40 Milwaukee Halloween events
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It technically isn’t Halloween until next Thursday, but the vast majority of Milwaukee’s seasonal celebrations are to take place over the weekend. From Friday night through October 31 ...
11 reasons to get excited for the 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival
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HERE WE GO: The 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival runs October 17-31. Roughly 300 films will screen at various Milwaukee-area theaters and venues. Oodles of panels, discussions, and concert...
Go big or go home: 10 massive Milwaukee cocktails
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There's no shortage of interesting ways to enjoy an alcoholic beverage in and around Milwaukee. In recent months alone, we've told you about a wealth of bottomless mimosa specials, rou...
12 (more) Milwaukee bands you maybe didn’t know broke up
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For every Milwaukee project that has a well-publicized last show, knowingly puts out what’s to be its final album, or crafts a long and respectful farewell to those who have supported ...
“We’re all weird, that’s why we come here.” 15 things to love about Thurman’s 15
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Nestled a block off Brady street, a bar named after famed New York Yankee's catcher Thurman Lee Munson (player #15) has become many of its patrons' home away from home. Manhattan nativ...
Tool, Flannel Fest, and 25 more standout fall shows and events
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Do you like fall? Of course you do. Everyone likes fall. Do you like shows and events? Yep. Everyone likes shows and events. Here are 27 shows and events to see this fall.
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17 ways former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke describes his too-hot-for-Twitter takes
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On June 13, 2019, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (remember him?) officially quit Twitter. Sort of. "Folks I am thru with the TOTALITARIAN BIGOTS who run Twitter," Clarke ...
Midwest Express, and 10 more Milwaukee returns and reboots
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"The return of a legend."
That's how Midwest Express Airlines describes its impending return to the city it once called home, Milwaukee. "For over 25 years, Midwest Express Airlines...
5 public art controversies from Milwaukee’s past (and present)
Art, as we all know, is in the eye of beholder. But so too is the purpose of art. What is art supposed to do? Inspire? Memorialize? Provoke? Decorate? "Start a conversation"? Here are five examples of recent Mi...
12 pictures of John McGivern and John Gurda hanging out and being friends
Let's take a moment and pay our respects to Milwaukee's two famous Johns. There's John McGivern, ubiquitous actor and tireless television personality. There's John Gurda, ubiquitous Milwaukee historian and avid...
6 more (mostly) dead websites from Milwaukee’s past
It's been said that the internet is written in ink, not pencil. Nothing ever truly disappears, even (and some might say especially) the embarrassing stuff. Thanks to handy tools like the Internet Archive's Wayb...
54 things to do in Milwaukee during the 54 remaining days of summer
Though you’ve likely spent much of the summer to this point either complaining about it being too cold and overcast or too hot and muggy, it’s still comforting to know that of the 90-plus days in the season, 54...
10 offbeat (non-Milwaukee) museums that help make Wisconsin special
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Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life July 22-29 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer.
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21 standout (non-festival) summer shows
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
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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
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
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
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’)
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
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, ...