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Behold the new signage on the almost-complete BMO Tower in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild
October 15, 2019
If it feels like Downtown Milwaukee's skyline is different these days, it's because it is. Big time. And one of the biggest additions just celebrated a milestone: This week, construction crews successfully inst...

Chevy Chase will bring ‘Christmas Vacation’ to Riverside Theater December 27

Matt Wild
October 14, 2019
Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas, we have one. Tickets to see An Evening With Chevy Chase, preceded by a 30th anniversary screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, at the ...

Some folks aren’t keen on the idea of a north side slaughterhouse—er, “meat processing plant”

Matt Wild
October 14, 2019
UPDATE 10/15: The Common Council unanimously voted to send the Strauss proposal back to the Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee for further discussion and community input. Urban Milwaukee has a fu...

Streetcar ridership down again, suggesting weather and festival season might have something to do with it

Matt Wild
October 11, 2019
It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

Memo to the Academy: Bob Uecker’s “Restaurant To Be Named Later” video is 2019’s Best Picture

Matt Wild
October 11, 2019
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Here are the facts: In December 2019, Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at Mil...

Milwaukee bus drivers are pretty much superheroes at this point

Matt Wild
October 10, 2019
Remember the time when a Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver picked up a homeless man in the middle of winter and took him to an emergency shelter? How about the time when an MCTS bus driver rescued a lo...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times spent 36 hours in Milwaukee and had a nice time

Matt Wild
October 10, 2019
Warning! Warning! This is not a test! Our patented Great Job Milwaukee Bot 6000 is informing us that The New York Times—yes, The New York Times!—has just published a glowing article about Milwaukee! It's part o...

Home crap home: Join us and Lakefront for a “Hanksgiving” screening of ‘The Money Pit’ at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild
October 9, 2019
Remember that part in Breaking Bad when the bathtub fell through the floor? The Money Pit did it first. (Okay, just the bottom of the tub fell through the floor in Breaking Bad, and there was a dissolved drug d...

LiveSCREAM Theater: Watch ‘Attack Of The Giant Leeches’ with guests Jack Packard and Maggie Iken

Matt Wild
October 9, 2019
Tuesday night, we grabbed some moonshine, hopped in a rickety canoe, and chilled out in an underwater leech grotto for the second installment of Milwaukee Record LiveSCREAM Theater. Yep, we watched 1959's Attac...

Eaux Claires is doing a winter “Hiver” thing November 21-24, will return in July 2020

Matt Wild
October 8, 2019
The rumored Eaux Claires winter thing, dubbed Eaux Claires Hiver, has been confirmed. It's being billed as "an immersive weekend of performance and improvisation featuring Ani DiFranco, Pieta Brown, Jon Hopkins...

Reminder: Mad Chicken is coming to that former Burger King on the East Side

Matt Wild
October 8, 2019
Remember when there was a Burger King on the East Side? You know, at 2045 E. North Ave., on the corner of North and Prospect? Remember when it was really bad, even though Burger King is really good? Remember wh...

There’ll be no place like Lakefront Brewery’s “Twisted Oz” haunted brewhouse

Matt Wild
October 8, 2019
There are two kinds of people: people who celebrate Halloween in October, and people who have been celebrating Halloween since the end of August. Count us among the first group. Still, that doesn't mean we're n...

They Might Be Giants will celebrate 30th anniversary of ‘Flood’ at Pabst Theater March 5

Matt Wild
October 7, 2019
Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand? Why are the ocean levels rising up? It's a brand new anniversary show for 2020! They Might Be Giants' 30-year-old album Flood!I'm your only ...

Coming soon (?) from the group that brought you the canceled Pokémon bar: Bumper Cars on Ice!

Matt Wild
October 4, 2019
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Do you enjoy wacky, zany, and Instagram-friendly pop-up events? Do you enjoy...

Milwaukee Film Festival adds ‘The Lodge’ to Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild
October 4, 2019
Hey! The 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival begins in less than two weeks! (It runs October 17-31.) Tickets are on sale NOW! The whole thing is going to be great, but the fest's Cinema Hooligante program (sponsored b...

Watch the first episode of Milwaukee Record LiveSCREAM Theater, ‘Night Of The Living Dead’

Matt Wild
October 3, 2019
This past Tuesday, we unleashed the first episode of our new live-on-the-internet YouTube series, Milwaukee Record LiveSCREAM Theater. The eternally awesome and witchy Tigernite joined host Matt Wild (that's me...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (September 22-28)

Matt Wild
October 2, 2019
Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

It just got easier for Milwaukee to host all-ages shows

Matt Wild
October 1, 2019
In case you're just joining us, Milwaukee needs more all-ages venues. Or, put another way, Milwaukee needs less-restrictive city codes that would make it possible for venues to host all-ages shows and simultane...

The “reimagined” Bayshore looks a lot like the same old Bayshore

Matt Wild
September 30, 2019
In 2006, Bayshore Town Center opened in Glendale. The new-and-improved retail center was the result of a two-year, $300 million project that transformed the aging Bayshore Mall—first built in 1954—into a much-b...

Abby Jeanne’s Atomic Records pop-up, and 8,000 other things happening October 12

Matt Wild
September 27, 2019
Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...
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