10 infamous Milwaukee concerts
This article was originally published in 2014.
In a perfect world, music or comedy shows go something like this: fans show up to a venue, artists show up to a venue and perform for fans, fans leave venue hap...
Bay View Bash 2014: A minute-by-minute recap
And then there were none. After yet another Milwaukee summer rife with festivals and block parties, Saturday’s Bay View Bash unofficially brought the celebration of the season in the City of Festivals to a clos...
Nick Swardson overcomes his fans to entertain his fans at Pabst Theater
In some ways, Nick Swardson is the comic equivalent of that friend everyone has who’s “a really good guy once you get to know him.” While the backwards hat and Afflication shirt donning party boy can quickly be...
Gotham’s green and gold: Where NYC backs the Pack
It's a green and gold beacon shining for New York's weary cheeseheads. Every good Wisconsin expat finds his or herself there at one time or another—maybe for the beer, the summer sausage, cheddar cheese and cra...
Changing of The Vanguard
As part of this weekend’s Bay View Bash, highly anticipated specialty sausage bar The Vanguard will be selling cased meats in front of its yet-to-be-completed property. The pop-up sausage station will grant eag...
Brewers put the “fun” in “extra security measures” with Bob Uecker video
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• If there’s one thing Americans are good at, it’s suffering countless indignities in exchan...
Where stand-up meets meat: Sammy Arechar talks Hotdogs And Hamburgers comedy tour
At just 22 years of age and with scantly two years of stage time beneath his belt, Sammy Arechar is already on the shortlist of the funniest stand-up comics in all of Milwaukee. His inventive and eclectic style...
Faith in progress: Marriage equality, religion, and random rooming assignments
By now you’ve at least caught wind of last week’s decision by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals declaring Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban to be unconstitutional. There’s likely to be miles w...
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Death Blues: Ensemble
There’s a moment in the making-of documentary of Magnolia where writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is moments away from shooting the film’s first scene. “So this is the first shot of the movie,” he says. “I t...
Tracklist: 13 more bands Milwaukee can claim by association
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As great as Sylvan Esso is, you have to think at least some of the reason for Durham-based duo’s Pabst Theater sellout Friday had to do with Milwaukee being the hometown of Nick Sanborn. Prior to startin...
Mike Brenner vs. Milwaukee
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Last month, upstart beer baron and longtime provocateur Mike Brenner (you may know him from such films as The Great Bronze Fonz Dust-Up Of 2007) stayed true to his shit-starting ways by penning a doozy o...
Sylvan Esso plays it right at Pabst Theater
On the wings of its outstanding self-titled debut album, Durham dream-pop duo Sylvan Esso has enjoyed a swift and well-deserved rise to prominence that’s included ample NPR attention, an unforgettable performan...
Here’s the complete lineup for the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the annual Milwaukee Film Festival is one of the city’s finest events, hands down. For the 2014 fest—which runs September 25 through October 9—a total of 276 films w...
The future of Milwaukee’s lakefront just got more futuristic (maybe)
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• For a city that prides itself on its proximity to Lake Michigan, Milwaukee’s downtown lake...
Unrehearsed MKE is a practice in improvisation
For close to two years, an eclectic cast of classically trained musicians hailing from Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, and as far away as New York has convened on stage the first Sunday of each month to collaborat...
Drop kicks, dancing girls, and dangerous bands: A beginner’s guide to Mondo Lucha
Since 2008, Milwaukee’s Mondo Lucha has whipped the city’s wrestling nerds (and closet wrestling nerds) into the turnbuckles with over-the-top, high-flying, masked lucha libre wrestling extravaganzas. The homeg...
Milwaukee River, four ways: Making the most of the city’s urban waterway
It’s a posh time to be water in Milwaukee. In the past couple weeks alone, the city’s water sources have made headlines: MillerCoors is donating $500,000 in an effort to improve the water quality and shoreline ...
Extra Points: What the Packer on your fantasy team says about you
Thursday’s regular season opener between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks marks the true beginning of the NFL season. As exciting as the return of football makes millions of people, a significant port...
On living in Milwaukee for half your life and never wanting to leave
Beginning this fall, I will have lived in Milwaukee for half my life. I moved here in 1996, an incoming UWM film student with a part-time job and a questionable haircut. I played in an equally questionable rock...
Exclusive: Stream The Midwest Beat’s new album, Free Of Being
The Midwest Beat has been around for close to 10 years. During that lengthy tenure—in which the band has amassed three full-length albums (and nine releases in all)—its sound has shifted, augmented, and develop...