Tagged Cudahy

City Lounge is doing another (ahem) “World of Wizards” pop-up bar

April 18, 2019

Is there a more wonderful, willfully weird Cudahy bar than City Lounge? Okay, X-Ray Arcade is pretty wonderful and weird, but City Lounge has been doing wonderful and weird for years. Remember when Bubba Sparxx...

First Impression: Pizza Pete’s (Cudahy)

Andrew Sawicki

March 14, 2019

On our various sojourns to our friendly neighbor to the south, Cudahy, we're always keen to explore the dining options on offer. We're especially interested in the many strip mall eateries—those clearly niche j...

X-Ray Arcade will bring gaming, all-ages events to Cudahy starting February 9

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Last September, we told you about an all-ages music venue and mini-arcade coming to the former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge in Cudahy. Today, that exciting venture publicly announced its name and o...

261 Friday fish frys and counting: Light Palace Pub & Grill (Cudahy)

Caleb Westphal

January 4, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.I was supposed to be at a place in Milwaukee that doesn't serve fish frys at 5 p.m. I absolutely...

Burned-out neon letters in the Cudahy Arby’s sign, ranked

Josh Hoppert

December 21, 2018

A city just isn’t a city without a trademark structure in its skyline. Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Seattle has the Space Needle, Dubai has that huge building from Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,...

Music venue and mini-arcade to open in former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s in Cudahy

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2018

Last June, The Metal Grill—a bar and music venue at 5036 S. Packard Ave. in Cudahy—abruptly closed its doors. In its roughly four-year run, the venue hosted performances by such notables as Off With Their Heads...

Exploring a different side of Cudahy: Sheridan Park

Catherine Jozwik

August 15, 2018

While it's known more for its taverns and industry, Cudahy is also home to gorgeous green space and jaw-dropping Lake Michigan views.Spanning 132 acres, Sheridan Park, 4800 S. Lake Dr., contains an impressi...

Tucked Away: Filis Cafe brings big taste to a little place in Cudahy

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2018

Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...

222 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Joe’s K Ranch (Cudahy)

Caleb Westphal

April 6, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.How can I have gone a whole year of writing this column and not once gotten a fish fry in Cudahy...

Tucked Away: Lala’s Place treats Cudahy to authentic Mexican food, replica Brett Favre memorabilia

Tyler Maas

December 4, 2017

City Lounge is celebrating a certain movie by transforming itself into “The Dagobahr”

Matt Wild

November 27, 2017

A long time ago (April 2016), in a galaxy far, far away (Cudahy), gold record-certified rapper Bubba Sparxxx performed at City Lounge. During the show, Milwaukee Record spies managed to have a good time listeni...

The 9 inexplicable Gatorade displays at Cudahy’s Pick ‘n Save, ranked

Josh Hoppert

October 30, 2017

Everyone knows that Cudahy has a lot of streets named after meatpackers. Oh, you didn't know that? Well, yeah, there are a lot. Anyway, did you also know that the Pick 'n Save in Cudahy has a lot of Gatorade? Y...

The Metal Grill has closed

Tyler Maas

June 30, 2017

Last weekend, a near-sellout crowd packed The Metal Grill to see the likes of Off With Their Heads, Negative Approach, PEARS, Toys That Kill, The Copyrights, Direct Hit!, and more during Dummerfest. Less than a...

There’s a burger beef between two restaurants in Cudahy

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2016

Cudahy is a lot of things. It's often reduced to stereotypes (of varying accuracy) directed at its longstanding industrial identity. It's a vibrant and promising place where young families, business owners, a...

Bubba Sparxxx is returning to Cudahy on Halloween

Tyler Maas

October 3, 2016

Way back in February, we tipped you to news that Gold Record-selling rapper Bubba Sparxxx would be performing at the unconventional concert confines of Cudahy's own City Lounge on April 30. We then went to th...

I hung out with the mayor of Cudahy

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2016

//Last year, a few weeks after we posted about a particularly harsh video about West Allis (that, again, we had no part in making), I sought to see if the industrial Milwaukee suburb was indeed the "worst ...

I actually had fun seeing Bubba Sparxxx in Cudahy

Andrew Winistorfer

May 2, 2016

//There was a moment, about six minutes into Bubba Sparxxx’s 45-minute set at the City Lounge in Cudahy on Saturday, that I realized I was not going to be capable of writing the article you might expect to...

Weird! Bubba Sparxxx will perform at City Lounge in Cudahy on April 30

Tyler Maas

February 16, 2016

//Today in the "suburban bars booking past-prime rappers" beat comes news that the crown jewel of East Layton Avenue late-night, City Lounge, has landed a show with a formerly formidable "country rap" fore...

So, uh, Kip Winger is playing in Cudahy (again) October 15

Tyler Maas

August 12, 2015

Hey, remember when we told you that Kip Winger, the eponymous frontman of second-tier hair metal band from the late-’80s and early-’90s, Winger, was playing in Cudahy March 7? Pretty fucking weird, right? Well,...

So, uh, Kip Winger is playing in Cudahy March 7

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2015

Cudahy gets a bad rap. Sure, the industrial Milwaukee suburb is a little rough around the edges, but it’s also home to vibrant third shift nightlife (daylife?), an ambitious brew pub that might be the only plac...