Author Matt Wild

Milwaukee Police Department probably won’t be featured on ‘The First 48’

March 12, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Last week we broke the news that the Milwaukee Police Department was seeking...

West Allis is going all in on the regional-inside-joke bar and brewery names

Matt Wild

March 11, 2021

To paraphrase Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks: When two separate West Allis drinking establishments, both with names that play on regional inside jokes, get profiled by two separate Milwaukee publications on ...

Milwuakee Bucks will increase fan capacity to 3,280 beginning March 20

Matt Wild

March 11, 2021

Well, the headline says it all. Beginning March 20, thanks to an approval from the Milwaukee Health Department, the Milwaukee Bucks will allow 3,280 fans to attend games at Fiserv Forum. The number is up from 1...

Milwaukee will receive the gift of a new health order on March 18

Matt Wild

March 10, 2021

The City of Milwaukee will receive a new health order on Thursday, March 18. It will be the city's first new health order since February 5."Next week on Thursday, March 18, we will be issuing a new health o...

You’ve earned a look at the Milwaukee Bucks’ 2020-21 Earned Edition uniform

Matt Wild

March 10, 2021

New Milwaukee Bucks uniform! It's the 2020-21 Earned Edition uniform! Fun!Earned Edition uniforms are available to the 16 NBA teams that made it to the 2020 NBA Playoffs. The Bucks will debut their Eared Un...

Remembering the time, in 1997, when Milwaukee County Stadium was totally flooded

Matt Wild

March 10, 2021

There was a liiiiiiitle bit of rain today, so it got us thinking: Remember that time, in 1997, when Milwaukee got a lot of rain, and Milwaukee County Stadium was totally flooded?The date was June 21, 1997. Mo...

Milwaukee Police Department seeking city approval to be featured on A&E’s ‘The First 48’

Matt Wild

March 8, 2021

The Milwaukee Police Department would like to be on TV, please. A&E's The First 48, to be exact.On Thursday, March 11, Milwaukee's Public Safety and Health Committee will discuss a resolution "approving...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (Feb. 28-March 6)

Matt Wild

March 8, 2021

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...

50 photos of the reopened-but-still-eventually-moving Milwaukee Public Museum

Matt Wild

March 5, 2021

Hey! The Milwaukee Public Museum reopened to the public on Thursday! Similar to its short-lived reopening in August 2020, COVID safety guidelines are in full effect—a single entrance on Wells Street, timed tick...

Devils Teeth channel spaghetti westerns, ‘Bloodsport,’ in excellent ‘La Leggenda Di Chong Li’

Matt Wild

March 5, 2021

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. For Milwaukee garage-surf outfit Devils Teeth, our current extraordinary times have called for—what else?—releasing a self-recorded "spaghetti western garage...

Milwaukee County Parks is once again reminding you that Bradford Beach isn’t being privatized

Matt Wild

March 5, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• We've said it before and we'll say it again: if there's one thing Milwaukee ...

Brewers 2021 Opening Day: 25% capacity, no tailgating

Matt Wild

March 4, 2021

When the Milwaukee Brewers kick off their 2021 season at Miller Park American Family Field on Thursday, April 1 against the Minnesota Twins, the seats won't be full, but at least they'll be 25-percent full....

No longer exiled, John McGivern is heading to ‘Main Streets’

Matt Wild

March 3, 2021

John McGivern is back, baby. And he's heading to the main streets of the Midwest.The beloved Milwaukee personality announced his newest show Wednesday morning, John McGivern's Main Streets. The show will se...

Mark Waldoch & The Hallelujah Ward contemplate “86,000” heart beats in a day

Matt Wild

March 2, 2021

Any new song from Milwaukee treasure Mark Waldoch is a reason to celebrate. But what about a new Mark Waldoch song that gives you 86,000 reasons to celebrate? Enter the ethereal, enigmatic, and excellent "86,00...

This “No rap!” WKTI commercial from 1991 is, um, something

Matt Wild

March 2, 2021

Radio stations have formats. A rock station plays rock music, a country station plays country music. No big deal. But when was the last time a radio station went out of its way to single out a genre of music it...

Second annual Bloody Mary Festival is (tentatively) coming to the Deer District August 21

Matt Wild

March 2, 2021

Amidst a number of events that are canceling their 2021 plans, it's been interesting to see a few events (tentatively) going ahead with their 2021 plans. Like the second annual Bloody Mary Festival-Wisconsin, f...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Board Game Barrister is the authority on games, puzzles, more

Matt Wild

March 1, 2021

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

WMSE will celebrate 40 years on the air by going back to 1981

Matt Wild

March 1, 2021

Lordy, lordy, WMSE is 40.Yes, Milwaukee's beloved community-powered radio station is celebrating the big 4-0 in 2021, and it's doing it in style. Beginning March 17, the Big Sound Downtown will turn the clo...

Mayor Barrett recognizes March 1 as COVID Victims and Survivors Memorial Day

Matt Wild

March 1, 2021

It's been more than a year since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States. Since then, at least 500,000 Americans have died. Of that half-million, more than 6,000 Wisconsinites have died. M...

Festa Italiana 2021 has been canceled

Matt Wild

February 26, 2021

For the second year in a row, Festa Italiana has canceled its annual celebration due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A press release reads: The Italian Community Center Board Directors announced today that a...