30 years of ‘Tommy Boy’: Celebrating all things Chris Farley at Farley’s Pub in Ringle, Wisconsin Mitch DeSantis March 31, 2025 Mitch DeSantis is Milwaukee Record’s Rural/Northwoods Wisconsin Correspondent. Find his dispatches HERE. One of my earliest childhood memories involves watching Saturday Night Live. I don't remember much abo...
Music streaming injustices: A call for indie musicians to stick up for themselves Brett Newski February 26, 2025 In 2016 I made a song called "Fuck You Spotify." I recorded it during a performance at Paste Studios in New York City. For years, I hesitated to push this track, worried that Spotify would suppress my reach or ...
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...
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...
Dry (but a little bit high) January: We evaluated a bunch of local THC beverages Rusty Drinkswell January 14, 2025 When the clock struck midnight almost exactly 105 years ago to the day, the "noble experiment" of Prohibition began. Many towns, cities, and states had dabbled in various dry laws prior to January 16, 1920, but...
New Year’s lessons from Bret “The Hitman” Hart Barry Robert Weber January 8, 2025 In 1993, I high-fived Bret “The Hitman” Hart in downtown Milwaukee. I was 11 years old, and I was attending my first live pro wrestling event: a non-televised “house show” at the Bradley Center. The undercar...
How a curbside dollhouse renovation helped subside holiday loneliness Emmy Yates January 7, 2025 From my own experience, "Hail Mary" art projects unfortunately motivate me the most efficiently as an artist and procrastinator. When I found a gutted Victorian dollhouse on the side of the road in Milwaukee's ...
Breakfast in America. Breakfast in the Wisconsin Dells Big Boy. Matt Wild December 23, 2024 Stop me if you've heard this one before: A once-great institution withers and fades, or so we're told. A charismatic businessperson emerges with the promise of bringing the institution back, of making it great ...
Remembering when I was 11 and I got a Guns N’ Roses cassingle for St. Nick’s Day Matt Wild December 6, 2024 This heartwarming tale of St. Nick's Day and Guns N' Roses was first published in 2022. If there's one thing that Wisconsinites love, it's celebrating all the "quirky Wisconsin things" that make our state un...
Pickles, pizza, and Polish brandy: How I destroyed deer camp dinner (and an outhouse) Mitch DeSantis December 3, 2024 Mitch DeSantis is Milwaukee Record's new Rural/Northwoods Wisconsin Correspondent. Welcome, Mitch! Another Wisconsin deer hunting season has come and gone. The blaze orange is packed away, and the routine of...
Brett Newski shares seedy story from new tour journal collection, ‘Piss In The Wind’ Brett Newski November 13, 2024 Milwaukee musician Brett Newski has spent the past decade-plus releasing countless albums of earnest indie rock, playing countless shows across the globe, and even penning his own book. Now, Newski has mashed h...
On last meals (and saying goodbye) Tyler Maas September 26, 2024 I can't tell you exactly when I last had Kim's Thai, but I know what I ate. As always, I ordered Jungle Curry with chicken, spice level four. My girlfriend got Pad Kee Mao, spice level 3, and gave me a bite. We...
I rappelled down the side of the 13-story Milwaukee Athletic Club for…reasons Matt Wild September 24, 2024 It's Friday and I'm in a small utility room near the top of the 13-story Milwaukee Athletic Club, watching Bango the Buck get a crash course in rappelling down a building. "This is an emergency mechanism," e...
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 5: A direction home? Tad Kriofske Mainella July 19, 2024 To our Milwaukee: I understand I left you in your week of need. Sure, you didn't need me gonzo-ing adjacent to the RNC, but you could've used Barry with a bullhorn downtown to drown out some of the nonsense wit...
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 4: The road narrows Tad Kriofske Mainella July 18, 2024 Things are getting weirder than weird as the Republican National Convention invades Milwaukee, so two forlorn Milwaukeeans are choosing to follow Route 66 to remember, to recharge, and to take pilgrimage at the...
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 3: Civil war and fictional podcasts Tad Kriofske Mainella July 17, 2024 Things are getting weirder than weird as the Republican National Convention invades Milwaukee, so two forlorn Milwaukeeans are choosing to follow Route 66 to remember, to recharge, and to take pilgrimage at the...
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 2: Honest Abe and Mother Jones Tad Kriofske Mainella July 16, 2024 Things are getting weirder than weird as the Republican National Convention invades Milwaukee, so two forlorn Milwaukeeans are choosing to follow Route 66 to remember, to recharge, and to take pilgrimage at the...
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 1: American giants Tad Kriofske Mainella July 15, 2024 Things are getting weirder than weird as the Republican National Convention invades Milwaukee, so two forlorn Milwaukeeans are choosing to follow Route 66 to remember, to recharge, and to take pilgrimage at the...
RTDs in MKE: We evaluated a bunch of local canned cocktail brands Rusty Drinkswell July 9, 2024 As pretty much all of you know, summertime in Milwaukee is pretty much magical. The front page of this very site at any moment between the first 69 degree day (nice) and the Packers kicking off on a not-yet-fro...
Some semi-deep final thoughts on Summerfest 2024 Matt Wild July 8, 2024 To paraphrase a great band that played Summerfest in 1983: it's the end of Summerfest 2024 and I feel fine. Of Summerfest 2024's nine days—divided into three consecutive Thursday-Friday-Saturday chunks—I att...
