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March 25, 2025

With longer days, a steady wave of festival announcements, and the Brewers season starting in just a few days, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee…even if the weather is crummy. The season tec...

Save the date for our ‘ElimiDATE’ rewatch event at The Laughing Tap

March 24, 2025

Last month, we took readers on a trip back to early 2000s Milwaukee when we unearthed some episodes of ElimiDATE—a trashy reality dating show that ran from 2001 to 2006—that were shot in the city and featured a...

“Song To Woody” becomes “Song To Uecker”: A Q&A with Milwaukee’s “Weird Al of Baseball”

Tad Kriofske Mainella

March 24, 2025

Milwaukee is home to many characters in the world of sport. Mike "Freeway" McCarter is a legendary presence at MKE sporting events. Eddy J. Lemberger has crafted memorable tunes dedicated to the Green Bay Packe...

Here are the winners of WMSE’s 2025 Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser

March 24, 2025

Thousands of hungry Milwaukeeans flocked to the MSOE Kern Center on Sunday for WMSE’s 23rd annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser. While there, these hearty chili lovers sampled a wide range of chilis from oodles o...

Watch Milverine welcome spring’s arrival by reciting a poem

March 24, 2025

Milverine—real name John Frank Hamann—has been a Milwaukee character for more than a decade, famous for hoofing it around town sans shirt, and for bearing more than a passing resemblance to the X-Men’s Wolverin...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Theo

March 22, 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...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: You (and your friend Rick) should get to Ricky’s Double Barrel Inn

Caleb Westphal

March 21, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #585 at Ricky's Double Barrel Inn...

1840 Brewing to celebrate ‘Simpsons’ and combat lousy Smarch weather with “The Springfield Connection”

March 21, 2025

Last weekend, two Bay View bars paid tribute to TV comedies by hosting ambitious pop-ups. At the tail end of the same month in which Sugar Maple temporarily transformed into a Parks And Recreation-themed establ...

We’re screening ‘Total Recall’ at Avalon Theater on April 23

March 20, 2025

If you were one of the many folks who attended last night's screening of Tremors at Avalon Theater: 1. Thank you, and 2. We think you're really going to like next month's film selection. On Wednesday, April 23,...

A guide to the 2025 NCAA Tournament’s Milwaukee games

March 20, 2025

Following a week that was packed with conference tournaments and Sunday’s selection show, March Madness is officially here. The 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament officially started with play-in games on Tue...

Behold Crafty Cow’s “April Fast Foods Day” menu

March 20, 2025

We love Crafty Cow. We love the Bay View Crafty Cow, the Wauwatosa Crafty Cow, and the Oconomowoc Crafty Cow. We also love fast food. We love Taco Bell, we love McDonald's, and we love Arby's. (Hey, we're only ...

MKE Music Rewind: Farms In Trouble, “Like A Needle In Heaven” (2008)

March 20, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Farms In Trouble's "Like A Needle In Heaven."...

Rockabilly Chili, Midwest Gaming Classic, and 14 other Milwaukee spring festivals

March 19, 2025

Milwaukee is known as the "City Of Festivals" for good reason. The city and its surrounding suburbs routinely play host to dozens upon dozens of ambitious undertakings that range from festivals, block parties, ...

AdeptiCon brings big-time miniatures action to Milwaukee

Rob Wieland

March 19, 2025

As the old saying goes: "March comes in like a lion and goes out with three nerdy weekends full of back-to-back-to-back conventions." This week, Gary Con celebrates the life of one of the creators of Dungeon...

Milwaukee Film reveals more MFF25 selections, Opening Night film and party

March 19, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is just around the corner—April 24 - May 8, to be exact. It will feature approximately 200 short and feature-length documentary and fiction films from around the world (and Milw...

WMSE’s Local/Live: as Oak (2025)

March 19, 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, March 18, 2025: as O...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Admirals hockey is a hard-hitting good time

March 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the Milwaukee Admirals! When was the last time you went to a Milw...

Here’s Downtown South Milwaukee’s 2025 “Market Music” lineup