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March 5, 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 4, 2025: Greg ...

Milwaukee Record is up for a WAMI award!

March 5, 2025

It's that time of year again! Last month, the folks behind the Wisconsin Area Music Industry unveiled the field nominees for their 2025 awards show shindig, which is set to take place Sunday, May 4 at The Deco ...

Money talks, rockets launch in Highland Community School’s ‘A Very Special Visit’

March 4, 2025

More than two dozen 4th, 5th, and 6th graders dash around a dimly lit gymnasium. Discussions of money and morality are punctuated by the sounds of fire alarms and mid-period Styx. The richest person in the worl...

Ventura’s Taco is planning to open a location in West Allis this month

March 4, 2025

UPDATE (3/17/2025): The West Allis Ventura's Taco location will officially open at noon on Sunday, March 23. *** In May 2021, Ventura’s Taco opened a brick and mortar location at 2899 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. in ...

Here’s Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s 2025 State of the City address

March 4, 2025

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson delivered his 2025 State of the City address at the Baird Center on Monday. He was introduced by his predecessor, former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Johnson's wide-ranging a...

The Catered Quiz: Chase Mitchell answers questions about ‘The O.C.’ and horror comedies

Rick Katschke

March 4, 2025

On this edition of The Catered Quiz, comedy writer Chase Mitchell joins the show to answer questions about The O.C. and the horror comedy genre. Chase also shares his first comedic influences and what it’s like...

Old Pup weaves an intricate, entrancing web with ‘Spider Towns’

March 3, 2025

In 2022, Old Pup—the pet project of Milwaukee multi-instrumentalist Will Hansen—introduced listeners to its winning mixture of psych, folk, and country with the release of Incognito Lounge. Since then, Hansen a...

10 food and drink events in March that we’re excited about

March 3, 2025

At long last, March is upon us. Even though temperatures will be gradually rising and it'll now be light past 6 p.m. until sometime in November, we're still frustratingly far from the beginning of festival seas...

Oriental, Downer theaters will go cashless beginning March 10

March 3, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 through May 8 at the Oriental Theatre and Downer Theatre. (Sorry, MFF films won't be screening at the Avalon or Times this year.) It will feature approxim...

Welcome to March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

March 1, 2025

March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons…a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season changes and w...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Cinnamon

March 1, 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: The Saucy Swine serves BBQ (and fish) inside Redbar

Caleb Westphal

February 28, 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 #582: The Saucy Swine (inside Red...

McBob’s would like to remind you not to scream at your server if they give you root beer instead of Dr Pepper

February 28, 2025

In February 2024, business partners Katy Klinnert and Sara McConville assumed ownership of beloved neighborhood treasure McBob's Pub & Grill (4919 W. North Ave.; 414-871-5050). "I looked around and I though...

X-Ray Arcade announces “Accessible Entryway Construction Fundraiser” events and merch

February 28, 2025

It’s tough to remember a time before X-Ray Arcade. Frankly, we don’t want to think about it. Amazingly, in spite of seeming like it’s been a fixture in Milwaukee-area music forever, the Cudahy-based arcade and ...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: February 2025

February 28, 2025

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE 5pm To Nowhere - City Of Light, Act I Bryan Cherry - Anything ...

Travel back to early 2000s Milwaukee with these episodes of ‘ElimiDATE’

February 27, 2025

Somewhere between Blind Date and NEXT on the hierarchy of trashy early aughts dating shows you'll find ElimiDATE. The syndicated reality show in which a contestant goes on a date with four potential suitors at ...

Get in the Seances spirit with the “Forgiveness” music video

February 27, 2025

If you listen to Milwaukee-made music with any regularity, there's a good chance you're familiar with Eric Arsnow's work. Over the last 10-plus years, he's had lengthy stints playing bass in Tigernite and Devil...

Here are the businesses participating in WMSE’s 23rd annual Rockabilly Chili fundraiser