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Long live American Science & Surplus (which needs your help)

May 28, 2025

When my wife and I heard the news that American Science & Surplus launched a GoFundMe to help raise operating costs to move into a new warehouse, citing slumping sales since the COVID-19 pandemic punctuated...

I built “The Perfect Egg Bite”

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2025

broadstreet.zone(160542); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Third Space Brewing. From May 12 through May 19, belly up and enjoy adventurous, odd, and elaborate coverage of all t...

Remembering when Milwaukee had a Chocolate Factory (and eating at the Elm Grove location today)

Matt Wild

May 16, 2025

broadstreet.zone(160542); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Third Space Brewing. From May 12 through May 19, belly up and enjoy adventurous, odd, and elaborate coverage of all t...

Bay View has become a bona fide wing destination

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2025

broadstreet.zone(160542); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Third Space Brewing. From May 12 through May 19, belly up and enjoy adventurous, odd, and elaborate coverage of all t...

Taco John’s and 5-Hour Energy collaborated on an “Energizing Hot Sauce” (and we tried it)

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2025

It can be hard, thankless work to co-run a web-only entertainment publication, but it can also have its perks every now and then. Among the cooler aspects of the job is the opportunity to be sent things to revi...

Sleep is optional: My journey through Trivia 55

Mitch DeSantis

April 24, 2025

Mitch DeSantis is Milwaukee Record's Rural/Northwoods Wisconsin Correspondent. Find his dispatches HERE. You might think you know trivia. Perhaps you think it's a person with a microphone at a dimly lit Bay ...

Breakfast at Mayville’s Sherwood Family Restaurant, which used to be a Pizza Hut

Matt Wild

April 24, 2025

A few weeks ago, when I learned that the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival (April 24 - May 8) would feature a documentary about businesses that occupy former Pizza Huts, my eyes lit up. "This movie is kind of a hard...

30 years of ‘Tommy Boy’: Celebrating all things Chris Farley at Farley’s Pub in Ringle, Wisconsin

Mitch DeSantis

March 31, 2025

Mitch DeSantis is Milwaukee Record’s Rural/Northwoods Wisconsin Correspondent. Find his dispatches HERE. One of my earliest childhood memories involves watching Saturday Night Live. I don't remember much abo...

Music streaming injustices: A call for indie musicians to stick up for themselves

Brett Newski

February 26, 2025

In 2016 I made a song called "Fuck You Spotify." I recorded it during a performance at Paste Studios in New York City. For years, I hesitated to push this track, worried that Spotify would suppress my reach or ...

Madison locations of Milwaukee-based restaurant chains: The Milwaukee Record Review

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2025

broadstreet.zone(174512); Let me start this article by saying that I really like Madison. Though I personally love Milwaukee far more, Wisconsin's second-most populous city and its capital is home to some very...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Remembering Bob Uecker (and everything else)

Matt Wild

January 28, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Uecker. On the morning of Thursday, January 16, I was planning on...

Dry (but a little bit high) January: We evaluated a bunch of local THC beverages

Rusty Drinkswell

January 14, 2025

When the clock struck midnight almost exactly 105 years ago to the day, the "noble experiment" of Prohibition began. Many towns, cities, and states had dabbled in various dry laws prior to January 16, 1920, but...

New Year’s lessons from Bret “The Hitman” Hart

Barry Robert Weber

January 8, 2025

In 1993, I high-fived Bret “The Hitman” Hart in downtown Milwaukee. I was 11 years old, and I was attending my first live pro wrestling event: a non-televised “house show” at the Bradley Center. The undercar...

How a curbside dollhouse renovation helped subside holiday loneliness

Emmy Yates

January 7, 2025

From my own experience, "Hail Mary" art projects unfortunately motivate me the most efficiently as an artist and procrastinator. When I found a gutted Victorian dollhouse on the side of the road in Milwaukee's ...

Breakfast in America. Breakfast in the Wisconsin Dells Big Boy.

Matt Wild

December 23, 2024

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A once-great institution withers and fades, or so we're told. A charismatic businessperson emerges with the promise of bringing the institution back, of making it great ...

Pickles, pizza, and Polish brandy: How I destroyed deer camp dinner (and an outhouse)

Mitch DeSantis

December 3, 2024

Mitch DeSantis is Milwaukee Record's new Rural/Northwoods Wisconsin Correspondent. Welcome, Mitch! Another Wisconsin deer hunting season has come and gone. The blaze orange is packed away, and the routine of...

Brett Newski shares seedy story from new tour journal collection, ‘Piss In The Wind’

Brett Newski

November 13, 2024

Milwaukee musician Brett Newski has spent the past decade-plus releasing countless albums of earnest indie rock, playing countless shows across the globe, and even penning his own book. Now, Newski has mashed h...

On last meals (and saying goodbye)

Tyler Maas

September 26, 2024

I can't tell you exactly when I last had Kim's Thai, but I know what I ate. As always, I ordered Jungle Curry with chicken, spice level four. My girlfriend got Pad Kee Mao, spice level 3, and gave me a bite. We...

I rappelled down the side of the 13-story Milwaukee Athletic Club for…reasons

Matt Wild

September 24, 2024

It's Friday and I'm in a small utility room near the top of the 13-story Milwaukee Athletic Club, watching Bango the Buck get a crash course in rappelling down a building. "This is an emergency mechanism," e...

On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 5: A direction home?

Tad Kriofske Mainella

July 19, 2024

To our Milwaukee: I understand I left you in your week of need. Sure, you didn't need me gonzo-ing adjacent to the RNC, but you could've used Barry with a bullhorn downtown to drown out some of the nonsense wit...

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