Tag: First Person

Sunday Sauce: A 98.3-mile bike ride to Chicago fueled by meatballs, pizza, and Italian beef

May 17, 2026

Sunday Sauce is a monthly Milwaukee Record series about the area's Italian food and the places, people, and traditions that make a meal feel like home. I'm chasing how these restaurants, grocery stores, event...

Pizza from Vinchi's Pizza, Lisa's Pizza, and Palermo's

My day of eating nothing but pizza for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and late-night snack

Matt Wild

May 14, 2026

Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Woodman's Markets. From May 11 through May 18, belly up and enjoy adventurous, odd, and elaborate coverage of all things edible and drinkable...

Unaccompanied, unbothered, unforgettable: The pleasures of going to concerts alone

Annie Raab

April 28, 2026

Does anyone remember Bucket Works? Or maybe Bucketworks? Bucket Worx? I don't remember if it was the name of a music series, or the venue, or—and this is not unlikely—not a name at all and something my friend m...

Dispatches from our 4.20-mile THC crawl

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 20, 2026

In recent years, THC-based beverages have become all the rage. These hemp-derived drinks are a nice alternative to alcohol, and they offer consumers a decidedly different sensation. As is the case with booze, w...

Did I cry during the Bob Uecker documentary ‘Ueck’? You better believe I did.

Matt Wild

April 17, 2026

Here's something you may not know about me: I cry at movies. Like, all the time. I cry at sad movies, I cry at sort-of-sad movies, I cry at not-sad-at-all movies. It sounds corny but I find the act of sitting i...

I was an Election Inspector: 15 hours of nonstop democracy

Tad Kriofske Mainella

April 8, 2026

Someone who knows me well enough to suspect that my freewheeling lifestyle could (or should) accommodate direct civil service suggested that I apply to be an Election Inspector. Being susceptible to suggestions...

I took the (cold) plunge: Hot Spell Sauna exposes Milwaukee to Finnish tradition

Annie Raab

April 6, 2026

You see them everywhere now. Barrels on wheels, like oversized whisky casks, arranged in clusters around firepits. They appeared in town almost overnight, hauled in on trailers and parked on flat surfaces near ...

Reminder: Never, ever count out the Milwaukee Brewers

Matt Wild

March 30, 2026

On Sunday morning, my family and I drove to Cedarburg to get breakfast at PJ Piper Pancake House. We had a lovely time, filling ourselves with pancakes and bacon and biscuits and gravy. (Fun fact: Because I'm 6...

How-To Wisconsin: How to order an Old Fashioned

Tyler Maas

March 19, 2026

In How-To Wisconsin, we do that annoying internet thing where we explain how to do something fairly simple (in this case, something Wisconsin-y) but precede it with a needlessly long personal story. The firs...

Sunday Sauce: Glorioso’s is where my Milwaukee story starts

Mitch DeSantis

January 25, 2026

Welcome to "Sunday Sauce," a new monthly Milwaukee Record series about the area’s Italian food—the restaurants, the grocery stores, the events, and the small details that make a meal feel like home. I’m startin...

How-To Wisconsin: How to score bowling by hand

Matt Wild

January 15, 2026

In How-To Wisconsin, we do that annoying internet thing where we explain how to do something fairly simple (in this case, something Wisconsin-y) but precede it with a needlessly long personal story. Some of ...

In new documentary, Corey Feldman suggests I’m “working for the dark side”

Matt Wild

January 6, 2026

In March 2017, I drove to Green Bay to see Corey Feldman & The Angels play a show at the Green Bay Distillery. I wrote about the show in a subsequent review, "I saw Corey Feldman & The Angels in Green B...

Holly, jolly, and haunted? I attended the first night of The Rave’s Haunted Holidays

Lily Mihelich

December 18, 2025

The Rave is no stranger to suspected unearthly history. When its uncanny past meets the joyful traditions of the holiday season, you get Haunted Holidays, a four-day series of self-guided tours of The Rave's in...

Spotify, Liz Pelly’s ‘Mood Machine,’ and human connection as algorithm antidote

Jasmine Gonzalez

December 15, 2025

I was sitting at the Anodyne in Bay View one afternoon this past summer when a song caught my attention. It was a cover of a song I’d grown up listening to. I hit the song search button on my phone and got a re...

Remembering when I was 11 and I got a Guns N’ Roses cassingle for St. Nick’s Day

Matt Wild

December 6, 2025

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...

Hugh Jackman serving custard at the Greenfield Kopp’s: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

December 4, 2025

On Tuesday, December 2, in the year of our lord 2025, actor Hugh Jackman descended on Milwaukee to promote his latest film, Song Sung Blue. (The film dramatizes the real-life story of Milwaukee couple Mike and ...

I floated down the Milwaukee River, luxury hot tub style

Lily Mihelich

December 2, 2025

What's more Wisconsin than finding yet another way to enjoy our very generous winter season? Milwaukee Record sent me down the Milwaukee River on a Skyline Boat Company hot tub boat, delivering the excitement a...

I played in Milwaukee’s largest Tecmo Super Bowl tournament

Tad Kriofske Mainella

November 20, 2025

Of all the things I value most in life I see my memories And feel their warmth And know that they are good - "Spiral Architect" by Black Sabbath When “real” American football failed as a religion, Tecmo ...

I made Vincent Price’s “Supper Casserole” recipe (and learned a valuable lesson along the way)

Tyler Maas

October 29, 2025

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an image posted on the Facebook page of Dinosaur Dracula—a site that documents and celebrates "'80s & '90s nostalgia, Halloween & Xmas, snacks, toys, spooky stuff and mo...

Milwaukee Mosts: My all-time local leaderboard

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2025

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks! A few years ago, I made a Patreon-exclusive post wh...

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