, occasionally mustachioed TV weatherman. Sadly, all good things (and all good stylin' meteorologists' ...

Welcome To March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

// March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season chang...

MKE SEX: The name game

Lucky Tomaszek

February 26, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX, This is kind of weird. I didn't used to think it was weird, but I guess maybe it is. I started seeing a new woman recently, and one day after sex we were taking a shower together. During t...

Scenes from Mama Tried’s Flat Out Friday

Dale Reince

February 22, 2016

// Photos and captions by Dale Reince The pits, underneath the grandstands of the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, provide a staging area for racers and their bikes. John Dunbar, of team Slaughterhouse ...

Creator of “Tiny Face Trump” talks Trump, “Little Face Mitt,” Guy Fieri

Matt Wild

February 19, 2016

// Back in 2012, Milwaukee-area funnyman Reuben Glaser achieved a small bit of Internet notoriety with "Little Face Mitt," a website devoted to Photoshopped images of then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney...

Journalism, the value of scoops, and something called “the Internet”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 18, 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 ...

Tracklist: 6 things to know about today’s spring primary election

Matt Wild

February 16, 2016

// Have you ever met someone who constantly drones on and on about how they refuse to vote, man? "Wow," you think, right after thinking, "Please be quiet." "In the time it's taking this genius to explain wh...

This video portrays Milwaukee as the weird, wonderful, and awful place it really is

Matt Wild

February 15, 2016

// The last few years have seen an unprecedented explosion of Milwaukee pride. If there's a new list that mentions Milwaukee in a remotely positive light, Milwaukeeans will fawn over it. If there's a new T-...

Pastafarians rejoice! Wisconsin DMV now allows colanders in license photos

Tyler Maas

February 15, 2016

// Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster members (also known as "Pastafarians") who live in Wisconsin are in luck. Last week, around the same time followers of a different religion were walking around in p...

How hard was Sheriff Clarke trolling THIS week?

Matt Wild

February 12, 2016

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Let's be honest: we could run a column entitled "How hard was Sheriff ...

MKE SEX: To shave or not to shave (your pubic hair)

Lucky Tomaszek

February 12, 2016

// For some people, high school health class was a very long time ago. Over time, the fine details about human sexuality fade in memory, and what's left is a general memory of how pregnancy happens and how ...

Milwaukee’s crumbling domes, JSOnline’s less-racist comments

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 11, 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 ...

Parents: It’s cold out there, so take your kids to the Shops of Grand Avenue

Matt Wild

February 11, 2016

Before we begin, let me say that however you're feeling about seeing what could be considered a "parenting column" in the pages of Milwaukee Record, I'm with you. If you're delighted, I'm with you. If you'r...

A conversation with Leo Hayashibara, Milwaukee’s (former) serial showgoer

Maggie Iken

February 11, 2016

// Milwaukee has many icons. The Milverine patrols our streets, the Milwaukee Lion may or may not still prowl the north side, the East Side Turkeys steer clear of college students, and the Brewers have that...

Here’s a REAL GoFundMe campaign to save the Mitchell Park Domes

Matt Wild

February 11, 2016

// Earlier this week, in the wake of the news that Milwaukee's beloved Mitchell Park Domes would be closed indefinitely, a random GoFundMe campaign popped up with the goal of raising $10 million to save the...

Tracklist: 13 ways to celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2016

// Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundant...

Relive Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2016 with these photos

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2016

// God damn, Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2016 was great. Excuse the tardiness, but we've only recently thawed out, sobered up, and fully processed all the food, fun, friendship, and philanthropy that took place ...

Red Letter Media’s “Previously Recorded” reviews ‘Dragon’s Dogma,’ wears great T-shirt

Matt Wild

February 9, 2016

// Red Letter Media is one of Milwaukee's best things. The locally based film/video production company found Internet fame back in 2009 with its meticulous takedowns of the Star Wars prequels, and has since...

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