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Remembering Reitman and Mueller’s ridiculous Cabbage Patch Kids stunt of 1983

November 29, 2017

Since time immemorial (or, you know, since the 1980s), every holiday season has been blessed/plagued with one "must-have" toy that sends wide-eyed children and eager-to-please parents into hysterics. Tickle Me ...

On this day in 1995: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong moons Milwaukee, gets arrested

Matt Wild

November 21, 2017

What is it with Milwaukee and famous arrests for disorderly conduct and indecent exposure? There was the time George Carlin was busted for performing his infamous "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" r...

49 years ago today: The Bucks win! For the first time!

Matt Wild

October 31, 2017

The Milwaukee Bucks' 2017-2018 season is only just underway, but it's already a memorable one. The "Return to the MECCA" game (which we totally went to in person), the dude dressed as Milhouse, the existence of...

Remembering the 2007 USBC Masters, a failed Miller Park tournament that changed the course of professional bowling

Tyler Maas

October 27, 2017

Milwaukee loves bowling. The city is home to Holler House, which is the oldest sanctioned bowling alley in the country, as well as 90-year-old East Side mainstay Landmark Lanes, and dozens of other alleys that ...

35 years ago today: Remembering the time the Brewers lost Game 7 of the 1982 World Series

Matt Wild

October 20, 2017

Take a moment, if you will, to stop mourning Aaron Rodgers' embattled collarbone and think back to happier times and sunnier sports. Remember this year's pretty-fun Milwaukee Brewers season? Yeah! That was grea...

Remembering the 2011 Gallery Night when Milwaukee officially met Milverine

Matt Wild

October 18, 2017

Milwaukee's quarterly Gallery Night is always a blast. But no matter how great the latest installment will be, it won't hold a candle to a Very Special Gallery Night event that went down in 2011. It was a water...

Remembering the time Bob Uecker crushed an old man’s pitch for his first homer

Nick Olig

September 27, 2017

Though Bob Uecker got the call-up to the majors midway through the month of April in the 1962 season, when the time came to club his initial home run for the Milwaukee Braves, he didn't rush into it. The man ha...

Remembering the time President Reagan spoke at a 1984 Milwaukee Oktoberfest for some reason

Matt Wild

September 26, 2017

Actual politics aside, it's safe to say today's world of American politics is a straight-up nightmare. We have a President publicly calling professional football players sons-of-bitches, a populace divided on w...

Hear the “Sounds Of Bay View” with this late ’50s record

Tyler Maas

September 7, 2017

Bay View, much like anywhere else in Milwaukee, is changing. Many of the dining and nightlife haunts, shops, residents, and even the landscape of the neighborhood itself are virtually unrecognizable compared to...

Remembering Phish’s infamous “O.J. Show” at The Rave

Chris Lay

July 20, 2017

This article was originally published in 2017. June 17, 1994. It's a date that never quite got the same temporal recognition as, say, September 11, 2001, or December 7, 1941, but many Americans will remember...

Remembering Milwaukee County’s first passenger airline flight (July 5, 1927)

Matt Wild

July 5, 2017

Times are good for General Mitchell International Airport. In June, Allegiant Air added five nonstop flights from the Milwaukee County airport; a week later, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele announced pas...

Remembering the Milwaukee Brewers’ ill-fated “10-Cent Beer Night”

Matt Wild

June 21, 2017

Earlier this year, Miller Park unveiled its much-hyped "Local Brews" bar. Open now, the Loge Level destination features 24 Wisconsin-brewed beers from breweries like Lakefront Brewery, Third Space Brewing, Wisc...

Remembering the time the Milwaukee Bucks traded Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Matt Wild

June 14, 2017

There's a sublimely silly scene in 1980's Airplane! when young Joey, in the midst of a cockpit tour ("You ever seen a grown man naked?"), correctly identifies the co-pilot as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "I'm sorry son...

Remembering Milwaukee’s first (horse-powered) streetcar system

Matt Wild

May 31, 2017

Remember the streetcar debate? You know, that seemingly endless, incredibly tiring war between folks who believed installing a 2.5-mile downtown line would be the greatest thing in Milwaukee history, and those ...

Remembering the Great Milwaukee Brewery Strike of 1953

Matt Wild

May 17, 2017

Milwaukee's long and sudsy brewing history has been enjoying a resurgence. In April, Pabst celebrated the opening of a new brewery in a long-abandoned church/tavern in its former downtown complex. While not exa...

Remembering the time County Stadium banned carry-ins and everyone got pissed

Matt Wild

March 8, 2017

Yesterday, the Milwaukee Brewers revealed a slew of local breweries and beers coming to Miller Park's new "Local Brews" bar in 2017. Lakefront's Riverwest Stein, Third Space's Happy Place, and Milwauk...

Remembering the time the ‘Bugle American’ offices totally got firebombed

Matt Wild

February 23, 2017

Milwaukee has a long, strange history of alternative newspapers. There's the Shepherd Express, of course (originally dubbed the Crazy Shepherd), which still graces news racks and restaurant window ledges toda...

Just a flesh wound: 9 fun facts about that time Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 20, 2017

Do you like fun facts? Here are nine fun facts about that time (October 14, 1912) former U.S. President and then-presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt was totally shot outside the old Gilpatrick Hotel (now ...

Remembering the first (and still the only) NBA All-Star Game to be played in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 16, 2017

When one thinks of professional all-star games and Milwaukee, one likely closes one's eyes, begins to twitch, and flashes back to the disastrous Major League Baseball All-Star Game held at Miller Park in 2002...

Milwaukee’s connection to a 1970s San Francisco pot brownie empire (and the woman who ran it)

Matt Wild

February 8, 2017

San Francisco, 1978. A 4,000 square-foot warehouse in the city's Mission District is home to a successful small business, Sticky Fingers. Not only is Sticky Fingers successful, it's wildly successful. Sticky ...

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