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Getting excited for Milwaukee’s less-than-exciting mayoral election

March 31, 2022

On Tuesday, April 5, acting mayor Cavalier Johnson will become Milwaukee's next elected mayor. Turnout in the election will be low. Johnson's opponent, former alderman Bob Donovan, will lose in a 75%-25% blowou...

Meet Mocha Harris, the new face of Milwaukee Day

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2022

We're exactly two weeks out from Milwaukee Day. At this point, more than a decade has passed since a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (o...

Are you cool, man? We’re screening ‘Dazed And Confused’ at Avalon Theater on April 20

Josh Hoppert

March 31, 2022

If you missed last night’s screening of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping at Avalon Theater, we hope you did something equally constructive elsewhere, but you also missed out on the announcement of our April 2...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: March 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 31, 2022

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.) LPs AND EPs ...

Milwaukee author Rob Wieland talks cons, Kickstarter, new comic ‘Girls’ Heist Out’

Matt Wild

March 30, 2022

Rob Wieland is a self-described professional nerd. He writes about tabletop role-playing games for media outlets like Forbes; runs his own gaming group, Theatre Of The Mind Players, on YouTube; and has covered ...

Enjoy some videos of Milwaukee musicians performing on late night television

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2022

Last night, Buffalo Nichols—the solo project of Milwaukee native and current Austin, Texas resident Carl Nichols—performed on Late Show With Stephen Colbert. It was great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEw...

Marcus Performing Arts Center piles 7 great shows into 2022-2023 Broadway season

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2022

Milwaukee's famed Marcus Performing Arts Center has it all: A snow pile! Two rapidly-spinning advertising cubes! An upcoming "Weird Al" Yankovic concert! World-class musicals! Though the multi-faceted venue abl...

Vanilla Ice, Naughty By Nature, Rob Base will play Brewers postgame concert May 21

Matt Wild

March 30, 2022

Today in unlikely "rescheduled-because-of-the-pandemic" news, tireless '90s warriors Vanilla Ice, Naughty By Nature (featuring Treach), and Rob Base will play a Milwaukee Brewers postgame concert at American Fa...

Here’s the full Summerfest 2022 schedule, with dates, times, and stages

Matt Wild

March 29, 2022

Hey! Summerfest is set for three consecutive Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks in 2022: June 23-25, June 30 - July 2, and July 7-9. Here's the full schedule, with dates, times, and stages! THURSDAY, JU...

Nite Owl’s 2022 season begins today

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2022

With the longer days, a steady wave of festival announcements, and Bob Uecker’s voice on the radio, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee. The season technically started nine days ago, but somet...

Locust Street Festival, Riverwest Beer Run/Walk will return June 12

Matt Wild

March 29, 2022

In yet another welcome "IT'S BACK" announcement, the Locust Street Festival and Riverwest Beer Run/Walk will return to Locust Street—between Humboldt and Holton—on Sunday, June 12. The annual summer block party...

Josh Evert prepares for debut solo record, Arctic Circle artist residency

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2022

When he isn’t releasing music from his Dinner Set Gang project or recording much of Milwaukee’s music scene at Silver City Studios, Josh Evert—who you might also know from his years in The Fatty Acids and Jaill...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (March 20-26)

Matt Wild

March 28, 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...

Buffalo Nichols to perform on ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ on March 29

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2022

Less than a week after SistaStrings made their late night television debut while performing alongside Allison Russell on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, another artist with strong Milwaukee ties will perform on a different...

Summer Soulstice will return June 18 (with some changes)

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2022

As the world continues to make its way back to something resembling normalcy, the statuses of a few of Milwaukee's annual festivals are still in question. The Summer Soulstice Music Festival was among the handf...

Milwaukee breweries to team up for “River Clean Up Day” April 2

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2022

In recent years, Milwaukee breweries have been known to work together on things like beer collaborations and charitable events that improve the state of local brewing and help the community in the process. This...

My First Band: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 25, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); At just 23 years of age, budding blues guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram has recorded with Buddy Guy and Keb Mo, performed alongside Jason Isbell and Samantha Fish, and released tw...

429 Friday fish frys and counting: Mulligans Irish Pub & Grill (Franklin)

Caleb Westphal

March 25, 2022

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. This week: Mulligans Irish Pub & Grill in Franklin. The flashing red zeros on the St. Paddy'...

20 pictures of the new Bayshore Culver’s, which opens Monday

Matt Wild

March 25, 2022

Students of Milwaukee mall dining will remember that, prior to its 2019 closing, the food court in the Shops of Grand Avenue's had a Rocky Rococo AND a Culver's. Can you believe it? The undisputed kings of semi...

NLRB officially recognizes unionization of Colectivo employees

Matt Wild

March 25, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: the unionization of Colectivo. • Following a vote, an initial 99-99...

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