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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...

The Jazz Estate will reopen in February with new cocktail program, “limited live music”

January 2, 2023

East Side staple The Jazz Estate (2423 N. Murray Ave.) recently finished up its annual monthlong series of The Commercialists playing the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas. The club is now taking January off, ...

Social Cig finds Jurassic love in colorful “Hot Red” video

January 2, 2023

We'll be the first to admit that we've been sleeping on Social Cig. The Parker Schultz-fronted indie-rock project had a big 2022, releasing the full-length CHEESEHEAD, receiving plenty of local acclaim, and pla...

Video game YouTuber Dunkey tops our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket, baybeeee

January 1, 2023

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...

Milwaukee Record’s Cat Of The Week: Midnight

January 1, 2023

UPDATE: MIDNIGHT WAS ADOPTED! ••• 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 populat...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2022

December 31, 2022

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. LPs AND EPs OF NOTE Black Lines, Din Sky - Antisummer Club SPC-700 Antisummer Club S...

Choose a champ in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket Final Round!

December 31, 2022

It's all come down to this. Following a month-long competition that found a star-studded collection of 64 Wisconsin-born celebrities facing one another in five heated rounds of voting, our Wisconsin-Born Celebr...

The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2022

Caleb Westphal

December 30, 2022

Besides the limited-in-scope physical exams I had prior to getting jobs in 2015 and 2021, I haven't had a physical in about 20 years. I'm 36 and have eaten fried fish every Friday for nine years. It was time to...

Majik Revisited: 5 reasons Don Majkowski is my favorite Packers quarterback now

December 30, 2022

While the Packers are still technically in playoff contention heading into the penultimate weekend of the regular season, we've found ourselves mostly looking ahead to the offseason and all the personnel-relate...

Cowabunga! We’re screening the original ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ January 25 at the Avalon

December 29, 2022

Hey dude, this is no cartoon: On Wednesday, January 25, we're screening the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater. Reserved seating tickets to the 7 p.m. screening...

Crafty Cow is starting 2023 with some awesome Milwaukee Bucks promotions

December 29, 2022

Crafty Cow wears a lot of hats. It's the premier place to grab a Juicy Lucy Burger in the region. It also makes arguably the best Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich in metro Milwaukee. More recently, the local rest...

Only 4 famous folks remain in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket

December 28, 2022

What started as a star-studded field of 64 Wisconsin-born celebrities has now dwindled to only four remaining famous folks with Badger State origin stories. The first four rounds featured more than 186,000 tota...

Wisconsin radio station WKZG is now “Weird Al Radio” (for a few days)

December 28, 2022

How do you follow up playing nothing but Christmas music for nearly two months? If you're Seymour/Green Bay radio station WKZG 104.3, you play nothing but "Weird Al" Yankovic music, of course. Yes, following...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve guide

December 27, 2022

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the endless onslaught of awfulness in an ever-worsening world, at least a few decent things happened. Come Saturday night, much of the city will hit the town to...

Times Cinema hops into 2023 with bunny-filled “Year Of The Rabbit” film series

December 25, 2022

As you may or may not be aware, 2023 is "The Year Of The Rabbit" in the Chinese Zodiac. Though that "year" doesn't technically begin until January 22, Times Cinema isn't wasting much time before hopping into 20...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (The Final Chapter)

Kyle Arpke

December 24, 2022

Chapter 9: The Richland Resolution In July, I challenged myself to bird in all 72 of Wisconsin’s counties before the end of the year. By the beginning of December, I had birded all but nine of them. After mont...

Only 8 Badger State greats remain in our Wisconsin-Born Celebrity Bracket

December 23, 2022

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...

The 23 Miami Dolphins starting quarterbacks of the last 20 seasons, ranked

December 23, 2022

This Sunday, the Green Bay Packers will travel to south Florida to try to keep their slim playoff hopes alive during a Christmas day game against the Miami Dolphins. The Fins are even more in the postseason hun...

Anatomy of a Wisconsin Snack Table