Business To Business: The Vanguard co-owner Jim McCann values Milwaukee Film
With our “Business To Business” series, we’re offering business owners in and around Milwaukee a platform to acknowledge other local establishments and area entrepreneurs they appreciate. This week: The Vanguar...
The rarest bird to ever venture to Wisconsin is currently in the region
My wife let out an audible gasp as we pulled up to Cudahy’s Sheridan Park on Sunday. Dozens upon dozens of cars filled the streets. “Don’t worry. There’s gotta be something else going on," I remarked. "There's ...
Welcome to May: Here’s what you’re doing this month
May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we’ll be inundated with block parties, weekly concerts, and a massive wave of occurrences be...
Demolition work on the site of Milwaukee Public Museum’s future home continues
It's been nearly a year since demolition work began on the site of Milwaukee Public Museum's future home at Sixth and McKinley Streets, in the Haymarket neighborhood next to the Deer District. In June 2022, con...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Lennon
Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...
PrideFest announces 2023 headliners
Back in February, Milwaukee Pride Inc.—the parent organization of PrideFest—announced Wisconsin's largest LGBTQIA+ event would return to Henry Mair Festival Park and kick off the city's festival season June 1-3...
Okay, let’s vote on when the Marcus Center snow pile will finally melt this year
Honest question: Will this winter ever end? We're a week away from May and, save for that one stretch where it was 80 degrees for some reason, the last month has been nothing but 40-degree days and 30-degree ni...
Milwaukee Record Cats Of The Week: Violet and Bailey
Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...
Stuff We Missed: The end of sneaking into Northridge Mall?
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.
• Northridge Mall has been closed since 2003—that's 20 years!—but the still-st...
Sustainable Milwaukee: Curbside recycling and wishcycling
Whether we're setting the bar high for bike-centric holidays or manufacturing something for Jason Monoa to sit on when he rides into adventure, Milwaukee is objectively a unique epicenter for the cycling lifest...
Join us at The Great Milwaukee Can Koozie Swap
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you have a junk drawer that's overflowing with can coolers. Maybe you even have a designated "koozie bag" that's stuffed with beer sleeves emblazoned with logos of ...
Brady Street Festival to return July 29
Save the date! Brady Street Festival—one of Milwaukee's largest, longest-running, and all-around best summer block parties—will take place on Saturday, July 29 this year. Over the course of that day, a nine-blo...
Milwaukee Record’s last-minute, semi-informative guide to 4/20 events and specials
It’s almost the 20th day of April and you know what that means, riiiiiiiight?! Yeah, you know! Love it, hate it, or feel absolutely indifferent to it, this unofficial holiday is reason for a sizable portion of ...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Olive
Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...
Here’s the “spiritual successor” to MPM’s Streets of Old Milwaukee, “Milwaukee Revealed”
It's Milwaukee/414/MKE Day, so the Milwaukee Public Museum is giving the public a sneak peak at the "spiritual successor" to its Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit, "Milwaukee Revealed." This is the third permane...
The Show on Riverwest Radio: The Milverine
Hosted by Kyle & Chris, The Show can be heard every day on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee. We interview people with stories to tell. Follow The Show on Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
The M...
Wisconsin area codes, ranked
Way back in 1947, AT&T started using area codes in North America. At first, a total of 86 three-digit codes were established in the U.S. and parts of Canada, and two of those were assigned to regions in Wis...
Beverages, pizza, and smooth cottage cheese: More rapid reviews of things we were sent
Every now and then, a company or an agency hired to do PR for a company will offer to send us something to try. Sometimes I’ll say yes and, if there’s a natural fit for our audience, I’ll write about it. Other ...
A guide to Milwaukee Day 2023 events and deals
More than a decade ago, a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and decided to turn that coincidence into a full-blown local holida...