Tucked Away: Island Jam
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...
Justin Vernon will cook and sing for you, possibly move in with you and love you for all eternity
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Is there anything Justin Vernon won't do for you? Shhhh... Don't answer that...
218 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Randy’s Neighbor’s Inn
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.
With so many places serving Friday night fish frys, having a close call and almost not getting o...
Discover the youthful, whimsical, and unlikely music of Mittelstadt
"Why sing songs, why suffer on? Why wake up at all?" So ponders singer Benny Koziol on "Crimson," the opening track of Mittelstadt's debut EP Roll Ginger Roll. Those are big questions, to be sure, and if Koziol...
Stream three songs off Cairns’ splendid ‘Cluttered Sky’
While Cairns is less renowned than its members' other projects (Caley Conway, Temple, Calliope, YLLA, D'Amato, and Gauss, among them), the band has quietly managed an impressive catalog in its two-plus years on...
The case against Sony’s upcoming Slender Man movie
Despite the conclusion of the trials of teens Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier for the stabbing of their classmate Payton Leutner, Wisconsinites are not out of the woods yet in regards to Slender Man fallout. Son...
8 ways to take part in International Women’s Day
March 8 is International Women's Day. Given the state of the country and the world at the moment, it's incredibly important to acknowledge that women still deal with inequality in virtually every avenue of soci...
Bob Uecker once wrecked his buddy’s new car, and it was glorious
Bob Uecker didn't hit a home run in September of 1967, but his buddy Clete did. And that was good enough for Ueck.
Some background: A Honda dealership in Atlanta was running a promotion for the players in th...
On The Record Episode 123: Spotlight on Silver City (and LBWN)
The "Phobruary" fun (phon?) in Silver City is over, but there are lots of other things that help this neighborhood stand out all year long. This segment of town, along with adjoining neighborhoods of Layton Par...
Shakespeare meets Snapchat in ‘Dick Pix Montana’
Stop us if you've heard this old story before: Boy meets girl at youth contraception PSA video shoot. Boy and girl start texting, then boy mistakenly posts a dick pic on social media and gets arrested. So goes ...
Here’s what Up-Down MKE arcade bar will look like when it opens later this year
A lot has happened since August 2017, when owners of the Des Moines-based Up-Down arcade bar announced plans to open a Milwaukee location at 615 E. Brady St.—a.k.a. the site of the old Comedy Cafe. Another arca...
Watch former ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ writer hype #MinionSquad in Milwaukee
Just the facts: Conner O'Malley is a former writer for Late Night With Seth Meyers. Conner O'Malley is a former Vine star (R.I.P. Vine) and a longtime troller of trolls like Donald Trump and Milo Yiannopoulos. ...
Join us at Company Brewing for the official Milwaukee Day Showcase
It’s been less than 10 years since a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and turned that laughable coincidence into a full-blown ...
Cast, crew, and crowd get messy in Nickelodeon game show-inspired ‘Winnerz Take All’
A totally tubular game show host pumps up an already pumped-up crowd. Four teams slosh around in a super sloppy obstacle course stocked with buckets of popcorn, swimming pools of slime, and paper mache boulders...
Enter the hand-drawn, hasty world of Getting Shit Done Animation Club
It's a joke as old as time: Mega Man and Samus Aran walk into a bar and talk about a crazy night at Dr. Wily's. Or how about this: Two space-faring explorers bicker amongst themselves while a dastardly villain ...
Check out The Vanguard’s new menu
Since opening in late 2014, The Vanguard has quickly established itself as the pinnacle of tubed meat delicacies in Milwaukee. Beyond its everyday offerings that have wowed critics, lured professional athletes ...
Mandatory Milwaukee: Koz’s Mini Bowl celebrates 40 years of pint-sized bowling, full-sized charm
Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...
Here’s what’s happened in WWE since the last time Monday Night RAW was in Milwaukee
As the Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center nears completion, the soon-to-be-Old-Yeller'd BMO Harris Bradley Center is going through a victory lap of final events, and WWE has joined the party, bringing on...
Our kingdom for one of these personalized South Milwaukee love songs from 1985
Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "This song is great, but I wish the singer was singing directly to me. You know, like singing my name and everything. That would be swell." Of course you haven't. S...
Tyler The Creator, Vince Staples end tour on high note at The Rave
Approaching The Rave Sunday night for the sold-out Tyler, The Creator show, there was a constant flow of twenty-somethings making their way inside. Police were forced to shut down the block behind the venue in ...