Author Matt Wild

Mandatory Milwaukee: WMSE continues to create community for left-of-the-dial listeners

March 7, 2017

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...

Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new downtown location in the next decade

Matt Wild

March 7, 2017

Heads up, snake button enthusiasts: According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Public Museum will move to a new, $100 million downtown home sometime in the next decade. MPM is pursuing the optio...

Rosati’s on Farwell and North appears to be closed

Matt Wild

March 6, 2017

After little more than a year in business, it appears that Rosati's Pizza Sports Pub, located on the corner of Farwell and North on Milwaukee's East Side, is closed. As of Monday night, the interior of the rest...

Here are the winners of WMSE’s 2017 Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser

Matt Wild

March 6, 2017

This past Sunday, oodles of Milwaukeeans flocked to the MSOE Kern Center for WMSE's 15th annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser. Several hours later, they all went home and found a nice place to curl up and think a...

Cards Against Humanity is sending a bunch of potatoes to Sen. Ron Johnson

Matt Wild

March 3, 2017

Back in January, the creators of your family's favorite zany/offensive/tiring party game, Cards Against Humanity, hid a bunch of boxes around Milwaukee. Now, approximately two months later, they're urging fans ...

The new Fuel is nothing like the original Fuel, and that’s fine

Matt Wild

March 2, 2017

My first Milwaukee memories are of Fuel Cafe. I moved here in 1996, three years after the now-iconic coffee shop/cafe opened in Riverwest. Like many of my friends, I spent an inordinate amount of time at Fuel. ...

Happy John Malan Day, Wisconsin

Matt Wild

March 1, 2017

If today's weather seems especially weird—Is it raining outside? Wait, is it snowing outside? Now rain again?—there's a reason for that. After 37 years of dedicated service, veteran Milwaukee weatherman John ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (February 19-25)

Matt Wild

March 1, 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 ...

2017 Milwaukee Film Festival now accepting entries

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

broadstreet.zone(46016BB); Is it too early to pine for the cool, crisp comforts of autumn? Probably, but when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Festival, all bets are off. Today, Milwaukee Film announced that it ...

Retro-game-inspired ‘Quest For The Sacred Orb’ reminds grade school adventurers it’s dangerous to go alone

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

What does it mean when a theater troupe, having recently produced original plays inspired by the works of whacked-out directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, claims its latest production is its most expe...

Here are the nominees for the 2017 WAMI Awards

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

Who's got WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? We all have WAMI fever. Today, the folks behind the Wisconsin Area Music Industry unveiled the nominees for WAMI's 37th annual awards show...

People behind “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” still trying to make it the official flag of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 24, 2017

It's been nearly nine months since the unveiling of the so-called "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The People's Flag, as you may or may not choose to remember, was the product of an much-ballyhooed contest that ...

Buckle the f*ck up: The Milwaukee Streetcar cometh (in April)

Matt Wild

February 24, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Buckle the fuck up and prepare to either rejoice or use the word "boondoggl...

Remembering the time the ‘Bugle American’ offices totally got firebombed

Matt Wild

February 23, 2017

Milwaukee has a long, strange history of alternative newspapers. There's the Shepherd Express, of course (originally dubbed the Crazy Shepherd), which still graces news racks and restaurant window ledges toda...

Activists take on late-capitalist consumerism, bugs, in Danielson Murphy’s eco-terror novella ‘Overburden’

Matt Wild

February 23, 2017

Overburden, the new self-published novella by Milwaukee author Danielson Murphy, opens with a public masturbation scene that doubles as a quick primer on the emerald ash borer. "On a fallen ash tree next to t...

There’s a petition to remove the stage benches at Summerfest

Matt Wild

February 22, 2017

It's been two long years since Milwaukeeans banded together to sign a meaningless Change.org petition to remove DJ Paris Hilton from the 2015 Summerfest lineup. (The show ended up being okay!) Now, in a simila...

Help Milwaukee Blacksmith find a new home

Matt Wild

February 22, 2017

In a treacherous reality TV landscape littered with shows about Alaska, shows about gold mining in Alaska, and shows about kinda-sorta living in Alaska, Milwaukee Blacksmith proved to be an unlikely breath of...

Sheriff Clarke pounds keyboard, calls for Mayor Barrett’s resignation

Matt Wild

February 21, 2017

Tuesday afternoon, fresh from flexing his muscles and posing with a purse, Facebook and Twitter user (and Milwaukee County Sheriff) David Clarke pounded his keyboard and called for the resignation of Milwauke...

In Defense Of: Milwaukee County Transit System

Matt Wild

February 21, 2017

In a city as relatively small as Milwaukee, certain people, places, or things can get saddled with bad reputations. Even if these reputations are somewhat deserved, Milwaukee Record strives to look past the n...

Vote today, Milwaukee, or forever hold your Facebook outrage

Matt Wild

February 21, 2017

Hey! Milwaukee! Put down that Facebook post where you're either screaming into a echo-chamber void or arguing with some asshole stranger who will never change his or her mind and listen up: You totally get to...