Author Matt Wild

Celebrate the first day of the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair with 10 years of ride-inspection news stories

August 3, 2023

broadstreet.zone(152652); Summer is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Lakefront Brewery August 2-9 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer.Today marks the glorious first day of the 2023...

Members of KISS opening a restaurant at Potawatomi: A minute-by-minute report

Matt Wild

August 2, 2023

At the risk of starting an article involving two members of KISS on a shaky note, I've never quite "gotten" KISS. There's just something about the band's combination of blood-spitting spectacle and streamlined ...

The inevitable loss of beloved Milwaukee things

Matt Wild

August 1, 2023

A version of this article originally appeared on our Patreon. Want to support Milwaukee Record and get exclusive articles and podcasts? Click HERE. Thanks!A few months ago I took a behind-the-scenes tour of...

Ride Milwaukee’s “polka escalator” one last time at an August 18 deaccession ceremony

Matt Wild

August 1, 2023

Somewhat lost in all the hoopla surrounding the $456 million expansion of the downtown Wisconsin Center (now known as the Baird Center) and the on-again, off-again removal of the "Portals and Writings Celebrati...

Milwaukee fish fry expert Caleb Westphal reflects on 500 (!) consecutive Friday fish frys

Matt Wild

July 28, 2023

"It just kind of snowballed. I moved down here in the beginning of 2012, and it dawned on me later: 'Wow, there are probably more fish frys here in Milwaukee, at least Friday night ones, than anywhere else in t...

We’re screening ‘Jaws’ at Avalon Theater on August 23

Matt Wild

July 27, 2023

Y'all know Milwaukee Record. Know how we earn a livin'. Music, culture, gentle sarcasm, monthly movie screenings at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater. We're screening Jaws at the Avalon on Wednesday, August 23, bu...

Wasted lives and pop-music salvation: Inside Rustbelt’s “Oh My God Here It Comes Now” video

Matt Wild

July 25, 2023

It's been one year since New-York-by-way-of-Milwaukee musician John Chiaverina called it a day on his long-running Juiceboxxx project. "Juiceboxxx was an exercise in believing in myself despite everything," Chi...

A lot of people rode that darn streetcar during the big Harley/Bastille weekend

Matt Wild

July 25, 2023

Despite the ire of Republicans in the state legislature and the withering opinions of dudes on Facebook who list "School of Hard Knocks" as their education, a whole lot of folks rode the Milwaukee streetcar a f...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (July 9-22)

Matt Wild

July 24, 2023

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." However you want to define it, it's safe to say tha...

Rose Of The West honors Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin in “Come And Find Me”

Matt Wild

July 24, 2023

It's been a minute (or two) since we heard from Rose Of The West, a moody Milwaukee dream-pop project led by singer Gina Marie Barrington. The group released its eponymous debut record in 2019; that same year, ...

Stuff We Missed: Two months until we REALLY start talking about what to do with the Domes

Matt Wild

July 21, 2023

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Has it really been seven years since a fallen chunk of concrete was discover...

12 pictures of Marcus Center’s “Evanescent” bubble installation, which ends Saturday

Matt Wild

July 20, 2023

If you've driven past, walked by, or flown your jet over the outdoor grounds of the Marcus Performing Arts Center in the last few days (929 N. Water St.), you've probably noticed those big ol' bubbles. They're ...

Here’s the schedule for the Milwaukee Air & Water Show (plus info on a planned protest)

Matt Wild

July 19, 2023

That incredible sound booming overhead can mean only one thing: the absolutely amazing, utterly fantastic, and completely beyond reproach Milwaukee Air & Water Show is back! The awesome annual shindig will ...

Here’s the (in-progress) lineup for the new “It’s Alive On The RiverWalk” busker series

Matt Wild

July 18, 2023

One of Milwaukee's many low-key gems is its RiverWalk. The pedestrian walkway runs along both sides of the Milwaukee River for approximately 20 city blocks, connecting the Historic Third Ward, Downtown, and the...

Stuff We Missed: Audio from Harley’s 100th has some lady saying Elton John was “way too gay”

Matt Wild

July 14, 2023

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• By now we all know the story of how Harley-Davidson celebrated its big 100th...

Watch Green Day play “Longview,” throw cocktail wieners at 1993 Milwaukee Mega Jam

Matt Wild

July 14, 2023

Remember the time Green Day played Milwaukee's MECCA Auditorium in 1995, and frontman Billy Joe Armstrong got arrested for mooning the crowd? Of course you do. How about the time the band played Milwaukee's Meg...

Summerfest: Attendance up 40% from 2022, will stick with three-weekend format in 2024

Matt Wild

July 11, 2023

If Summerfest seemed pleasantly—but not overwhelmingly—packed this year, that's because it was. On Tuesday, Summerfest announced that a total of 624,407 fans attended the nine-day 2023 Big Gig. While still down...

Dill Pickle Donuts and Alligator Ribs: 100 new foods coming to 2023 Wisconsin State Fair

Matt Wild

July 11, 2023

If our ongoing Wisconsin Fair Bracket hasn't gotten you sufficiently pumped for the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair, maybe this will do the trick. From August 3-13, folks can enjoy not one, not two, not 99, but 100 n...

Season 21 of Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’ will be filmed in Wisconsin

Matt Wild

July 11, 2023

It's a big day for Bravo's long-running and wildly popular Top Chef: not only has the show announced its new host (season 10 winner Kristen Kish, pictured above, taking over for Padma Lakshmi), but it has annou...

Shank Hall will apply for all-ages license, has new carpet

Matt Wild

July 11, 2023

We'd like to take this opportunity to share our personal thoughts about Milwaukee's Shank Hall:Shank Hall is the "best music venue in town." We feel this way because Shank Hall has spent the last 34 years h...