Category: City Life

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

September 1, 2022

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee’s festival season. Though the seasonal shift brings about a decline of outd...

16 pictures of the old Columbia Hospital at UWM that may or may not be demolished

Matt Wild

September 1, 2022

The fate of the former Columbia Hospital on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3321 N. Maryland Ave.) seems to change every other week. UWM bought the six-building complex in 2010 for $20.2...

Reminder: Doors Open Milwaukee is September 24-25, will include new sites like Fiserv Forum

Matt Wild

September 1, 2022

One of Milwaukee's most unique events is Historic Milwaukee's annual Doors Open Milwaukee, a citywide "open house" where folks can explore the normally off-limits insides of various theaters, museums, art galle...

Looming Gannett layoffs highlight importance of local news, Wisconsin’s precarious position

Dan Shafer

August 31, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe. In Wisconsin, there are 11 newspapers owned by Gannett...

Let’s visit Regency Mall in Racine, half of which might be demolished for redevelopment

Matt Wild

August 30, 2022

UPDATE (4/22/23): The $39.4 million plan to redevelop Regency Mall—and demolish 400,000 of its 800,000 square feet—was approved by the Racine Common Council. Work is expected to begin in June 2023, and be compl...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 4)

Kyle Arpke

August 26, 2022

Chapter 4: Cranes and Lifers During the Dog Days of Summer When I last wrote, I briefly mentioned summer can be a difficult time of year for birding. Increased temperatures and humidity paired with molting sea...

City attorney: Northridge unsecured, unsafe. Countless YouTube videos shot inside Northridge: Yep.

Matt Wild

August 26, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee's once-mighty, now-infamous Northridge Mall has been closed since ...

American Legion emblem at Kilbourn Reservoir Park has been restored, will be dedicated Friday

Matt Wild

August 25, 2022

If you've been to Kilbourn Reservoir Park lately—or if you've driven west on North Avenue, headed towards Riverwest, lately—you've undoubtedly seen restoration work being performed on that big American Legion e...

“It was my hobby”: After 9 years of calling it home, Cudahy man says goodbye to historic Lake School

Matt Wild

August 24, 2022

By his own estimation, Greg Gryskiewicz has put more than 12,000 hours of work into his home. "I've averaged 30 hours a week, every week for nine years," Gryskiewicz says. "The weeks that I didn't work 30 ho...

A guide to the ogre-whelming number of September ‘Shrek’ events in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

August 24, 2022

Shrekfest is coming to Milwaukee this year! If you’ve been living alone in a bog and you’re unfamiliar with Shrekfest, the event was founded by an online comedy company called 3GI way back in 2014 and hosted at...

Here’s the TosaFest lineup

Tyler Maas

August 23, 2022

Excuse us for missing this until this late in the summer and, well, missing this entire event in general for the entirety of Milwaukee Record's existence, but we just learned the following information: 1. There...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Some website says we’re the 9th most polite city in the U.S.

Tyler Maas

August 23, 2022

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication ackno...

East Side residents concerned about losing good restaurant seats object to proposed apartments

Matt Wild

August 21, 2022

An apartment building proposed for a site near Downer Avenue on Milwaukee's east side is getting some pushback from nearby residents. And that pushback is hilarious. Several condominium owners and homeowners...

Stuff We Missed: Yep, the Wisconsin State Fair topped 1 million attendees this year

Matt Wild

August 19, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Every July, Milwaukee has a field day with the question of how many people a...

IndiaFest Milwaukee is coming to Humboldt Park this weekend

Tyler Maas

August 16, 2022

Now that Wisconsin State Fair has ended and we're more than halfway into the month of August, Milwaukee's festival season is pretty much over, right? Wrong! Between now and summer's final day on September 22, t...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 3)

Kyle Arpke

August 12, 2022

Chapter 3: Iowa by way of Iowa County Last time, I traveled all the way to the Mississippi River in search of eagles, kestrels, and other winged-wonders. Today’s entry takes us back to the Mississippi River, d...

Stuff We Missed: Those darn scooters won’t return until late August or early September

Matt Wild

August 12, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Remember when the Department of Public Works (DPW) announced that those darn...

Watch Milwaukee YouTuber Tommy G sneak/break into, mess around in abandoned Northridge Mall

Matt Wild

August 11, 2022

Milwaukee Record does not condone sneaking/breaking into, messing around in, and/or dropping trou in abandoned malls. Milwaukee YouTuber Tommy G recently made news (and picked up plenty of subscribers) with ...

‘The Daily Show’ talked to some brilliant conspiracy folks at the Waukesha Trump-Michels rally

Matt Wild

August 10, 2022

The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper was in Waukesha last week for the big Donald Trump-Tim Michels rally. He talked to some people. Those people—at least the people that made the cut for the seven-minute segment—we...

Wisconsin 2022 Partisan Primary: Barnes to face Johnson, Ball to become Milwaukee County Sheriff

Matt Wild

August 9, 2022

With votes from Wisconsin's 2022 Partisan Primary still being counted, the outcomes of a few races have become clear. Democrat Mandela Barnes will face Republican Ron Johnson in the November 8 general electi...