When chef Jonathan Manyo left his native Milwaukee to cut culinary teeth on the scene in California, Cincinnati, and Portland, Walker’s Point was but a hodgepodge of old Rust Belt decay, gritty artist types, an...
Joining the fashionable deep-fried downhome-ness of Maxie’s and the hash brown-y over-popularity of Blue’s Egg comes Story Hill BKC, restaurant number three from owner Dan Sidner and chef/owner Joe Muench. Here...
Wouldn't it be cool if music videos were real? Imagine a universe where a woman could be whisked away to an exhilarating animated world like the one in A-ha's "Take On Me", where Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat cou...
By now you’ve likely read the latest Packers-pummeling installment of Deadspin’s second annual “Why Your Team Sucks” series. Like it or lump it, the mean-spirited and brutally honest written roast has quickly b...
As far as Milwaukee music goes, it's hard to argue that up to this point, 2014 has belonged to Space Raft. The slightly-psychadelic rock outfit's, yes, spacey self-titled debut is widely considered to be among ...
Tiny dogs, shiny Beemer's, yoga pants, ballroom dancing, something called Zumba–fat guy fried dough and to-the-thighs icing might seem out of context in the pummeling, snowballing yuppification of the Old Third...
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• As much as we love Summerfest (and as much as we love continuing the tradition of gently m...
And on the sixth day, Summerfest rested. Yes, today is Summerfest’s day off, a day for relaxation, contemplation, and probably a good delousing. Nearly half of the Big Gig ’14 is behind us, with only six more ...
If the concept of a musical supergroup can be ported over to the world of food and drink, then the newly opened Goodkind (2457 S. Wentworth Ave., 414-763-4706) certainly fits the all-star bill. Owned and operat...
By the time you finish reading this sentence, you will have ingested 20 milligrams of fecal matter. Okay, maybe that’s not accurate (THAT’S A HARD MAYBE!), but there’s no denying that most of us consume some pr...
In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle important city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.
Tyler Maas...
It usually works the other way around. Traditionally, restaurants and bars test their mettle within Milwaukee's stringent city limits before casting franchise feelers to the suburbs. Bel Air Cantina opened in '...
Twitter can be daunting. Literally every nanosecond of every day, somebody somewhere feels compelled to expend between one and 140 characters tweeting about something–anything–they want to express that particul...
In the world of stand-up comedy, there’s no worse crime than stealing another comedian’s material. Even the implied heist of another comic’s jokes has pretty much sunk Carlos Mencia (not that we’re complaining)...
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you somehow managed to make it through another winter. The season wasn’t without its casualties, though. If you’re anything like us, the seemingly unending cold snap lef...