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Power chords, snacks, and glitter: My weekend at Ladies Rock Milwaukee

March 30, 2017

I write about music. I listen to a music a lot. I have a (very low-level) music industry job. It's safe to say that music is a very important of my life. And yet, I can't play music. Naturally, I've dabbl...

I saw Corey Feldman & The Angels in Green Bay and, well, I don’t know. I just don’t know

Matt Wild

March 24, 2017

I'm perfectly happy to admit that I grew up idolizing Corey Feldman. Along with Michael J. Fox, Corey Feldman represented something of an ideal '80s kid to me: cool and cocky—with a full head of hair and a shit...

The new Fuel is nothing like the original Fuel, and that’s fine

Matt Wild

March 2, 2017

My first Milwaukee memories are of Fuel Cafe. I moved here in 1996, three years after the now-iconic coffee shop/cafe opened in Riverwest. Like many of my friends, I spent an inordinate amount of time at Fuel. ...

What a mess: A history of All Messed Up

Corey Baumann

February 16, 2017

Milwaukee has long been coined the “City of Festivals.” While Summerfest is easily the most popular and has been a tradition for going on 50 years, Wisconsin State Fair, PrideFest, and Bastille Days also domina...

We ate more than 7 pounds of pretzel sandwich for, uh, science

Tyler Maas

January 31, 2017

It's not exactly going out on a limb to declare Milwaukee Record to be the city's—and likely the state's—foremost outlet for all your "ill-fated and all-around dumb food and drink adventures executed for no p...

12 (non-touristy) things to do in Milwaukee (without drinking)

Maggie Iken

January 30, 2017

Five months ago, I stopped drinking. Coincidentally, my social life also got a lot tamer/lamer around the same time. Living in a city known for beer, I find myself staying in almost every night and not having...

I got a bottle of Big Mac Special Sauce from the guy who’s eaten 29,100 Big Macs: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

January 27, 2017

This article was originally published in 2017. There's a scene in the final episode of Mad Men where a lost and bottomed-out Don Draper finds himself in a confessional seminar at a New Age-y retreat. There, ...

Young, shy, and snotty: Being an underage music fan in Milwaukee

Lauren Keene

January 11, 2017

Beer, cheese, motorcycles, sports—these are the things that a lot of people still think about when they hear the word "Milwaukee." I've lived in Milwaukee my entire life and have never really cared about the ...

2017 Milwaukee yoga guide

Joey Grihalva

January 4, 2017

Get into a position that is comfortable for you. Relax your shoulders. Unclench your jaw. Let your tongue fall. Soften your gaze. Let your mind be at rest. Focus on your breath. While on a trip to Denver t...

McDonald’s has cheese curds now (in Milwaukee, at least) and they’re okay

Matt Wild

November 22, 2016

In the whiz-bang and artery-hardening world of fast food, there exist magical places known as test markets. These are cities, or sometimes entire states, that are frequently graced with new fast food menu ite...

Hot ‘n Now or never: Driving thru the edge of extinction

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2016

It's said nothing lasts forever, but that isn't always true. In this insatiable era of nostalgia, reunions, reissues, and arbitrarily-numbered lists of minutia only kids can understand, anything simply ce...

I hung out with the mayor of South Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

November 10, 2016

Way back in 1892, a small village came into existence along the Lake Michigan shoreline just a few miles south of Milwaukee. For reasons we can only speculate, the suburb was named South Milwaukee. The follow...

I hung out with the mayor of St. Francis

Tyler Maas

November 2, 2016

A few months ago, I met up with the mayor of Cudahy and left with some new perspective on the south shore scapegoat and industrial city. A year earlier, I hung out with the mayor of West Allis, another much-m...

I watched ‘American Movie’ for the first time: A minute-by-minute recap

Maggie Iken

October 26, 2016

Living in Milwaukee for the past six years, being a member of the arts community, and having a general interest in weird-ass shit, it's astounding that I've never seen Chris Smith's 1999 documentary American ...

Hey Milwaukee: If we want to save the Domes we should probably start going to the Domes

Matt Wild

October 5, 2016

In late September, Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory's Tropical Dome became the second of the park's three iconic domes to reopen to the public. As every Milwaukee man, woman, and child will recall, coun...

Batman cars, dorky dads, and finishing last: Exorcising our pinewood derby memories

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 28, 2016

On Wednesday, September 28, Palomino will host its inaugural adult pinewood derby competition. Yes, the long-running Cub Scout event—in which children thrill to hand-crafted wooden cars on plastic wheels ra...

I went to NEWaukee’s Night Market and it was nice

Matt Wild

September 16, 2016

Wednesday night, as I surveyed the action of my very first NEWaukee Night Market from the balcony of the desolate Shops of Grand Avenue food court, a woman asked me what, exactly, my beef had been with the ...

The “Milwaukee Fuck It List”: My city through my mom’s eyes

Tyler Maas

September 14, 2016

I love my mom. Any good that resides within me is the direct result of something she, my dad or my stepfather instilled in me. As lame as it probably makes me sound, she's one of my best friends on this dum...

Doors Open, Adventure Rock, and the ever-changing face of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 13, 2016

I'm scaling a 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall—in jeans and a button-up, because I'm an idiot—and all I can think about is empty space. Air, grass, an open field, an unobstructed view. A break from the mon...

MGD Day: In search of a dying domestic beer

Mark Flehmer

August 30, 2016

Yes, I understand. There is a new brewery going in here. There is a new brewery going in there. Every bar you go to has a long tap list of all the new cool brews they have rotating in from all across the co...

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