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Personal pan’s labyrinth: A story of Book It! redemption

October 9, 2014

Like any literate pizza-eater who grew up anywhere near a Pizza Hut restaurant, I was happy to recently hear the pizza franchise was instituting a "Book It! Alumni," as part of the reading program's 30th year o...

The Suicide Machines were semi-operational at The Metal Grill

Tyler Maas

October 5, 2014

These days, a band can rarely be considered “broken up” for good. Even a member’s death doesn’t necessarily spell a project’s conclusion. Whether paid handsomely enough to return to the stage to sate nostalgic ...

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,...

Tim And Eric & Dr. Steve Brule do a great job in awesome Pabst Theater show

Tyler Maas

September 26, 2014

There was a moment near the end of Thursday’s sold-out Tim & Eric with Dr. Steve Brule show at Pabst Theater where John C. Reilly (deep in his Brule character) summed up the 150-some previous minutes with o...

Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series returns for second year

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 25, 2014

Last year, Blackbird Bar launched the unique "From The Stage To The Booth" DJ series with a simple concept: allow Milwaukee bands get behind the turntables every Friday night and play whatever the hell they wan...

Tracklist: 10 reasons to get excited for the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

September 22, 2014

// Beginning Thursday, September 25 and running through Thursday, October 9, the 6th annual Milwaukee Film Festival promises to be a can’t-miss event. A total of 276 films will light up the screens of the L...

Tyler Menz prepares to serve up laughs with The Food Truck comedy showcase

Tyler Maas

September 18, 2014

Tyler Menz is a busy man. When he's not shaping young minds in his day job, the teacher moonlights in a variety of comedic persuasions. He's a regular at open mics around Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago between...

Bob Mould turns back the clock and blazes ahead at Turner Hall

DJ Hostettler

September 18, 2014

There’s a 1985 Hüsker Dü live show from London on YouTube that will wind-tunnel your face if you sit through the whole thing. The band’s at the frenzied height of its powers, blasting through jams from New Day ...

Ladies: Let WTMJ help you treat your man’s “football psychosis”

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2014

It’s that time of year again. Football is back, which means it’s also time for at least one Milwaukee media outlet to inevitably decide to fill time and bandwidth with an antiquated guide to help its female lis...

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...

Bay View Bash 2014: A minute-by-minute recap

Tyler Maas

September 15, 2014

And then there were none. After yet another Milwaukee summer rife with festivals and block parties, Saturday’s Bay View Bash unofficially brought the celebration of the season in the City of Festivals to a clos...

Brewers put the “fun” in “extra security measures” with Bob Uecker video

Matt Wild

September 12, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • If there’s one thing Americans are good at, it’s suffering countless indignities in exchan...

Where stand-up meets meat: Sammy Arechar talks Hotdogs And Hamburgers comedy tour

Tyler Maas

September 11, 2014

At just 22 years of age and with scantly two years of stage time beneath his belt, Sammy Arechar is already on the shortlist of the funniest stand-up comics in all of Milwaukee. His inventive and eclectic style...

Faith in progress: Marriage equality, religion, and random rooming assignments

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2014

By now you’ve at least caught wind of last week’s decision by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals declaring Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban to be unconstitutional. There’s likely to be miles w...

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...

Drop kicks, dancing girls, and dangerous bands: A beginner’s guide to Mondo Lucha

Matt Wild

September 3, 2014

Since 2008, Milwaukee’s Mondo Lucha has whipped the city’s wrestling nerds (and closet wrestling nerds) into the turnbuckles with over-the-top, high-flying, masked lucha libre wrestling extravaganzas. The homeg...

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...

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...

WC Tank discusses his musical mixed media assemblage, Almost Forever

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

It would be a disservice to merely refer to WC Tank as a rapper without also making mention of the artsy emcee’s body of work that finds him providing visuals for nationally recognized rappers, making excellent...

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