Four months of the Milwaukee Boat
The Milwaukee Boat—a.k.a. the S.S. Milwaukee, the S.S. Minnow, the Minnow, Deep Thought, or just "The Boat"—has been stranded between McKinley and Bradford beaches for exactly four months. Incredible.
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Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (January 29 – February 11, 2025)
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Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...
Here are more than 40 events to help you celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day
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 abundantly true...
Milwaukee Record Cats Of The Week: Mimosa and Mai Tai
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Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...
Exterior work on new Milwaukee Public Museum expected to be complete by end of 2025
In case you missed it, Milwaukee Public Museum's new natural history museum—temporarily dubbed the "Future Museum"—is currently under construction on the corner of Sixth and McKinley streets in downtown Milwauk...
Relive Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2025 with these photos
For the twelfth year, Burnhearts curated a winning wintry mix of live music, rare and delicious craft beer, tasty food and barrel-aged cocktails, locally made wares, and charity that all came together outdoors ...
Welcome to February: Here’s what you’re doing this month
February holds the distinction of being the year’s shortest month, one of Wisconsin’s coldest spans of time, and landing pretty much directly in the middle of winter. However, this particular February finds Mil...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Coneflower
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Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...
Shapes of Milwaukee County cities and villages, ranked
Shapes! The world is full of 'em. Triangles! Rectangles! Circles! We could go on, but you probably get the idea. Everything in the universe, from the country you live in, the device you're currently reading thi...
Northridge Mall demolition continues; former JCPenney razed this week
Last summer we took a tour of the long-empty, super-trashed, and soon-to-be-demolished Northridge Mall. It was the last time folks could (legally) take a look inside the once-mighty mall before it started to (l...
Milwaukee made $559K from those darn electric scooters in 2024
The last time we heard from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works on the issue of those darn electric scooters, the city had netted nearly $500,000 from the things. Now, at the beginning of 2025, the DPW has...
Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (January 15-28, 2025)
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Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...
Wückfinter will return to Ray’s Wine & Spirits on February 23
In early 2019, Wauwatosa beverage bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits and Indiana’s 3 Floyds Brewing joined forces to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with an outdoor celebration of beer done in defian...
10 Milwaukee names that are easy to get technically wrong
In our semi-regular Tracklist feature we round up a bunch of Milwaukee things and present them in list form. Do people still enjoy lists? Yes? Well, enjoy!
What's in a name? A sense of self, a sense of ident...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Catalina Skye
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Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...
Miss last night’s 3rd District Aldermanic Candidate Forum? Don’t worry, there’ll be more.
Who's excited about politics these days? Um, yeah. Well, how about local politics? That's more like it. Even if you're doing your best to avoid national politics, local politics remain incredibly important, and...
Winter Break Milwaukee returns for two more days of free outdoor fun in February
Now that Christmas came and went, the new year has arrived, and the Packers season has ended, we’ve entered that particularly difficult period of winter in Wisconsin. We’ve gotten some brief glimmers of what sp...
Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2025
Over its 11-year run, Burnhearts Mitten Fest has earned the undisputed distinction of being Milwaukee’s favorite wintertime celebration. We’re pleased to report the sprawling block party and one-day escape from...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Soraya
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Did you know that Milwaukee Record is on Patreon? Did you know that for a mere $5 a month you get an exclusive article every other Wednesday? And did you know that for a mere $8 a month you get a bi-weekly arti...