Tucked Away: Asian Papayoyo
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants, worthwhile Milwaukee dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lost in the shuffle. With Tucked Away, Milwau...
Prepare for Midwest Gaming Classic with videos of Arcade Jackpot Pro winning big at Wisconsin arcades and carnivals
This weekend, Midwest Gaming Classic will bring more than 10,000 gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, cosplayers, vendors, entertainers, and extra special guests to more than 150,000 square feet of the W...
Raw Bar is open at Crossroads Collective. Here’s the menu.
Since opening in December 2018, Crossroads Collective—a.k.a. one of the city's first food halls located in the former Oriental Drugs space on the East Side—has been great. And now it's even greater: Today, the ...
69% of the 1980 Milwaukee Brewers preferred Pepsi over Coke. Nice.
The Brewers, as a wise man once said, are hot. It's early in the season, of course, but the 2019 team looks to be just as explosive, fun, and Yelich-rific as the 2018 squad. Chances of this year ending with ano...
Hey! Here are the 8,000 headliners for Summerfest 2019
It's that time of year again: In advance of Summerfest 2019 (June 26-30, July 2-7), the Big Gig has unleashed its massive list of headliners. Approximately 8,000 ground stage headliners now join the previously ...
10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2019
Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...
How does this season’s rotation compare to other historically young Brewers pitching staffs?
It remains to be seen if the Brewers’ 2019 starting rotation will be good, but they’ll certainly be young.
After passing or missing out on several veteran alternatives this winter, the Brewers opened the sea...
Let’s guess when that big snow pile on the side of the Marcus Center parking structure will finally melt
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has been in the news a lot lately. Back in December 2018, the 50-year-old institution announced plans to revamp its downtown campus. Soon after, folks cried foul at the...
Giant penguin will haunt Northwestern Mutual Gardens as part of 2019 Sculpture Milwaukee
One of Milwaukee's great public art success stories has been Sculpture Milwaukee. For the past two years, the outdoor art exhibition has peppered more than 20 wonderful, challenging, and sometimes bizarre piece...
Battle of the Big Boy burgers: AJ Bombers vs. Coach’s vs. McDonald’s
Big Boy restaurants opened in California in the 1940s, but they soon became a beloved Wisconsin tradition. The Marcus Corporation opened the first Milwaukee Big Boy (Marc's Big Boy) in 1958. At its height, Marc...
A guide to Milwaukee Day 2019 events and deals
About a decade ago, a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and decided to turn that coincidence into a full-blown local holiday. S...
From 15 to 60 wins: Watching the Bucks complete a 5-year turnaround
Most of the fans in attendance at the sold-out Fiserv Forum on Sunday night stuck around to the final bell, and with good reason. The Milwaukee Bucks had just notched their 60th win of this magical, gift-from-a...
Stream Nicholas Elert’s new EP, ‘Speculative Fiction’
When we last caught up with Nicholas Elert, the Milwaukee musician had just delved into the world of film by composing the score for a dreary Wisconsin-made short called Pity. Since then, the guitarist and mult...
It’s Milwaukee Record’s 5-year anniversary! How about that!
On Monday, April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record became a thing. Following months of planning, fretting, and drinking at the BBC for some reason (R.I.P.), former A.V. Club Milwaukee city editor Matt Wild and former A...
Dollars For Donuts: Papas Bakery
Milwaukee loves donuts. Dozens of bakeries in the city and its surrounding suburbs help people get a sweet start to their day with long johns, crullers, jellies, powdered, cream-filled, cake donuts, and more. I...
Here’s the awesome Washington Park Wednesdays lineup
Like each and every summer, metro Milwaukee will play host dozens of festivals, block parties, and free weekly music celebrations between June and September that all help make enduring the six to eight other sn...
My First Band: Mike Krol (Mike Krol, The Reactants)
Before he was the front man, bandleader, and namesake of a Los Angeles-based project on the Merge Records roster, Mike Krol was a Wauwatosa teen who loved ska. Recently, while in Milwaukee to play a homecoming ...
Bay View Missed Connections is a landing page for localized lust
Though useful, neighborhood Facebook groups can sometimes be too much to handle. Between endless bickering, unnecessary politicizing, and people bringing up topics that don't even remotely apply to the region t...
8,000th version of Milwaukee flag to be unfurled at City Hall on April 9
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...
274 Friday fish frys and counting: Klemmer’s Banquet Center
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.
"IMMEDIATE SEATING" beamed from the neon sign in front of Klemmer's Banquet Center (10401 W. Okl...