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Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room: Heart Hot

Matt Wild
Lisa Ridgely & The Fainting Room’s 2012 EP Wine In Bed was the kind of debut that garnered faint praise like “nice.” Its dark-hued Americana was pleasant enough to pass the time, but not quite bold enough t...

Stand-Up Cinema brings comedy to classics

Tyler Maas
Movie buffs can confirm that Back To The Future finished five whole weeks of filming before Eric Stoltz was ultimately replaced by Michael J. Fox in the role of Marty McFly, forever altering the timeline of the...

Chronicling the city with “Content Milwaukee”

Matt Wild
Two months ago, a blog named Content Milwaukee quietly entered the ever-growing local publication scene. At first, its scope and ambition seemed as humble as its name: a collection of mostly black-and-white pic...

Extra Points: 16 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix tweets

Tyler Maas
With the 21st pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers set out to improve its under-performing (and M.D. Jennings-less) secondary that dragged the team down to the 25th ranked defense last season by ta...

First Impression: Rocket Baby Satellite Café

Tyler Maas
It usually works the other way around. Traditionally, restaurants and bars test their mettle within Milwaukee's stringent city limits before casting franchise feelers to the suburbs. Bel Air Cantina opened in '...

Kyle Kinane slays in endearing Shank showing

Tyler Maas
Among comedy nerds, Kyle Kinane is already a modern deity of sorts. Since 2010, the suburban Chicago native’s popularity has seen a significant uptick, largely due to his hilarious debut album Death Of The Part...

Chill On The Hill acts announced

Milwaukee Record Staff
With the fate of Humboldt Park's proposed beer garden still unknown, Bay Viewers can still enjoy the park's already existent amenity, the vastly popular Chill On The Hill. Back for its 10th season, the free mus...

New festival is the taco the town

Tyler Maas
The taco is a food that's deeply connected to Milwaukee's rich and distinct culinary tradition. With that in mind, Swarmm Entertainment Group—whose mission statement is "to ignite and fulfill the human imaginat...

Tracklist: 16 recommended Twitter unfollows

Tyler Maas
Twitter can be daunting. Literally every nanosecond of every day, somebody somewhere feels compelled to expend between one and 140 characters tweeting about something–anything–they want to express that particul...