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Kevin Smith’s Mooby’s pop-up coming to Up-Down MKE June 7-14

May 24, 2021

Last week we told you that Mooby's—the real-life version of the fake fast-food joint in a bunch of Kevin Smith films—would be popping up somewhere in Milwaukee, sometime in June. Today we have the details: the ...

Some neighbors think Up-Down Milwaukee is just too darn loud

Matt Wild

November 9, 2018

If you've dropped by Up-Down Milwaukee on a random night since its opening in August, you know that the Brady Street arcade bar can get packed. And if you've cruised past Up-Down Milwaukee in the past few days,...

We spent the day playing vintage video games at every vintage video arcade in Milwaukee

DJ Hostettler

September 6, 2018

In case you've been an internet-free shut-in for the last year, vintage arcade video games are back in a big way. The arcade bar scene has been percolating nationwide for the last few years—Logan Arcade in Chic...

Take a look inside Up-Down Milwaukee, which opens today and is totally nuts

Matt Wild

August 24, 2018

Up-Down Milwaukee opens to the public today at 5:30 p.m. The long-awaited arcade bar, located at 615 E. Brady St. (the site of the former Comedy Cafe), boasts more than 60 retro video games, more than a dozen p...

Up-Down Milwaukee arcade bar will open tomorrow

Matt Wild

August 23, 2018

Good news, retro video game fans: Up-Down Milwaukee, the arcade bar long in the works for the old Comedy Cafe (615 E. Brady St.) is opening. On Friday, August 24. Like, tomorrow. YES.To celebrate its openin...

Here’s what Up-Down MKE arcade bar will look like when it opens later this year

Matt Wild

March 7, 2018

A lot has happened since August 2017, when owners of the Des Moines-based Up-Down arcade bar announced plans to open a Milwaukee location at 615 E. Brady St.—a.k.a. the site of the old Comedy Cafe. Another arca...

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