Author Matt Wild

As Widespread Panic Weekend begins, mayor declares today to be Pabst Theater Group Day

October 21, 2022

That noise coming from the heart of Downtown Milwaukee isn't construction (well, it's probably that, too). It's just the kickoff to the three-night, three-show, completely sold-out Widespread Panic Weekend at R...

After years of delays, Bay View sushi spot may finally open (in 2023)

Matt Wild

October 21, 2022

Believe it or not, the saga of perpetually delayed Bay View sushi spot Sushi Yuki stretches back to 2016."Sushi Yuki is on its way to Bay View," OnMilwaukee reported in August of that year. The story detail...

Holy crap, Milwaukee is getting a new USL Championship soccer team and you can help name it

Matt Wild

October 20, 2022

Five months after announcing that, holy crap, Milwaukee is getting a new 8,000-seat soccer stadium in the new downtown Iron District MKE, details of the team that will play in that soccer stadium have been reve...

Bug Moment’s Jasmine Rosenblatt goes solo with jas? EP, ‘My New Clothes Fit Me Funny’

Matt Wild

October 20, 2022

The past year has found Milwaukee band Bug Moment having, well, a moment. The bedroom-pop group has played oodles of shows, garnered oodles of fans, and received oodles of love for its 2021 record BUGS. Are all...

The Beat Index puts listeners on hold, delivers fantastic concept album ‘Thank You For Your Patience’

Matt Wild

October 19, 2022

A "liminal space" is an empty or disquieting location that serves as a transition between two other locations. Think of an unused skywalk, a hallway in an abandoned mall, or an airport terminal at 3 a.m. It's a...

Nessun Dorma will celebrate 20 years of greatness on October 23

Matt Wild

October 19, 2022

In a time of all things new and flashy, it's easy to overlook the classics. Take Nessun Dorma, for example. The Riverwest restaurant has been quietly holding down its location at 2778 N. Weil St. since 2002, se...

Your guide to Milwaukee-area horror movie screenings from now until Halloween (and beyond)

Matt Wild

October 18, 2022

It's crunch time, people: Halloween is mere weeks away! Need to get in the holiday mood with hours and hours and hours and hours of horror movies? We've got you covered. The following list—which begins today an...

‘Black Nativity by Langston Hughes’ returns to Marcus Center December 8-11

Matt Wild

October 18, 2022

Milwaukee's holiday season will kick off in grand fashion when Black Arts MKE's annual Christmas musical, Black Nativity by Langston Hughes, lands at the Marcus Performing Arts Center's Wilson Theater at Vogel ...

Black Cat Alley Halloween celebration will include dance party, costume contests, tarot cards

Matt Wild

October 18, 2022

If any place on Milwaukee's East Side should be going all out for Halloween, it should be Black Cat Alley. And what do you know—it is!Yep, on Saturday, October 29, the open-air art gallery—a.k.a. a two-bloc...

Brief Candles burn again on first full release in 5 years, ‘It Doesn’t Lead To Anything: Part 1’

Matt Wild

October 18, 2022

Has it really been five long years since Milwaukee-by-way-of-Peoria-Illinois shoegaze/dream-pop outfit Brief Candles gifted the world with new music? Well, sort of: following the 2017 release of the excellent f...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (October 2-15)

Matt Wild

October 17, 2022

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 Th...

Celebration of Mike Schank’s life set for November 12 at MKE Alano Club

Matt Wild

October 17, 2022

Milwaukee lost a real one on October 13 when musician Mike Schank—best known as the co-star of the 1999 documentary American Movie—died at the age of 53. Schank had been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the yea...

When choosing between two competing Krampusnacht celebrations, choose the original

Matt Wild

October 17, 2022

Since 2017, Milwaukee Krampusnacht has celebrated the half-goat/half-demon Krampus—a.k.a. a figure from Alpine folklore who punishes naughty children and acts as a foil to the do-gooding Saint Nicholas—with a f...

Here’s the name of the first Summerfest headliner for 2023, and that’s it

Matt Wild

October 17, 2022

Zac Brown Band...

Two weeks after dropping bus mask requirement, MCTS reinstates bus mask requirement

Matt Wild

October 14, 2022

Beginning today, masks are required on all Milwaukee County Transit System buses. Again. The news comes two weeks after MCTS dropped its previous mask requirement. And yeah, let's be honest, no one had been fol...

R.I.P. Milwaukee musician, ‘American Movie’ co-star Mike Schank

Matt Wild

October 13, 2022

Milwaukee musician Mike Schank, best known as the co-star of the 1999 documentary American Movie, has died. A friend confirms to Milwaukee Record that Schank "passed away early this morning in his mother's arm...

In The Cooperage on October 16, everything will be fine for “Inside A Dream: The Music Of David Lynch”

Matt Wild

October 13, 2022

There's a sublime moment in the first season of Twin Peaks where Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman walk into the Double R Diner. "Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret," Cooper s...

Culver’s CurderBurger is back, so here’s a two-minute video of a Culver’s CurderBurger

Matt Wild

October 12, 2022

It's official: Beginning today, Culver's CurderBurger—a.k.a. the Deluxe ButterBurger topped with a cheese curd "crown" that started out as an April Fools' Day joke but then became a one-day-only reality but the...

Zack Pieper’s “Ghost-Its” are currently haunting the windows of Lion’s Tooth

Matt Wild

October 12, 2022

Milwaukee writer/musician/poet/artist Zack Pieper has rung in the past eight Halloween seasons with his delightful "Ghost-Its" installations. Armed with thousands of post-it notes and a lot of patience, Pieper ...

Reminder: You have one week to register to vote online or by mail

Matt Wild

October 12, 2022

The 2022 General Election is set for Tuesday, November 8. Perhaps you've seen some ads about it on your television, your computer, or your phone? Or maybe in your mailbox and/or waking nightmares? Soul-deadenin...