First Impression: Kickapoo Coffee
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Milwaukee has seen an increase in recent years of coffee shops treating coffee like something to be savored, like a gourmet food item, similar to cheese or wine. From Stone Creek Coffee opening a high-co...
Milwaukee Record’s handy New Year’s Eve guide
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It's been quite a year, Milwaukee! Over the past 360 or so days, literally thousands of musicians, comedians, and other performers have entertained our fair city. The local music scene continued to grow ...
One guess how Kato Kaelin felt about last night’s Packers game
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Earlier this month, we dropped in on the Twitter feed of Kato Kaelin—he of faded “former O.J. Simpson houseguest” fame—and rounded up some of his delightfully angry tweets during the Green Bay Packers / ...
Poet Kavon Jones says “Merry Christmas, Milwaukee”
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Christmas is a special day in Milwaukee. At least that's what Kavon Jones believes.
The poet, activist, and Milwaukee native (also known as "Kj Prodigy") says he's always wanted to write a piece that ...
On The Record Episode 48: OnMilwaukee founders Jeff Sherman and Andy Tarnoff
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In early 1998, Jeff Sherman and Andy Tarnoff met for a drink at the Nomad Pub. With a noble idea, minimal coding background, and an overriding love for their city, OnMilwaukee.com was launched that Septe...
The Promise Ring will play a December 30 reunion show at Cactus Club
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For a band whose last release was in 2002 (the same year it broke up), The Promise Ring had a pretty active 2015. Maritime—which features two TPR expats in its ranks—put out its fifth (and arguably best)...
Milwaukee mouthfeel: The best and worst of 2015 dining
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Milwaukee's culinary and nightlife identities are enjoying staggering growth and inarguable evolution. Each year, a flurry of great new restaurants, enjoyable new bars, and downright wonderful new food exp...
First Impression: Lombardi’s Restaurant & Pizzeria
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UPDATE: Less than a month after opening, Lombardi's is closed. Huh. OnMilwaukee has more.
Stop us if you've heard this one before. Recently, the small storefront on the high-traffic corner of Lincoln ...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 15: Flannery’s
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In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
I saw ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Oriental Theatre at 4:15 a.m. and it was glorious
Back in October, a galaxy-full of Star Wars fans descended on the Internet, Death-Star-trench-run-style, to buy advance tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I was not among them. Instead, as untold millions...
Last Octopus standing: Milwaukee keeps car wash chain from extinction
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Earlier this week, the Internet was full of dismay when pictures began to circulate of the Octopus Car Wash’s totally adorbs mascot, Ozzie the Octopus, being dismantled from his perch high above the stre...
The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2015
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Milwaukee Record launched way, way back in April of 2014. That’s notable for two reasons: 1. Holy shit, we’ve made it 20 months! and 2. Twenty-fifteen was our first full calendar year of being a living, ...
Extra Life resets perception of gamers through helping children
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Of all the stereotypes facing video game enthusiasts on a regular basis, philanthropy is pretty far down the list. However, over the last eight years, Extra Life has served as a charitable vehicle for ga...
Watch Soul Low cover John The Savage’s “Sinking Ship”
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Great bands come and go all the time in Milwaukee. As disappointing as it is to watch an established local band call it quits in its prime, it seems as if there's always a new project in position to pick...
On The Record Episode 47: Talking about the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015
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Earlier this month, Milwaukee Record unveiled its list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015. On this episode of On The Record, hosts Tyler Maas and Matt Wild discuss that list, explain how they arrive...
Christopher Lloyd will host a ‘Back To The Future’ screening at Riverside Theater
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Dear Milwaukee,
On the night I go back in time of Saturday, February 20, 2016, you will be treated to a screening of Back To The Future at Riverside Theater, hosted by Doc Brown himself, Christopher L...
The Midwest Beat is radio-ready in “Carol Anne” music video
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Following an altogether great 2015 in Milwaukee-made music videos, The Midwest Beat—the band who brought you the closing time dancing debauchery of "High Life" and animated Alpine antics of "High Up In T...
Fatty Acids singer Josh Evert takes to the woods in ‘Not Uninhabited’
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If you know the name Josh Evert, it's almost assuredly as either the singer-keyboardist of synth-pop stalwarts The Fatty Acids or as the drummer for fuzzed-out Great Lakes surf rock staple Jaill. Recentl...
First Impression: Jack Rabbit Slim’s
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When one ponders West Allis, the common reflex is to dredge up a bunch of stereotypes. Like all stereotypes, those affixed to 'Stallis are at least vaguely fashioned from truth. The polarizing suburb is ...
Tracklist: 25 ultra-specific Milwaukee-made gift ideas
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In case you haven’t studied your Advent calendar lately, Christmas Eve is a mere 10 days away. Yes, just 10 light-filled, nog-fueled, shame-felled days lie between you reading this very sentence and fulf...