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October 24, 2025

News broke Thursday that downtown Greek restaurant Ouzo Cafe, 776 N. Milwaukee St., had closed its doors after more than two decades in business. Both the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Urban Milwaukee reported...

Get into the gloom with Genau’s “Live By The Water,” “Margaret In Dub”

October 24, 2025

It's been faaaaar too long since we checked in with dreamy post-punk duo Genau. We wrote about the Milwaukee group's self-titled debut way back in 2016 ("If you're feeling a little bit noisy and a little bit go...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Ashton

October 24, 2025

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—pl...

Here’s a job posting for The Hop’s Marketing & Communications Officer, and that’s it

October 24, 2025

WORK FOR THE HOP The City of Milwaukee is currently hiring a Marketing & Communications Officer to support the Department of Public Works, and The Hop in particular. The position will plan and implement ...

Direct connections Milwaukee has to the 33 cities Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport serves nonstop

October 23, 2025

Traveling is an important and enriching part of human existence. Through venturing elsewhere, we're able to able to experience new and exciting things, expand our worldview, and be reminded that we all have mor...

The Vanguard will transform into “Whooterz” for Halloween pop-up

October 23, 2025

The Vanguard isn’t afraid to shake things up. On top of occasionally adjusting its menu in new and exciting ways, the owners of the Bay View bar and sausage emporium have shown no hesitation to occasionally bre...

When life is at its hardest, just remember there’s a 24-hour live webcam of the Bronze Fonz

October 23, 2025

There's a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 masterpiece Magnolia where the dying Earl Partridge looks back on his life of betrayal and regret. "This fucking life...it's so fucking hard, so long!" the dying m...

MKE Music Rewind: Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentary (1991)

October 23, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the Milwaukee Hometown Music Scene Documentar...

Berlin-based Queen Quail looks back at her Milwaukee roots in “Southside”

October 22, 2025

In addition to documenting much of the wonderful music that's being made in and around Milwaukee itself, we here at Milwaukee Record also try to keep tabs on new output from musicians who previously called the ...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Overhand (2025)

October 22, 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, October 21, 2025: Ov...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Psychic Shiv talks ‘Wearing Black,’ Imprecation Of Love talks black metal

Steve Lampiris

October 21, 2025

Welcome back to another edition of Milwaukee Metal Monthly. For this installment, our story begins a coupl’a weeks back with me browsing around Bandcamp for Milwaukee bands. I used filters for “Milwaukee” and “...

Milwaukee beer industry professionals to raise funds for health causes with Movember events

October 21, 2025

From time to time, Milwaukee area beer sales representatives and other brewing industry professionals like to join forces to raise money and awareness for great causes. In March, Women’s Beer And Spirits Collec...

The Catered Quiz: Eva Anderson answers questions about immersive theater and true crime

Rick Katschke

October 21, 2025

On this edition of The Catered Quiz, writer Eva Anderson joins the show to answer questions about immersive theater and true crime. We also talk about Mystery Science Theater 3000, CrimeCon, and Scene Of The Cr...

Memorable moments from the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers season: Part 2

Kyle Lobner

October 20, 2025

It may have ended sooner than many hoped, but the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers season still left us with as much or more to remember than any season in franchise history. For nearly two decades I’ve been maintaining ...

22 photos of Your Office, a new downtown dive bar and restaurant that looks pretty great

October 20, 2025

Remember My Office? That little dive bar and restaurant at 763 N. Milwaukee St.? Where you could get a drink and if you were hungry the lady behind the bar might randomly make you some spaghetti? Yeah, that was...

Milwaukee “twee punk band” Chit Chat returns to find “Love In A Graveyard”

October 20, 2025

If the name Chit Chat doesn't ring a bell in your Milwaukee music brain, you can hardly be blamed. It's been nearly four years since the trio of Harrison Colby, Carmella D'Acquisto, and Jeremy Ault released the...

Brandy and Monica reignite old “rivalry” and heat up Fiserv Forum

October 18, 2025

Individually, Brandy and Monica have each been responsible for a steady stream of chart-climbing hits, served as musical touchstones and inspirations for countless people, and have enjoyed careers that started ...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: The service is quick at Milwaukee’s iconic Major Goolsby’s

Caleb Westphal

October 17, 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. This week: fish fry #615, at Major Goolsby's in Milwa...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Ferris Bueller