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21 Milwaukee events to help heat up winter

December 18, 2018

Even though it's already snowed a few times, the daylight hours have dwindled significantly, and the Packers are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, it's technically not even winter yet. Yes, the...

Get in the yuletide spirit with 7 more Milwaukee holiday releases

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2018

Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of amazingly tolerable holiday songs. There list grows more and mor...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 3, 2018

It's tempting to call it a day for "the album." After all, who has time to sit down and listen to an entire record? Hell, who has time to record one? And yet, year after year, "the album" remains something that...

8 reasons you should jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon

Dan Shafer

November 27, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, if you wandered into a Milwaukee bar between October and April with the hopes of watching the local professional basketball team, you’d probably have had to ask the bartender, “h...

Football, food, family: Milwaukee chefs talk about their game day traditions

Tyler Maas

November 23, 2018

Though Thanksgiving is famously regarded as a time to enjoy family, food, and football, that winning trinity isn't just reserved for one Thursday every November. Here in Wisconsin, friends, relatives, and stran...

“Packers won the Super Bowl!” A brief history of Wisconsin references in ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’

Matt Wild

November 13, 2018

One of the many joys of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is catching a particularly obscure riff that seems custom-made for only you. Jokes about little-seen films abound. Nods to half-forgotten moments in history ...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 1, 2018

November. Summer is now far in the rear view mirror. By now, your Halloween costume has been washed, de-vomited, and stored away for later use. Save for Thanksgiving, November doesn’t offer much. It’s the conti...

“If the ghost shows again, we are all going to fight together”: The Pfister Hotel All-Star Ghost Team

Tea Krulos

October 9, 2018

October is a time for baseball and spookiness, and nowhere on Earth do the two collide quite like Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. The historic hotel, completed in 1893 by Charles Pfister, has long been rumored to be...

Relive 25 years of Colectivo with this illustrated timeline

Matt Wild

September 12, 2018

Milwaukee is in the throes of change: new buildings replacing old buildings, new businesses replacing old businesses, new spaces "activating" old spaces. It's a lot to take in. For decades, however, there's bee...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 2, 2018

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee’s festival season. Though the seasonal shift essentially puts a nine-month ...

40 things to do in Milwaukee during the 40 remaining days of summer

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 13, 2018

Though you’ve likely spent much of the summer to this point screaming at strangers while navigating through road construction, it’s still comforting to know that of the 90-plus days in the season, 40 still rema...

236 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Cliff’s Boathouse Cafe (Racine)

Caleb Westphal

July 13, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Do you remember last week, when I almost died in the heat at Summerfest, while trying all ...

The best Milwaukee albums of 2018 (so far)

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 12, 2018

Believe it or not (we choose not), 2018 is more than halfway over. With that in mind, we thought it was a perfect time to listen to some music and celebrate the year's first six months by rounding up the best M...

Join us at Colectivo’s Lakefront Cafe this summer for “Friday Nite Music”

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2018

Colectivo Coffee has a wide variety of cafes spread across metro Milwaukee (and a few in Madison and Chicago), each with its own look, feel, and unique personality. However, as far as location and view are conc...

This Is It has been it for 50 years, and shows no signs of slowing down

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee’s new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 2018

In its first three years, Arte Para Todos raised approximately $60,000 for Milwaukee school art programs through the selfless efforts of musicians and visual artists bringing their talents to dozens of local ba...

The .357 String Band’s ‘Fire & Hail’ turns 10

Jared Blohm

April 26, 2018

On April 26, 2008, a capacity crowd packed Mad Planet for the release of the .357 String Band's second album, Fire & Hail. Although the Milwaukee four-piece had been building a reputation as a genre-shatter...

Here’s the 2018 Cream City Comedy Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2018

In its first two years, Cream City Comedy Festival staged a total of 25 shows with more than 100 comedians from Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison, and New York for a few days each May. Even more impressive than the i...

Four “part 4″s more enticing than Tom Barrett running for governor for a fourth time

Matt Wild

April 19, 2018

Earlier this week, in "You have GOT to be shitting me" news, sources confirmed that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett "isn't ruling out" running for Wisconsin governor in 2018. This despite the fact that Barrett has ...

223 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: The Cellar Pub & Grill (Oak Creek)

Caleb Westphal

April 13, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. After musing last week about how I never get to Cudahy for fish, I started thinking about my rel...

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