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On The Record #137: 10 years of Mondo Lucha!

August 31, 2018

Since starting in 2008, Mondo Lucha! has brought high-flying wrestling action, burlesque dancers, and live music to its annual Turner Hall showcase. Along the way, the variety show has managed to work with reno...

243 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Landmark Inn (Mequon)

Caleb Westphal

August 31, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. You've probably had similar thoughts. You've driven past a place that looked intriguing, a...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful “Goop” website likes our food

Matt Wild

August 31, 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: The Handsome Family perform “Home On The Range”

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 30, 2018

The Handsome Family have been singing about America—old America, new America, weird America—for nearly 25 years. Beginning with 1994's Odessa and continuing through 2016's Unseen, husband-and-wife duo Brett and...

The 10 best September call-ups in Milwaukee Brewers history

Kyle Lobner

August 30, 2018

For the Milwaukee Brewers and every team across Major League Baseball, roster depth is on the way. Baseball is perhaps the only sport that dramatically alters its roster rules for a portion of the regular se...

Annual “Mindset List” looks into the lives of college freshmen born in the year 2000

Matt Wild

August 30, 2018

Beginning in 1998, Beloit College's annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors a peek inside the minds and world views of incoming college freshmen. "So-and-so has never been alive during thei...

Go inside the downtown Boston Store on its final day in business

Matt Wild

August 29, 2018

This is it, folks: Today, August 29, 2018, is the final day of business for Boston Store. The department store's parent company, Bon-Ton Stores Inc., declared bankruptcy earlier this year; recently, it announce...

13 standout ways to celebrate Harley-Davidson’s 115th anniversary

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2018

Today marks the first day of Harley-Davidson's 115th Anniversary weekend. Between August 29 and September 2, Milwaukee will host hoards of bikers and motorcycle enthusiast who have come out to celebrate one of ...

WORK shifts gears on ‘Strictly Cruis’n’

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2018

WORK is a curious name for a band as loud and rowdy as the long-running trio from Milwaukee. With lyrics jam-packed with references to drinking and general revelry, along with a sound the touches the edges of p...

Bowling In Place #6: Root River Center (Franklin)

Josh Hoppert

August 29, 2018

Milwaukeeans work hard and bowl harder. Follow this monthly series to learn more about your favorite bowling houses and some new ones you'll want to visit. This past week, we hosted some native Milwaukeeans ...

The U.S. Postal Service is getting evicted from its downtown Milwaukee apartment

Matt Wild

August 29, 2018

You know what's great? The United States Postal Service. You give them something and they deliver it to anyone in the country. Or, better yet, they deliver something to you. Letters, postcards, that subscriptio...

Mondo Lucha! announces “Supergroup” as musical guest for 10th Anniversary Spectacular

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2018

Since starting in 2008, Mondo Lucha has brought high-flying wrestling action, burlesque dancers, and live music to its annual Turner Hall showcase. Along the way, the variety show has managed work with renowned...

World’s only lap steel metal band, Velocihamster, releases world’s only lap steel metal instructional video

Matt Wild

August 28, 2018

When one thinks of the lap steel guitar, one typically thinks of country music, whiskey-soaked honky-tonks, and dudes like Speedy West and Buddy Emmons. When Milwaukee musician/producer Sean Williamson thinks o...

Valerie Lighthart joins forces with Immortal Girlfriend on “I’ll Be Damned”

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2018

Valerie Lighthart can do it all. The Milwaukee creative works in the fields of film, photography, writing, acting, and modeling. Recently, Lighthart also added "musician" to her already-bursting résumé. Though ...

Here’s the schedule for the third annual Strange Fruit Festival, which begins tomorrow

Matt Wild

August 28, 2018

In the fall of 2016, ever-busy Milwaukee musician Jay Anderson launched the inaugural Strange Fruit Music Festival. Inspired by the then-recent killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the fest set out ...

Milwaukee Record Halftime Show concert series returns to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

August 27, 2018

Most fans of the Green and Gold probably aren't in a hurry to look back at last season. However, one of the few bright spots (other than Davante Adams, that is) in a painful and injury-riddled 7-9 campaign was ...

“What if music was a place?”: Misha Siegfried switches gears in ‘The Moments Before Dark’

Catherine Jozwik

August 27, 2018

Milwaukee artist and blues guitarist Misha Siegfried is used to performing for crowds large and small. However, after more than 15 years on stage, Siegfried has decided to switch gears. Siegfried's record la...

R.I.P. the dumpy Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland and Locust

Matt Wild

August 27, 2018

Fact #1: Cousins Subs is the best locally-owned-but-everyone-always-forgets-it's-locally-owned sub place on planet Earth, and don't let anyone tell you different. Better bread! Better subs! Fact #2: The Cous...

Let these photos from Milwaukee’s first FieriCon take you straight to Flavortown

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 26, 2018

When Milwaukee Record first announced FieriCon, a bar-crawl dedicated to infamous celebrity “chef” Guy Fieri, the internet went wild. The slammin’ bo’ jammin’ event made its debut in New York City last November...

Take a look inside Up-Down Milwaukee, which opens today and is totally nuts

Matt Wild

August 24, 2018

Up-Down Milwaukee opens to the public today at 5:30 p.m. The long-awaited arcade bar, located at 615 E. Brady St. (the site of the former Comedy Cafe), boasts more than 60 retro video games, more than a dozen p...

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