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Green Day songs and football-focused lyrics come together in “Green Day Packers”

December 10, 2018

Way back in August, we announced the lineup of our Milwaukee Record Halftime Show series at Cactus Club. At that time, many of you asked about the "Secret Band" that was slated to perform on December 16. In all...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee: Dec. 2-8

Matt Wild

December 10, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Money Inc. thinks the Third Ward is a “Midwestern mecca for foodies”

Matt Wild

December 10, 2018

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...

Public Domain: Caley Conway performs “Jingle Bells”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 7, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

12 reasons to keep watching the 2018 Green Bay Packers

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2018

The 2018 season has been a tough one for the Green Bay Packers. As we all know, last week's loss to the 2-9 Arizona Cardinals at Lambeau Field was immediately followed by Mike McCarthy's firing. The team has st...

257 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Butch’s Red Mill (Brookfield)

Caleb Westphal

December 7, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Have you ever gotten a fish fry in Brookfield? I hadn't. Hell, I've barely ever done anyth...

10 more Milwaukee things that can be sung to the ‘TMNT’ theme song

Josh Hoppert

December 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(68249); If you read yesterday's article about 25 Milwaukee things that can be sung to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, you're probably just getting the song out of your head now. W...

A $128 million streetcar system isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A $1.4 billion commuter rail system

Matt Wild

December 7, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Thought Milwaukee was satisfied with a $128 million, 2.1-mile streetcar syste...

The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 6, 2018

Milwaukee Record launched on April 7, 2014. Since then, we've published more than 4,500 stories, reached millions upon millions of internet-weary eyeballs, and concocted all sorts of wonderful and ridiculous st...

25 Milwaukee things that can be sung to the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ theme song

Josh Hoppert

December 6, 2018

broadstreet.zone(68249); The "25 Facts" series features people, places, and stuff that make Milwaukee great. These articles are meant just for fun and we have nothing but love for everyone included. Brought to...

Thom Yorke stays solo in uncompromising Riverside Theater show

Cal Roach

December 6, 2018

Like most Gen-X music icons who aren't dead, Thom Yorke's most celebrated outfit (that would be Radiohead) has been relegated to part-time status lo these decades since its commercial peak. And why not? Sure, R...

Shops of Grand Avenue will become “The Avenue,” feature fancy food hall and more

Matt Wild

December 6, 2018

Get your Shops of Grand Avenue shopping in now, because the end is nigh: Today, Grand Avenue owners and developers unveiled details of their long-in-the-works plan to transform the virtually empty downtown mall...

Café Centraal will close for a month, renovate

Matt Wild

December 6, 2018

One week you're getting a (pretty great) fish fry at Café Centraal, the next the longtime Bay View restaurant announces it's closing for extensive renovations. Yes, today, Lowlands Group revealed that Centraal ...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 5, 2018

As demonstrated in our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018 (not to mention our list of 10 standout Milwaukee EPs from 2018), a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fai...

Meet OQ, the Milwaukee project that’s part of Justin Vernon’s new artist collective

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Justin Vernon and the Dessner brothers announced the creation of PEOPLE, an artist collective that—according to a statement on its website—functions as "a steadily growing group of artists, f...

9 things you should know about the 9th annual Hover Craft

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2018

Since 2009, Hover Craft has brought some of the most skilled local artists, crafters, retailers, and others residing beneath the broad “maker” umbrella together to bring Milwaukee-made goods to area consumers d...

Milwaukee had a thing for boozy dog names in 2018

Matt Wild

December 5, 2018

Okay, let's just get through this: Since 2013 the folks at Rover.com—a.k.a. "the nation's largest network of 5-star pet sitters and dog walkers"—have released a list of the year's top 100 male and female dog na...

10 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2018

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 4, 2018

In the post-everything world of 2018, there's little distinction left between "albums" and "EPs." And yet distinguish we do, dedicating our annual 25 best Milwaukee albums list to releases with five or more son...

How one Milwaukee couple is helping transform the East Side into a destination

Melanie Lawder

December 4, 2018

Two-ish years later, and it seems all that "The East Side is dying" rhetoric may have been a bit of an overreaction. In 2016 and 2017, the supposed demise of the neighborhood was the talk of the town, sparke...

On The Record #145: Gareth Reynolds (‘The Dollop’ and ‘You’re The Worst’)

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 4, 2018

Brown Deer, Wisconsin native and realistic Packers fan Gareth Reynolds is best known as the co-host of The Dollop, a popular American history podcast that has landed him a book deal and has brought him to perfo...

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