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Yeah, Bro! Episode 48: Sex education with Lucky Tomaszek

March 22, 2016

// Every week, we'll be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about "gay things" (usually) with straight men. You can also stream our partner p...

Tracklist: 11 notable (active) comedians with Wisconsin roots

Tyler Maas

March 21, 2016

// On Saturday night, the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center played host to Jackie Kashian, a now-Los Angeles based comedian and—with all due respect to NBA journeyman power forward Kurt Nimphius—probab...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

// Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

Sarah Silverman & Friends to headline PrideFest’s opening night

Tyler Maas

March 21, 2016

// Last Monday, PrideFest announced Blondie and GGOOLLDD would be closing out the weekend's festivities with a June 12 Henry Maier Festival Park performance. Today brings news that actress, comedian, and im...

Bill Murray wasn’t a fan of Wisconsin’s NCAA Cinderella story

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

// March Madness continued to dole out the upsets Sunday night when No. 7 Wisconsin beat No. 2 Xavier via a last-second three-point shot from Bronson Koenig. The state rejoiced as the Badgers advanced to th...

Eric Young and old: 7 Milwaukee Brewers family connections

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2016

// Though this season's spring training appears to be an exercise in futility for the unabashedly rebuilding Milwaukee Brewers, it does give fans an opportunity to learn the many new names dotting the team'...

Pizza! Weed whackers! Outer space!: Enjoy the latest episode of Rock ‘N’ Roller Remote Controller

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2016

// What's better than Rock 'N' Roller Remote Controller? The Milwaukee-made program's endearingly lo-fi production value combined with local music and a dash of punk-tinged campiness has entertained a proud...

Josh Modell discusses his Milwaukee music roots on Vinyl Emergency podcast

Tyler Maas

March 18, 2016

// While he's no longer putting out records, Jim Hanke—ex El Oso, Twinstar—hasn't stopped talking about them. Back in January, Hanke launched Vinyl Emergency, a weekly podcast wherein he and another audioph...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with “Real Pat McCurdy drinking song or fake Pat McCurdy drinking song?”

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 17, 2016

// Today is St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, all things green, and all things WOOO!!! YEEEAAAHHH!!! WOOO!!! Yep, a whole lot of folks are going to be buckling down and getting ...

The Jerks drink away St. Patty’s Day in “Irish Today”

Tyler Maas

March 17, 2016

// If the first true day of March Madness isn't quite enough to get you to call in sick to belly up to your neighborhood bar today, maybe the fact that it's also St. Patrick's Day is enough to do the trick....

Was The Spot 4MKE a boon or a bust? It depends on who’s reporting

Matt Wild

March 16, 2016

// Late last week, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin broke the news that The Spot 4MKE, a highly touted "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee, had been put on "indefin...

Check out the incredible Arte Para Todos lineup

Tyler Maas

March 16, 2016

// Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—benefit was an absolute success. Over the course of three nights, 70 acts from all corners of Milwaukee's musical spectrum combined to play sho...

On The Record Episode 58: Spring show preview

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 16, 2016

// After trudging through yet another long, unforgiving, and somewhat boring Wisconsin winter, spring has arrived. Well, almost. Along with the increased sunlight and climbing temperatures, a wealth of grea...

We went to Anime Milwaukee 2016 and this is what we saw

Tea Krulos

March 15, 2016

// Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea Krulos Anime MKE (AMKE, pronounced am-key, for short) returned for its ninth year the weekend of March 11-13. Started as a small event at UW-Milwaukee, the ...

Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

Matt Wild

March 15, 2016

// Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony di...

You can rent this East Side bird house for $825 a month

Tyler Maas

March 15, 2016

// The East Side is changing. Sure, the neighborhood—like much of Milwaukee—has always been in a state of flux, but the rapid and rampant construction of massive, view-obstructing condos and cookie-cutter a...

Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

// Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...

Blondie, GGOOLLDD to close out PrideFest 2016

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2016

// Passes to Pridefest 2016—June 10-12 at Henry Maier Festival Park—have already been selling quite well, especially considering the long-running LGBTQ+ celebration and annual kickoff of Milwaukee's festiva...

Here’s the undeniably awesome lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Day show at Turner Hall

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

// On Thursday, April 14, Milwaukeeans young and old will join as one, raise their voices to the heavens, and celebrate the greatest holiday to be based on an area code. Yes, we're just one month away from ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

// Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on the ci...

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