Milwaukee comedians prepare for battle

Tyler Maas
Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene is usually overflowing with support. Comics are quick to collaborate and share stage time with anyone capable of cracking a joke in front of a group of people, and open mics ra...

Man catches extra point: The Mike Pantazis story

Tyler Maas
The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears have one of the longest and most iconic rivalries in all of professional sports. Over the years, the match-up has yielded no shortage of memorable occurrences. Just looki...

Jayke Orvis returns to Milwaukee on his own

Jared Blohm
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
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
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...

Tracklist: 8 questionable local rebrandings

Tyler Maas
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...

10 infamous Milwaukee concerts

Matt Wild
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...

Mike Brenner vs. Milwaukee

Matt Wild
// 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...