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The Estate set to reopen (with music!) on weekends

January 31, 2025

The last four years have been bumpy ones for beloved East Side club The Estate (2423 N. Murray Ave). There were openings and closings, kinda-sorta name changes (it was The Jazz Estate but it's just The Estate n...

Andrew Jambura laments state of society, Pro Bowl, in video for “My God”

Matt Wild

January 31, 2025

The last time we checked in with Milwaukee musician and Silver City Studios engineer Andrew Jambura, the former Sat. Nite Duets member was releasing his first solo song in nearly a decade, "Can U Spell God?" Fa...

Shapes of Milwaukee County cities and villages, ranked

Tyler Maas

January 30, 2025

Shapes! The world is full of 'em. Triangles! Rectangles! Circles! We could go on, but you probably get the idea. Everything in the universe, from the country you live in, the device you're currently reading thi...

Northridge Mall demolition continues; former JCPenney razed this week

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

Last summer we took a tour of the long-empty, super-trashed, and soon-to-be-demolished Northridge Mall. It was the last time folks could (legally) take a look inside the once-mighty mall before it started to (l...

Spring has sprung with the artwork for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

Have you been outside today? It's pretty nice! True, spring is still months away, but at least it kinda-sorta feels like spring today. And here's another taste of spring: the just-released artwork for the 2025 ...

MKE Music Rewind: 1984, ‘Rock Drill’ (2000)

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: 1984's Rock Drill from 2000. There's a great line from Stephen King n...

Madison locations of Milwaukee-based restaurant chains: The Milwaukee Record Review

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2025

broadstreet.zone(174512); Let me start this article by saying that I really like Madison. Though I personally love Milwaukee far more, Wisconsin's second-most populous city and its capital is home to some very...

Milwaukee made $559K from those darn electric scooters in 2024

Matt Wild

January 29, 2025

The last time we heard from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works on the issue of those darn electric scooters, the city had netted nearly $500,000 from the things. Now, at the beginning of 2025, the DPW has...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (January 15-28, 2025)

Matt Wild

January 29, 2025

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Genesis Renji

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 29, 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, January 28, 2025: Ge...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Remembering Bob Uecker (and everything else)

Matt Wild

January 28, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Uecker. On the morning of Thursday, January 16, I was planning on...

SereniTea Lounge will open this week in long-vacant Downer Avenue space

Matt Wild

January 28, 2025

For the first time in nearly two decades, a business will occupy a high-profile spot on the 2500 block of Downer Avenue. Well, a portion of that spot, anyway. SereniTea Lounge, a boba/bubble tea and cocktail...

Go “Swimming In The Sun” with VLNTYN

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2025

Last February, Jorge Vallentine released Grace, For Those Who Need It, a four-song EP that chronicles his "journey through the unraveling of a difficult relationship been in for 12 years.” A few months later, ...

The Catered Quiz: Gabe Mollica answers questions about Stephen Sondheim and ‘Seinfeld’

Rick Katschke

January 28, 2025

On this week’s episode of The Catered Quiz, comedian and storyteller Gabe Mollica joins the show to answer questions about Stephen Sondheim and the TV show Seinfeld. We also chat about his acclaimed one-man sho...

Wückfinter will return to Ray’s Wine & Spirits on February 23

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2025

In early 2019, Wauwatosa beverage bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits and Indiana’s 3 Floyds Brewing joined forces to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with an outdoor celebration of beer done in defian...

Meshell Ndegeocello brings ‘Gospel Of James Baldwin’ to Vivarium

Cal Roach

January 28, 2025

For the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy created three new competitive categories; one of these, Best Alternative Jazz Album, went to Meshell Ndegeocello in its inaugural year, for her 2023 reco...

10 Milwaukee names that are easy to get technically wrong

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

In our semi-regular Tracklist feature we round up a bunch of Milwaukee things and present them in list form. Do people still enjoy lists? Yes? Well, enjoy! What's in a name? A sense of self, a sense of ident...

The Daniel James Gang plumbs “Darkness Over This Town” in new maxi-single

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

You know what we could go for right now? A hooky-as-hell glam-punk gem filled with bright and chiming guitars, sneering vocals, plenty of "whoa-whoa-whoa"s, and lyrics about being a kid trapped in a dead-end to...

The ‘Green And Gold’ Packers-related movie starring Craig T. Nelson: The Milwaukee Record Review

Tyler Maas

January 27, 2025

broadstreet.zone(174512); Even though the Green Bay Packers season came to a close this month with three consecutive losses, including a Wild Card Round drubbing at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles, there'...

The Killers will headline Summerfest on June 27

Matt Wild

January 27, 2025

If you weren't exactly thrilled with the George Thorogood & The Destroyers (and Foghat!) Summerfest announcement from a few weeks ago, this one might be more up your (millennial) alley. Las Vegas stalwarts ...

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