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Some guy is designing posters for every Milwaukee Bucks game in 2019

January 30, 2019

Through 49 games of the 2018-19 season, the Milwaukee Bucks have the best record in the NBA. As we've said before, the team is really, really good. They've been especially great in January. Including last night...

Spam, mayo, and racism: Cudahy author examines corporate influence on cuisine in ‘American Advertising Cookbooks’

Tyler Maas

January 30, 2019

Growing up in the 1970s and '80s, Cudahy-based author Christina Ward says she was raised in "the apex of the processed, packaged, pre-made food era." Ward says the period between the 1950s and the '80s was the ...

Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2019

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

After months of cold, dreariness, premature darkness, and an absence of outdoor activity, the seventh annual Burnhearts Mitten Fest is just days away. For eight hours (noon to 8 p.m.) on Saturday, February 2, p...

An interview with Milwaukee Food King, the city’s premier foodie/dentist/MMA judge

Matt Wild

January 29, 2019

Talk to Rick Winter for a few minutes and one thing becomes clear: it's good to be king. By day, Winter is Dr. Richard Winter, DDS, a third-generation dentist who has been practicing in the Milwaukee area for 3...

“The Shorewood Sayonara” will say farewell to North Shore American Legion Post #331

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

Earlier this month, news broke that North Shore Legion Post #331 (aka the "Shorewood Legion Hall") was for sale. Though the fate of the building that's known for its fish fry and, more so, for serving as an inv...

METZ will return to Cactus Club on May 27

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

METZ isn’t a particularly difficult band to understand. Amid a modern music landscape that’s rife with clunky sub-genre descriptors and acts haphazardly piling 10 pounds of influences into five-pound bags, the ...

Latino Arts announces spring and summer exhibitions, performances

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2019

Despite being around since 1985 (and formally taking root in Walker’s Point in 1997), Latino Arts Inc. is only becoming more relevant with age. Recent seasons have brought Grammy-winning musicians and the work ...

Paul, Donnie, and Mark Wahlberg are bringing Wahlburgers to The Corners of Brookfield

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

It's time for a new burger place on the block. Um, those good vibrations you're feeling are burger vibrations. Something something referencing Paul Wahlberg. Anyway, Wahlburgers is coming to The Corners of Broo...

Here’s shocking video proof that the streetcar can run in snow

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

We're almost three months into the life of The Hop, Milwaukee's long-in-the-works and forever-contentious downtown streetcar. And guess what? Things are going well! People are riding the thing, extensions are i...

Get old, weird with Yum Yum Cult’s debut single, “Up In The Tenement”

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

You may or may not be familiar with Yum Yum Cult, but if you're familiar with Milwaukee music, you're surely familiar with some of the band's components. The new-ish project features current and former members ...

264 Friday fish frys and counting: St. Augustine of Hippo

Caleb Westphal

January 25, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. I was out taking a morning walk, and was busy racking my brain as to where to go for fish in the...

A vision of perfection: ‘Coming To America’ is coming to the Avalon on February 20

Josh Hoppert

January 25, 2019

If you missed Wednesday's unforgettable screening of MacGruber at the Avalon Theater, that's a bummer, but you're in luck. February's Milwaukee Record screening is so good, someone ought to put it on a plate an...

We dropped by ‘The Morning Blend’ to talk about dreaming about ‘The Morning Blend’

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 25, 2019

We love The Morning Blend. Every once in a while, when The Morning Blend has five minutes to fill, we drop by The Morning Blend and talk about whatever. Sometimes, we even dream of being on The Morning Blend. T...

Thanks for making Local Coverage 2019 great, Milwaukee!

Tyler Maas

January 24, 2019

Last Friday, Milwaukee Record hosted our fifth annual Local Coverage show at Turner Hall. There, a diverse cast of six Milwaukee acts took the stage to perform (approximately) 15-minute sets of another project’...

Milwaukee might create “new classification of law enforcement officer” to patrol the bus

Matt Wild

January 24, 2019

We've said it before and we'll say it again: the bus rules. Rain or shine (or snow), Milwaukee County Transit System is there, dutifully shuttling people across town and back again. The bus is great, the bus is...

Neil Young remains restless, reflective at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

January 24, 2019

What possible reason could Neil Young have for continuing to work at such a pace? A perennial inspiration to all subsequent generations of guitar-based music, Young is also the world's most prolific septuagenar...

X-Ray Arcade will bring gaming, all-ages events to Cudahy starting February 9

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Last September, we told you about an all-ages music venue and mini-arcade coming to the former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge in Cudahy. Today, that exciting venture publicly announced its name and o...

First Impression: Damascus Gate Restaurant

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

The world could use some good news. Here, in what presently seems to be the darkest of timelines and at a point in which compassion and basic human decency seem especially scarce, it's easy to drown in the delu...

From Malaysia to MKE: How Milwaukee’s music scene is welcoming a foreign student

Mike Holloway

January 23, 2019

Matthew Chia had a surreal moment in Milwaukee, a moment he previously thought he would only experience through someone else's perspective on his computer screen. On Sept. 20, 2018, on-the-rise Boston hardco...

Brewers fans aren’t thrilled with Kathy Ireland’s take on Miller Park naming rights

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Yesterday, the Wisconsin sports community was thrown into a frenzy when news broke that one massive corporation's name would be replacing another massive corporation's name on a publicly-funded stadium we're st...

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