Author Matt Wild

Summerfest announces 2025 dates, will stick to three-weekend format

August 7, 2024

Attention folks hoping that Summerfest's delay in announcing its 2025 dates may indicate a return to the festival's old 11-day format: sorry!On Wednesday, the producer of Summerfest, Milwaukee World Festiva...

WMSE’s Friday Night Freak Show moving to Oriental Theatre, will screen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ September 20

Matt Wild

August 6, 2024

From 1997 until 2006, and again from 2016 until early 2024, WMSE's Friday Night Freak Show delivered a monthly cult film screening to the Times Cinema. But now, beginning with a Friday, September 20 screening o...

Start your day in the Dells with Mr. Pancake

Matt Wild

August 5, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Summer is the best. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life August 5-12 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer.Wisconsin Dells is a state of mind.Spend t...

ALERT: Halloween stuff is popping up at CVS

Matt Wild

August 5, 2024

Let it be known that with 47 days left in summer, and with 87 days remaining until Halloween, Halloween stuff is popping up at Milwaukee CVS locations. We spotted a dollop of said stuff at our neighborhood CVS ...

Celebrate the first day of the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair with 14 years of ride-inspection news stories

Matt Wild

August 1, 2024

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 1-11, hundreds of thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in all the sights, ...

Mille’s Italian Sausage family will leave Wisconsin State Fair after 2024

Matt Wild

July 31, 2024

The Wisconsin State Fair is a Fair of icons. Think the Original Cream Puffs, the Milk House, the Giant Slide, and anything and everything deep-fried and on-a-stick. But the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair (August 1-1...

Coming this August to Oriental Theatre…creepy kids!

Matt Wild

July 30, 2024

Back in May, Milwaukee Film celebrated Mother's Day with a monthlong program of "Cool Moms" films at the Oriental Theatre. In June, in honor of Father's Day, it was time for the "Hot Dads" to step up. So what's...

Highly ranked Packers fan Lil Wayne will play Fiserv Forum on October 19

Matt Wild

July 30, 2024

A Lil Wayne show in Milwaukee may not be rare (like Mr. Clean with hair), but we're still pleased to report that the veteran rapper (and Green Bay Packers superfan) is scheduled to play Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum...

Bunk Bed gets gory in VHS-horror-movie-inspired “Crowd And Judgement” video

Matt Wild

July 29, 2024

What makes a low-rent horror movie from the past a good low-rent horror movie from the past? The kills, of course! Creative kills, gory kills, or kills where Jason just stuffs someone into a sleeping bag and sl...

Forgiveness bleeds in Maximiano’s “You Have A Heart In Me”

Matt Wild

July 29, 2024

Ever since the early-2023 dissolution of their previous band, Crawlspace, singer-songwriter Maximiano Janairo (or simply Maximiano) has become a staple of the live Milwaukee music scene. Hell, there have been t...

Mol Sullivan stands still in Milwaukee-made “Cautiously” video

Matt Wild

July 26, 2024

Milwaukee music fans may not be familiar with Mol Sullivan because, well, she's not from Milwaukee. Sullivan is a Cincinnati singer-songwriter whose catalog stretches back to the early 2010s. It was only in ear...

Open now: Taichi Bubble Tea, in the old Hotel Foster/Globe East space

Matt Wild

July 25, 2024

Taichi Bubble Tea is now open at 2028 E. North Ave. It's the first Wisconsin location for the national bubble tea and ramen chain, and the 8,000th new bubble tea and ramen joint in Milwaukee (approximately). He...

Developer proposes tallest mass timber building in world, tallest building in Wisconsin for iconic snow pile site

Matt Wild

July 24, 2024

The iconic Marcus Performing Art Center parking garage snow pile, beloved by millions of Milwaukeeans and diligently documented every winter and spring by us, may be on its way out. Permanently.Long-simmeri...

We’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. More than 58,000 rides on The Hop in June 2024. We watched The Hop have its second-best month in four years. All those rides will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to argue.

Matt Wild

July 24, 2024

Milwaukee's streetcar system, The Hop, reported 58,441 rides in June 2024. The number represents The Hop's highest monthly ridership since July 2023 (65,749), and its second-highest monthly ridership since Dece...

Wanna watch ‘Columbo’? Again? Check out the return of Club Columbo in Riverwest

Matt Wild

July 23, 2024

In the annals of TV detective series history, Columbo stands alone. The 1970s classic stars a rumpled Peter Falk as the titular (and equally rumpled) L.A. homicide detective, who spends episode after episode so...

Milverine will be at Avalon’s premiere of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ of course

Matt Wild

July 22, 2024

In today's "Yep, that absolutely makes sense" news, Milwaukee's beloved shirtless power-walking hero Milverine is scheduled to make an appearance at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater (2473 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) on...

Get ready with Danny Arcane’s new video, “Following”

Matt Wild

July 19, 2024

Promoting yourself on social media can be fun and all (and awful and all), but there's something so...exhausting about it, isn't there? The endless grind, the endless trend-chasing, the endless endlessness...it...

Scenes from the RNC security perimeter Day 4: Eh, what can you say?

Matt Wild

July 18, 2024

It was a gorgeous day in downtown Milwaukee for Day 4 of the Republican National Convention. The sun was out, the temperature was in the mid-70s, and there was a light breeze. Then why did everything feel so......

Happy Culver’s Day, Wisconsin!

Matt Wild

July 18, 2024

Anything going on in the great state of Wisconsin right now? Not much, huh? Well, buckle up and bust out the blue aprons, because today, July 18, 2024, is "Culver's Day"!The big day was announced by Gov. To...

Scenes from the RNC security perimeter Day 3: “Hardly anybody” visiting Bronze Fonz

Matt Wild

July 17, 2024

"Do you want your picture taken?"That was the question posed to us by a gentleman sitting near the Bronze Fonz on Wednesday afternoon. We were taking pictures of the iconic (and once-controversial) downtown...