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November 28, 2016

Congratulations! If you're reading this, you survived Thanksgiving, made it past Black Friday unscathed, and successfully navigated your way through regional retailers during Small Business Saturday. And now ...

The Trap Set’s Joe Wong runs down 9 standout Milwaukee drummers

November 25, 2016

Joe Wong knows a thing or two about drumming. Since leaving Milwaukee—where he provided percussion for acts like Akarso and Parts & Labor—for Los Angeles, he started The Trap Set, which has been called “t...

Try Milwaukee Record’s new beer and support local organizations

November 23, 2016

Hey! Guess what. Milwaukee Record has its own beer! In effort to raise more money for our upcoming Local Coverage benefit (January 13 at Turner Hall), we've partnered with Company Brewing to collaborate on...

16 things Milwaukee can be thankful for in 2016

November 23, 2016

Thanksgiving is a time for taking stock of the year gone by, for stuffing your face with family and friends, and for praying you'll get out of this thing alive without said family and friends saying anything ...

McDonald’s has cheese curds now (in Milwaukee, at least) and they’re okay

November 22, 2016

In the whiz-bang and artery-hardening world of fast food, there exist magical places known as test markets. These are cities, or sometimes entire states, that are frequently graced with new fast food menu ite...

Milwaukee Record’s holiday (and holiday-adjacent) beer round-up

November 22, 2016

Lowlands Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. Since opening Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue in 2006, the restaurant group has ballooned to seven locations—with another set to open next year—an...

Times Cinema and Avalon Theater revive holiday classics for “5 Days Of Christmas”

November 22, 2016

If Andy Williams is to be believed, we’re getting close to the most wonderful time of the year. While Black Friday madness, frigid temperatures, and dreadful seasonal ditties like “It’s The Most Wonderful Tim...

Vermutería 600 (el bar at Hotel Madrid): An Ernest Hemingway-themed bar comes to Walker’s Point

Ross Salchow

November 21, 2016

It’s about damn time someone opened up an Ernest Hemingway-themed bar. The man is known as much for his literary masterpieces as he is for his drinking prowess. Some of the upper-tier drinking quotes are penn...

Listen Up! aspires to assist others through entertainment

November 21, 2016

Milwaukee musicians are a generous breed. Recent years have found artists using their talents and passion for specific causes to bring assistance to others through entertainment with grassroots events like Ar...

Spend two hours watching a Milwaukee filmmaker execute “The world’s longest and worst Mannequin Challenge”

November 21, 2016

With productions like The Life And Times Of Thomas Thumb Jr. (a short where the titular character has a "giant fuckin' thumb for a head") and the Adult Swim-featured R.P.M. 2, which found him duct taping a ca...

Daughter treats Turner Hall to one mother of a show

November 20, 2016

Friday night, as the wind whipped through downtown a few hours after darkness and the dipping temperature made autumn's belated arrival officially known to Milwaukee, roughly 600 people braved the elements an...

Milwaukee drag superstar Trixie Mattel was on the ‘American Horror Story’ season finale

November 18, 2016

Those with any awareness of drag—especially on the local level—are sure to know the name Trixie Mattel. The Milwaukee-born drag queen achieved international notoriety as a contestant on season seven of RuPaul's...

The Randoms 2016: Best Milwaukee smoothie cafe endorsement by a professional athlete (who caught a Hail Mary touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers)

November 18, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary “best of” awards that do away...

Cool your (warm) jets to Nineteen Thirteen’s hypnotic ‘The Dream’

November 18, 2016

When we last checked in with Nineteen Thirteen, the drum/cello duo of Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and Janet Schiff were teasing a new album, Music For Time Travel, with a tantalizing single called "The ...

Hot ‘n Now or never: Driving thru the edge of extinction

November 17, 2016

It's said nothing lasts forever, but that isn't always true. In this insatiable era of nostalgia, reunions, reissues, and arbitrarily-numbered lists of minutia only kids can understand, anything simply ce...

The Randoms 2016: Best 3,000+ Milwaukee movie buffs who help support a local film festival

November 17, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary "best of" awards that do away...

Alive And Fine gives new life to vintage items in Bay View

November 16, 2016

Next weekend, as hoards of consumers are camped out in front of big box retailers in effort to get deals on brand new mass-produced items, a new shop in the heart of Bay View will open its doors with the inte...

The Randoms 2016: Best alternate alternate Milwaukee flag

November 16, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary "best of" awards that do away...

Bid on original Riverside Theater seats from 1927, help save area pets