Milwaukee development, the Shops of Grand Avenue, and a requiem for the underdog Matt Wild February 4, 2016 // There's a moment early on in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy when the novel's befuddled protagonist, Arthur Dent, is lying in the mud in front of a bulldozer, protesting the unexpecte...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 17: Bremen Cafe Maggie Iken January 4, 2016 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 15: Flannery’s Maggie Iken December 21, 2015 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
I saw ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Oriental Theatre at 4:15 a.m. and it was glorious Matt Wild December 18, 2015 // Back in October, a galaxy-full of Star Wars fans descended on the Internet, Death-Star-trench-run-style, to buy advance tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I was not among them. Instead, as untold m...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 14: Leff’s Lucky Town Maggie Iken December 14, 2015 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Malled by bears: A review of the Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra at the Shops of Grand Avenue Justin Kern December 8, 2015 // Three facts: 1. Should a sleuth of real bears gather at the center of a mall, people would scatter in terror. 2. No self-respecting human symphony could be denigrated into playing among the clamor of a s...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 13: The Winchester Maggie Iken December 4, 2015 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 11: Camp Bar Shorewood Maggie Iken November 23, 2015 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Better vape than never: One man’s epic pre-ban e-cig smoke sesh Tyler Maas November 19, 2015 It’s likely you haven’t heard, but those who smoke electronic cigarettes may find their basic human rights going up in smoke—or more accurately, up in some type of synthetic vapor—very soon. According to a rece...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 10: Vanguard Maggie Iken November 16, 2015 // In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture? Matt Wild November 13, 2015 UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more. UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...
Mozzaluna Pizzeria & Ristorante and local award hate Tyler Maas November 12, 2015 // Annual local award season has come to Milwaukee in full force. Not coincidentally, local award backlash season arrived in Milwaukee just nanoseconds later. The party paramount in the crosshairs of crotch...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 9: Walter’s On North Maggie Iken November 9, 2015 In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...
I tried (and utterly failed) Zaffiro’s first “Big Z Challenge” Tyler Maas November 3, 2015 // I'm incredibly sad to inform you, reader, that this is quite possibly my final post at Milwaukee Record. You see, I am dying. Probably very soon. Okay, perhaps none of that stuff is exactly true. Howe...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 8: Club Garibaldi Maggie Iken November 2, 2015 In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 6: Points East Pub Maggie Iken October 19, 2015 In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 5: Brenner Brewing Company Maggie Iken October 12, 2015 In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, We...
Halloween Superstores Of The Damned: Discount Halloveen Matt Wild October 8, 2015 If there’s one holiday season that depends almost entirely on “mood,” it’s Halloween. Christmas and Easter have obvious religious ties, the Fourth of July has obvious national ties, and Thanksgiving has food. S...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 4: Company Brewing Maggie Iken October 5, 2015 In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with Week 1, Week 2, an...
I went to Chicago to (try to) get drunk at Taco Bell Tyler Maas September 29, 2015 After I arguably risked death and certainly demolished my spirit whilst eating something at every Taco Bell in Milwaukee over the course of eight hours back in mid-May, I've severely limited my runs to the bord...
