On The Record Episode 35: Ex Fabula
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For the past six years, Ex Fabula has served as Milwaukee’s premier live storytelling series, bringing a diverse cross-section of the city together and finding a common bond through the power of simple, di...
Nate Seek returns home with new perspective
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Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene experiencing a state of transition. This summer alone has seen four of the city's best and most active comedic performers leave Milwaukee to see how their material fares i...
The cupcake is fucking dead: A eulogy
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It was the English scribe John Keats who first fashioned the prose, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
There was a time, once—a time not...
Opening AND closing Wolski’s: A supposedly fun thing we’ll never do again
If you spend enough time anywhere in or around Milwaukee, you’re bound to eventually see a bumper sticker proudly proclaiming “I Closed Wolski’s.” Established more than 100 years ago, the East Side tavern that’...
10 years of Global Union: The trials (and triumphs) of bringing the world to Milwaukee
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It was 2008, outdoors at Humboldt Park, and storm clouds were threatening to put a serious damper on Alverno Presents’ annual world music festival, Global Union. Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Tou...
Here’s who will play Comet Cafe’s 20th Anniversary Block Party
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Comet Cafe is nothing short of a Milwaukee institution. Beyond being a southeastern Wisconsin dining staple, a place where Guy Fieri was filmed face-fucking himself with a meatloaf sandwich, and an establi...
Tracklist: 15 notable reunions in Milwaukee music
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Tonight, Milwaukee will play host to a reunion show of sorts when Desaparecidos comes to Turner Hall. Probably better known as “Conor Oberst’s old band,” the Omaha act disbanded in 2002 when the frontman s...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 1: Cactus Club
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Growing up in Green Bay, my earliest sports memory is my mom going downtown in her Starter jacket for the Super Bowl XXXI parade. When the Packers win Super Bowls (note the plurality, Bears fans), the stat...
Riverside Theater is getting a sweet new marquee and a 40-foot vertical sign
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The Riverside Theater has seen a plethora of changes in its 87-year history. Originally opened in 1928 as an RKO vaudeville house (hosting everyone from The Three Stooges to Glenn Miller), the Wisconsin Av...
Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series returns
Blackbird is an all-around great place. The Bay View bar—which, truth be told, was one of the first places to advertise with us—boasts a staggering selection of Wisconsin-brewed beer, more pinball machines than...
Vic And Gab open up about playing their final show as Vic And Gab
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From 2012-2014, Vic And Gab were a reliable, near-constant presence in Milwaukee’s music scene. The sister duo of Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela were known to play their effervescent, impeccably crafted ind...
Here’s the crazy good lineup for the next Riverwest FemFest
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Milwaukee musicians were feeling especially charitable last winter. Adding to the long-running annual Pablove show, January and February of 2015 saw more than a dozen punk and metal bands taking to the Bor...
Robert Thomas recreates “Dropping A Han Dynasty Urn” by dropping a signed 50 Cent vodka bottle
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Back in July, we made a pilgrimage to the Oak Creak Woodman’s and braved blistering temperatures, an endless line, and a runaway trash can to get a bottle of EFFEN Vodka signed by 50 Cent. We left feeling ...
Jen Kirkman is manic, magnificent in Turner Hall debut
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With her New York Times best-selling book I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids, her self-flagellating Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and her Drunk ...
On The Record Episode 34: Recording in Milwaukee
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Here, in the age of the bedroom EP and at a time when albums can be captured by laptop microphones at a stream of consciousness pace, the recording industry is having to deal with some serious changes. Tho...
Mondo Lucha plays with pro wrestling’s pillars
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At this point, Mondo Lucha is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...
Exclusive: Stream Brat Sounds’ winning album, Born Loser
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A little more than a year ago, Scott Cary quietly announced the presence of Brat Sounds—and, simultaneously, the burial of his other project, Dinny Bulca—with an eponymous eight-song debut. Beyond publicly...
Will Juiceboxxx make an appearance on the season 5 premiere of ‘Girls’?
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When we last talked to world-by-way-of-Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, the 28-year-old musician/entrepreneur was opening up about his childhood, grappling with being the quasi-subject of a new book, and nursi...
MFF2015: Film fest scheduling strategies for every type of filmgoer
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Each year, the Milwaukee Film Festival expands in days/venues/films/world domination, so if you’re going to tackle this 15-day, 5-venue, 300-film beast (or just arm wrestle it for a bit), you better have...
Yes we can: An afternoon at an international beer “CANvention”
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It's been said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Apparently the same holds true for one man's recyclables. Last Thursday through Saturday, hundreds of collectors and vendors hailing from mo...