Author Matt Wild

‘Making A Murderer’ attorneys Dean Strang and Jerry Buting will speak at Riverside Theater

January 26, 2016

Perhaps you've heard of Making A Murderer, the 10-part Netflix documentary investigating the contentious legal issues surrounding Manitowoc resident Steven Avery and the murder of Teresa Halbach. Perhaps yo...

Dave Chappelle will return to the Pabst for 8 shows in 4 nights, beginning this Sunday

Matt Wild

January 25, 2016

//It seems like only yesterday when Dave Chappelle dropped by Milwaukee for two—no, make that four; no, make that six—shows at the Pabst Theater. That instantly sold-out three-night stint was one of the hi...

The restaurant inside of Yield, Comiskey’s Burgers, now features more burgers

Matt Wild

January 21, 2016

//For the past 10 years, Yield has made an East Side name for itself with lively crowds, lively live music, and a whole lot of '90s band posters plastered to the walls. The one thing the bar hasn't been kn...

Here’s what was changed to make that non-anti-Semitic Shorewood sculpture even more non-anti-Semitic

Matt Wild

January 18, 2016

Take yourself back to November 2015, when a New Jersey blogger "well known for his innovative and transformative ideas as a marketing, social media, and business development consultant" named Matt Sweetwood tra...

Tom Bamberger explores time and trash with 36-foot-long landfill photo in “Civil Twilight”

Matt Wild

January 14, 2016

//For all of photography’s triumphs in capturing a moment in time, the medium is surprisingly ill suited to capturing a moment over time. A moment is just that, and although plenty of exceptions abound—thi...

Alverno Presents’ current season will be its last, and that really sucks

Matt Wild

January 13, 2016

//For the past 56 (!) years, the performing arts series of Alverno College, Alverno Presents, has been bringing some of the most rewarding art and artists to Milwaukee's doorstep. Internationally celebrate...

Exclusive: Revel in the blues-rock goodness of The Young Revelators’ ‘All I See’

Matt Wild

January 13, 2016

//When one thinks of the sound of Riverwest, "earnest blues-rock" probably doesn't come to mind. Yet here are The Young Revelators, a young (natch) trio hailing from the ever-buzzing neighborhood, speciali...

First Impression: Asian Fusion

Matt Wild

January 11, 2016

//The East Side stretch of North Avenue is currently going through ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. Most of those changes have been smart: a remodeled and expanded Ian's Pizza is terrific, the new East Library (and AT...

Let’s analyze that photo of Brett Favre watching yesterday’s Packers game

Matt Wild

January 11, 2016

//We're all cool with Brett Favre again, right? Right. Following Favre's two-pronged Green Bay Packers homecoming this season, it seems the great state of Wisconsin is finally content to let bygones be byg...

Forget Powerball: try to open a downtown strip club, inevitably get denied, sue the city

Matt Wild

January 8, 2016

//Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If someone tries to open a strip club in Downtown Milwaukee and OnMilw...

Let’s look back on 2015 with Milwaukee’s favorite troll, Sheriff David Clarke

Matt Wild

January 7, 2016

//How's your 2016 going so far? Good? Kind of shitty? We hear you. How about 2015? Sure, we may be a full week into the new year, but that doesn't mean it's too late to look back and take stock of the year...

Nick Sanborn’s solo project, Made Of Oak, will play Cactus Club April 8

Matt Wild

January 6, 2016

//Milwaukee expat and former Decibully member Nick Sanborn is one busy fellow. In addition to his current high-profile gig as one-half of Sylvan Esso, Sanborn occasionally records and performs under his lo...

Keep the holidays alive with Xposed 4Heads’ all-purpose holiday song, “Sing Along Again”

Matt Wild

January 5, 2016

//Having trouble returning to the real world after a seemingly endless and (hopefully) drunken holiday break? Of course you are. Happily, there's a solution: Keep the holidays alive all year long with Xpos...

One guess how Kato Kaelin felt about last night’s Packers game

Matt Wild

December 28, 2015

//Earlier this month, we dropped in on the Twitter feed of Kato Kaelin—he of faded “former O.J. Simpson houseguest” fame—and rounded up some of his delightfully angry tweets during the Green Bay Packers / ...

I saw ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Oriental Theatre at 4:15 a.m. and it was glorious

Matt Wild

December 18, 2015

//Back in October, a galaxy-full of Star Wars fans descended on the Internet, Death-Star-trench-run-style, to buy advance tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I was not among them. Instead, as untold m...

Christopher Lloyd will host a ‘Back To The Future’ screening at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

December 16, 2015

//Dear Milwaukee,On the night I go back in time of Saturday, February 20, 2016, you will be treated to a screening of Back To The Future at Riverside Theater, hosted by Doc Brown himself, Christopher L...

Listen to the latest and greatest Bleach Athletixx track, “Rotation Of The Earth”

Matt Wild

December 11, 2015

//Back in March, former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday began releasing music under his new moniker, Bleach Athletixx. Songs like the druggy and Vice City-channeling “California Future,” the druggy a...

Relive last night’s insane Packers win with these delightfully angry Kato Kaelin tweets

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

//As you may or may not know, infamous O.J. Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin is a big Wisconsin sports nut. Though now living and working (apparently) in Los Angeles, the 56-year-old Kaelin originally hails...

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

//Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...

This is what the Journal Sentinel’s website will look like next year

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

The don’t-call-it-a-buyout buyout of Journal Communications Inc. by Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., the subsequent spinning off of the company’s newspapers into the locally controlled Journal Media Gr...