Author Matt Wild

All 21 Sculpture Milwaukee 2018 sculptures, ranked

June 5, 2018

Take a stroll down Wisconsin Avenue this summer and you'll see something familiar, yet different. Yes, it's Sculpture Milwaukee, the "outdoor art gallery" that first populated downtown with world-class sculptur...

MKE Music Rewind: The Celebrated Workingman, “A Lover’s Waltz”

Matt Wild

June 5, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.If someone were to make a list of current Milwaukee music MVPs (ser...

Joel, Jonah, and the Bots are bringing ‘MST3K’ back to Riverside Theater November 15

Matt Wild

June 4, 2018

Remember when Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on 1962's The Brain That Wouldn't Die? Well, 30 years after MST3K first premiered on a low-budget television station in Minneapolis, it's clear that it, too, wo...

Incredible and inspiring “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” may become official flag of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• After years languishing as an incredible and inspiring icon/T-shirt that coul...

Old 97’s will headline WMSE’s 9th annual Backyard BBQ

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

There should be a law against thinking about the end of August (the end of summer!) at the beginning of June (the beginning of summer!), but we'll make an exception for WMSE's Backyard BBQ. On Saturday, August ...

Let’s get our hopes up again and guess the mystery band playing the “Cheers to Milwaukee” show

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

Do you like shows? (Yes!) Do you like free shows! (YES!) Do you like free shows where the headliner remains a secret? (Um...) Well, you're in luck, because Miller Brewing and Riverside Theater are teaming up fo...

Want to swim the Milwaukee River? Um, now you can at the inaugural Cream City Classic

Matt Wild

June 1, 2018

The Milwaukee River is a lot of things: a playground for boats, pontoons, kayaks, and even water taxis. An inviting place for swimmers? Not so much. But all of that is about to change, sort of, with the Cream C...

Rummaging through the wholesale randomness of Jones’s Discount Groceries

Matt Wild

May 31, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee's new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

Oh hell yeah one of the options for saving the Domes involves an indoor zipline

Matt Wild

May 30, 2018

For nearly two years now, a county task force charged with figuring out what the hell to do with the troubled Mitchell Park Conservatory Domes has been desperately trying to figure out what the hell to do with ...

Check out the 2018 Bike-In Movie Series schedule, help make the series possible

Matt Wild

May 30, 2018

With warm weather comes the pleasures of biking, and with the pleasures of biking comes the pleasures of the annual Milwaukee Bike-In Movie Series. For the past 10 summers, the grassroots, free, Friday-night ev...

Tom Barrett says he won’t run for governor for the 8,000th time

Matt Wild

May 29, 2018

Last time we checked in with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, he was mulling running for Wisconsin governor—despite the fact that he had failed to win the office not once, not twice, but three times in the past (an...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (May 20-26)

Matt Wild

May 29, 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...

Let’s watch five decades of epic Channel 6 news promos

Matt Wild

May 29, 2018

Aside from actual time capsules, there are no better time capsules than old local TV news clips. The anchors! The music! The fashion! The star wipe graphics! In Milwaukee, WISN's ancient "Hello Milwaukee" news ...

Our kingdom for the story behind this sad/weird squirrel grave we found in Lake Park

Matt Wild

May 25, 2018

Lake Park is one of Milwaukee's best things. The 138.1-acre urban park was designed in the late 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted (designer of New York City's Central Park, among many other parks), and has ...

Okay, it looks like Milwaukee is doing “foot-bowling” bars now

Matt Wild

May 25, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Where does an "activity bar"-obsessed Milwaukee go after netting a cat cafe, ...

Milwaukee County voters will be asked about kinda-sorta legalizing marijuana this November

Matt Wild

May 24, 2018

Thursday morning, in a meeting of the County Board of Supervisors, a resolution was passed by a vote of 15-1 that will add an advisory referendum question about marijuana to Milwaukee County ballots this Novemb...

The Blue Mooners return with rootin’ tootin’ covers of “Do-Wacka-Do,” “Not In Nottingham”

Matt Wild

May 24, 2018

It's been a spell since we've visited with The Blue Mooners—a.k.a. Spud Butler, a.k.a. former Sat. Nite Duets member Stephen Strupp. Way back in 2014, the country-minded Mooners released a self-titled record th...

Diplo will play a free show at the new U.S. Cellular Connection Stage June 22

Matt Wild

May 22, 2018

EDM superstar Diplo will play a free show at the new U.S. Cellular Connection Stage—located on the Summerfest grounds—Friday, June 22, U.S. Cellular announced Tuesday."We are thrilled to host Diplo as the f...

Codebreaker unveils 26-track “best of” collection, plus unreleased “Sky Commander”

Matt Wild

May 22, 2018

Back in January 2017, Milwaukee's once mighty Codebreaker cracked six years of silence by releasing "When The Lights Go Down." The self-described "lost track" was a welcome reminder of the space-age future-disc...

Watch the hypnotizing video for Community Centaur’s cover of Radiohead’s “Idioteque”

Matt Wild

May 22, 2018

Last summer, the mysteriously monikered Community Centaur (a.k.a. Josh Evert of The Fatty Acids) released an equally mysterious version of Radiohead's "Idioteque." It was spooky, downbeat, and kind of great. "I...