City Life

July 12, 2016

//On June 14, following a highly publicized contest that drew more than 1,000 entries, a group called "The People's Flag of Milwaukee" unveiled, well, the "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The new flag was mea...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent is increasing faster than any other U.S. city

July 12, 2016

//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...

Record Recommended: July 11-17

July 12, 2016

//Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September

July 12, 2016

//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 Ni...

Tracklist: 19 bygone Milwaukee festivals

July 8, 2016

//As can be expected for a place with the "City Of Festivals" nickname, Milwaukee isn't exactly hurting for fun, unique, and downright strange events. Though residents always seem open to getting out and c...

I used Summerfest shuttles as my personal taxi service

July 7, 2016

//Every year, Summerfest brings close to a million people to Henry Maier Festival Park. With the 11-day festival's attendance equaling roughly one-sixth of the state's population, parking anywhere in the v...

Poor turnout at “People’s Flag” meeting points to potential problems with “People’s Flag” movement

July 7, 2016

Wednesday night, in a show of community support not seen since that time 71 people signed a Change.org petition to book DJ Paris Hilton at every Summerfest until the apocalypse, a dozen people, three journali...

Welcome to July: Here’s what you’re doing this month

July 5, 2016

//Where has the summer gone? Okay, okay, so there's still a ton of summer left, but the bleakness of autumn will be upon us before you know it. Thus, it's important to use your limited summer entertainment...

Celebrate the season with Old Milwaukee’s “Pass Me A Beer” summer edition

July 2, 2016

//In an era of multi-million dollar CGI-laden and Pitbull-infused beer commercials, Old Milwaukee's no-budget "Hey, Pass Me A Beer" online advertising campaign is a breath of fresh air. The brainchild of R...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 8th best city for Fourth of July celebrations

June 27, 2016

//Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee's Jeff Sherman Bot 8000) to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online ...

South Shore Frolics’ “Blow Up The Beach” fireworks finale has been un-canceled

June 24, 2016

//The South Shore Frolics have been a Bay View staple for more than six decades, treating residents to an old-fashioned parade, an old-fashioned fireworks display, and other old-fashioned summer festival a...

MKE SEX: Erectile dysfunction and improv theatre

Lucky Tomaszek

June 24, 2016

// Hello MKE SEX,How do you bring up to a partner that he may have erectile dysfunction and you want him to do something about it because nobody is having fun? You know, taking into account a most fragile...

15 (mostly extinct) East Side institutions on that North Ave. “Compass” sculpture

June 22, 2016

//Near the corner of North and Cambridge avenues on Milwaukee's East Side stands a curious piece of public art. A 22-foot-tall light pole juts out from a median in the middle of the road, its body adorned ...

Watch Reuben Glaser troll an Appleton Trump rally

June 21, 2016

//When we last talked with Reuben Glaser, the Milwaukee-area funnyman was contemplating the meaning of life via his "Tiny Face Trump" meme—a creation similar to, but sadly not as successful as, his "Little...

Milwaukee comes together to help Orlando

June 18, 2016

//Tonight, Wisconsin state representative JoCasta Zamarripa, District 12 alderman José Pérez, and others will meet in a Walker's Point park a week after 49 lives were lost in the Pulse Orlando shooting, a ...

South Shore Frolics and “People’s Flag” pit old Milwaukee against new

June 15, 2016

//Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

I hung out with the mayor of Cudahy

June 15, 2016

//Last year, a few weeks after we posted about a particularly harsh video about West Allis (that, again, we had no part in making), I sought to see if the industrial Milwaukee suburb was indeed the "worst ...

Here’s the winner of the “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” contest, available now for $50