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Business To Business: Blackbird owner Holly Doar is in love with HOTBOX

Milwaukee Record Staff
March 10, 2023
With our “Business To Business” series, we’re offering business owners in and around Milwaukee a platform to acknowledge other local establishments and area entrepreneurs they appreciate. This week: Blackbird B...

On The Record Episode 88: Lady Business

Milwaukee Record Staff
March 8, 2017
Our first On The Record episode of 2017 covers a very specific event, but one with a message that can (and should) be put into practice every day. On March 8, more than 30 female-owned Milwaukee businesses prim...

Here’s the fall/winter lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series

Tyler Maas
September 9, 2016
In addition to offering close to 90 Wisconsin-brewed beers, having outstanding happy hour specials (seven days a week!), hosting a great selection of pinball machines, and being an all-around delightful pla...

Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

Matt Wild
March 15, 2016
// 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 di...

You’re invited to Milwaukee Record’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ set at Blackbird

Tyler Maas
November 17, 2015
// Way back in September, we announced the lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series, which finds a different musical act taking over the Bay View bar’s turntables from 10 until close e...

Come to Blackbird Bar December 5 for “From The Stage To The Booth” with Milwaukee Record

Milwaukee Record Staff
November 25, 2014
The second year of Blackbird Bar's "From The Stage To The Booth" DJ series has already seen beloved local bands like The Championship, GGOOLLDD, Heavy Hand, Canopies, and Fresh Cut Collective plopping down behi...

Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series returns for second year

Milwaukee Record Staff
September 25, 2014
Last year, Blackbird Bar launched the unique "From The Stage To The Booth" DJ series with a simple concept: allow Milwaukee bands get behind the turntables every Friday night and play whatever the hell they wan...
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