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January 3, 2026

In early 2019, Wauwatosa beverage bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits and Indiana's 3 Floyds Brewing joined forces to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with an outdoor celebration of beer done in defian...

Milwaukee Public Museum will close exactly one year from today

January 3, 2026

Just a friendly reminder, folks: As previously announced, the Milwaukee Public Museum will officially close on January 3, 2027. That's exactly one year from today. "We're thrilled to remain open for all of 2...

Milwaukee Record’s 2025 by the numbers

January 2, 2026

Now that a new year is upon us, we wanted to take one last opportunity to look back at 2025. Though last year was a particularly bad one for this city, country, and for much of the world (very much including th...

Milwaukee Film will screen all 18 episodes of ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ January 9-14

January 2, 2026

Visionary artist and filmmaker David Lynch died on January 20, 2024. (Bob Uecker died the same day. Talk about tough days.) Now, ahead of the one-year anniversary of Lynch's passing to a realm both wonderful an...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Patty Melt

January 2, 2026

broadstreet.zone(174293); Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pla...

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

January 1, 2026

broadstreet.zone(159870); Not too long ago, Milwaukee in January was pretty much a vacant, blustery tundra that was devoid of entertainment options. Between frigid conditions, uncertainties regarding Packers p...

Video and photos from the 2026 Polar Bear Plunge

January 1, 2026

Happy 2026, Milwaukee! Go jump in the lake! Yes, since time immemorial, hearty Milwaukeeans have celebrated New Year's Day by taking part in the Polar Bear Plunge—a.k.a. heading down to Bradford Beach and sp...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about Saturday’s N/A Day at The Cooperage

January 1, 2026

Milwaukee Record's fifth annual N/A Day will take over The Cooperage on Saturday, January 3. Drop by! Enjoy unlimited samples of more than 50 non-alcoholic products from more than two dozen local and national v...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2025

December 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE Angelica - EP1 EP1 by Angelica Brave...

Looking back on Josh Hoppert’s Milwaukee Record tenure (and revisiting his best article)

December 31, 2025

Today marks Josh Hoppert's last day with Milwaukee Record. After 10 years (!!!) with us and roughly another decade split between A.V. Club Milwaukee and an agency before that, he's moving on to another—far less...

Help Black Husky Brewing “Legalize Marinara” at its inaugural red sauce competition

December 31, 2025

Winter is a time for comfort food. While much of the Midwest bundles up and hunkers down for an extended period of darkness and cold, hearty and rib-sticking standbys like casserole, chili, and soup enter our c...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Best of 2025

December 31, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, December 30, 2025: B...

Bacon Fest, Mama Tried, and 14 other Milwaukee winter festivals

December 30, 2025

Even though autumn technically ended less than two weeks ago, it’s finally beginning to set in: winter is actually here. Christmas over and it’s already snowed a bunch. And there’s still, like, 11 more weeks of...

R.I.P. William Bush of Immortal Girlfriend, Black Challenger

December 30, 2025

The Milwaukee music scene is a lesser place with the passing of William "Will" Bush. Along with his younger brother Kevin, Will performed in the impossibly cool synth-wave project Immortal Girlfriend. As a solo...

6 reasons you should go to Saturday’s N/A Day “Dry January” Beverage Festival

December 29, 2025

In case you haven’t been made aware of it from our various mentions of the event, a growing swell of local press, and promotion from participating vendors, the fifth annual Milwaukee edition of our N/A Day "Dry...

The Newport is the Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025

December 29, 2025

And we have a winner! After six rounds and more than 115,000 votes (!), Bay View bar The Newport (939 E. Conway St.) has been crowned the Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025! Congrats, Newport! (And congrats to the...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2025

Caleb Westphal

December 26, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. In this column, Enjoy Every Fish Fry, I write abou...

It’s The Newport vs. The Heights Dream Library in the battle for Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025

December 26, 2025

This is it. The Finals. After five rounds and more than 64,000 votes, we're down to two Milwaukee things: Bay View bay The Newport, and Washington Heights mural The Heights Dream Library. But only one of these ...

The 13 Baltimore Ravens starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked