City Life

Watch a Milwaukee woman save a baby skunk with a cup stuck on its head

August 31, 2017

Between natural disasters, a widening political and economic divide, and the innumerable hardships and injustices inhabitants of Earth face every day, it can be a pretty dark time to be alive. However, when lif...

House On The Rock is a kitschy Wisconsin treasure shrouded in darkness

Tyler Maas

August 30, 2017

Wisconsin offers both residents and visitors a wealth of interesting, fun, and dazzling attractions that make the state a truly special place. Between the placid change of pace offered by the state's northwoods...

Sherman Phoenix, and 5 more Milwaukee crowdfunding campaigns that could use a little help

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

broadstreet.zone(32806); It's been one year since the uprising in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. Whether or not there has been any positive change in the neighborhood over the past year is up for debat...

Hillary Clinton is finally coming to Wisconsin (for her book tour)

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

Remember when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were vying for the title of President of the United States? And remember when Hillary Clinton lost the state of Wisconsin by basically ignoring it? And remember wh...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (August 20-26)

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

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...

Now’s as good a time as any to brush up on the Wisconsin Nazi resistance during WWII

Matt Wild

August 28, 2017

"At the turn of the century, Milwaukee was unlike any other city because no other city was as German, as socialist, and as fond of beer." So quips Milwaukee historian John Gurda in the opening seconds of Wiscon...

Hey Milwaukee: If we wanted to “save” Von Trier we probably should have gone to Von Trier

Matt Wild

August 25, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• A collective sigh of "Oh no, not again" was heard last week when venerable Ge...

MKE SEX: Can your phone get better reception when it’s in someone’s vagina?

Lucky Tomaszek

August 25, 2017

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,The other night I was making out with my girlfriend, and I put my phone on vibrate and put it in her virginia for a little extra pleasure. Well, her clit must have an...

Former Comedy Cafe building on Brady Street will become an ’80s and ’90s arcade

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

The former Comedy Cafe, located at 615 E. Brady St., has been an empty black shell since 2015. No yuks have echoed forth from its chambers in two years, and no two-drink minimums have been enforced. But now, th...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host another adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

August 24, 2017

The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Night At ...

Enjoy some pictures of Milwaukee enjoying today’s solar eclipse

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 21, 2017

Hey! How about today's total solar eclipse! Cool! Yes, between approximately 11:53 a.m. and 2:40 p.m., Milwaukee enjoyed 83 percent sun coverage. Now, hours later, you can enjoy some pictures of Milwaukee enjoy...

11 ways Milwaukee is getting into the solar eclipse spirit

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2017

broadstreet.zone(32806); In the unlikely case some of you have been living under a rock or this is the first time you're reading something on the internet, allow Milwaukee Record to be the first to alert you t...

Let’s ask the Uecker 8-Ball about the changing face of Milwaukee’s East Side

Matt Wild

August 16, 2017

This past Sunday, all attendees at the Milwaukee Brewers/Cincinnati Reds game at Miller Park were gifted a truly incredible trinket: a Bob Uecker-themed magic 8-ball. Falling on the scale of promotional-item co...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (August 6-12)

Matt Wild

August 14, 2017

MKE SEX: Rekindling the fire

Lucky Tomaszek

August 11, 2017

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,When I met my boyfriend three years ago, the sex was hot. Smoking hot. Steaming hot. It was amazing and mind-altering. We had such a deep connection, and the sex felt ...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The Washington Post thinks we’re pretty swell

Matt Wild

August 9, 2017

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deign...

Sexy couches, sexy ISIS, and other wacky Wisconsin sex stories

Vince Morales

August 9, 2017

There is just something about Wisconsin and having sex in weird places. The State Fair sex scandal (a.k.a. The WonderFair Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am) isn't new or original, but another chapter in a long saga of W...

Buy a Milwaukee man’s incredible retro Nintendo collection for $29,900

Matt Wild

August 9, 2017

If you're the kind of person who has spent approximately 8,000 hours blowing into a beat-up copy of Ninja Gaiden, if you're the type of now-grown gamer who uses the "Konami code" during sex, if you're the exact...

A couple had sex in the State Fair bleachers, and FOX6 talked to a mom and son unwittingly sitting in the same bleachers a few days later

Matt Wild

August 8, 2017

Over the weekend, no doubt hot and bothered from a day of photo-finish pig races and suggestive deep-fried foodstuffs, a man and woman had sex at the Wisconsin State Fair. Not only that, but the man and woman w...

Celebrate the first day of the 2017 Wisconsin State Fair with some Giant Slide videos

Matt Wild

August 3, 2017

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2017 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 3-13, thousands upon thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in all the sight...