City Life

December 2, 2024

If you’re reading this, you survived Thanksgiving, made it past Black Friday, and successfully navigated your way through regional retailers during Small Business Saturday. It’s now Cyber Monday, a day when eve...

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

December 1, 2024

Believe it or not, we’ve somehow already reached the last month of 2024. This year wasn't particularly great, but at least it was noticeably better than most recent years before this (and surely better than wha...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Katarina

November 30, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Reminder: Milwaukee winter parking regulations begin December 1

November 27, 2024

Parking in Milwaukee during the winter! Yep, it's that time of year again. Ugh. Here's what you need to know:• Winter parking rules are in effect from December 1 through March 1. Everything below applies to...

Meet some Milwaukee-area shop dogs

Julie Whiting

November 26, 2024

Times are tough. Rents are skyrocketing, We Energies is finding yet another way to screw us over, and minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years. But if there's one thing keeping the local economy booming, it's the...

The weird little arcade inside Bay View’s Piggly Wiggly: The Milwaukee Record Review

November 26, 2024

The grocery store industry seems tough. The competition between shops is rampant. Some customers remain loyal to one place, while others will drive across town to save a little cash. That, coupled with rising f...

Here are the just-announced dates for Bastille Days and Storm the Bastille 2025, and that’s it

November 26, 2024

Bastille Days: July 17-20, 2025Storm the Bastille 5k Run/Walk: July 17, 2025Want more Milwaukee Record? Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter and/or support us on Patreon....

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Carson

November 23, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Bird City, Milwaukee County: Milwaukee birding by the month (pt. 1) and bird banding

Kyle Arpke

November 20, 2024

Bird City, Milwaukee County is a monthly column celebrating the 11 cities, towns, and villages that have achieved Bird City status within Milwaukee County. Citizens of these locations have made bird conservatio...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Bridges that destroy semi-trailers

November 19, 2024

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some trailer-destroying local bridges come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the "KK Can Opener" and "Swan Slicer" bridges....

Order your Milwaukee Boat shirt NOW

November 18, 2024

You asked, we listened: Behold our Milwaukee Boat shirt, available now at Milwaukee Merch!If you haven't been following the saga of the Milwaukee Boat, here's a quick rundown: On October 13, the owners of...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: London

November 16, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Let’s talk about trees (and more): Humboldt In Harmony speaker series begins tonight

Kyle Arpke

November 12, 2024

Humboldt Park Friends (HPF) has a long-standing tradition of preserving the natural elements that make the Bay View park special.Over the last decade and a half, Milwaukee has encountered many problems conc...

14 photos of Northwestern Mutual’s new convenience store, plus some streetcar and public art photos for good measure

November 11, 2024

If the 17 "first look" articles from other media outlets didn't tip you off, Northwestern Mutual opened a new convenience store in Downtown Milwaukee on Monday. The so-called Mutual Market is located in the lob...

HappyCon to bring vendors, collectibles, Kurt Angle to Southridge Mall

November 11, 2024

Last December, Happy 8 Collectibles brought the inaugural HappyCon to Southridge Mall in nearby Greendale. Though it admittedly flew under our radar last year, the first convention evidently went so well that t...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Darth Vader (a.k.a. Buddy)

November 8, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Domes Reimagined plan gains budget approval from Milwaukee County Board

November 7, 2024

Back in September, advocacy group Friends of the Domes presented a plan to repair and subtly "reimagine" Milwaukee's long-troubled Mitchell Park Domes. On Thursday, two months after the plan was first presented...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (October 23 – November 5)

November 6, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Mandatory Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Voting!