Tucked Away: Downtown Kitchen
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...
The second time is a charm for Piles on ‘Expeller’
Last winter, just a few months removed from the release of the locally-lauded Planet Skin, Piles returned to the studio with aspirations of knocking out a new batch of songs for another album over the course of...
Remembering the time County Stadium banned carry-ins and everyone got pissed
Yesterday, the Milwaukee Brewers revealed a slew of local breweries and beers coming to Miller Park's new "Local Brews" bar in 2017. Lakefront's Riverwest Stein, Third Space's Happy Place, and Milwauk...
Noted battle rapper Carter Deems spreads skills to Milwaukee comedy
For many people involved in Milwaukee's comedy scene, stand-up is a hobby and a fun outlet to help meet people while staying creatively fulfilled. As an aspiring comic improves, their opportunities to perform g...
On The Record Episode 88: Lady Business
Our first On The Record episode of 2017 covers a very specific event, but one with a message that can (and should) be put into practice every day. On March 8, more than 30 female-owned Milwaukee businesses prim...
Hear a new song from the new, improved, expanded Twin Brother
Following a fruitful 2014 in which Twin Brother released its emotive coming of age record, Swallow The Anchor, the band that began as a folk trio started to move in a different direction. Amid departures, shift...
Watch Jacob Bach explain why UPAF matters
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. ...