City Life

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

March 24, 2016

//The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

Matt Wild

March 21, 2016

//Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

The Spot 4MKE fizzles, new Travel Wisconsin campaign sizzles

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 17, 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 ...

Was The Spot 4MKE a boon or a bust? It depends on who’s reporting

Matt Wild

March 16, 2016

//Late last week, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin broke the news that The Spot 4MKE, a highly touted "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee, had been put on "indefin...

We went to Anime Milwaukee 2016 and this is what we saw

Tea Krulos

March 15, 2016

//Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea KrulosAnime MKE (AMKE, pronounced am-key, for short) returned for its ninth year the weekend of March 11-13. Started as a small event at UW-Milwaukee, the ...

You can rent this East Side bird house for $825 a month

Tyler Maas

March 15, 2016

//The East Side is changing. Sure, the neighborhood—like much of Milwaukee—has always been in a state of flux, but the rapid and rampant construction of massive, view-obstructing condos and cookie-cutter a...

Record Recommended: March 14-20

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 14, 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 "Record Recommended" (patent pending) honor. Here are o...

MKE SEX: Anxious about asexuality

Lucky Tomaszek

March 11, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX,I've recently realized I'm somewhere on the asexual orientation. I've only been sexually attracted to four people in my entire life and my feeling about sex is, "This is pretty much two sw...

Here’s an up-to-date timeline of the Mitchell Park Domes saga

Matt Wild

March 9, 2016

//On January 29, 2016, a fallen chunk of concrete was discovered in one of the Mitchell Park Domes, thus kicking off a heated and increasingly confusing battle over the fate of the beloved-but-aging Milwau...

What can two commercial jingles from the ’80s teach us about the Milwaukee of today?

Matt Wild

March 8, 2016

//Imagine Kraftwerk played by a kindergartener. Imagine a John Carpenter soundtrack piped through a Commodore 64. Imagine Daniel Johnston getting ahold of a busted synth and trying to sell you a couch and ...

R.I.P. Hank the Dog and album reviews?

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 3, 2016

FOX6 meteorologist Vince Condella is retiring

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

//For the past 34 years, Vince Condella has been Milwaukee's favorite Harley-riding, cool-uncle-vibing, occasionally mustachioed TV weatherman. Sadly, all good things (and all good stylin' meteorologists' ...

Welcome To March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

//March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season chang...

MKE SEX: The name game

Lucky Tomaszek

February 26, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX,This is kind of weird. I didn't used to think it was weird, but I guess maybe it is. I started seeing a new woman recently, and one day after sex we were taking a shower together. During t...

Scenes from Mama Tried’s Flat Out Friday

Dale Reince

February 22, 2016

//Photos and captions by Dale ReinceThe pits, underneath the grandstands of the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, provide a staging area for racers and their bikes.John Dunbar, of team Slaughterhouse ...

Creator of “Tiny Face Trump” talks Trump, “Little Face Mitt,” Guy Fieri

Matt Wild

February 19, 2016

//Back in 2012, Milwaukee-area funnyman Reuben Glaser achieved a small bit of Internet notoriety with "Little Face Mitt," a website devoted to Photoshopped images of then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney...

Journalism, the value of scoops, and something called “the Internet”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 18, 2016

Tracklist: 6 things to know about today’s spring primary election

Matt Wild

February 16, 2016

//Have you ever met someone who constantly drones on and on about how they refuse to vote, man? "Wow," you think, right after thinking, "Please be quiet." "In the time it's taking this genius to explain wh...

This video portrays Milwaukee as the weird, wonderful, and awful place it really is

Matt Wild

February 15, 2016

//The last few years have seen an unprecedented explosion of Milwaukee pride. If there's a new list that mentions Milwaukee in a remotely positive light, Milwaukeeans will fawn over it. If there's a new T-...

Pastafarians rejoice! Wisconsin DMV now allows colanders in license photos

Tyler Maas

February 15, 2016

//Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster members (also known as "Pastafarians") who live in Wisconsin are in luck. Last week, around the same time followers of a different religion were walking around in p...