Yule love Tenement’s new holiday EP
It should be noted that any time we document Milwaukee contributions to the seasonal song canon, it's with the previously-unexpressed sentiment that the efforts are good...for holiday music. On the whole, Chr...
More Milwaukee-made songs worth stocking on your holiday playlist
Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of amazingly tolerable holiday songs. This December was no differ...
Snoop Dogg and company bring good vibes, plenty of smoke to Riverside Theater
Snoop Dogg's original Puff Puff Pass Tour rolled out in 2001. Its sequel, which sold out the Riverside Theater on Thursday night, featured only Kurupt and Warren G from the first iteration. Fans of '90s G-fun...
Outdoor activities worth freezing your buns off for this winter
Once the holidays have come and gone, it's easy for people in and around Milwaukee to get caught up in winter "woe is me" talk, when we all just want a little sunshine to get through the day. But this is wher...
On The Record Episode 87: End of year stuff
With 2016 in its waning days, Milwaukee Record co-founders, editors, and hosts Tyler Maas and Matt Wild decided to make the final On The Record episode of this particular 366-day—mind the Leap Year, reader!—t...
Study: Milwaukee ranks 47th in cities “most attractive to immigrants”
Over at Abodo.com—a Madison-based apartment listings site that enjoys reminding everyone how much their rent is going up—a new study identifies the top U.S. cities that are "most attractive to immigrants." Ne...
Watch Sylvan Esso play “Radio” on ‘The Tonight Show’
Compared to the band's breakout 2014 and a 2015 that found the duo touring and playing major music festivals with regularity, this year has been a fairly quiet one for Sylvan Esso. Though the Durham, North Ca...
Milwaukee winter cocktails that will warm your soul
Let's not even get into what qualifies as a polar vortex—it's cold, people. And if you're going to go to the trouble of bundling up and braving the treacherous roads and the conditions to get out of the house...
Here are Milwaukee’s most popular dog names of 2016
With under two weeks left in 2016, so many have already weighed in on their favorite albums, music videos, books, articles, foods, and films of the year. By this point, what facet of everyday existence could ...
Milverine has his own cat-themed Christmas card now
In the years since the discovery, unmasking, and mirthful exploitation of Milverine—a.k.a. Milwaukeean John Hamann, who looks like the X-Men's Wolverine—the oft-shirtless power-walking icon has graced everyth...
11 wonderfully weird classes in the winter Milwaukee Recreation guide
Unless you're 8 years old, winter sucks. Happily, the winter edition of the Milwaukee Recreation guide is loaded with hundreds of reasons to venture outside, including classes in arts and crafts, cooking, fit...
You’re a blizzard, Harry: MSO’s ‘Harry Potter’ show bravely plays on
Milwaukee has some great Christmas traditions. The Milwaukee Repertory Theater performs A Christmas Carol every year. The LED-decoration arms race of Candy Cane Lane makes WE Energies smile. Soulless automato...
Riverwest FemFest 2017 releases first comp, weekend passes
Believe it or not, Riverwest FemFest 2017 (January 18-22) is just a month away. Up to this point, the third-year benefit for Milwaukee Coalition For Justice and Milwaukee Women’s Center has released its treme...
The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2016
Milwaukee Record launched on April 7, 2014. Since then, we've published more than 2,400 stories, reached millions upon millions of internet-weary eyeballs, created an awesome annual benefit concert, launched ...
Mysterious Milwaukee rapper Stallion Buckwild featured on ‘Jimmy Fallon’
Here's the story: Earlier this year, The A.V. Club's Josh Modell launched a column called Binge And Purge, an excellent series that found the former Milwaukeean picking through his collection of more than 2,0...
MKE SEX: Fretting about flirting
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I'm a fairly cute, extremely friendly woman who enjoys the energy exchange of a good flirtation. This has really pissed off a few guys. Truth be told, it's ruined more...
The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2016
As our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2016 showed, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. And, as evidenced by things like the Milwaukee Film Fes...
The Phoenix Cocktail Club will rise in Cathedral Square on New Year’s Eve
This December 31, many people in Milwaukee will bid farewell to 2016 with a drink in hand. Over in Cathedral Square, The Phoenix Cocktail Club (785 N. Jefferson St., 414-539-5918) will be saying a long-overdu...
Milwaukee mouthfeel: 2016 drinking, dining, and patio recap
While so many have already declared 2016 to be a down year in, well, years to be alive, at least Milwaukee can take solace in knowing there has maybe never been a better time to eat or drink delicious things ...
Consider Craigslist’s “free” section for your holiday shopping needs
Gifts are such an integral part of the holiday season that for many of those celebrating, they away at their very core. Some stop at no costs to put together ultimate gifts, while others liberally distribute ...