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21 standout (non-festival) summer shows

June 19, 2019

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

6 oversized Milwaukee food displays, ranked

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2019

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee’s new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 13 through May 20, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

10 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2019

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2019

Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...

15 (more) unconventional Milwaukee performance venues

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2019

Back in February, we rounded up 20 "unconventional" performance venues that bring music, comedy, and other live entertainment to unlikely places in and around the city. As we said in that article, "in addition ...

Milwaukee Fools: 5 Milwaukee-related goofs, pranks, and hoaxes

Matt Wild

April 1, 2019

Don't you just love April Fools' Day? Don't you just love when every publication on planet Earth suddenly thinks they're The Onion and pens some rib-tickling "satire"? Yeah, ugh. Anyway, here are a few amusing ...

Top 5 places to ride out the apocalypse in Milwaukee (from the author of ‘Apocalypse Any Day Now’)

Tea Krulos

March 27, 2019

While working on my new book Apocalypse Any Day Now, I traveled around the country to learn about different theories on how the world as we know it might end and what people are doing to prepare to live in a po...

7 Kwik Trip impersonators in metro Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 27, 2019

Last summer, we took a drive to Dubuque to visit a Kwik Star, a bizarro version of Kwik Trip that only exists in the state of Iowa. It turns out that in order to avoid consumer confusion and, more importantly, ...

18 shows to get excited about this spring

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 20, 2019

Spring, sprung. Winter waning, summer looming. Life. Hope. Shows. You know the drill. Here are 18 exciting shows coming to Milwaukee this spring.Wednesday, March 20 Milwaukee Record Presents: Billy Madison...

“We’ve Got It!” 10 videos from the ’80s heyday of Northridge Mall

Matt Wild

March 12, 2019

UPDATE (4/11/19): Well, it looks like they might knock the whole thing down. Maybe.In the ever-expanding world of dead Milwaukee malls, Northridge Mall reigns supreme. The 800,000 square-foot behemoth has s...

John Kuhn and 5 more players who signed one-day contracts to “retire as a Packer”

Tyler Maas

March 8, 2019

Yesterday, more than a year after playing his last down in the NFL, fullback John Kuhn officially called it a career. Though his time in Green Bay ended when the Packers opted not to re-sign the veteran after t...

10 Milwaukee acts playing South By Southwest 2019

Matt Wild

March 5, 2019

Once upon a time, thousands of bands and artists made the trek to the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas in hopes of "making it." Those days are long gone—SXSW is more machine now than man—but ...

The 10 best Milwaukee Brewers one-year wonders

Kyle Lobner

February 26, 2019

Yasmani Grandal’s stay in Milwaukee might be brief, but the Brewers are trying to make the most of it.The Brewers’ biggest addition of the winter, Grandal is in camp on a one-year, $18.25 million contract a...

Advanced cornhole, and 9 more wonderful spring Milwaukee Recreation classes

Matt Wild

February 19, 2019

Spring is in the air! Okay, not really, but the spring Milwaukee Recreation guide is out and about, and it's as delightful as ever! Pick up a physical copy (or browse a PDF) and you'll be bombarded with hundred...

25 great ways to celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

February 13, 2019

Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundantly true...

20 unconventional Milwaukee performance venues

Tyler Maas

February 6, 2019

This Saturday, a new project called Neidhoefer will play its first show ever and release its debut album at a rather unconventional venue. This site of this momentous affair is Dandy Midventurous Modern, a vint...

9 Milwaukee events celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Matt Wild

January 21, 2019

There's a lot of hate, ignorance, and stupidity floating around these days, which makes this day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, all the more needed. Looking for something productive to do today, Milwaukee? Here a...

13 weird and wonderful things to discover at the Mitchell Park Domes

Matt Wild

January 15, 2019

The Mitchell Park Domes—or simply "the Domes," if you're nasty—are Milwaukee treasures. For half a century, the Domes have faithfully served as distinctive Milwaukee landmarks, as educational tools filled with ...

15 headline puns you’ll probably see about the Bradley Center roof demolition

Josh Hoppert

January 11, 2019

On October 1, 1988, the Bradley Center opened with an exhibition NHL game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Edmonton Oilers. Who won? Milwaukee did. This meaningless game kicked off 30 meaningful years of ...

57 Milwaukee releases (probably) coming your way in 2019

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2019

It seems like we’re just days removed from celebrating the best albums and EPs Milwaukee managed in 2018. With all the promise a new year brings also comes the promise of new music. In the same way many of us r...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2018

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between all the celebrity deaths, polarizing political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Monday ...