Wonder Bar has closed
UPDATE (7/18/23): As expected, 5520 W. Vliet will be the new site of Biersal, a bar for which service industry veteran Eric Gutbrod was recently raising funds to open in Washington Heights. Read more about Gutb...
Milwaukee Fringe Festival announces 2023 artist lineup
Each August since 2016, Milwaukee Fringe Festival has showcased live acts from the worlds of theater, music, dance, and visual art downtown. Following the upstart festival’s encouraging first few years, organiz...
Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Linus
Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...
Jones Island Fest brings big time fun to Milwaukee’s smallest park
For more than 55 years, Milwaukee has been the home of "The World's Largest Music Festival." Since last September, the city has also been the site of "The World's Smallest Beer Festival (Probably)." The latter ...
Stuff We Missed: Audio from Harley’s 100th has some lady saying Elton John was “way too gay”
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.
• By now we all know the story of how Harley-Davidson celebrated its big 100th...
Business To Business: Mystery Room Mastering owner Justin Perkins appreciates us!
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: Mystery Roo...
Watch Green Day play “Longview,” throw cocktail wieners at 1993 Milwaukee Mega Jam
Remember the time Green Day played Milwaukee's MECCA Auditorium in 1995, and frontman Billy Joe Armstrong got arrested for mooning the crowd? Of course you do. How about the time the band played Milwaukee's Meg...
Milwaukee’s new 2% sales tax is how the city lives to fight another day
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On the morning of Tuesday, July 11, 2023, the Milwauke...
Brewed City: Joy Ride Cafe (Wheel & Sprocket)
Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs boast a wealth of great independent coffee shops, award-winning roasters, and other excellent area establishments where you can get a caffeine fix. We plan to celebrate som...
Soul Low announces Cactus Club reunion show, ‘UNEASY’ vinyl release
Today marks the 10th anniversary of UNEASY. Soul Low quietly released the debut album on July 13, 2013 and quickly became one of the city's most popular, most exciting, and most promising bands on their strengt...
Everything you need to know about Sculpture Milwaukee’s 2023-24 season
The sculptures are back.
Works from Sculpture Milwaukee's 2023-24 season, Actual Fractals, Act I, are now on display in and around downtown Milwaukee. Green Gallery owner John Riepenhoff is the curator for t...
Rod & Makk to bring the biggest goddamn mozzarella sticks you’ve ever seen to 3rd Street Market Hall
If you've read Milwaukee Record with any regularity in recent years, there's a chance you've happened upon our coverage of Alphonso's The Original and the West Allis pizzeria's shockingly massive "Lightning Rod...
Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee music of 2023 (so far)
Believe it or not, 2023 is more than halfway over. Weird! What's not weird: the continued talent of the Milwaukee music scene. Here are just a few of our favorite 2023 Milwaukee releases—records, songs, videos—...
Please Don’t Destroy talk tour, Milwaukee plans, Bucks Summer League before Turner Hall show
Over the past two years, Please Don’t Destroy have been making must-watch digital shorts that have become a staple of Saturday Night Live. Now the trio—Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy—are about t...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Dramatic Lovers (Live from Anodyne)
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist.
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I was a teenage(-ish) tour guide for Harley-Davidson
"Wah-wah-too-sah"
"Whoa-wah-toe-suh"
"Wuh-wuh-tuh-say"
- Folks from around the world on the Harley-Davidson tour, attempting to pronounce "Wauwatosa"
The Harley-Davidson plant that existed on 124th Street...
Summerfest: Attendance up 40% from 2022, will stick with three-weekend format in 2024
If Summerfest seemed pleasantly—but not overwhelmingly—packed this year, that's because it was. On Tuesday, Summerfest announced that a total of 624,407 fans attended the nine-day 2023 Big Gig. While still down...
Dill Pickle Donuts and Alligator Ribs: 100 new foods coming to 2023 Wisconsin State Fair
If our ongoing Wisconsin Fair Bracket hasn't gotten you sufficiently pumped for the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair, maybe this will do the trick. From August 3-13, folks can enjoy not one, not two, not 99, but 100 n...
Season 21 of Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’ will be filmed in Wisconsin
It's a big day for Bravo's long-running and wildly popular Top Chef: not only has the show announced its new host (season 10 winner Kristen Kish, pictured above, taking over for Padma Lakshmi), but it has annou...
Shank Hall will apply for all-ages license, has new carpet
We'd like to take this opportunity to share our personal thoughts about Milwaukee's Shank Hall:
Shank Hall is the "best music venue in town." We feel this way because Shank Hall has spent the last 34 years h...