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September 1, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the informal end of Milwaukee’s festival season. Though the seasonal ...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Stockpiling Milwaukee County Parks glassware

August 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: owning way too many glasses from Milwaukee County Parks beer gardens...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: August 2025

August 31, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE 5pm To Nowhere - City Of Light, Act II ...

Milwaukee Record Cats Of The Week: Petal and Blossom

August 30, 2025

broadstreet.zone(174293); Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Lucky’s Ice House has been standing for over a century

Caleb Westphal

August 29, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week: fish fry #608, at Lucky's Ice House Bar &a...

A farewell to Art

Annie Raab

August 29, 2025

Milwaukee lost a real one this month. Art Guenther, owner of Just Art’s Saloon on 181 S. 2nd St., died at age 80 on August 14, 2025. For his closest friends and his community of regulars who found themselves ye...

Here’s the excellent music lineup for Third Space Brewing’s 9th Anniversary Party

August 29, 2025

With a statewide presence on draft lines and store shelves, oodles of acclaim and brewing awards, and as the host of some of the city’s best beer events, it feels like Third Space Brewing has been around far lo...

DJ GEMINI GILLY spins beats and spreads Black joy

Abbey Osborn

August 28, 2025

Alice Gilliam, better known as DJ GEMINI GILLY, sees DJing as more than getting people to dance. Blending her background in social work with her love for music, she creates events that emphasize community and c...

Our “Roast Of Milwaukee” comes back to The Cooperage October 6

August 28, 2025

Milwaukee Record’s long-running "Roast Of Milwaukee" is back! Like previous years, the event—which is done in association with the Milwaukee Comedy Festival—will feature a stacked cast of local comedians gently...

Here’s the Beet Street lineup (and pretty much everything else you need to know)

August 28, 2025

Even though Labor Day is approaching and summer’s days are numbered, Milwaukee has no plans to stop the festival fun anytime soon. A bunch of large-scale autumn undertakings await, and one of the best among the...

Help The Mothership recover from catastrophic flood damage

August 28, 2025

We'll keep this simple: Beloved Bay View bar The Mothership (2301 S. Logan Ave.) suffered catastrophic damage in the flood earlier this month. Beloved Bay View bar The Mothership has been closed ever since. Bel...

American Science & Surplus will shutter warehouse and online sales, plans to sell stores to employees

August 27, 2025

Back in May, citing slumping sales since the COVID-19 pandemic, beloved offbeat retail store American Science & Surplus launched a GoFundMe to relocate its warehouse. But despite raising nearly $200,000 in ...

Lake Butte des Morts is officially the state’s best inland lake

August 27, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156366); We have a winner! Following a nearly month-long competition that found a field of 64 inland Wisconsin lakes facing one another in six heated rounds of voting, one local water body can...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (August 13-26, 2025)

August 27, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

‘SNL’ alum Punkie Johnson added to Milwaukee Comedy Festival lineup

August 27, 2025

Last week, we let you know that Aparna Nancherla and Sean Patton would be joining the likes of Patton Oswalt as headliners of this year's Milwaukee Comedy Festival. Today, festival organizers revealed another h...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Modern Tigers

August 27, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, August 26, 2025: Mod...

Milwaukee Record’s 66 Days of Halloween (Part I)

August 27, 2025

Welcome to Milwaukee Record's 66 Days of Halloween countdown! You can find Part II, which covers Days 23-44, HERE. You can find Part III, which covers days 45-66, HERE. DAY 22: ONE-THIRD OF THE WAY THERE Twen...

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