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Milwaukee Record Cats Of The Week: Cobalt and Chrome

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 4, 2025

When in Rome (Wisconsin): Which Rome has the best spaghetti?

January 3, 2025

N/A Day Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 3, 2025

Mister Bar-B-Que has staying power in Cudahy

January 3, 2025

Here’s the Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2025 lineup

January 2, 2025

8 reasons you should go to this weekend’s N/A Day “Dry January” Beverage Festival

January 2, 2025

Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month
Tyler Maas
January 1, 2025
WMSE’s Local/Live: Best of 2024
Milwaukee Record Staff
January 1, 2025
Milwaukee Music Roundup: December 2024
Milwaukee Record Staff
January 1, 2025
Boat still there, now moved a little
Matt Wild
December 31, 2024
City Lights Brewing is closing
Tyler Maas
December 31, 2024
Milwaukee band MIZZY is the Best Milwaukee Thing of 2024
Milwaukee Record Staff
December 30, 2024
Clover to close in early 2025
Tyler Maas
December 30, 2024
You’ll love Eddy J. Lemberger’s new Jordan Love anthem
Tyler Maas
December 29, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2024
Caleb Westphal
December 27, 2024
It’s down to MIZZY and the (still-official) flag in our Best Milwaukee Thing of 2024 Bracket
Milwaukee Record Staff
December 27, 2024
Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve events guide
Tyler Maas
December 27, 2024
Talking our favorite Milwaukee music of 2024 with WUWM’s Lake Effect
Milwaukee Record Staff
December 27, 2024

Record Recommended

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: December 30, 2024 – January 5, 2025

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 30, 2024

broadstreet.zone(152022); Milwaukee is chock full of things to do, but only a handful of Milwaukee events are worthy of...

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: December 23-29, 2024

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 23, 2024

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: December 16-22, 2024

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 16, 2024

Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: December 9-15, 2024

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 9, 2024

Press Releases

Milwaukee Public Market announces grand opening of David Alan Alan’s Smokehouse & Saloon

January 3, 2025

Milwaukee Public Market Announces Grand Opening of David Alan Alan’s Smokehouse & Saloon Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Jan...

Gathering Place Brewing acquires Sahale Ale Works

December 30, 2024

Molson Coors to offer safe rides on New Year’s Eve across Milwaukee through partnership with Milwaukee County Transit System

December 19, 2024

Gov. Evers celebrates “home run” deal to keep Milwaukee Brewers, Major League Baseball in Wisconsin through 2050

December 18, 2024

Mandatory Milwaukee

Mandatory Wisconsin: Cannibal sandwiches—a.k.a. raw beef sandwiches, tiger meat, etc.
Matt Wild
December 20, 2024
Mandatory Midwest: Casserole!
Tyler Maas
December 3, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Bridges that destroy semi-trailers
Tyler Maas
November 19, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Voting!
Matt Wild
November 5, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Zaffiro’s has been the upper crust of local pizza since 1954
Tyler Maas
October 22, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: The “Cheese Drawer”
Tyler Maas
October 8, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Falcon Bowl is a Riverwest institution that’s now taking flight as a venue
Tyler Maas
September 25, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Basement Bars!
Tyler Maas
September 11, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Find the road to Barnacle Bud’s, find yourself at a hidden waterfront gem
Vince Morales
June 11, 2024
Mandatory Wisconsin: Rocky Rococo has been the crème de la crème for 50 years
Matt Wild
May 13, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Beer Gardens
Tyler Maas
April 23, 2024
Mandatory Milwaukee: Milwaukee Record has been around for 10 years. Here’s to MORE
Matt Wild
April 8, 2024

Fish Fry

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2024
Caleb Westphal
December 27, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Saz’s State House is a Milwaukee stalwart
Caleb Westphal
November 29, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Cozy with a certainty of fish at Village Supper Club in Pleasant Prairie
Caleb Westphal
November 22, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Muskego’s Gingerbread House is coffee shop by day, fish fry haven by (Friday) night
Caleb Westphal
November 15, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Cod, coleslaw, chowder all land at In Plane View
Caleb Westphal
November 8, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Double Perch Lunch available all day, every day at Tower Tavern in Manitowoc
Caleb Westphal
October 25, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: I had a Friday fish fry with Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley
Caleb Westphal
October 18, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Watch out for deer (and great fish) at North Lake Bear Trap
Caleb Westphal
October 11, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: A Friday night in Roxbury at the Dorf Haus Supper Club
Caleb Westphal
October 4, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Alioto’s is a fish fry staple that holds up after all these years
Caleb Westphal
September 27, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Endless bowls of haddock await at Mark’s East Side in Appleton
Caleb Westphal
September 20, 2024
Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Relish Supper Club has relish tray buffet, beautifully breaded perch
Caleb Westphal
September 13, 2024

First Person

Breakfast in America. Breakfast in the Wisconsin Dells Big Boy.
Matt Wild
December 23, 2024
Remembering when I was 11 and I got a Guns N’ Roses cassingle for St. Nick’s Day
Matt Wild
December 6, 2024
Pickles, pizza, and Polish brandy: How I destroyed deer camp dinner (and an outhouse)
Mitch DeSantis
December 3, 2024
Brett Newski shares seedy story from new tour journal collection, ‘Piss In The Wind’
Brett Newski
November 13, 2024
On last meals (and saying goodbye)
Tyler Maas
September 26, 2024
I rappelled down the side of the 13-story Milwaukee Athletic Club for…reasons
Matt Wild
September 24, 2024
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 5: A direction home?
Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 19, 2024
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 4: The road narrows
Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 18, 2024
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 3: Civil war and fictional podcasts
Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 17, 2024
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 2: Honest Abe and Mother Jones
Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 16, 2024
On The Run From RNC: Dispatches from Route 66, Day 1: American giants
Tad Kriofske Mainella
July 15, 2024
RTDs in MKE: We evaluated a bunch of local canned cocktail brands
Rusty Drinkswell
July 9, 2024