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John Carpenter will perform music from his films this summer at Pabst Theater

April 4, 2016

// Over the course of five decades (!), master filmmaker John Carpenter has left an indelible and idiosyncratic mark on horror and sci-fi with films like Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trou...

Tucked Away: Kawa Japanese Restaurant

Tommy Ciaccio

March 31, 2016

// The 2006 evolution of Bayshore from "mall" into "town center" saw the monolithic, one-building format scrapped in exchange for an open-air makeshift village shopping experience. The change made way for g...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

// Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

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: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

// Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...

Grand Ave.’s upcoming name change, Summerfest’s 2016 headliners

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 24, 2016

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Record Recommended: March 21-27

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 21, 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 "Record Recommended" (patent pending) honor. Here are o...

Tracklist: 11 notable (active) comedians with Wisconsin roots

Tyler Maas

March 21, 2016

// On Saturday night, the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center played host to Jackie Kashian, a now-Los Angeles based comedian and—with all due respect to NBA journeyman power forward Kurt Nimphius—probab...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

// Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with “Real Pat McCurdy drinking song or fake Pat McCurdy drinking song?”

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 17, 2016

// Today is St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, all things green, and all things WOOO!!! YEEEAAAHHH!!! WOOO!!! Yep, a whole lot of folks are going to be buckling down and getting ...

Check out the incredible Arte Para Todos lineup

Tyler Maas

March 16, 2016

// Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—benefit was an absolute success. Over the course of three nights, 70 acts from all corners of Milwaukee's musical spectrum combined to play sho...

The Living Statues sidle up to the bar in slick, sexy “Valicity” video

Matt Wild

March 10, 2016

// Who among us, man or woman, hasn't sidled up to a bar one lonely night and stewed over love lost or discarded? And who among us, man or woman, hasn't done so at The Hotel Foster while the object of our o...

Here’s the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest

Matt Wild

March 7, 2016

// Spring is in the air, and with it, summer festival announcements. Summerfest has already announced a handful of Marcus Amphitheater headliners (including Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Def Fucking Leppard), a...

We went to every George Webb in the world on February 29

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

This article was originally published in 2016. Leap Year. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, Western civilization is still granted a 29th day in February once every four ye...

Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder talks feminism, the Midwest, cat films

Ashley Altadonna

February 29, 2016

// In Jennifer Reeder's film A Million Miles Away, we witness teenage girls communicating with one another via subtitles, and sometimes wittily cryptic emojis. They whisper plans of starting bands, revoluti...

Jason Isbell soars, celebrates at sold-out Pabst Theater

Rachel Seis

February 24, 2016

// Jason Isbell has been through a lot since his first few solo outings at Milwaukee's Shank Hall nearly a decade ago. After being kicked out of the seminal alt-country band Drive-By Truckers—allegedly due ...

Straight Outta Company Brewing: Jordan Lee previews Dre Day MKE

Tyler Maas

February 18, 2016

// Today marks the 51st birthday of Andre Young, who is better known throughout the world as Dr. Dre. The rap icon's influential career spans parts of four decades. Along the way, he's sold millions of albu...

Tracklist: 6 things to know about today’s spring primary election

Matt Wild

February 16, 2016

// Have you ever met someone who constantly drones on and on about how they refuse to vote, man? "Wow," you think, right after thinking, "Please be quiet." "In the time it's taking this genius to explain wh...

Off Base: The best, worst, and weirdest Milwaukee Brewers 2016 giveaways

Tyler Maas

February 12, 2016

// We've already come to terms with the overwhelming likelihood the Milwaukee Brewers are going to be very, very (and maybe historically) bad in 2016. Between everything new GM David Stearns has said, the v...

How hard was Sheriff Clarke trolling THIS week?

Matt Wild

February 12, 2016

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Let's be honest: we could run a column entitled "How hard was Sheriff ...

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