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Pokemon Go and Pokemon Go-like games will have to apply for permits in Milwaukee County Parks

February 2, 2017

Yes, Milwaukee is still talking about Pokemon Go. And still trying to make it (and other games) pay for permits to take up virtual space in Milwaukee County Parks. Wait, scratch that last part, because Milwau...

First Impression: Third Coast Provisions

Tommy Ciaccio

February 2, 2017

Less than a decade ago, Milwaukee's restaurant scene—if you could call it that—was a spackling of stalwarts-turned-culinary linchpins. Most of these spots had clear and easily defined concepts (French bistro,...

Milwaukee Bucks trade guy with uncredited ‘Parks & Recreation’ cameo for guy with recurring ‘Parks & Recreation’ role

Tyler Maas

February 2, 2017

Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks finalized a trade that will send struggling center Miles Plumlee to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for a pair of veteran seven-footers, Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes. The deal f...

PHOX says goodbye (for now) at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach

February 2, 2017

Farewell tours must be the worst. Imagine being onstage, "celebrating" this thing that has made you who you are, knowing the whole time that it's about to end. Especially when you're an iconic frontwoman gett...

Secondhand news: A guide to Milwaukee-area thrift stores

Lauren Keene

February 1, 2017

After the Great Recession, thrifting became a staple activity for many Americans coping with financial instability. In Southeastern Wisconsin alone, Goodwill's profits increased by 90 percent from 2009 to 201...

Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2017

Tyler Maas

February 1, 2017

After months of cold, dreariness, premature darkness, and an absence of outdoor activity, the fifth annual Burnhearts Mitten Fest is just days away. For eight hours on Saturday, February 4, portions of Potter...

Welcome to February: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

February 1, 2017

February holds the distinction of being the year’s shortest month, one of Wisconsin’s coldest spans of time, and the final full month of winter. However, this particular February finds Milwaukee artists and v...

Milwaukee’s dreamy connection to The Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream”

Matt Wild

February 1, 2017

The music of the 1950s and early '60s remains strangely evocative. Sure, pop songs from that time may conjure up images of malt shops and sock hops, but there's something ethereal, something otherworldly about,...

Public Domain: Field Report performs “The Lost Chord”

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 31, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo’s Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve n...

We ate more than 7 pounds of pretzel sandwich for, uh, science

Tyler Maas

January 31, 2017

It's not exactly going out on a limb to declare Milwaukee Record to be the city's—and likely the state's—foremost outlet for all your "ill-fated and all-around dumb food and drink adventures executed for no p...

Here’s the 2017 Traveling Beer Garden schedule

Matt Wild

January 31, 2017

Do you like drinking? (Click here if you don't.) Do you like drinking outside? Do you like drinking in places you wouldn't normally expect a lot of (legal) drinking, like public parks? Then you're in luck, be...

12 (non-touristy) things to do in Milwaukee (without drinking)

Maggie Iken

January 30, 2017

Five months ago, I stopped drinking. Coincidentally, my social life also got a lot tamer/lamer around the same time. Living in a city known for beer, I find myself staying in almost every night and not having...

Top Brewers prospect Lewis Brinson thinks this is his year

Kyle Lobner

January 30, 2017

Unless you closely follow minor league baseball, you've probably never seen outfielder Lewis Brinson play. But, if you've been following the Milwaukee Brewers, you've probably at least heard of him. When t...

Hear Slow Walker bring its A-game to new EP, ‘Command Z’

Tyler Maas

January 30, 2017

Slow Walker is a curious name for a band that operates at such a frantic pace. The garage rock outfit put out three full-lengths between 2011 and 2014. Last year saw the release of two cassettes: a collection...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (January 22-28)

Matt Wild

January 30, 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 ...

I got a bottle of Big Mac Special Sauce from the guy who’s eaten 29,100 Big Macs: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

January 27, 2017

This article was originally published in 2017. There's a scene in the final episode of Mad Men where a lost and bottomed-out Don Draper finds himself in a confessional seminar at a New Age-y retreat. There, ...

Summerfest (presented by American Family Insurance) is getting a new amphitheater

Matt Wild

January 27, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • In case you were hiding under a rock yesterday, and/or hanging out with that ...

MKE SEX: Overheard at the bar

Lucky Tomaszek

January 27, 2017

broadstreet.zone(49071); OH at the bar last week: "...doesn't that sound like fun? We should try that." "No, it doesn't. I'm not really interested in that." "Why do you say 'no' to things all the time...

Author Adam Michael Krause examines revolution, comedy, “the end” in new book

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2017

In 2013, Milwaukee author, musician, activist, and carpenter Adam Michael Krause wrote an essay entitled The Revolution Will Be Hilarious. The 40-some-page pamphlet detailed society's need to expand its colle...

Sean Williamson captures life itself in brilliant spoken word collection ‘You’re Doing What I Should Have Done’

Matt Wild

January 26, 2017

"Life ain't short, it's long." So says a dying Earl Partridge in Paul Thomas Anderson's melodramatic Magnolia. That sentiment hangs heavy over You're Doing What I Should Have Done, a stark, moving, a...

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