City Life

January 10, 2023

For a period of nine years, Burnhearts Mitten Fest has offered a one-day escape from the seasonal doldrums that plague Wisconsinites in wintertime. The February festival brings people together in a two-block st...

Mama Tried, Wückfinter and 11 other Milwaukee winter festivals

January 10, 2023

Even though autumn technically ended three weeks ago, it's finally beginning to set in: winter is actually here. The holidays are over, the Packers season has ended, and we've already experienced a few stints o...

Milwaukee Public Museum would like to clarify the whole “entire exhibits won’t be moving over” thing

January 10, 2023

Following a flood of not-thrilled online comments over the news that "entire exhibits" from the current Milwaukee Public Museum—like the Streets of Old Milwaukee—"won't be moving over" to the museum's future lo...

“This would be a tremendous asset”: 11-story hotel planned for Brady and Farwell

January 9, 2023

Developers Jeno Cataldo and Michael Klein have something big planned for Brady Street: an 11-story hotel that would occupy the corner lot of Brady and Farwell. You know, that Farwell Point building that used to...

Milwaukee Public Museum says “entire exhibits” like Streets of Old Milwaukee “won’t be moving” to new location

January 8, 2023

UPDATE (1/10/23): Milwaukee Public Museum would like to clarify the whole "entire exhibits won't be moving over" thing. Pockets of the Milwaukee internet are currently in a tizzy over the Milwaukee Public Mu...

Milwaukee Record’s Cats Of The Week: Billie and Will

January 8, 2023

UPDATE: BILLIE AND WILL HAVE BEEN ADOPTED! ••• 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 th...

Get in the winter spirit with our new “Snow Pile” T-shirt

January 4, 2023

If you read Milwaukee Record with any regularity (or follow us on social media), chances are you've encountered more than a few pictures of a certain downtown snow pile. Yes, we've been tracking this ever-fluct...

7 Milwaukee things to look forward to in 2023

January 3, 2023

A new year represents new beginnings, new opportunities, and new ways that things can crash and burn and leave us begging to shuffle off this mortal coil once and for all. BUT LET'S NOT FOCUS ON THAT LAST BIT. ...

Terrible Job, Wisconsin! Insurance site says we’re the 4th-worst driving state (which seems low)

January 3, 2023

Back in 2021, we wrote about Milwaukee's nasty habit of passing on the right, a.k.a. the "Milwaukee Slide," a.k.a. "lol it's called 'baselining' you out-of-touch doofuses." And though the "Milwaukee Slide" / "b...

Here’s the full text of Gov. Tony Evers’ second inaugural address

January 3, 2023

Governor Tony Evers was sworn in on Tuesday for his second term as the 46th governor of the state of Wisconsin. The event took place during Wisconsin's 2023 Inauguration Ceremony in Madison. Former Wisconsin go...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Thinking about doing the Polar Bear Plunge and then finally doing it

January 2, 2023

Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become iconic. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: finally doing the Polar Bear Plunge! Near the end of 2021, I wrote about ...

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

January 2, 2023

It wasn’t too long ago that January was pretty much a vacant, blustery tundra of Milwaukee entertainment options. Between frigid conditions, uncertainties regarding Packers playoff seeding, and the post-holiday...

Video game YouTuber Dunkey tops our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket, baybeeee

January 1, 2023

The people have spoken: wildly popular video game YouTuber Dunkey is the top Wisconsin-born celebrity. Bigger and better than Gene Wilder, Orson Welles, Heather Graham, Latrell Sprewell, Les Paul, Georgia O'Kee...

Milwaukee Record’s Cat Of The Week: Midnight

January 1, 2023

UPDATE: MIDNIGHT WAS ADOPTED! ••• 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 populat...

Choose a champ in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket Final Round!

December 31, 2022

It's all come down to this. Following a month-long competition that found a star-studded collection of 64 Wisconsin-born celebrities facing one another in five heated rounds of voting, our Wisconsin-Born Celebr...

Only 4 famous folks remain in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket

December 28, 2022

What started as a star-studded field of 64 Wisconsin-born celebrities has now dwindled to only four remaining famous folks with Badger State origin stories. The first four rounds featured more than 186,000 tota...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve guide

December 27, 2022

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the endless onslaught of awfulness in an ever-worsening world, at least a few decent things happened. Come Saturday night, much of the city will hit the town to...

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

Kyle Arpke

December 24, 2022

Chapter 9: The Richland Resolution In July, I challenged myself to bird in all 72 of Wisconsin’s counties before the end of the year. By the beginning of December, I had birded all but nine of them. After mont...

Only 8 Badger State greats remain in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket