First Impression: Point Burger Bar
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With so, so many great breweries in Milwaukee and the exponential growth in excellent craft beer being made throughout the country, it's tough not to empathize with some Wisconsin brewing operations tryi...
Kevin Allison reaps rewards from RISK!
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In the years since being a cast member on the seminal sketch show The State, Kevin Allison fell on some tough times. As his comedy cohorts were amassing credits, he battled social anxiety, stage fright, ...
The Frying Dutchmen prepares for takeoff
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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...
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...
Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series returns
Blackbird is an all-around great place. The Bay View bar—which, truth be told, was one of the first places to advertise with us—boasts a staggering selection of Wisconsin-brewed beer, more pinball machines than...
Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode
The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...
Label of love: Dusty Medical Records turns 10
These days, it takes little more than a name, some MP3 files, and a Bandcamp page to have a record label. With more bands than ever and less financial at risk in an exceedingly digital modern music landscape, i...
First Impression: Amilinda
For every thousand or so of the soulless calorie dispensaries that make up the corporeal restaurant world, there’s at least one Amilinda (315 E Wisconsin Ave., 414-369-3683): an ephemeral kitchen presence, lurk...
First Impression: La Masa Empanada Bar
Last Saturday, as thousands of people were enjoying music, beverages, BMX demonstrations, and seeing The Lizard Guy in his natural habitat at the Brady Street Festival, one business was celebrating its soft ope...
We uploaded some Bob Uecker photos to Google’s “Deep Dream” network
Last month, Google announced a research team was experimenting with "training" artificial neural networks. They called it, "Inceptionism" and, um, we don't really understand it entirely beyond that. (Gizmodo do...
Regal definition: An audience with the queen of the Bristol Renaissance Faire, Jenny Higgins
By the time July rolls around, the itch to cram in as much summer fun as humanly possible usually means one thing: a road trip. For many Milwaukeeans, scratching that itch involves heading down to the Illinois ...
The SummerRest: 15 non-Summerfest recommendations
With tonight’s Rolling Stones show, Summerfest has (unofficially) arrived. The Big Gig gets into full swing come Wednesday, bringing more than 800 acts to 11 stages—not even counting those weird side stages nea...
Dummerfest 2015’s most memorable moments
On Saturday, as many Milwaukeeans were enjoying the Summer Soulstice music festival, seeing bands at Lakefront Festival Of The Arts, or experiencing any of the other events happening within city lines on the pa...
A decade of intensity: Get Rad looks back on 10 years
During its first five-plus years of existence, Get Rad was indisputably among the loudest, craziest, most intense, and least constrained bands in Milwaukee. Not long after the release of the great 2010 record I...
Locust Street Festival 2015: A minute-by-minute recap
If the 39th installment of the Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Sigmund Snopek proved anything—beyond the fact that even dogs are wearing MilwaukeeHome shirts these days—it was that bad weather i...
Space Cake, attic squatting, and unhappy endings: Brett Newski’s European tour diary
You will not find a more worldly Milwaukee musician than Brett Newski. The well-traveled folk rocker (and former Vietnam resident) hits the road so often and ventures to such distant destinations that he makes ...
Walt Hamburger’s preparation meets opportunity
Walt Lontkowski—better known to Wisconsin punk aficionados as "Walt Hamburger"—is in the midst of a "rock and roll fantasy camp" moment. The Appleton area musician (who went to elementary school in Riverwest) i...
Tracklist: Craig Counsell and 10 other WI athletes who took over their former team
After an absolutely dreadful and MLB-worst 7-18 start to the season, the Milwaukee Brewers gave manager Ron Roenicke his walking papers Sunday. The following day, Craig Counsell was signed to a three-year deal ...
I watched The Morning Blend for a week and I feel pretty good about that
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I have a not-so-scandalous confession to make: I don’t watch a lot of TV. Not in an “I don’t even own a TV” kind of way, but more in an “Eh, I watch a few shows on Netflix and that’s about it” kind of wa...
Nathan Timmel turns loneliness into literature
Back in December, we introduced you to Johnny Beehner, a Milwaukee based stand-up comedian who makes a living in comedy clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada. Like Beehner, Iowa City-based career comic Nathan Ti...