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Tracklist: 7 comedy specials filmed in Milwaukee

March 7, 2016

// Last Saturday, Pabst Theater hosted veteran comedian Kathleen Madigan for a pair of shows, which doubled as a live filming for her yet-untitled fourth comedy special. Citing reasons like the city's ease ...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

// 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...

Liar’s Trial get dark on new album

DJ Hostettler

February 25, 2016

// On Friday, outlaw country combo Liar's Trial will celebrate an album release three years in the making, as Songs About Mama, Trains, Trucks, Prison & Gettin' Drunk finally sees the light of day after...

Creator of “Tiny Face Trump” talks Trump, “Little Face Mitt,” Guy Fieri

Matt Wild

February 19, 2016

// Back in 2012, Milwaukee-area funnyman Reuben Glaser achieved a small bit of Internet notoriety with "Little Face Mitt," a website devoted to Photoshopped images of then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney...

The art of dreaming small, and why Shaquille O’Neal hates me

Brett Newski

February 9, 2016

Editor's note: The following piece originally appeared on brettnewski.com as "Why Shaquille O'Neal hates me." I was 13. We were on a family trip to Los Angeles to visit my Uncle Marcus. At the time, L.A....

Milwaukee development, the Shops of Grand Avenue, and a requiem for the underdog

Matt Wild

February 4, 2016

// There's a moment early on in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy when the novel's befuddled protagonist, Arthur Dent, is lying in the mud in front of a bulldozer, protesting the unexpecte...

Record Recommended: January 25-31

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 26, 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...

Christopher Porterfield channels early Milwaukee music hustler for “How To Write A Popular Song”

Matt Wild

January 26, 2016

// In 1893, Milwaukee-based songwriter Charles K. Harris penned popular music's first multi-million-selling piece of sheet music, "After The Ball," a sentimental ballad with a bittersweet twist ending. Thir...

Old Milwaukee: Turner Hall’s connection to the feminist movement

Erin TerBeek

January 15, 2016

// The four-story, Cream City brick building on 4th Street known as Turner Hall is well known for hosting a wide variety of shows that range from concerts to comedians to live wrestling. Turner Hall also ho...

First Impression: Asian Fusion

Matt Wild

January 11, 2016

// The East Side stretch of North Avenue is currently going through ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Most of those changes have been smart: a remodeled and expanded Ian's Pizza is terrific, the new East Library (and AT...

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

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2016

// 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-...

First Impression: Cudahy Burger Joint

Tyler Maas

December 31, 2015

// Don't sleep on Cudahy. Along with West Allis, the city holds the undesirable distinction of being southeast Wisconsin's punching bag, despite its "Generations Of Pride" motto and, frankly, not being all ...

Extra Points: The 13 worst Packers endorsements (we could find)

Tyler Maas

December 11, 2015

// The livelihood of most NFL players is mired in uncertainty. The league's Players Association claims the average NFL career lasts just 3.3 years, but in reality, every player could be one hit, a torn liga...

Reunited Naked Raygun has strong Turner Hall showing

Cal Roach

December 5, 2015

In some ways, the Naked Raygun story is a string of rock and roll clichés. They were massively influential on the U.S. post-punk era but, like their Milwaukee contemporaries in Die Kreuzen, they never really go...

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

// Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...

Whatever happened to that dumb “Love MKE. Blow Up A Car” thing?

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 3, 2015

// 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 ...

Comedy, tragedy, time: Jon Kuderer builds humor out of hardship

Tyler Maas

November 25, 2015

// In stand-up comedy, "the light" is a common tool used to warn a comedian their time on stage is close to running out. Milwaukee comedian Jon Kuderer estimates he ran the light by at least five minutes th...

Better vape than never: One man’s epic pre-ban e-cig smoke sesh

Tyler Maas

November 19, 2015

It’s likely you haven’t heard, but those who smoke electronic cigarettes may find their basic human rights going up in smoke—or more accurately, up in some type of synthetic vapor—very soon. According to a rece...

Wisconsin ranked No. 1 for trendy true-crime serial documentaries

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

// Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Netflix is jumping on that sweet, sweet Serial/Jinx bandwagon with a 1...

The Frying Dutchmen prepares for takeoff

Tyler Maas

November 9, 2015

// Tonight, The Frying Dutchmen will hit the road for the first time. Though tonight's soft opening outside Blackbird Bar will be the food truck's first time feeding the general public, the inaugural journe...

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