Search Results for: "20 years later"

July 20, 2016

// It's tough to decide on a band name. Instead of risking potentially calling a project something regrettable (maybe something food-inspired or in honor of a public figure?) that might eventually wind up b...

Review: Elvis impersonator at a classic car show in the St. Francis Hardee’s parking lot

July 13, 2016

// There are a lot of factors that can go into making a show a "can't-miss" event. Perhaps an artist is at the height of his of her popularity or is making an ultra-rare live appearance after years of seclu...

Counter-Craft Night Market prepares to light up Riverwest

July 13, 2016

// Milwaukee's past and present are stuffed with maker-friendly arts-and-crafts extravaganzas. Influential events like Art Vs. Craft and Gallery Night And Day have laid the handmade groundwork for the Urban...

First Impression: Urban Harvest Brewing Company

July 11, 2016

// Once regarded for such amenities as its good-to-great Mexican restaurants, sustaining a pocket of night clubs, and, well, being pretty close to 2nd Street and all its nightlife, 5th Street in Walker's Po...

Paul McCartney still had something to prove at last night’s Marcus Amphitheater show

Cal Roach

July 9, 2016

// When Paul McCartney came to Miller Park in July of 2013, Milwaukeeans made some silent calculations and determined that this would probably be our last chance to see the Beatle perform. Some 43,000 of us...

“American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” gets its close-up at MAM

June 30, 2016

// There's a scene in the Coen brothers' underrated 2016 film Hail, Caesar! when brassy 1950s starlet DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is shooting a synchronized swimming film. She rises from the water, c...

15 (mostly extinct) East Side institutions on that North Ave. “Compass” sculpture

June 22, 2016

// Near the corner of North and Cambridge avenues on Milwaukee's East Side stands a curious piece of public art. A 22-foot-tall light pole juts out from a median in the middle of the road, its body adorned ...

We tried (and failed) “Wisconsin’s Largest Pizza Challenge” at Pizza Shuttle

June 9, 2016

// Milwaukee's East Side is changing. Though the historic neighborhood is becoming cluttered with cookie cutter apartment complexes, rent is on the rise, and chain restaurants continue to move it, a few bus...

Music review: The organist at Organ Piper Pizza

June 3, 2016

// For more than 40 years, metro Milwaukee has been fed and entertained by Organ Piper Pizza, a one-of-a-kind restaurant and music palace buried deep in the guts of Greenfield. As the name suggests, Organ P...

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

June 1, 2016

Though July comes close to matching it, there’s simply no month in Milwaukee that’s more jam-packed with entertainment than June. Festival season officially kicks off with PrideFest, which gives way to Polish F...

I humiliated myself in front of one of the dudes from Cherry Pie

May 26, 2016

// You find yourself backstage at a play, moments before your entrance, unable to remember your lines. A creeping wave of terror washes over you. Oh god, what am I doing here? What is this? I'm doomed. Mayb...

Urban Bay View will open next weekend

May 14, 2016

// Last May, we broke news that Tonic owner Paul Jonas would be opening a new Bay View bar called UC Jonas' in the site Gerry’s Diamond Tap (939 E. Lincoln Ave.) had occupied from 1987 through 2014. More th...

Tracklist: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows

May 12, 2016

// Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea o...

The last (alleyway) picture show? Paul’s Alley Cinema and the dying art of renegade showmanship

Justin Kern

May 5, 2016

// Paul Dorobialski saw the light. The blaring white light from a city utility pole, to be precise, the one that had been burned out or smashed or painted over since the early 1990s. The existence of this l...

Quintessential Tour brings world-class winemakers Milwaukee’s way

Kyle Cherek

April 18, 2016

// There was a time when Milwaukee was derided for its lack of culinary depth. We were long on Germanic food, nailed knackwurst, eintopf, and kartoffelpuffer, but according to the national food press, short...

Record Recommended: April 18-24

April 18, 2016

// Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...

Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video

April 12, 2016

// There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...

It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

April 7, 2016

// Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

Revisiting 4th Base, the West Milwaukee bar from the end of ‘Major League’