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Watch Jacob Bach explain why UPAF matters

March 8, 2017

Monday night, the United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) kicked off its 50th anniversary campaign at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. In its 50 years, UPAF has raised more than $300 million for a host of Milwaukee-...

Trading Ryan Braun now makes no sense for the Brewers

Vince Morales

March 7, 2017

As spring training rolls on and the Brewers season gets closer, there is one storyline that doesn’t seem to want to go away. It has nothing to do with future All-Stars Eric Thames and Keon Broxton, the pieces t...

Mandatory Milwaukee: WMSE continues to create community for left-of-the-dial listeners

Matt Wild

March 7, 2017

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...

Hear Jaill singer Vincent Kircher’s first solo single, “Mr. Doom”

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2017

After finally releasing the long-delayed Brain Cream in 2015, Jaill—and singer-guitarist Vincent Kircher, in particular—has kept a pretty low profile. Though the past 18 months have seen the former Sub Pop and ...

Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new downtown location in the next decade

Matt Wild

March 7, 2017

Heads up, snake button enthusiasts: According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new, $100 million downtown home sometime in the next decade. MPM is pursuing the optio...

Rosati’s on Farwell and North appears to be closed

Matt Wild

March 6, 2017

After little more than a year in business, it appears that Rosati's Pizza Sports Pub, located on the corner of Farwell and North on Milwaukee's East Side, is closed. As of Monday night, the interior of the rest...

WMSE will release a live Direct Hit! 7-inch for Record Store Day 2017

Tyler Maas

March 6, 2017

Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...

Here are the winners of WMSE’s 2017 Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser

Matt Wild

March 6, 2017

This past Sunday, oodles of Milwaukeeans flocked to the MSOE Kern Center for WMSE's 15th annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser. Several hours later, they all went home and found a nice place to curl up and think a...

Here’s Mayor Barrett’s 2017 State of the City speech

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 6, 2017

Monday morning, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his 2017 State of the City speech at the Harley-Davidson University. Here's the full text of that speech. Good morning, I’m Tom Barrett, mayor of the Ci...

Cards Against Humanity is sending a bunch of potatoes to Sen. Ron Johnson

Matt Wild

March 3, 2017

Back in January, the creators of your family's favorite zany/offensive/tiring party game, Cards Against Humanity, hid a bunch of boxes around Milwaukee. Now, approximately two months later, they're urging fans ...

We’re showing ‘BASEketball’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

March 3, 2017

Way back in July of 1998, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were enjoying newfound success with South Park, which premiered the previous summer. As the world was first getting to know the groundbreaking and influentia...

Joan La Rosa returns from comedy crash course in China

Tyler Maas

March 3, 2017

In no particular order, starting out in stand-up comedy and moving to a faraway country whose language you don't know are probably the first and second biggest fears for most Americans. Joan La Rosa is the exce...

This Is It! wants you to re-design its logo

Tyler Maas

March 3, 2017

This Is It! is nothing short of a Milwaukee—no, a Wisconsin—institution. Billing itself as "Milwaukee's oldest gay bar, "TITs" has been a presence on Wells Street in Cathedral Square since 1968. Initially, it k...

The new Fuel is nothing like the original Fuel, and that’s fine

Matt Wild

March 2, 2017

My first Milwaukee memories are of Fuel Cafe. I moved here in 1996, three years after the now-iconic coffee shop/cafe opened in Riverwest. Like many of my friends, I spent an inordinate amount of time at Fuel. ...

Stream The Zach Pietrini Band’s ‘Holding Onto Ghosts’

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

Zach Pietrini is a work in progress. That's not an indictment of his talent as much as it is an acknowledgement of Americana troubadour's unwillingness to spend too much time in any single creative territory. S...

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

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season changes an...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (February 19-25)

Matt Wild

March 1, 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 ...

The Phoenix Cocktail Club is offering a “Mardi Gras menu” for a limited time

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

Though The Phoenix Cocktail Club has only been open since New Year's Eve, the Cathedral Square restaurant and lounge has quickly shown patrons they're not your typical downtown establishment. Certain drinks c...

Public Domain: Stomata performs “Alouetté”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 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...

First Impression: City Lights Brewing Company

Tyler Maas

February 28, 2017

As encouraging as it is to see a sudden influx of brand new breweries, brewpubs, and the like opening up in Milwaukee (and nearby suburbs), the newfound allure of Brew City has also brought about the relocati...

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