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Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 5)

September 9, 2022

Chapter 5: The Good, The Bad, and the Outagamie The Wisconsin Society of Ornithology’s list of best bird haunts became a crucial resource during my last bird outing. I continued to utilize it as we head into f...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 4)

Kyle Arpke

August 26, 2022

Chapter 4: Cranes and Lifers During the Dog Days of Summer When I last wrote, I briefly mentioned summer can be a difficult time of year for birding. Increased temperatures and humidity paired with molting sea...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 3)

Kyle Arpke

August 12, 2022

Chapter 3: Iowa by way of Iowa County Last time, I traveled all the way to the Mississippi River in search of eagles, kestrels, and other winged-wonders. Today’s entry takes us back to the Mississippi River, d...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 2)

Kyle Arpke

July 29, 2022

Chapter 2: Birding, Banding, and the Beauty of Magic Hour on the Mighty Mississippi In my last column, I mentioned my love of North America’s smallest bird of prey, the American Kestrel, during my time at Will...

Wisconsin Birding Challenge 2022: Exploring every county in the state (Chapter 1)

Kyle Arpke

July 22, 2022

Chapter 1: Issuing a New Year's Resolution...In Summer I have a tendency to overdo things. It’s a trend that started back in high school. While others used senior year to slack off, I used it to create a ba...

Enjoying Summerfest despite [gestures broadly at everything]

Matt Wild

June 25, 2022

On Friday morning, my partner in crime/business, Tyler Maas, sent me a message: "Well, the country has (officially) somehow become even worse. If you want to have our 27,000th day of no promos, that's fine with...

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

Rob Wieland

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...

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