Milwaukee Music Roundup: March 2019
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LPs AND EPs OF NOTE
Eli Cash - The D...
Feast your eyes on The Vanguard’s 13 new menu items
Earlier this week, we announced The Vanguard would be saying goodbye to seven of its menu items. Even though some popular fare and other longer-tenured items—most notably the beloved Buffalo Poutine—have either...
Maya Ophelia’s puts a vegan twist on Filipino, Mexican, and Puerto Rican food favorites
It's safe to say there's never been a better time to be vegan in Milwaukee.
But as good as things have become for local vegans of late, there's still lots of room for improvement. Yes, even though the city i...
Opening Day and Back Again: Scenes from Opening Day 2018
This piece appears with permission as an exclusive from The Milwaukee Anthology, out on April 9 from Belt Publishing. You read more about and order the book HERE.
In the shadow of Miller Park stands another ...
Pizza Sutra is making frozen pizza sexy again
When lists are made of the world's sexiest foods, frozen pizza typically ranks somewhere between raisin bread and Cool Ranch Doritos. Jack's rarely shows up in gauzy direct-to-video sex scenes. Orv's almost nev...
AJ Bombers has turned into “Bernie’s Bombers,” complete with Braun Double Bacon Burger
If you thought George Webb was the only Brewers burger buddy in town, think again. (Here's a friendly reminder that we buried a free George Webb burger in a time capsule in the woods last year, and that we will...
Top 5 places to ride out the apocalypse in Milwaukee (from the author of ‘Apocalypse Any Day Now’)
While working on my new book Apocalypse Any Day Now, I traveled around the country to learn about different theories on how the world as we know it might end and what people are doing to prepare to live in a po...
7 Kwik Trip impersonators in metro Milwaukee
Last summer, we took a drive to Dubuque to visit a Kwik Star, a bizarro version of Kwik Trip that only exists in the state of Iowa. It turns out that in order to avoid consumer confusion and, more importantly, ...
Watch da pouring of (some of) “Da Crusher” statue
Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski is known as "The Man Who Made Milwaukee Famous." Over the course of his 40-year professional wrestling career, the South Milwaukee native and World War II vet was the pride of a reg...
Under the cover of darkness, we snapped these pictures of the former, currently gutted BBC
If you've walked by the old G-Daddy's BBC on the East Side lately, you know that the once-mighty sports bar is a shell of its former self. Literally: The building is currently boarded up and completely gutted, ...
Take a look inside an “abandoned” Target in Greenfield
Before this Greenfield property became a Festival Foods, it was an "abandoned" Target department store. Here's what it looked like in early 2019.
Last October, metro Milwaukee learned that Target would be cl...
Wrap your arms around “Arms,” the wonderful new single from Soda Road
When we last checked in with Soda Road—a.k.a. the new project from former Sat. Nite Duets member Stephen Strupp—the band was in a mood. We described Soda Road's debut album, Varsity Of Winter, as a "melancholy,...
WAMI announces performers, People’s Choice nominees
Who's got WAMI fever? On Sunday, April 14, the 39th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards will take over Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom for a night of fun, excitement, and, of course, music. The 2019 no...
The Vanguard will say goodbye to 7 menu items this week
Since opening in late 2014, The Vanguard has quickly established itself as the pinnacle of tubed meat delicacies in Milwaukee. Even though its everyday offerings that have wowed critics, lured professional athl...
‘The Library Music Film’ to screen at No Studios this week
Music is so ubiquitous that we’re equally as likely to notice its absence as its presence. Outside of scenarios where it serves as the main focal point, it also exists to accompany films, television shows, comm...
Sean Raasch officially says farewell to Twin Brother
The past two years have been full of ups and down for Twin Brother. In early 2017, singer and founding member Sean Raasch expanded his longtime trio into a full-fledged six-piece band and put out the excellent ...
Calliope says farewell (for now), morphs into cosmic Astral Hand
Type "Milwaukee psych-stoner-biker-band" into the search engine of your choice and you'll land on Calliope. Beginning with a bluesy self-titled album in 2013 and culminating with the thunderous Chapel Perilous ...
Dollars For Donuts: Aggie’s Bakery & Cake Shop (West Allis)
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...
Oops, forget about that whole National Avenue food truck ban
Friday afternoon, ahead of a rally against Ald. Bob Donovan's proposed National Avenue food truck ban, Donovan issued a press released that stated everything had been resolved. No more food truck ban. A verbal ...
My First Band: Kyle Kinane (comedy, The Grand Marquis)
Though you probably know Kyle Kinane as a comedian, actor, and "the voice of Comedy Central," the prolific stand-up first took the stage in a musical capacity. That's right! Before earning a reputation as one o...