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Tonight’s Milwaukee Night Market has been canceled due to severe weather forecast

Matt Wild
July 16, 2025
Tonight's installment of the Milwaukee Night Market has been canceled due to a severe weather forecast. Westown Association, which produces the downtown Night Market, has reserved Wednesday, October 1 as a make...

WMSE’s Local/Live: White Dry Pages

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 16, 2025
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, July 15, 2025: White...

I listened to my sister’s Milwaukee radio mixtape from 1988: “Good Songs on Lazer + QFM”

Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 15, 2025
The Excitement of a Song You May Only Hear Once Dig if you will a 1988 bedroom: Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album cover is taped to the closet door, a guinea pig rambles the shag red carpet, a phone cord snakes...
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Matt Wild
July 15, 2025
The annual Big Milwaukee Question—"What was the Summerfest attendance this year?"—has been answered. On Tuesday, Summerfest parent company Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF) announced that 602,231 folks at...

This weekend’s “Sugar Camp” at Sugar Maple will have a Hot Dog Sucking Contest. We have questions.

Matt Wild
July 15, 2025
Bay View bar and venue Sugar Maple, 441 E. Lincoln Ave., is known for many things: serving great beer, hosting great shows, dreaming up delightful pop-ups, and inspiring Milwaukeeans to come together in the fac...

The Hop will expand service for Bastille Days, so let’s argue about it for some reason

Matt Wild
July 15, 2025
Bastille Days kicks off Thursday, July 17 in Cathedral Square Park, and runs through Sunday, July 20. Want to utilize Milwaukee's BELOVED downtown streetcar system, The Hop, while you attend the four-day fest? ...

The Catered Quiz: Ed Furman answers questions about AWA wrestling and suspension bridges

Rick Katschke
July 15, 2025
On this edition of The Catered Quiz, writer, actor, and improviser Ed Furman joins the show to answer questions about AWA wrestling and suspension bridges. We also talk about Second City, Andre The Giant, and g...

Shout-out to Jack White for kicking in some serious cash for Cactus Club’s new ramp

Matt Wild
July 14, 2025
If you've been to Bay View's Cactus Club in recent weeks, you've seen all the construction going on outside. The construction is for Cactus' long-in-the-works accessibility ramp, part of an equally long-in-the-...

Wikipedia already calls Milwaukee Public Museum the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin

Matt Wild
July 14, 2025
The Milwaukee Public Museum—the Milwaukee Public Museum you know and love, the Milwaukee Public Museum with the Streets of Old Milwaukee and the Snake Button(s), the Milwaukee Public Museum located at 800 W. We...

Here’s the 2025 Center Street Daze music lineup

Tyler Maas
July 14, 2025
Center Street Daze Festival—which began way back in 1997 and is organized by the Riverwest Business Association—will make its triumphant return to Center Street (between Holton and Humboldt) on Saturday, August...

Please enjoy the charming-as-hell “Ducks,” from Milwaukee solo artist Floryence

Matt Wild
July 14, 2025
We try to keep up with new Milwaukee music as best we can here at Milwaukee Record. Our coverage is far, far, far from comprehensive, but you know what? We do okay. We're proud of what we do, even if we do miss...

The Gold Steps video for “Rent Free” is a day at the beach

Tyler Maas
July 11, 2025
Earlier this week, Milwaukee Record posted a list of our favorite local music released in the first half of 2025. As is mid-July tradition, just a few days after hitting "publish" on said list of standout album...

East Side Gallery Night will make inaugural splash July 18

Matt Wild
July 11, 2025
You've enjoyed nearly four decades of the original Gallery Night MKE. You've enjoyed nearly 15 years of the Bay View Gallery Night. Now buckle up for a new neighborhood-specific celebration of art and art-adjac...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Camila

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 11, 2025
broadstreet.zone(174293); Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Mamie’s is difficult to define and easy to love

Tyler Maas
July 10, 2025
broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Mamie's. These days, bars are quick to tell prospective customers...

East Side Italian restaurant L’Incontro is closed

Matt Wild
July 10, 2025
After 15 months in business, East Side Italian restaurant L'Incontro, 2315 N. Murray Ave., has closed. The restaurant made the announcement Wednesday on social media. It's last day of service was Monday, Jul...

Summer is here, and so is another round of Trivia By Milwaukee Record

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 10, 2025
broadstreet.zone(170477); In the mood for some trivia? In the mood for some Milwaukee trivia? Then you've come to the right place! It's another round of Trivia By Milwaukee Record! Thanks to our friends at ...

Bastille Day West will bring French-focused fun to Vliet Street on July 11

Tyler Maas
July 10, 2025
Last week, we revealed the full entertainment lineup for Bastille Days, which is scheduled to take over Cathedral Square Park from Thursday, July 17 through Sunday, July 20. The 2025 installment of that four-da...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite Milwaukee music of 2025 (so far)

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 9, 2025
Believe it or not, 2025 is more than halfway over. Weird! What's not weird: the incredible Milwaukee music scene! Here are just a few of our favorite 2025 Milwaukee releases—records, songs, videos—so far. MATT...

Silver City Fest to bring music, food, vendors, art to National Avenue on September 6

Tyler Maas
July 9, 2025
Since its start in 2012, Silver City International Festival—or Silver City Fest, as it's now being called—has celebrated the numerous cultures that help make Silver City the most diverse neighborhood in Milwauk...
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