Author Matt Wild

Numerous events and initiatives planned for “Year of Vel Phillips”

January 25, 2024

Vel R. Phillips (1924-2018) was a woman of many "firsts." The Milwaukee native was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. She was the first woman and the first Bl...

Gold Steps and MKNLY go their separate ways at “The Terminal”

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Milwaukee alt/pop/rock band Gold Steps can't stop, won't stop. In the last few years the group has released a record on Revival Recordings, toured the U.S., played a metric ton of local shows (including a sweet...

Help make locally created card game ‘Mythy’ a reality

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Greetings, fellow card and board game geeks! Are you looking for a light, fun, and constantly changing 2-to-6-player card game to slot between marathon sessions of Ark Nova and Gloomhaven? Are you interested in...

Chefs from Amilinda, Odd Duck, EsterEv, Birch are 2024 James Beard Award Semifinalists

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

The James Beard Foundation announced its 2024 Restaurant and Chef Awards Semifinalists on Wednesday, all part of its prestigious food-celebratin' James Beard Awards. As always, a host of Milwaukee chefs made th...

‘Hundreds Of Beavers’ (the film, not the real beavers) will return to Oriental Theatre January 31

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

If you attended the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival and you have vague memories of a bunch of costumed critters running around outside the Oriental Theatre, it wasn't a dream (and it wasn't just another night on t...

New & Wonderful Things: Northridge Mall saga continues

Matt Wild

January 24, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

SIN BAD returns with long-lost (and fantastic) EP, ‘It’s Final’

Matt Wild

January 23, 2024

Has it really been five years since stellar Milwaukee rock/punk/power-pop group SIN BAD issued its final release and went on indefinite hiatus? It's true! Back in early 2019, the trio (Audrey Pennings, Ben Woya...

Music Go Round and Volta Records bring Midwest musicians together on same bill

Matt Wild

January 23, 2024

With such a wealth of talent at its disposal, the Milwaukee music scene can sometimes feel a bit insular. Local artists playing with other local artists. Friends playing with friends. Lather, rinse, repeat. And...

That Culver’s mural/sign on the East Side: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Milwaukee is currently in the throes of a mural renaissance. It seems a week can't go by without the unveiling of another gorgeous mural on a previously unadorned side of a prominent building. There are colorfu...

WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser will return to Kern Center April 7

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

It may feel like winter will never end, but—believe it or not—spring is right around the corner. Need proof? Behold the annual announcement of WMSE's Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser! The springtime shindig will ret...

Avril Lavigne will bring greatest hits tour to AmFam Amphitheater September 9

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Tell me: Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated? 'Cause right now I'd do anything to just get my bowels evacuated. In the bathroom I sit and I wait and I strain and I sweat and I clench and I feel the ...

MKE Music Rewind: Grey-Star, “You Don’t Even Know” (1983)

Matt Wild

January 18, 2024

In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Grey-Star, "You Don't Even Know.""Criminally overlooked!" "Should ha...

You better believe Milwaukee Public Market’s “Dinky Rink” will return January 19

Matt Wild

January 18, 2024

For the last several years, the Milwaukee Public Market has been making the dead of winter a little more bearable (emphasis on "little") with its outdoor, 950-square-foot "Dinky Rink." Is the so-called "area's ...

EsterEv plans to move to former C-viche space in Bay View

Matt Wild

January 17, 2024

EsterEv, the reservation-only fine-dining restaurant within DanDan (360 E. Erie St.), plans to move into its own digs.A license application filed with the city indicates that DanDan and EsterEv owners Dan J...

Whatever! Nineties-themed Diorama-Rama set for March 26

Matt Wild

January 17, 2024

Here's a fun fact: Milwaukee is home to the world's first habitat diorama! In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony diorama for the then-young Milwaukee Public Mus...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jelly Roll, HARDY will headline 2024 Harley festival

Matt Wild

January 16, 2024

Fresh off the 2023 Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival that featured headlining sets from Foo Fighters and Green Day, the now-annual fest has announced its musical headliners for 2024.Over the course of the...

Watch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak at UWM in 1965

Matt Wild

January 15, 2024

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day to celebrate the life and work of the civil rights pioneer, to reflect on the progress that's been made in the many decades since his assassination, and to realize tha...

Let’s see how some Milwaukee restaurant websites have changed over the years

Matt Wild

January 11, 2024

Remember when every website on the World Wide Web didn't kinda-sorta look the same? Or, at the very least, when every website hadn't yet jumped on the "clean/minimalist" bandwagon and were funky, loaded with te...

Lawrencia Bembenek gets another musical tribute with Trapper Schoepp’s haunting “Bambi”

Matt Wild

January 11, 2024

Four decades after she became a notorious Milwaukee name, Lawrencia "Laurie" Bembenek is having a moment.Last fall, the Milwaukee Rep produced a rock musical called Run Bambi Run (with original songs from V...

Looks like ‘Bar Rescue’ is sniffing around Milwaukee again

Matt Wild

January 10, 2024

Has it really been 10 years since kinda-sorta-reality and failing-bar-revamp show Bar Rescue blew into Milwaukee and "rescued" two Milwaukee bars? Good grief, it has...Remember in 2014, when host John Taffe...