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Listen to Chicken Wire Empire’s German tour album, ‘Live From Deutschland Vol. 1’

August 12, 2020

With a tireless work ethic and a show itinerary that—in normal times, at least—is typically overflowing with bookings, every year is an accomplished one for Chicken Wire Empire. That being said, it's hard to im...

Hey Milwaukee! Here are the election results for the 2020 Partisan Primary!

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 12, 2020

Hey Milwakee (and Milwaukee County)! Here are the election results for Tuesday's 2020 Partisan Primary! Below you'll find out who won, who lost, and who the winner will face in the 2020 General Election on Tues...

2020 Milwaukee Film Festival goes virtual, will be preceded by virtual Minority Health Film Festival

Matt Wild

August 12, 2020

The 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival will be an entirely virtual festival, Milwaukee Film revealed on Wednesday. The festival, set for its previously announced dates of October 15-29, will be preceded by another vi...

For what it’s worth, here are the road closures for the 2020 Democratic National Convention

Matt Wild

August 12, 2020

At the dawn of the new year, the 2020 Democratic National Convention was expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee. Everyone was going to cash in. Everyone was going to get rich. Now, months into a global pan...

All 19 Sculpture Milwaukee 2020 sculptures, ranked

Matt Wild

August 11, 2020

One of our favorite things is Sculpture Milwaukee, the "outdoor museum" of world-class art that has spruced up Downton Milwaukee every summer since 2017. And hey, despite the ongoing pandemic and everything els...

Let’s take a moment to appreciate how awesome the Milwaukee Mustangs uniforms were

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2020

For those of you who don't recall (or maybe never knew it in the first place), Milwaukee once was home to an Arena Football League franchise. Actually, the city was twice home to an AFL organization. The Milwau...

Sign up for a “socially distanced Milwaukee HORSE tournament” now

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2020

It's an understatement to say the summer of 2020 has been unlike any summer Milwaukee has ever known. Every festival and block party has been canceled. Wisconsin State Fair has turned into a drive-thru affair (...

Marquette poll: 69 percent of Wisconsin voters support mask mandate. Nice.

Matt Wild

August 11, 2020

The vast majority of Wisconsinites support the state's mask mandate—a.k.a. the mandate that requires everyone over the age of 4 to wear a mask whenever they're in public and indoors (except while they're eating...

MKE Music Rewind: Jaill, “The Stroller”

Tyler Maas

August 10, 2020

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. The 2010s was an incredibly fruitful decade in Milwaukee music. Fol...

State Fair’s 2020 Sporkies invite you to “vote for the finalist you think would taste the best”

Matt Wild

August 10, 2020

It's an age-old thought experiment: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In the harsh reality of Wisconsin circa 2020, however, the thought experiment could be upda...

County Executive Crowley: “We face two pandemics: COVID-19 and racism”

Matt Wild

August 10, 2020

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley delivered a virtual "Vision Address" on Monday afternoon. The 40-minute speech touched on racial equity (it's long overdue), COVID-19 (it's devastating), the Milwaukee C...

New pop-up brunch spot, Brew City Biscuits, coming to Smoke Shack this weekend

Matt Wild

August 10, 2020

Pop-ups! Brunch! Biscuits! A limited time pop-up brunch spot called Brew City Biscuits coming to the Smoke Shack beginning this Saturday and Sunday and popping up every Saturday and Sunday through September 6! ...

35 pictures (which aren’t enough) of Milwaukee’s new otter and beaver mural

Matt Wild

August 9, 2020

We'll keep this short and sweet: Milwaukee has a new mural, and there's an otter and a beaver and a belted kingfisher and some fish on it. It's located in the city's Harbor District, near Water and Bruce street...

My First Band: Frank Turner

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 7, 2020

broadstreet.zone(81112); Frank Turner has done it all. The English punk singer-songwriter has played thousands of shows over the course of his 25-year musical career. During that quarter-century span, he's rel...

Check out Wes Tank’s new ‘StoryRaps’ children’s series

Tyler Maas

August 7, 2020

When we last caught up with Wes Tank, the Milwaukee musician, producer, actor, and videographer had just gone viral by rapping Dr. Seuss books over beats made by Dr. Dre. In the months since Tank garnered milli...

Milwaukee Brewers give city its first canceled event for 2021

Matt Wild

August 7, 2020

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. • Remember the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when, say, Irish Fest canc...

I tried Crafty Cow’s “Heat And Repeat” spicy chicken sandwich challenge

Tyler Maas

August 6, 2020

It's been a while since I did an eating challenge. Sure, I sampled SafeHouse's OOMG Burger before it made its Milwaukee debut in January, but there was no way I wanted to try to conquer that humongous endeavor....

New MOWA and Saint Kate exhibits celebrate Wisconsin’s legacy of underground “comix”

Tea Krulos

August 6, 2020

Back in 2003 I was taking a stab at underground comic production with an anthology of mostly local artists titled Riverwurst Comics, which ran six issues from 2003-2006. As I got started, I had the thrill of di...

Love Milwaukee County Parks? Then buy some “Love Your Parks” coffee from Stone Creek

Matt Wild

August 6, 2020

Want to show off your love for Milwaukee County Parks and help the ailing parks system at the same time? There's a coffee for that now. Way back in the beforetimes of 2018, we said that Milwaukee County was ...

Plexiglass and PPE: What to expect if you vote in person next Tuesday

Matt Wild

August 6, 2020

Hey Milwaukee! The 2020 Partisan Primary Election is on Tuesday, August 11! Here's a handy voting guide! If you've already voted absentee, congrats! If you plan on voting in person next Tuesday, here's what you...

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