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August 30, 2017

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 ...

Sign up for There Will Be Bowling 2: Electric Boogaloo, coming to the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival

August 30, 2017

Is there anything better than the annual Milwaukee Film Festival? No. Is there anything better than bowling? Strangely, also no. So why not combine the two? From September 28 through October 12, the screens of ...

Rose Of The West puts the petal to the metal after slow, calculated start

August 29, 2017

Rose Of The West played its first show as a full band less than five months ago. Though that fact suggests the dream-pop project that features current and former members of GGOOLLDD, Group Of The Altos, Canopie...

On The Record Episode 107: New shit with Dan Shafer

August 29, 2017

There's no shortage of new shit headed Milwaukee's way. It seems as if a new multi-use apartment complex is announced every month, and just as many craft breweries are popping up as well. The populace is embroi...

Sherman Phoenix, and 5 more Milwaukee crowdfunding campaigns that could use a little help

August 28, 2017

broadstreet.zone(32806); It's been one year since the uprising in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. Whether or not there has been any positive change in the neighborhood over the past year is up for debat...

Trailer Park Boys get greasy in crowd-pleasing Riverside Theater performance

August 28, 2017

With 11 seasons and roughly 100 episodes of their beloved cult television program, five feature films and specials, and a heft of other material released on their Swearnet comedy network to their credit, the Tr...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (August 20-26)

August 28, 2017

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...

Now’s as good a time as any to brush up on the Wisconsin Nazi resistance during WWII

August 28, 2017

"At the turn of the century, Milwaukee was unlike any other city because no other city was as German, as socialist, and as fond of beer." So quips Milwaukee historian John Gurda in the opening seconds of Wiscon...

Hey Milwaukee: If we wanted to “save” Von Trier we probably should have gone to Von Trier

August 25, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • A collective sigh of "Oh no, not again" was heard last week when venerable Ge...

Note to self: Go to our ‘Dirty Work’ screening at Avalon Theater on September 21

August 25, 2017

Hey, Mildred. Mildred! We didn't forget your name. You never told us, so we figured we'd just guess. Anyway, if you thought last night's Wet Hot American Summer screening was the last film we'd be showing this ...

190 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: State Fair Inn

Caleb Westphal

August 25, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his record-in-the-making here. The Wisconsin State Fair has ended, and the cream puffs, cricket nachos, and deep-fried everything ...

The man who made mediocrity famous: Bob Uecker’s ‘Catcher In The Wry’ still delights after 35 years

Nick Olig

August 24, 2017

It may have been lost in the glory of Harvey's Wallbangers and a charge to the World Series, but on August 24, 1982, incomparable Brewers' play-by-play man Bob Uecker published his autobiography: Catcher In The...

Dana Ehrmann discusses her path from college “comedy club” to Milwaukee comedy clubs

August 24, 2017

Stand-up comedy can't be taught. However, it's apparently offered as an extracurricular activity at Cathage. Weeks into her freshman year at the Kenosha college in the fall of 2011, Dana Ehrmann decided to take...

Former Comedy Cafe building on Brady Street will become an ’80s and ’90s arcade

August 24, 2017

The former Comedy Cafe, located at 615 E. Brady St., has been an empty black shell since 2015. No yuks have echoed forth from its chambers in two years, and no two-drink minimums have been enforced. But now, th...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host another adult sleepover in September

August 24, 2017

The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Night At ...

Milwaukee Film announces opening night film, return of ‘Stop Making Sense,’ more

August 24, 2017

You know the drill: We're approximately one month away from the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival (September 28 – October 12 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay Cinema Grill, Times Cin...

Yung Zucchini performed at a zucchini festival in California last weekend and loved every moment of it

August 23, 2017

When Milwaukee-born (and now Chicago-based) comic Sammy Arechar isn't on stage making audiences laugh, he's on stage making people dance with his DJ alter ego, Yung Zucchini. The DJ project performs somewhat re...

New Pavement Records founders juggle rap, metal, jazz, senior year of high school

Steve Lampiris

August 23, 2017

Milwaukee-based record label New Pavement Records is owned and run by Nate Ruvin, JJ Agara. It was founded because Ruvin, the de facto spokesman for NPR, was "sick of waiting to get signed to a label." In ju...

On The Record Episode 106: Milwaukee Film and the future of the Oriental Theatre, with Jonathan Jackson