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Milwaukee Record’s 2022 guide to summer festivals, fairs, music series, more

May 2, 2022

It's been a long time coming, but it looks like the Great Milwaukee Summer...is back! Summer festivals big and small are solidifying their dates and lineups. State and county fairs are getting back in the saddl...

3rd Street Market Hall adds hot dog and sausage vendor Dawg City, open now

Matt Wild

May 2, 2022

And the "3rd Street Market Hall adds..." news just keeps on comin'. Today, downtown food hall 3rd Street Market Hall (a.k.a. the first floor of the old Shops of Grand Avenue, located at 275 W. Wisconsin Ave....

Beth Stelling to bring “The Petty Betty Tour” to The Back Room @ Colectivo on September 10

Tyler Maas

May 2, 2022

Beth Stelling is great. The Ohio native who got her stand-up start in Chicago is an accomplished writer (with credits on Crashing, The Last O.G., Another Period, and Sarah Silverman's I Love You, America), an a...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 1, 2022

May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we’ll be gearing up for block parties, weekly concerts, and a massive wave of occurrences be...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2022

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 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 Astronaut Husband - Angel Jar Angel Jar by Astronaut Husband Bl...

My First Band: Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!)

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 29, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); This week's guest is Laura Jane Grace! In addition to being the singer and founding member of Against Me!, Grace is also an author and an accomplished solo artist. Before setting out o...

Here’s the lineup for Tonic Tavern’s “Gigs 4 Good” concert series

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2022

Last summer, The Tonic Tavern celebrated its 12th anniversary by spreading good will in the community following the most difficult year in the business’ history with a new charitable music series. "Gigs 4 Good"...

R.I.P. Campbell’s Irish Pub, the last of Milwaukee’s ‘Bar Rescue’ bars

Matt Wild

April 29, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: no more Bar Rescue bars. And then there were none. Somewhere, Jon T...

Hardy Boyz Final Run comes to Wisconsin

Vince Morales

April 28, 2022

If there is one lesson to be learned from the most recent WrestleMania, it's that nobody is ever truly gone in professional wrestling. The event was highlighted by Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling his first...

Pete Donnelly of The Figgs talks new material, Wisconsin love, and music as a life force

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2022

Since being founded by then-Milwaukee percussionist Jon Phillip in 2011, Good Land Records has released dozens of albums, EPs, and 7-inches from a wide variety of Midwestern musicians such as Direct Hit!, Joesp...

Coming to Downtown Milwaukee this summer: lunchtime music series, staycations, more

Matt Wild

April 28, 2022

It's been nine long, hot, throbbing years since Downtown Milwaukee released a promotional video scored to a Peaches song about oral sex. "Cause I wanna take you downtown / Show you my thing, show you my thing" ...

This Milwaukee realtor’s Wu-Tang billboard ain’t nuthing ta f’ wit

Matt Wild

April 27, 2022

Take a break from diversifying your bonds and listen up: Milwaukee realtor Jon Frost is the Genius/GZA behind a new billboard that reads: "Low mortgage rates are Temporary. WU-TANG IS FOREVER." A mock-up of the...

Rollie Fingers, Minions, and bobbleheads: Your 2022 Lakeshore Chinooks promo schedule

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2022

Though baseball season is already underway in Milwaukee and the Brewers currently sit in first place a few weeks into the season, there’s another team in the region that’s getting ready to take the field. Yes, ...

Giannis and his family were the subjects of yesterday’s Final Jeopardy

Matt Wild

April 27, 2022

Another day, another Wisconsin-related reference on Jeopardy! Yes, mere days after the Culver's cheese curds popped up on the popular quiz show (we prefer the curds at Cousins' tbh), none other than Milwauke...

Get ready for fast picking and bar hopping at this weekend’s Riverwest Bluegrass Bar Crawl

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2022

This weekend was already shaping up to be one for the ages in terms of Milwaukee entertainment options. If a bevy of local and touring musicians and comedians, as well as large-scale events like Midwest Gaming ...

Ranking 20 video game systems for the 2022 Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

April 27, 2022

This article was originally published in 2021. It has been updated for 2022. The author stands by his rankings, though he has been playing more PS4 lately. Beginning Friday, April 29, and running through Sun...

Bobcat Goldthwait talks stand-up, filmmaking, his Hamm’s Bear tattoo

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2022

Bobcat Goldthwait has done it all. Over the course of his 40-year career, the comedian and actor who much of the world knows best as "Zed McGlunk" in the Police Academy film franchise has also fashioned quite a...

Guess who?

Matt Wild

April 26, 2022

Yep, it's Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, of course. Well, it's a Giannis mural, to be exact. The three-story, 54' by 56' mural is currently being painted on the east facade of the 600 EAST ...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (April 17-23)

Matt Wild

April 25, 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...

Hello. Joe Pera is coming to Pabst Theater August 24

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2022

Hello. Joe Pera—who just headlined two sold-out show at The Back Room @ Colectivo this past Saturday night—is returning to Milwaukee on Wednesday, August 24 to perform comedy at the Pabst Theater. The show will...

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