Nite Owl’s 2023 season begins today
With longer days, a steady wave of festival announcements, and Bob Uecker’s voice on the radio, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee. The season technically started nine days ago, but something...
Break out those shoe boxes! 2023 Diorama-Rama is coming to Amorphic Beer April 25
Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world’s first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the “father of modern taxidermy,” created a muskrat colony diorama f...
2023 Milwaukee Film Festival is fast approaching. Here’s this year’s artwork.
It's miserable outside today but guess what? We're less than two months away from the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival! The 15th annual fest is set for April 20 through May 4 at the Oriental Theatre (and other thea...
Miscellaneous Milwaukee: Milwaukee Admirals / Lazer 103 hockey puck (1995?)
In Miscellaneous Milwaukee, we take a stroll through the aisles of Antiques On Pierce to unearth strange, curious, or valuable Milwaukee artifacts.
ITEM: MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS / LAZER 103 HOCKEY PUCK
YEAR: 199...
7 Milwaukee things to look forward to in 2023
A new year represents new beginnings, new opportunities, and new ways that things can crash and burn and leave us begging to shuffle off this mortal coil once and for all. BUT LET'S NOT FOCUS ON THAT LAST BIT. ...
Video game YouTuber Dunkey tops our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket, baybeeee
The people have spoken: wildly popular video game YouTuber Dunkey is the top Wisconsin-born celebrity. Bigger and better than Gene Wilder, Orson Welles, Heather Graham, Latrell Sprewell, Les Paul, Georgia O'Kee...
Only 8 Badger State greats remain in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket
What started as a star-studded field of 64 Wisconsin-born celebrities currently stands at just eight. Round 3 featured some close calls, a pair of losses by one-seeds, and Dunkey doing the unthinkable by oustin...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee Record stories of 2022
Milwaukee Record launched on April 7, 2014. Since then, we've published more than 9,000 stories and reached millions upon millions of internet-weary eyeballs. As always, our output this year was all over the ma...
Food, finality, and saying goodbye to the Milwaukee you once knew
"Don't look back" they say, as if it were that simple.
These three words of advice are meant to balm the wounds of leaving whatever it is behind that no longer fits into your life. For me, it was the city of...
Sustainable Milwaukee: The shape of (our) water
As summer in Wisconsin winds down, we savor a time when water occurs naturally in a liquid state. It's our beautiful reminder that those other nine months of snow and ice are merely an aberration.
The days o...
And the Milwaukee Summer Bracket winner is…
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Following more than a month of Milwaukee Summer Bracket competition, we finally have a winner. And that winning summertime staple is...Uecker On The Radio!
While each of the 63 othe...
Choose a champion in our Milwaukee Summer Bracket Final Round!
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It's all come down to this. Following a five-week competition that found 64 Cream City seasonal staples facing one another in five heated rounds of voting, our Milwaukee Summer Bracket...
Only 8 summertime standbys remain in our Milwaukee Summer Bracket
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With three full rounds of our Milwaukee Summer Bracket now in the books, more than 30,000 total votes have been cast and our hand-selected field of 64 Milwaukee summer standbys has bee...
Milwaukee will be featured in a “News Clues” category during tonight’s ‘Jeopardy!’
Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?
Who is Cavalier Johnson?
What is that snow pile outside the Marcus Center parking structure that Milwaukee Record meticulously monitors every winter?
We're guessing those ...
Celebrate the “414” with new Grace Weber video
In case you missed it, April 14 was Milwaukee Day—a.k.a. 414 Day, a.k.a. the day every business in town cooks up something they can sell for $4.14. In between the annual video love letter from Imagine MKE and o...
Rollie Fingers, Minions, and bobbleheads: Your 2022 Lakeshore Chinooks promo schedule
Though baseball season is already underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers currently sit in first place a few weeks into the season, there’s another team in the region that’s getting ready to take the field. Yes, ...
Meet Mocha Harris, the new face of Milwaukee Day
We're exactly two weeks out from Milwaukee Day. At this point, more than a decade has passed since a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (o...
Nite Owl’s 2022 season begins today
With the longer days, a steady wave of festival announcements, and Bob Uecker’s voice on the radio, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee. The season technically started nine days ago, but somet...
I found another West Allis restaurant that makes gigantic mozzarella sticks
It happened again. I went to West Allis this week and I came back with some laughably large mozzarella sticks. Before I get to that, let's go back in time a little bit.
In October 2020, I wrote an article en...
11 (more) notable comedians with Wisconsin roots
All week long, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival will be treating the city to loads of laughs. The 15th annual festival—which started October 3 and will run through October 10—will feature dozens of comedians perfo...