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      August 10, 2026
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Sugar Maple will transform into a Studio Ghibli “immersive experience” October 20-23

Matt Wild
September 9, 2022
To name just a few of the films from Japanese animation film studio Studio Ghibli is to name some of the greatest animated films of all time: Grave Of The Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spiri...

Brewers stuff to talk about other than the postseason: restaurant renovations and golf!

Matt Wild
September 9, 2022
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Your Milwaukee Brewers pulled off a nice two-win doubleheader against the Sa...

Here’s the full Bay View Bash entertainment lineup, vendor list, and everything else you need to know

Tyler Maas
September 8, 2022
Even though most of Milwaukee’s major festivals are now in the rear view mirror, one of the city’s biggest and best undertakings is still on the horizon. Yes, Bay View Bash will make its long-awaited return to ...

Ahead of 95th anniversary week, Landmark Lanes gets new marquee

Matt Wild
September 8, 2022
East Side staple and if-these-walls-could-talk "underground city" Landmark Lanes (2220 N. Farwell Ave.) is currently preparing for its big 95th anniversary week, September 26-30. The celebrations will include a...

East Side Bar And Grill planned for former Seoul space on Prospect Avenue

Matt Wild
September 8, 2022
A new bar and grill is planned for the East Side. It's called, appropriately enough, East Side Bar And Grill. The business is located in the former Seoul Korean Restaurant space at 2178 N. Prospect Ave. Lice...

Gear up for fall and buy a Milwaukee Record hoodie (for a limited time!)

Milwaukee Record Staff
September 7, 2022
Now that Labor Day is behind us and summer's remaining days are dwindling, it's time to accept the harsh reality that fall is coming. Since autumn is right around the corner, we wanted to help you prepare for c...

Watch Trapper Schoepp (and Leroy the dog) take a tour of Milwaukee in “I Am A Rider” video

Matt Wild
September 7, 2022
Some Milwaukee songs and videos practically bleed Milwaukee. Others are literally called "Milwaukee." Back in 2019, tireless Milwaukee troubadour Trapper Schoepp delivered a Milwaukee-heavy video for his Bob Dy...

Take a look inside Swanky’s, a Wisconsin bar in Downtown Denver

Tyler Maas
September 7, 2022
This afternoon, the Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies will wrap up their season series with a game at Coors Field. Approximately two blocks away from the ballpark, there's a long-running Downtown Denver ba...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 21 – September 3)

Matt Wild
September 6, 2022
Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Palomino will reopen its bar on weekends, beginning this Friday

Matt Wild
September 6, 2022
Two months after announcing a temporary closure, Bay View bar-restaurant staple Palomino (2491 S. Superior St.) will reopen its bar on weekends, beginning Friday, September 9. The news was revealed via socia...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants to make sure every Wisconsinite can watch the Packers on TV

Matt Wild
September 6, 2022
Being able to settle in on Sundays (or Mondays, or Thursdays, or whenever) and watch the Green Bay Packers on television is every Wisconsinite's god-given right. But for roughly 415,000 Packers fans living in 1...

Awkward Nerd Book Fair brings local literature, drinks, “geekery” to The Cooperage

Tyler Maas
September 5, 2022
Any '80s, '90s, and early 2000s kids reading this article surely recall Scholastic Book Fairs. The pop-up book marketplaces—which, if memory serves, usually took place at elementary schools—were a great place t...

IDLES treat Riverside Theater to ferocious, fun performance

Cal Roach
September 4, 2022
Americans who lived through the rise and fall of grunge might smell something familiar in the media spat that’s gone on for the past few years between British alt-rock band IDLES and its detractors, who accuse ...

My First Band: Tim Kasher (Cursive, The Good Life)

Milwaukee Record Staff
September 2, 2022
broadstreet.zone(81112); This week's guest is Tim Kasher. In addition to fronting legendary Omaha emo outfit Cursive, Kasher can be heard in The Good Life and on his four solo albums. Over the course of his ne...

We’re screening ‘The Wedding Singer’ at Avalon Theater on September 28 and you’re reaping all the benefits

Tyler Maas
September 1, 2022
September is a month that's synonymous with weddings. The month—which straddles the end of summer and the start of autumn—is among the most popular times for people to tie the knot. With that in mind...and beca...

Welcome to September: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Milwaukee Record Staff
September 1, 2022
September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee’s festival season. Though the seasonal shift brings about a decline of outd...

16 pictures of the old Columbia Hospital at UWM that may or may not be demolished

Matt Wild
September 1, 2022
The fate of the former Columbia Hospital on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3321 N. Maryland Ave.) seems to change every other week. UWM bought the six-building complex in 2010 for $20.2...

Reminder: Doors Open Milwaukee is September 24-25, will include new sites like Fiserv Forum

Matt Wild
September 1, 2022
One of Milwaukee's most unique events is Historic Milwaukee's annual Doors Open Milwaukee, a citywide "open house" where folks can explore the normally off-limits insides of various theaters, museums, art galle...

“Milwaukee is just so real to me. Milwaukee is a star.” 9 Milwaukee questions with Neko Case

Sahan Jayasuriya
August 31, 2022
Neko Case has been kind to Milwaukee, always paying us a visit while touring with one of her many musical outlets. This Friday, she returns to The Pabst Theater, with up-and-coming Madison indie outfit Disq sup...

Looming Gannett layoffs highlight importance of local news, Wisconsin’s precarious position

Dan Shafer
August 31, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe. In Wisconsin, there are 11 newspapers owned by Gannett...
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