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

November 3, 2014

By the time the novelty of the leaves changing colors wears off, your Halloween costume is put away, and you reach the annual realization that you don’t actually like pumpkin beers, it’s already November. Once ...

Jayke Orvis returns to Milwaukee on his own

Jared Blohm

October 30, 2014

Milwaukee native Jayke Orvis reached a crossroads in 2007. While his band—the .357 String Band—was beginning to garner attention outside of Wisconsin, his personal life was crashing around him. He was going thr...

Ramie Makhlouf: From sports talk to stand-up

Tyler Maas

October 29, 2014

For thousands of listeners spread from Fond du Lac to Kenosha and all around metro Milwaukee, Ramie Makhlouf's voice is a part of the afternoon drive time commute, a trusted source of athletic information, and ...

A Monday in Cudahy: My third-shift bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2014

There’s no getting around it: Cudahy is Milwaukee’s punching bag. If you live anywhere in southeastern Wisconsin, you’ve undoubtedly heard dozens of jokes, putdowns, and generalizations cast in the direction of...

Milwaukee Public Museum spares no expense, opens Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park

Matt Wild

October 13, 2014

Back in 1993, director Steven Spielberg thrilled the world with Jurassic Park, the tale of out-of-control dinosaurs, the hubris of man, and Jeff Goldblum’s bare, glistening chest. Now, 21 years, two sequels, an...

Tracklist: 8 questionable local rebrandings

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2014

Within the last two weeks, a pair of Milwaukee bars—Y-Not III and Packy’s Pub—have experienced extensive renovations and thematic overhauls as a result of Bar Rescue coming to town. Now known as Nick’s House an...

Bar Rescue turned Y-Not III into a ’70s-themed bar called Nick’s House

Matt Wild

October 3, 2014

A few months ago, rumors flew that popular SPIKE TV reality-ish show Bar Rescue was searching for a Milwaukee bar in need of a makeover. The city buzzed with shaker-cocktail-infused excitement. Then, on Monday,...

ZAZ 8 2/3: 10 Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker missteps

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 30, 2014

Wednesday night, the Milwaukee Film Festival will pay tribute to the legendary Shorewood-sired filmmaking triad of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams with a 30th anniversary screening of Top Secret! T...

Lorde punches above her weight at BMO Harris Pavilion

Matt Wild

September 27, 2014

Ever since becoming a worldwide pop sensation at 16 with last year’s Pure Heroine, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has straddled the line between “aw-shucks” teenager and canny superstar-in-the-making. She’...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ self-titled debut album

Tyler Maas

September 22, 2014

We’re living in an age where an artist can conceivably wake up, write a song, record that song on a personal computer, and make the hours-old rendering available to listeners in any Internet-equipped nook of th...

We ordered Burger King delivery because that’s a thing you can do now in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 17, 2014

Back in 2012, fast-food giant and all-American tax-dodger Burger King rolled out a new, terrifying service: home delivery. No longer would slovenly and undiscriminating eaters in selected cities have to suffer ...

10 infamous Milwaukee concerts

Matt Wild

September 15, 2014

This article was originally published in 2014. In a perfect world, music or comedy shows go something like this: fans show up to a venue, artists show up to a venue and perform for fans, fans leave venue hap...

Gotham’s green and gold: Where NYC backs the Pack

Kate Briquelet

September 12, 2014

It's a green and gold beacon shining for New York's weary cheeseheads. Every good Wisconsin expat finds his or herself there at one time or another—maybe for the beer, the summer sausage, cheddar cheese and cra...

Mike Brenner vs. Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 8, 2014

// Last month, upstart beer baron and longtime provocateur Mike Brenner (you may know him from such films as The Great Bronze Fonz Dust-Up Of 2007) stayed true to his shit-starting ways by penning a doozy o...

On living in Milwaukee for half your life and never wanting to leave

Matt Wild

September 2, 2014

Beginning this fall, I will have lived in Milwaukee for half my life. I moved here in 1996, an incoming UWM film student with a part-time job and a questionable haircut. I played in an equally questionable rock...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 1, 2014

In Milwaukee, the end of summer is a bittersweet thing. The weather cools, the festivals shut down, and the Brewers start to blow it. But the end of the season also marks the beginning of the city’s typically s...

Is the hipster zombie apocalypse headed for Milwaukee?

Matt Wild

August 29, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • “What is a city for?” That’s the opening question of a recent Washington Post piece, “T...

Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee acts that changed their names

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 25, 2014

// Unlike one’s birth name, a musical artist has a say in what their project will be called. So if you wind up with a name like Diarrhea Planet, Anal Cunt, or Foxygen, you can’t blame your parents. It’s you...

Rusty P’s push the plot of local hip-hop

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2014

The tale of Milwaukee hip-hop is a largely unappreciated work. It’s one that’s often overshadowed by more voluminous renderings regarding the subject of similarly sized Midwestern markets. After a great deal of...

Misery Signals unleash Malice on The Rave

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2014

Playing an album front-to-back on that record's round-numeral anniversary year isn't exactly a new concept. In a music landscape cluttered with more bands than ever vying for your limited live music dollar, the...

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