Record Recommended: November 16-22
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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...
Fourth annual Mad Planet Ugly Sweater Holiday Party lineup, date announced
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In its first three years, Mad Planet’s Ugly Sweater Holiday Party has combined some of Milwaukee’s best musical acts and worst seasonal garments into a wonderful yuletide event that has become as much a ...
Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture?
UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more.
UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...
Extra Points: 69 things that happened since the last time the Detroit Lions won at Lambeau Field
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To paraphrase the dude from Staind, it's been a whiiiiiiiile since the Detroit Lions have beat the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. More specifically, Detroit hasn't emerged victorious from a game in ...
Mozzaluna Pizzeria & Ristorante and local award hate
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Annual local award season has come to Milwaukee in full force. Not coincidentally, local award backlash season arrived in Milwaukee just nanoseconds later. The party paramount in the crosshairs of crotch...
Sheriff Clarke parked in a handicapped-accessible spot at the War Memorial on Veterans Day because he’s lazy and morally bankrupt
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When he’s not busy squeezing out liberal-baiting tweets so tired and by-the-numbers they make Rush Limbaugh look like Oscar fucking Wilde, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. is keeping Milwauk...
Get fucked up (in more ways than one) with the video for Soul Low’s “Always Watchin’ Out”
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Soul Low is the kind of band you’d like to take home to your mom: youthful, charming, dapperly dressed. But even nice guys (or, in the parlance of Soul Low, nice dads) have a hard time meeting that speci...
Record Recommended: November 9-15
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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...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 9: Walter’s On North
In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...
Where are they building luxury apartments you’ll never be able to afford THIS week?
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Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Where are ...
Let’s talk about excessive guest lists at shows, Milwaukee
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Earlier this week, Milwaukee musician Klassik, fresh from a Halloween show at Company Brewing, took to Twitter to speak his mind about a seemingly innocuous subject: guest lists at shows. Here’s what he ...
On The Record Episode 42: Milwaukee punk rock
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Punk rock isn’t dead. In fact, it’s in quite good shape in and around Milwaukee these days. Between punk and hardcore bands like Direct Hit!, Expire, and Tenement currently making waves across state line...
Welcome to November: Here’s what you’re doing this month
November. Summer is now far in the rear view mirror. Your Halloween costume has been washed, de-vomited, and stored away for later use. The extra hour of sleep you enjoyed over the weekend as a result of daylig...
Extra Points: Projecting John Kuhn’s next beard
Congratulations! If you're reading this, you survived the Packers bye week. Hopefully you found some bullshit to help occupy you last Sunday as you waited for the green and gold to return to action. Green Bay p...
Update: Rejoice, ladies, for Wisconsin is one step closer to legalizing blaze pink hunting gear
UPDATE: Yes, the dreams of millions of Wisconsin women who have long refrained from deer hunting due to the decidedly un-ladylike clothing requirements are coming closer to reality. According to the Journal Sen...
Bill Burr takes Riverside Theater on a wild ride
In this ongoing epoch of never-before-seen comic saturation that finds Netflix and iTunes releasing new stand-up specials at an astounding rate, every person who has ever told a joke beginning a podcast to talk...
Yep, Milwaukee showed up on another “most dangerous cities in America” list
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Is it Friday? Yes, it’s Friday. That means it’s time to put yet another week ...
Tucked Away: Blue Star Cafe
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...
The Ex and Ken Vandermark join forces at…the Sugar Maple
For those unfamiliar with the sort of experimental jazz and noise shows that take place in the tiny brick cube that is the Sugar Maple’s back room, the news that legendary anarcho-punks The Ex were kicking off ...
Midnight Reruns’ latest is a ‘Force’ to be reckoned with
While the band's unpolished, distorted, and often self-deprecating songs routinely put its name in close proximity to the term "slacker," Midnight Reruns aren't lazy. In fact, they work really hard. Lately, the...