Author Matt Wild

Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’

December 3, 2015

//Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...

Watch a short film about Kumar Pallana and his unlikely ties to the Milwaukee film scene

Matt Wild

December 1, 2015

//The name “Kumar Pallana” may not ring any bells with Joe Q. Moviegoer, but savvy film fans will recognize the quirky Indian actor from his brief but memorable roles in a handful of Wes Anderson classics,...

The Vanguard just added 5 new sausages to its menu

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

//Is there anything better than The Vanguard, Bay View’s preeminent sausage-slinging and Packer-watching hot spot? No. Well, scratch that: The only thing better than The Vanguard is The Vanguard with five ...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee T-shirts for people who hate Milwaukee T-shirts

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

//Nothing beats showing off your local pride via a snazzy, locally focused T-shirt. It’s cheap, easy, and keeps the upper half of your body free of nakedness. In Milwaukee, however, locally focused T-shirt...

Scrimshaw’s ‘Welcome To The Henry Herschel Commercial’ is wonderfully weird, just plain wonderful

Matt Wild

November 19, 2015

To enter the world of Scrimshaw is to enter a world where Dr. Demento rules the radio, Mad magazine is required college reading, and Don Knotts is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the 10th year running. Milwa...

Who owns “Milwaukee.com,” and why is nothing there?

Matt Wild

November 18, 2015

//Right now, at this very moment, there are approximately 8,000 websites you can visit to get information on what’s happening in Milwaukee. There’s the city’s official website. There’s the tourism-minded V...

Make your intimate, icky dreams come true by starring in a new ad for Sybaris Pool Suites

Matt Wild

November 17, 2015

//Remember that scene in Blue Valentine when Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams go to a cheesy “romantic” motel and have incredibly depressing sex? God, what an uncomfortable, disheartening scene. God, wha...

Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Riverside Theater, ruin your favorite movies

Matt Wild

November 16, 2015

//Back in December 2014, everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, champion of reason, and walking meme Neil deGrasse Tyson dropped by Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater for two enlightening shows dedicated to all th...

Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture?

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more.UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...

Wisconsin ranked No. 1 for trendy true-crime serial documentaries

Matt Wild

November 13, 2015

//Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Netflix is jumping on that sweet, sweet Serial/Jinx bandwagon with a 1...

Sheriff Clarke parked in a handicapped-accessible spot at the War Memorial on Veterans Day because he’s lazy and morally bankrupt

Matt Wild

November 12, 2015

//When he’s not busy squeezing out liberal-baiting tweets so tired and by-the-numbers they make Rush Limbaugh look like Oscar fucking Wilde, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. is keeping Milwauk...

Uncanny Soup Co. is closed

Matt Wild

November 12, 2015

//Back in November 2014, we paid a visit to then-new Water St. soup joint Uncanny Soup Co. (612 N. Water St., 414-231-3706). Here was our verdict: Of all the soup places in Downtown Milwaukee, Uncanny Sou...

Yep, the Packers haven’t won since Mike Ditka donned a Packers sweater for McDonald’s

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

//If you’re still smarting from the Green Bay Packers’ two consecutive losses (the first time this has happened under QB Aaron Rodgers since 2010) here’s something else that will have you gnashing your gre...

Tracklist: 10 “outrageous” Sheriff Clarke tweets (from the past 72 hours)

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

//There’s an old Onion article where a just-past-his-prime Marilyn Manson is going door-to-door in a small Kansas City suburb trying to shock people. Draped in sheep entrails, Manson arrives at the home of...

Get fucked up (in more ways than one) with the video for Soul Low’s “Always Watchin’ Out”

Matt Wild

November 10, 2015

//Soul Low is the kind of band you’d like to take home to your mom: youthful, charming, dapperly dressed. But even nice guys (or, in the parlance of Soul Low, nice dads) have a hard time meeting that speci...

“Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage” will voyage to Riverside Theater March 13

Matt Wild

November 9, 2015

//The Star Trek franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. That’s five decades of Star Trek books, Star Trek comics, Star Trek video games, Star Trek action figures, Star Trek conventions, Star...

Where are they building luxury apartments you’ll never be able to afford THIS week?

Matt Wild

November 6, 2015

//Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Where are ...

Watch Red Letter Media predict exactly what will happen in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

Matt Wild

November 5, 2015

//It’s hard to overstate just how much Red Letter Media has influenced the way the Internet talks about Star Wars. The Milwaukee-based production company—made up of Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, the cherubic ...

Holy fucking shit the Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season

Matt Wild

November 4, 2015

//Holy fucking shit the Milwaukee Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season. As revealed today by the club, the All-Fan Giveaway will be available at the July 10, 2016 Brewers/Ca...

Former Schwartz booksellers spin tale of mystery, murder, shady animals in ‘Shady Hollow’

Matt Wild

November 3, 2015

A small-town gossip columnist stumbles across a body floating in a pond. An intrepid reporter takes up the case and starts sniffing around. A peaceful village is revealed to be a mysterious place full of dark s...