Author Matt Wild

Sculpture Milwaukee is having a picnic September 9 at O’Donnell Park

August 31, 2017

One of this summer's great public art success stories is Sculpture Milwaukee. The 22-piece installation has graced Wisconsin Avenue since June, giving downtown denizens a chance to enjoy top-flight works of art...

Sign up for There Will Be Bowling 2: Electric Boogaloo, coming to the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

August 30, 2017

Is there anything better than the annual Milwaukee Film Festival? No. Is there anything better than bowling? Strangely, also no. So why not combine the two? From September 28 through October 12, the screens of ...

Sherman Phoenix, and 5 more Milwaukee crowdfunding campaigns that could use a little help

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

broadstreet.zone(32806); It's been one year since the uprising in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. Whether or not there has been any positive change in the neighborhood over the past year is up for debat...

Hillary Clinton is finally coming to Wisconsin (for her book tour)

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

Remember when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were vying for the title of President of the United States? And remember when Hillary Clinton lost the state of Wisconsin by basically ignoring it? And remember wh...

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

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

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...

Now’s as good a time as any to brush up on the Wisconsin Nazi resistance during WWII

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

"At the turn of the century, Milwaukee was unlike any other city because no other city was as German, as socialist, and as fond of beer." So quips Milwaukee historian John Gurda in the opening seconds of Wiscon...

Hey Milwaukee: If we wanted to “save” Von Trier we probably should have gone to Von Trier

Matt Wild

August 25, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• A collective sigh of "Oh no, not again" was heard last week when venerable Ge...

Former Comedy Cafe building on Brady Street will become an ’80s and ’90s arcade

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

The former Comedy Cafe, located at 615 E. Brady St., has been an empty black shell since 2015. No yuks have echoed forth from its chambers in two years, and no two-drink minimums have been enforced. But now, th...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host another adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Night At ...

Milwaukee Film announces opening night film, return of ‘Stop Making Sense,’ more

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

You know the drill: We're approximately one month away from the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival (September 28 – October 12 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay Cinema Grill, Times Cin...

WebsterX keeps 2017 going strong with new single, “Everfeel”

Matt Wild

August 23, 2017

It's been less than six months since WebsterX made a bid for "Milwaukee album of the year" with the release of his long-awaited debut album Daymares. Now, following a Summerfest appearance and a full New Age Na...

Here’s the full Cream City Cinema lineup for the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

August 22, 2017

We're approximately one month out from the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival (September 28 – October 12 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay Cinema Grill, Times Cinema, and Avalon Theat...

UWM Union Cinema adds “Horror Week,” more to fall schedule

Matt Wild

August 21, 2017

Earlier this month, the UWM Union Cinema unveiled its first batch of films for fall 2017. A David Lynch retrospective, a smattering of current Hollywood blockbusters, and Romy & Michele's High School Reunio...

Strange Fruit Music Festival set to return for second year

Matt Wild

August 21, 2017

Last fall, ever-busy Milwaukee musicians Jay Anderson and Chauntee Ross launched the inaugural Strange Fruit Music Festival. Inspired by the then-recent killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the thre...

Watch the Uni-Fi Records crew channel “Macho Man” Randy Savage in NSFW “Grimey” video

Matt Wild

August 18, 2017

Yesterday, when we rounded up five new Milwaukee music videos, we apparently rounded up too soon. Today, the ever-busy Uni-Fi Records crew has dropped a doozy of a clip for a doozy of a song, the decidedly NSFW...

Here’s a friendly reminder that Everclear is playing the Milwaukee County Zoo this Saturday

Matt Wild

August 17, 2017

Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. The day after that is Saturday. That's the day Everclear is playing the Milwaukee County Zoo. Consider this a friendly reminder.Yes, the ubiquitous '90s band will rock...

Beck played Milwaukee for the first time in 20 years and it was almost too perfect

Matt Wild

August 17, 2017

Some fun facts: An entire generation of music fans has come of age since Beck last played Milwaukee in 1997. The city has built a ton of new shit, the country has elected three different presidents, and the end...

Let’s ask the Uecker 8-Ball about the changing face of Milwaukee’s East Side

Matt Wild

August 16, 2017

This past Sunday, all attendees at the Milwaukee Brewers/Cincinnati Reds game at Miller Park were gifted a truly incredible trinket: a Bob Uecker-themed magic 8-ball. Falling on the scale of promotional-item co...

There’s already a petition to keep Von Trier the way it is

Matt Wild

August 15, 2017

Less than six hours after news dropped that venerable East Side bar Von Trier will soon ditch its German theme and transform into an "upscale midcentury cocktail lounge," there's already a petition asking Von T...

18 gratuitous Milwaukee references in the 1995 Charles Bronson TV movie ‘Family Of Cops’

Matt Wild

August 15, 2017

When one thinks of movies made in Milwaukee, the usual suspects come to mind: Major League, American Movie, maybe that one with Bernie Mac. There are others, of course, but none more Milwaukee-tastic and obscur...