Yelp Roulette: Prodigal Gastropub
For those who can’t handle the responsibility of perfectly catering to the differentiating palates of a group of people, choosing a restaurant can be a crippling experience. Many times in life, when faced with ...
Michael Ian Black stands up strong in Turner Hall return
Last time The Late Late Show gig was up for grabs, Michael Ian Black fell just short of Craig Ferguson for the hosting role. Almost a decade later, Ferguson is relinquishing the reins, and Black is in the hosti...
I failed Red Rock Saloon’s “Unforgiven Challenge”
I’ve always been able to eat a lot. Even before I was a love-handled and beer-gutted walking (with some discomfort) Wisconsin male stereotype, I could always put away more food than those around me—usually at a...
Plastic tray dining: A tour of Milwaukee’s downtown cafeterias
When people talk about Milwaukee’s “downtown dining” scene, they’re usually talking about upscale restaurants that wouldn’t feel out of place in a tourism video scored by Peaches’ “Downtown.” Millioke, Carnevor...
Var brings stand-up comedy to an art gallery setting
Last Friday, Bay View bars, restaurants, shops, and, yes, even galleries fostered the work of various Milwaukee artists during the neighborhood-wide gallery night. One Friday later, Bay View’s year-old Var Gall...
Exclusive: Hear two new songs (and watch one new video) from Heidi Spencer And The Rare Birds
Let’s talk about Heidi Spencer’s voice. It’s a voice like a waking dream: sleepy-eyed but lucid, lost in the wilderness but always in control. Over the course of four albums and more than 10 years, it’s a voice...
Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee restaurants we wish were still open
Milwaukee is in the throes of Downtown Dining Week. From June 5-12, “Milwaukee’s Favorite Feast” gives diners an incentive to try downtown restaurants, as 40 cafes, bars, bistros, grills, and gastropubs scatter...
Locust Street Festival 2014: A minute-by-minute recap
The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Tai Chi Demonstrations marks the official start of Milwaukee’s summer street fest season. The busy Riverwest thoroughfare pulls out all the stops with ...
Exclusive: Listen to Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band’s debut, Easier, Better
The Calamity Janes have been a going Milwaukee concern for only a year or so, but they already feel as old as the city itself. That’s party due to the members’ deep ties to the local scene, but also because the...
VISIT Milwaukee’s “You Gotta Be Here” video is hilariously awful
Back in 2008, a strange video surfaced online called “This Is My Milwaukee.” The 11-minute clip was an upbeat tourism video touting the many benefits of the Brew City, hosted by an agreeably accented man named ...
Off Base: The worst of the Brewers team store
The Milwaukee Brewers are an altogether awesome organization. Miller Park is among the least expensive ballparks to see a Major League game. Even if fans don’t bring in their own food or plastic bottle non-alco...
Vampire Weekend breaks in BMO Harris Pavilion
PrideFest traditionally serves as the first in a long string of celebrations at Henry Maier Festival Grounds that runs all the way into September. That’s technically no different this year, but Wednesday’s Vamp...
Drop what you’re doing (and/or your pants) and listen to The Blue Mooners
Every so often, an album comes across our desks that defies explanation. It may be a particularly inept concept album, a bizarre collection of covers, a field recording of migratory geese set to smooth jazz, or...
Where to go (and what to see) at Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night
For the past few years, Made In Milwaukee’s semi-annual Bay View Gallery Night has taken the tried and true citywide art exhibition and whittled it down to a single neighborhood. By staging many of its exhibits...
Bike-In Movie Series rolls out 2014 lineup
With events like Point Fish Fry & A Flick, Stand-Up Cinema, and the variety of between-fest screenings Milwaukee Film offers, there’s no shortage of ways for people in town to catch a movie in an uncommon l...
Watch The Midwest Beat drink, dance in its “High Life” video
Save for some periodic 7-inches, compilation contributions, and a comprehensive album of singles from previous releases, Milwaukee’s own The Midwest Beat hasn’t managed a proper LP since 2011’s Gone Not Lost. I...
Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee bars that could use rescuing
Last week, we revealed that Spike TV mainstay Bar Rescue is scouting a Milwaukee location to salvage with its tried and true bar-saving formula of screaming at people and using high-end technology given to them...
Exclusive: Listen to the new Calliope album, ORBIS
On its 2013 self-titled debut, Calliope sneered at current musical trends and offered up a sleazy, unabashed slab of dirty roadhouse blues. It was the kind of record that felt willfully out of time, something t...
Lorde will play the BMO Harris Pavilion September 26
You know you’ve arrived when, at 17, you’re telling the world press that you “don’t want to be a role model.” That’s just where New Zealand pop sensation Lorde has found herself in 2014, less than two years aft...
Off Base: Will Smith lays fresh prints in Milwaukee
December 5, 2013 was a crazy time in the world. Latin music sensation Thalía was awarded a star on the lauded Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moviegoers were just eight days from celebrating A Madea Christmas, and Will...