Author Matt Wild

“Bird Songs” concert series aims to elect LuAnn Bird, flip 84th Assembly District

August 10, 2022

In an upcoming fall election filled with heavy hitters like Evers, Michels, Barnes, and Johnson, the name "LuAnn Bird" may not ring many bells. Some heavy hitters in the Milwaukee-area music scene, however, aim...

Wisconsin 2022 Partisan Primary: Barnes to face Johnson, Ball to become Milwaukee County Sheriff

Matt Wild

August 9, 2022

With votes from Wisconsin's 2022 Partisan Primary still being counted, the outcomes of a few races have become clear.Democrat Mandela Barnes will face Republican Ron Johnson in the November 8 general electi...

“CapTel saved my life!” sings Milwaukee band Duckling in wake of mass CapTel layoffs

Matt Wild

August 9, 2022

In late July, CapTel—a company that provides telephone captioning services for callers with hearing loss—filed a notice with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to lay off more than 200 employees ...

Pick up your phone, dial these numbers, and listen to 4 new songs from The Beat Index

Matt Wild

August 9, 2022

Harrison Colby describes the upcoming record from his multi-genre electro solo project The Beat Index as "a collection of '70s soft rock intended for telephone hold music." One listen to the first single from V...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (July 24 – August 6)

Matt Wild

August 8, 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...

Music returns to Mitchell Park Domes September 29 with “Rhythm & Brews,” Trapper Schoepp

Matt Wild

August 8, 2022

If you've been back to the Mitchell Park Domes since the early COVID lockdowns, you know that they remain Milwaukee's most idiosyncratic (and endangered) treasures. But one thing hasn't returned to the Domes si...

Spend a day at Lake Park Golf Course in strangely hypnotic ‘Lake Park Golf Course’ video

Matt Wild

August 5, 2022

Milwaukee's Lake Park is an absolute gem. In addition to its sprawling paths, its towering lighthouse, and its gorgeous views of Lake Michigan, the East Side park boasts a 3-par, 18-hole golf course. It's calle...

Tigera reaches out, gives back with Milwaukee Music Village

Matt Wild

August 4, 2022

Starting a band can be hard. Starting a band during a pandemic? Good luck.That's the situation members of earnest alt-rock/power-pop group Tigera found themselves in when they released their first EP, Part ...

East Locust Street at North Humboldt Boulevard will be closed August 10 – September 2

Matt Wild

August 4, 2022

Heads up, anyone driving east or west at the intersection of East Locust Street and North Humboldt Boulevard: that intersection will be closed August 10 - September 2. (North-southbound traffic on Humboldt won'...

Celebrate the first day of the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair with 9 years of ride-inspection videos

Matt Wild

August 4, 2022

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 4-14, hundreds of thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in all the sights, ...

Watch Collections Of Colonies Of Bees play some new songs on WMSE’s “Local/Live”

Matt Wild

August 3, 2022

After a few years of hibernation, Milwaukee's Collections Of Colonies Of Bees have begun to make some noise. The celebrated and long-running post-rock group led by guitarist Chris Rosenau recently played the Se...

A down and dirty guide to voting in Wisconsin’s 2022 Partisan Primary on August 9

Matt Wild

August 2, 2022

On Tuesday, August 9, you can vote—nay, MUST vote—in the 2022 Partisan Primary. This is one of those elections where you'll vote within one—and only one—political party. If you vote for Democratic candidates, y...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Experiencing the Bristol Renaissance Faire for the first time

Matt Wild

August 1, 2022

Some places renaissance festivals come and go, while some places renaissance festivals become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples renais...

Here’s the local lineup for the Lakefront Brewery Beer Garden at the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair

Matt Wild

August 1, 2022

One doesn't hit up the Wisconsin State Fair (August 4-14) to eat organic small plate cuisine and witness evocative performance art. People go to the fair to eat cream puffs and weird stuff on a stick, watch pig...

Lilliput Records will officially open in the former Milwaukee Exclusive Company on Saturday

Matt Wild

July 29, 2022

More than four months after news broke that a new independent record store, Lilliput Records, would replace the Exclusive Company on Farwell Avenue, it's official: Lilliput will celebrate its first day of busin...

Stuff We Missed: You can go to a festival NINE TIMES this weekend, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

July 29, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Earlier this week, we counted seven (7) festivals happening in Milwaukee thi...

Let’s unbox a “Naughty Mystery Box” from American Science & Surplus

Matt Wild

July 28, 2022

Everyone knows that American Science & Surplus is a wonderland of weird and wacky stuff, a place for novelty items, bins of ball bearings, and random strips of velcro in case you need random strips of velcr...

We’re screening ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ at Avalon Theater on August 31

Matt Wild

July 28, 2022

Director Joe Dante injected plenty of dark and subversive humor into 1984's Gremlins (look no further than the infamous "Santa Claus" story), but when it came time to direct the sequel six years later, Dante we...

Culver’s will serve free cheese curds and custard from a food truck in the Deer District on August 3 and you just KNOW the line will stretch to Bay View

Matt Wild

July 27, 2022

We're sure every red-blooded American enjoys free stuff, but Milwaukee really enjoys free stuff. Seriously, walk past any tent handing out free brats at Summerfest and tell us we're wrong. Or, head to the Deer ...

Oriental Theatre will screen 4K restorations of David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway,’ ‘Inland Empire’

Matt Wild

July 26, 2022

Don't you love it when Milwaukee movie palace Oriental Theatre screens David Lynch films? WE DO. Now, a few years after that screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the Oriental is set to screen A.) one of ...