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March 2, 2016

This article was originally published in 2016. Leap Year. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, Western civilization is still granted a 29th day in February once every four ye...

I went to the new Whole Foods and Metro Market in one day

Monica Reida

February 29, 2016

// The Milwaukee area has been graced by the opening of two grocery stores in little more than a week with the mammoth (and initially controversial) Metro Market opening on Oakland Ave. in Shorewood, and Wh...

Reading Carrie Schneider’s “Reading Women”

Marielle Allschwang

February 26, 2016

Last week, I was shown a photograph of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce's Ulysses. She is near the end, seemingly lost in Molly Bloom's punctuation-less, sensual reverie, immersed in the flows and throes ...

Parents: It’s cold out there, so take your kids to the Shops of Grand Avenue

February 11, 2016

Before we begin, let me say that however you're feeling about seeing what could be considered a "parenting column" in the pages of Milwaukee Record, I'm with you. If you're delighted, I'm with you. If you'r...

The art of dreaming small, and why Shaquille O’Neal hates me

Brett Newski

February 9, 2016

Editor's note: The following piece originally appeared on brettnewski.com as "Why Shaquille O'Neal hates me." I was 13. We were on a family trip to Los Angeles to visit my Uncle Marcus. At the time, L.A....

Milwaukee development, the Shops of Grand Avenue, and a requiem for the underdog

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

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

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

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 millions...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 14: Leff’s Lucky Town

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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”