First Impression: Strada Pizza
For whatever reason, the piece of property at the bustling corner of Lincoln and Howell Avenues has been known to attract a particular type of business: Mexican restaurants. After serving as Taqueria Azteca's b...
Josh Ballew makes the most of hosting
When last you read direct mention of Milwaukee comic Josh Ballew on Milwaukee Record, he was boldly joining us for "The Longest Brunch" at Ashley's Que. Yet beyond that ill-fated feast, Ballew's name can invari...
Scott Walker will use his experience battling Wisconsin protesters to battle ISIS
Thursday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., Wisconsin governor and presidential hopeful Scott Walker was asked how he would handle international threats to our country...
Let’s watch the anti-streetcar movement concede defeat, eat its own
It’s been just over two weeks since the approval of the Greatest Thing In Milwaukee History (not including Channel 12’s “Hello Milwaukee” song): a 2.4-mile downtown streetcar line. Yes, after months of bizarrel...
Messed up: The short, troubled history of Space Heater
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” - Vince Lombardi
December 7
Packers win over Atlanta Falcons, 43-37. Temperature: 34°
Linneman’s Riverwest Inn is packed with approximately...
First Impression: Meraki
On first glance, there isn’t a lot to distinguish Meraki, the new venture from Chad Meier, former chef at Blue Jacket. It’s doing the same thing, in the same neighborhood, as most of the rest of the Milwaukee r...
MKEPunk’s Martin Defatte discusses his new WMSE show
Since 2009, MKEPunk.com has done an admirable job preserving out-of-print music spanning four decades, numerous genres, and all corners of the state. So far, the two-man staff of Martin Defatte and Jeremy Ampe ...
Pablove 6 gives the gift of GGOOLLDD
If you read this site semi-regularly, take even a passing interest in Milwaukee music, or have turned on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee within the last hour, you assuredly already know GGOOLLDD. On the weight of its cr...
Liz Ziner resolves to keep the comedy coming in 2015
What's your New Year's resolution? In 2013, ex-improvisor and then-workaholic Liz Ziner decided she was finally going to throw caution to the wind and give stand-up comedy a try. Sure, it took her 10 months of ...
Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month
January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...
The 15 best comedy shows we saw in 2014
Today marks the beginning of Jim Gaffigan's three-night run of shows at Pabst Theater. For going on eight years, the food-obsessed comedian's late December appearances at the venue have served as the unofficial...
Neil deGrasse Tyson enlightens Riverside, explains how the universe is trying to kill you
Of all the unusual acts that have come through Milwaukee, never has their been one stranger than noted astrophysicist and ambassador of science (or perhaps, more correctly, SCIENCE!) Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr...
Johnny Beehner brings his homegrown humor out on the road
It's a quiet November afternoon in a residential neighborhood tucked between high-traffic causeways in Waukesha.
Inside his two-story suburban homestead, Johnny Beehner holds his infant son in one arm while ...
Extra Points: 15 Wisconsin athletes turned awful actors
If you were anywhere within the Wisconsin state border yesterday and had access to a computer, radio or television, you almost certainly learned the Hollywood gossip about Green Bay Packers players Clay Matthew...
Chris Chuzles breathes new life into Hot Coffin
This time last year, Chris Chuzles (second from left) was preparing to say goodbye to Disguised As Birds, the decade-old Milwaukee rock band he fronted. Not longer after the release of the band's outstanding sw...
A-side/B-side: Should there be stricter audience “rules” at shows?
In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.
Matt Wild: I...
Ramie Makhlouf: From sports talk to stand-up
For thousands of listeners spread from Fond du Lac to Kenosha and all around metro Milwaukee, Ramie Makhlouf's voice is a part of the afternoon drive time commute, a trusted source of athletic information, and ...
A Monday in Cudahy: My third-shift bar crawl
There’s no getting around it: Cudahy is Milwaukee’s punching bag. If you live anywhere in southeastern Wisconsin, you’ve undoubtedly heard dozens of jokes, putdowns, and generalizations cast in the direction of...
Pop-culture blind spots, Patti Smith, and the unique pleasures of the unknown
There’s a moment in The Blair Witch Project when Heather, stumbling aimlessly in the woods and refusing to admit she’s lost, calmly explains, “It’s very hard to get lost in America these days, and even harder t...
Greg Bach makes up for lost stage time
Stand-up comedy is widely considered to be among the most difficult forms of entertainment to master. Like anything, the earlier one starts, the more lumps he or she can incur on the way to developing a set tha...