First Impression: Pizza Di Famiglia
Bay View isn't exactly hurting for pizza. Even with the recent loss of Little DiMarinis, the neighborhood is still bursting with a wide variety of pizza purveyors to suit almost any 'za craving. Places like Dom...
Mandatory Milwaukee: Boswell Book Company keeps the reading light burning on Downer Ave.
Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...
Milwaukee women DJs play out, speak up, and take over
Common DJ pet peeves include drunks bumping into turntables, drunks spilling drinks on turntables, and crowds complaining about the music.
Women who DJ in Milwaukee may face headaches such as these, along wi...
179 consecutive Friday night fish fries and counting: Barnacle Bud’s
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his record-in-the-making here.
During the warmer months I like to catch a few fish fries outside on patios. Being that this ...
The Gyros Stand sign is a daily, special reminder of Milwaukee’s charm
Today marks the final day of 2017's Downtown Dining Week, which exists as a means of helping to recognize, celebrate, and advertise the upscale and cutting edge food options available in the heart of Milwaukee....
Inside Milwaukee’s green rooms: The Back Room at Colectivo, ComedySportz, The Underground Collaborative
While countless people flock to Milwaukee’s numerous clubs, theaters, arenas, concert-equipped coffee shops, and other performance spaces every year, only a select few are allowed to peer behind the scenes. Unl...
Vermutería 600 (el bar at Hotel Madrid): An Ernest Hemingway-themed bar comes to Walker’s Point
It’s about damn time someone opened up an Ernest Hemingway-themed bar. The man is known as much for his literary masterpieces as he is for his drinking prowess. Some of the upper-tier drinking quotes are penn...
The Randoms 2016: Best pizza business inside of a bar (Bay View)
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With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary “best of” awards that do away...
Can you fucking believe it? Here are 13 more Milwaukee patios!
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For whatever reason, Milwaukee can't seem to get enough patios. Maybe the fact that more than half the year is spent hunkered indoors, waiting out the cold, gray, and altogether shitty conditions outside...
Best Pakistani Restaurant In The Basement Of A Downtown Office Building: Shah Jee’s
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Every Friday, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary "best of" awards that do away with pesky voting and feigned attempts at impartiality. Who will ...
Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)
Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations
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Last week, owners of Milwaukee's venerable and forever-awesome Fuel Cafe announced plans to open a second Fuel in Walker's Point. Not only was it big news, it revealed just how much Fuel's reputation had...
First Impression: Dock18 Cocktail Lab
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As much as Milwaukee leans on its rich brewing history, there has been an exponential uptick in the number of distilleries popping up around town in recent years. Great Lakes Distillery was at the forefr...
I tried (and utterly failed) Zaffiro’s first “Big Z Challenge”
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I'm incredibly sad to inform you, reader, that this is quite possibly my final post at Milwaukee Record. You see, I am dying. Probably very soon.
Okay, perhaps none of that stuff is exactly true. Howe...
First Impression: Sal’s Pizza
If you tweak the old expression “May you live in interesting times” to “May you live in interesting pizza times” (and why wouldn’t you want to do this?), Milwaukee surely fits the bill. The last few years have ...
Halloween Superstores Of The Damned: Discount Halloveen
If there’s one holiday season that depends almost entirely on “mood,” it’s Halloween. Christmas and Easter have obvious religious ties, the Fourth of July has obvious national ties, and Thanksgiving has food. S...
Luke Chappelle has been hiding paintings all over Bay View
They say art can be found almost anywhere if one looks hard enough. Of course, “they” are probably saying this while tripping balls on mushrooms or while pontificating to classmates in a freshman-level sculptur...
7 Milwaukee patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee
All winter long, Milwaukee waits in chilled anticipation of that first nice day of summer. When the mercury rises to a temperature we haven’t seen in months. When we stumble forth from our homes, drawn into the...
Tonic Tavern owner to open second Bay View bar
Since 1987, Gerry's Diamond Tap—a Bay View gem that was relatively hidden on the quiet corner of Logan and Lincoln avenues—was a quaint and character-laden South Shore dive where a diverse selection of neighbor...
First Impression: Xankia
One of the boons to living anywhere long enough is getting to know the hidden gems. Settle for a decade in even a mediocre food ’burg and you should be able to impress dates and out-of-towners with ethnic pearl...