Tag: East Side

Bullseye Records will close, reopen under new ownership as Irving Place Records

February 1, 2024

After nearly 20 years, change is coming to a certain record store at 1627 E. Irving Pl. on the East Side. But don't worry—the change won't be too drastic. The venerable Bullseye Records will close its doors ...

That Culver’s mural/sign on the East Side: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Milwaukee is currently in the throes of a mural renaissance. It seems a week can't go by without the unveiling of another gorgeous mural on a previously unadorned side of a prominent building. There are colorfu...

Bubble tea place coming to old Hotel Foster/Globe space, 132 steps from other bubble tea place

Matt Wild

November 28, 2023

Do you like bubble tea, Milwaukee? Yes, you LOVE bubble tea. How can we tell? Because bubble tea places have been popping up like, well, bubbles lately, especially on the East Side. There's Elite Boba MKE at 19...

Sip & Purr Cat Cafe will relocate to Brady Street in 2024

Matt Wild

October 12, 2023

Popular East Side "drink some drinks and pet/adopt some cats" spot Sip & Purr Cat Cafe, located at 2021 E. Ivanhoe Pl. since opening in 2018, announced Thursday that it will high-tail it to Brady Street in ...

East Side restaurant Tavolino closed “until further notice”

Matt Wild

October 3, 2023

According to a Monday-night social media post, Italian restaurant Tavolino, located at 2315 N. Murray Ave. on Milwaukee's east side, has closed. "It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Tavolin...

R.I.P. Louie’s Char Dogs & Butter Burgers?

Matt Wild

September 23, 2023

Two and a half years after opening in an East Side strip mall at 2336 N. Farwell Ave., sausage and burger joint Louie's Char Dogs & Butter Burgers appears to be closed. A sign informing customers that "we a...

East Side Maytag Coin Laundry will close August 27

Matt Wild

August 16, 2023

It's the final spin for a longtime laundromat on Milwaukee's east side. After 17 years in business, East Side Maytag Coin Laundry, 2009 E. Kenilworth Pl., will close its doors (and washers and dryers) on Sun...

Work has begun on protected bike lanes for East North Avenue

Matt Wild

August 8, 2023

If you've driven on the East Side stretch of East North Avenue in the last few days—you know, that stretch between Prospect Avenue and the east end of the Milwaukee River bridge—you've probably noticed that tra...

Here’s the lineup for Black Cat Alley’s free “Black Cat Rising” concert series

Matt Wild

June 27, 2023

If you dropped by Black Cat Alley during this year's Summer Soulstice Music Festival, you likely saw a block-long alley/outdoor art gallery teeming with people. That's because Black Cat—located between E. Kenil...

26 photos (and 1 video) from Summer Soulstice 2023

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 18, 2023

The East Side was alive on Saturday for the 2023 Summer Soulstice Music Festival. Three stages, oodles of food trucks, and oodles of vendors took over various thoroughfares and side streets surrounding the inte...

A look inside the future home of Pabst Theater Group’s upcoming East Side concert venue

Matt Wild

May 23, 2023

When the Pabst Theater Group opens its new East Side concert venue in early 2024, show-goers will find it has a lot in common with the venue it has replaced, The Back Room @ Colectivo. In fact, it's better to t...

Pabst Theater Group opening new East Side venue, leaving Back Room @ Colectivo

Matt Wild

May 22, 2023

After nearly eight years of hosting concerts at The Back Room @ Colectivo (2211 N. Prospect Ave.), The Pabst Theater Group will leave the East Side coffee-shop venue and open a new all-ages, "highly customizabl...

Here’s the musical lineup for Summer Soulstice 2023

Matt Wild

May 4, 2023

After two COVID years off, the East Side's Summer Soulstice Music Festival returned in 2022 with a slightly scaled-down look. Instead of a giant chunk of the North/Prospect/Farwell area serving as the fest's fo...

Egg & Flour Pasta Bar will leave Crossroads Collective after May 4

Matt Wild

April 25, 2023

The transitory nature of food halls not only makes it hard to keep track of which vendors are coming and going, it makes it hard to get attached to certain vendors. Still, Egg & Flour Pasta Bar has been suc...

Summer Soulstice Music Festival date set for 2023

Press Release

March 28, 2023

Summer Soulstice Music Festival Date Set for 2023 Milwaukee, WI – The East Side Business Improvement District “ESBID,” a partner in the City’s efforts to develop and support strong businesses and the community...

East Side locksmith Badge Lock & Key closes (and locks) doors after 45 years

Matt Wild

March 10, 2023

It's the kind of place you don't think about until you need it, and the kind of place you don't appreciate until it's gone. On March 31, after 45 years of holding down a small storefront on the corner of Far...

Coming soon: The glorious return of Koppa’s deli

Matt Wild

February 28, 2023

For decades after it opened in 1982, Koppa's (1940 N. Farwell Ave.) served as both a quirky East Side grocery store and a quirky East Side deli. (Could it be considered a bodega? Maybe!) Kitschy decorations, fu...

North Avenue getting new sports bar, North Sports Bar

Matt Wild

February 7, 2023

After sitting empty for nearly a year, a storied North Avenue bar/restaurant/venue space on the East Side is set to get a new business. Local restaurant industry veteran Raymond Sanchez plans to open a sport...

The inexplicable ‘Medieval Madness’ pinball machine at East Side Maytag Coin Laundry: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

January 26, 2023

Laundromats are quirky, liminal-space pockets of humanity, and the laundromats of Milwaukee's East Side are no different. There's that little laundromat on Murray Avenue, located between a convenience store and...

Upper East Bar set to reopen under new ownership

Matt Wild

January 2, 2023

East Side corner bar Upper East Bar (1732 E. North Ave.) has been closed for a few months, but that may soon change. License applications filed with the city indicate a new ownership group called Premier Clo...

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