City Life

October 30, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • The city-, state-, and world-changing power of the new downtown Bucks arena w...

Update: Rejoice, ladies, for Wisconsin is one step closer to legalizing blaze pink hunting gear

October 29, 2015

UPDATE: Yes, the dreams of millions of Wisconsin women who have long refrained from deer hunting due to the decidedly un-ladylike clothing requirements are coming closer to reality. According to the Journal Sen...

Sheriff Clarke breaks news that Black Lives Matter, ISIS will “join forces,” bring down government

October 28, 2015

Tired and weary from another day of serving as Milwaukee County Sheriff joylessly trolling the Internet, David A. Clarke, Jr. broke the shocking news last night that the grassroots Black Lives Matter movement a...

Yep, Milwaukee showed up on another “most dangerous cities in America” list

October 23, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Is it Friday? Yes, it’s Friday. That means it’s time to put yet another week ...

Okay, let’s talk about changing the Milwaukee flag (again)

October 15, 2015

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 of the ...

That fire-breathing “Pirate Party Barge” is totally for sale, matey

October 13, 2015

If you’ve sailed the Milwaukee waterways in the last few years—or simply glanced in the general direction of the Milwaukee waterways—you’ve probably spotted that absolutely crazy and undeniable awesome “Pirate ...

Should Milwaukee create an “adult entertainment district”?

October 9, 2015

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 of the ...

Halloween Superstores Of The Damned: Discount Halloveen

October 8, 2015

If there’s one holiday season that depends almost entirely on “mood,” it’s Halloween. Christmas and Easter have obvious religious ties, the Fourth of July has obvious national ties, and Thanksgiving has food. S...

A Friday on the “Fruit Loop”: A straight man’s gay bar crawl

October 1, 2015

By all accounts, it's a great time to be gay in America. It took far too long and required incalculable amounts of pain, hardship, and opposition to get here (and there's still so much work to be done), but now...

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

October 1, 2015

In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee's brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainmen...

Milwaukee midnight movies, Ryan Adams’ ‘1989,’ more

September 24, 2015

// 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 of...

Return to Haunchyville

September 22, 2015

This article is from 2015. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a place, somewhere deep in the woods of Muskego, where a group of mysterious little people have created their own pint-sized mini-u...

Bay View Bash 2015: A minute-by-minute recap

September 21, 2015

// And just like that, another Milwaukee festival season is officially in the books. Though summer is on its waning days, the season's final weekend was a far-from-quiet one. On Saturday alone, Country In The...

I climbed to the top of City Hall and it was awesome and kind of terrifying

September 17, 2015

// I’m climbing to the top of Milwaukee City Hall and there’s only one thing on my mind: death. Death, death, death. Not “lose-my-balance-and-plummet-to-Earth” death, though there’s that, too. Measuring 353 f...

Mayor Barrett dropped an unfortunate ‘Predator’ quote at a luncheon on Tuesday

September 17, 2015

// On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Business Journal held a “Downtown Milwaukee Renaissance” luncheon at the Pfister Hotel. It was the kind of event where a bunch of people who have more money than you—Milwaukee Buc...

There will be a ‘Legend Of Zelda’ scavenger hunt at Saturday’s Doors Open Milwaukee

September 15, 2015

// On Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, more than 150 Milwaukee-area buildings will open their doors for the fifth annual Doors Open Milwaukee. Historic Milwaukee’s massive, free-to-the-public ...

Hover Craft 2015 announces vendor lineup

September 14, 2015

// Attention, shoppers! Though it’s still technically summer, we’re pretty much nanoseconds from the oncoming onslaught of holiday advertisements, yuletide music re-entering radio rotation, and the intense pr...

Riverside Theater is getting a sweet new marquee and a 40-foot vertical sign

September 14, 2015

// The Riverside Theater has seen a plethora of changes in its 87-year history. Originally opened in 1928 as an RKO vaudeville house (hosting everyone from The Three Stooges to Glenn Miller), the Wisconsin Av...

Yes we can: An afternoon at an international beer “CANvention”