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Do the “Pierce Street Boogaloo” with the Hughes Family Band

Matt Wild
September 12, 2018
Milwaukee music is great, but there's something special about Milwaukee music that's about Milwaukee. Songs like Lorde Fredd33's "Reflections" can call attention to the city's ills, while songs like Maritime's ...

Remembering that weird “This Is My Milwaukee” video from 2008

Matt Wild
September 12, 2018
Take a stroll through YouTube these days and you'll find a bevy of gorgeously filmed, breathlessly narrated videos celebrating the city we call home. Big budget tourism videos share space with amateur love lett...

Relive 25 years of Colectivo with this illustrated timeline

Matt Wild
September 12, 2018
Milwaukee is in the throes of change: new buildings replacing old buildings, new businesses replacing old businesses, new spaces "activating" old spaces. It's a lot to take in. For decades, however, there's bee...

Right Wisconsin editor celebrates back to school season by calling MPS students “little convicts”

Matt Wild
September 11, 2018
Last week, in an editorial for website Right Wisconsin, editor James Wigderson celebrated the back to school season by grunting, drooling, banging away at his keyboard, and calling Milwaukee Public School stude...

Listen to a new Nineteen Thirteen track, “Whistle Breath,” from the upcoming ‘Sci-Fi Romance’

Matt Wild
September 10, 2018
Victor DeLorenzo and Janet Schiff have invited me over to listen to their new Nineteen Thirteen EP, Sci-Fi Romance. Currently, however, more important matters are at hand. "I should have rescheduled after I rea...

Gosh! The cast of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ is coming to Riverside Theater for a screening and discussion

Matt Wild
September 10, 2018
Has it really been...let's see here...nearly 15 years since the release of Napoleon Dynamite? GOSH, it really has. Does the film still retain its awkward, ridiculous, and endlessly quotable power? Do Alaskan wo...

Did Ringo Starr play Beatles songs at BMO Harris Pavilion? Yes. Did he play Toto’s “Africa”? Yes

Matt Wild
September 9, 2018
The pleasures of seeing Ringo Starr in concert are many, and they are weird. First, of course, is the fact that you're seeing a former Beatle, one of four men who, despite the internet's weekly required "The ol...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild
September 7, 2018
Friday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter of Milwaukee public transportation (or would that be Friday The 7th?), the FIFTH AND FINAL Milwaukee streetcar ...

Abby Jeanne, Lex Allen, Zed Kenzo, Crystal Knives selected for $20,000 Backline grants

Matt Wild
September 7, 2018
Friday afternoon, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and gener8tor announced the recipients of their Backline accelerator program. First unveiled in March, Backline is a "grant and educational initiative designed to help M...

No Studios announces grand opening, ‘Night School’ screening, new tenants, more

Matt Wild
September 6, 2018
Back in February, Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley (12 Years A Slave, American Crime) announced the creation of No Studios, a Milwaukee-based hub for the creative arts. The hub, located in a 40,000-square-fo...

Food (including Friday fish fry) is coming back to Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom

Matt Wild
September 6, 2018
It's been a wild ride for the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom. Since opening in April 2017, the microbrewery/taproom has revitalized a 144-year-old building in the once-shuttered Pabst Brewery site, resurre...

The Killers, Violent Femmes, Fiserv Forum shine at first Fiserv Forum show

Matt Wild
September 5, 2018
"We've been playing that haunted, dirty Eagles Ballroom for 15 years. Look at us now!"So said Killers frontman Brandon Flowers early in his band's set Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. (Flowers quickly followe...

Judd Apatow will do some Election Night stand-up at Turner Hall November 6

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Has anyone defined the past two decades of comedy more than Judd Apatow? Nope. From writing and producing '90s classics like Heavyweights and The Cable Guy, to directing modern-day classics like The 40-Year-Old...

Milwaukee preps for two EDM fests, awaits response from lawyer who hates EDM fests

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Plenty of big shows are headed Milwaukee's way (just check out the first two months at the Fiserv Forum), but few will delight EDM fans more than not one, but two electronic festivals coming next month. The ina...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Aug. 26-Sept. 1)

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
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...

Buckle up, Milwaukee, for the 2019 Budget Open House Series

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
Who doesn't love a good open house meeting? We know we do: from problematic Pokemon players to scandalous Swing Park stuff, we're always first in line to attend these oft-ridiculous public meetings. (Oh, and do...

UPDATE: The elusive East Side comic book shop iguana has been captured

Matt Wild
September 4, 2018
All good iguana hunts must come to an end: Today, according to a post on the Riverwest Neighborhood Facebook page, a five-foot-long iguana that escaped from his East Side comic book shop home earlier this summe...

Heeeere’s the theme for Odd Duck’s 2018 Halloween Feast

Matt Wild
September 3, 2018
Some quick, obvious, and fun facts: Halloween is great. Odd Duck is great. Halloween at Odd Duck is really great. Past Halloweens have seen the ever-busy Bay View restaurant go all out with themed, multi-course...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful “Goop” website likes our food

Matt Wild
August 31, 2018
Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...

Annual “Mindset List” looks into the lives of college freshmen born in the year 2000

Matt Wild
August 30, 2018
Beginning in 1998, Beloit College's annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors a peek inside the minds and world views of incoming college freshmen. "So-and-so has never been alive during thei...
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