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That time I went to a real ‘Blade’ blood rave

June 22, 2022

Blade has one of the best opening action sequences of all time. (Chances are, if you've seen the movie, "Confusion" by New Order is already playing in your head.) It introduces the daywalker wordlessly. It sets...

Childhood, change, and growing a Weird Al Chia Pet for 14 days

Mitch DeSantis

May 20, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

The Bucks have given us a new Milwaukee tradition. Let’s not take it for granted

Dan Shafer

April 19, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe. Sometimes I still can't believe it all really happened...

A Milwaukee Day ode to Bob Uecker

Matt Wild

April 14, 2022

This story was originally published in 2016. There's a picture, taken in 1964, of Bob Uecker playing a tuba. It's moments before the second game of the '64 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and th...

Notes from the beginning of a pandemic

Matt Wild

March 12, 2022

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon in March 2021. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks! I don't know if it's possible to pin ...

I found another West Allis restaurant that makes gigantic mozzarella sticks

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2022

It happened again. I went to West Allis this week and I came back with some laughably large mozzarella sticks. Before I get to that, let's go back in time a little bit. In October 2020, I wrote an article en...

Welcome to 2022. I hate it

Matt Wild

January 4, 2022

Hi. It's January 4, 2022. We're four days into a sparkling, glistening, still-has-that-new-year-smell new year. Twenty-twenty-two! It has a nice ring, doesn't it? Here we go! I hate it already. This post ...

Remembering (and ranking) all my eating challenges and food adventures

Tyler Maas

December 20, 2021

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks! This past summer, after a brief trip to the Wiscons...

The ghost of Grand Avenue (again)

Matt Wild

December 2, 2021

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks! It's hard to say when my writing career began. (I'l...

500 words about Culver’s CurderBurger, which is only available today

Matt Wild

October 15, 2021

If you read my recent report on watching a 14-hour video of a man sitting in a chair, you know that I'm going through some...stuff. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I just got back from Culver's, wher...

I watched a 14-hour video of a man sitting in a chair

Matt Wild

October 14, 2021

Here's what you need to know: Milwaukee photographer Lois Bielefeld has created a 14-hour, 13-minute video called "Dad And Chair." The video is a single uninterrupted shot of Lois' father, Eric, sitting in his ...

Taped Music Review: Turning My Luck Around

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2021

Yup! I did the thing again. Before I get into this year's review of Taped Music (formerly known as "Pre-Recorded Music"), though, I want to share an excerpt from my 2019 installment of this recurring Summerfest...

The 3 sub shops on the corners of Oakland and Locust, ranked

Matt Wild

August 17, 2021

3. Subway Obviously. 2. Cheba Hut The first Milwaukee location of the Fort Collins-based sub chain opened earlier this summer. The subs are "toasted," i.e. kind of like Quiznos, but much, much better. Also...

Reflecting on the time Ron Johnson made me a mix CD

Barry Robert Weber

August 2, 2021

In late 2001, Ron Johnson made me a mix CD of acoustic music. Allow me to explain. At the time, I was a Radio-TV-Film major at UW-Oshkosh. I had recently become obsessed with traditional folk music, and I...

Buffalo Nichols: hometown hero gives a performance to remember

Jabril Yousef

August 2, 2021

Last Wednesday, by complete chance, I connected with Buffalo Nichols on Instagram after seeing a clip of him playing at Evanston Space, a venue in Evanston, Illinois, where I attended college. At the time, I...

The end of quarantine or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Cudahy

Paul Bestul

July 12, 2021

After the longest year of our collective lives, 2020 finally feels like it’s almost over...seven months after it officially ended. Masks are no longer required, shots are going into arms, and things are looking...

I thought I’d hate these bird sculptures in Lakeshore State Park but I kinda like them

Matt Wild

June 15, 2021

If you find yourself walking, biking, or skipping through Milwaukee's majestic Lakeshore State Park from now until August 1, you'll see some birds. No, not real birds (though you'll see plenty of those, too)—tw...

I did not handle this well

Matt Wild

March 18, 2021

One year ago today, I wrote an article called "I am not handling this well." In it, I shared my fears and anxieties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. That pandemic was eight days old. "I am not handling th...

I wrote about Shellac’s Turner Hall show a year ago (and left out some important details)

DJ Hostettler

March 12, 2021

For most of my immediate friend group, last March's Shellac mini-tour, which happened exactly one year ago, was the last live music experience any of us were able to take in before COVID-19 shut the world down....

I fought the winter blues (and won) in one of South Shore Terrace’s chalets

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2021

Even though it's now March, it's still technically winter. In Wisconsin. During a pandemic. Hell, even in "normal times," winter is a long, arduous, dark, isolated, uncomfortable, and boring period of time that...

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