City Life

Milwaukeeans share their Mitten Fest memories

February 3, 2021

For the past eight years, Burnhearts has curated a winning wintry mix of live music, rare and delicious craft beer, tasty food and barrel-aged cocktails, locally-made goods, and charity that all came together o...

Milwaukee alderwoman proposes pilot program to “put residents to work with snow removal cleanup”

Matt Wild

February 3, 2021

Hot (cool?) on the heels of yesterday's news of two Milwaukee aldermen calling the city's snow removal efforts "simply unacceptable," comes news of a Milwaukee alderwoman with a snow-removal plan.Alderwoman...

Two Milwaukee aldermen call city’s snow removal efforts “simply unacceptable”

Matt Wild

February 2, 2021

It snowed a lot over the weekend. It's gonna snow some more in the next few days. Who removes all that snow? Milwaukee's Department of Public Works. Is the DPW doing a good job at snow removal? Well, according ...

New Milwaukee health order eases restrictions on indoor gatherings, allows counter service for ordering and pick up, more

Matt Wild

February 2, 2021

A new Milwaukee health order set to go into effect on Friday, February 5 will ease restrictions on indoor gatherings, allow for limited reopening of museums and other public exhibition spaces, allow bars and re...

Milwaukee Record now sells forest green and cream T-shirts (for a limited time)

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 1, 2021

Oh Deer! We have a brand new T-shirt design. With the help of Redwall Screen Printing, we’re making a limited run of forest green Milwaukee Record shirts with cream lettering. PRE-ORDER NOW! Why forest green an...

MKE SEX: Sex and depression

Lucky Tomaszek

January 29, 2021

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,Have you ever been so sad for so long that you don’t remember the last time you even wanted sex? Like, I for sure don’t remember when my husband and I had sex last, bu...

Read about Wisconsin Republicans’ hilariously incompetent week while listening to “Yakety Sax”

Matt Wild

January 29, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Remember this Thursday, when Wisconsin Republicans were set to kill the stat...

Old World Third Street will likely be renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

Matt Wild

January 27, 2021

On Wednesday morning, the Common Council's Public Works Committee unanimously passed a resolution to change the name of Milwaukee's Old World Third Street to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The change would a...

Officials respond to articles about Bradford Beach privatization, county park trail fees

Matt Wild

January 27, 2021

Milwaukee loves its public spaces and county parks. They're great! But if there's one thing Milwaukee loves even more than its public spaces and county parks, it's going ballistic any time the ideas of "privati...

PrideFest Milwaukee 2021 cancels June dates, plans to move to later date

Tyler Maas

January 26, 2021

Last year, PrideFest Milwaukee was among the first local festivals to postpone (and later cancel) its event. Unfortunately, with the COVID-19 crisis still very much a part of our lives, Pride organizers have de...

Watch Trixie Mattel and Jaida Essence Hall talk about MPS, This Is It, their “Milwaukee sister” Joey Jay on ‘The Pit Stop’

Tyler Maas

January 25, 2021

In the long and illustrious history of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, only three queens have hailed from Milwaukee. Two of them—Trixie Mattel and Jaida Essence Hall—have won it all. Over t...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (Jan. 17-23)

Matt Wild

January 25, 2021

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...

4 local articles about the Bernie Sanders meme, ranked

Matt Wild

January 22, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders meme Bernie Sanders mittens Bernie Sanders sitti...

Milwaukee to consider renaming Old World Third Street to MLK Drive

Matt Wild

January 22, 2021

A street with two names—or would that be three?—may finally have only one—or would that be two?On Wednesday, January 27, at 9 a.m., the Public Works Committee of the Milwaukee Common Council will meet to di...

Why does Milwaukee call Nike Air Force 1s “Dookies”?

Juan Miguel Martinez

January 19, 2021

Dookies (noun): North Side Milwaukee slang for a style of shoe created by Nike in 1982. Pairs come in low, mid, and high top. Typically solid white.Philadelphia. Twenty-eleven. I was at the Rocky stairs whe...

Gov. Evers extends statewide mask mandate for another 60 days

Matt Wild

January 19, 2021

Hey Wisconsin! Assuming you haven't already made mask-wearing a part of your everyday life, listen up! The statewide mask mandate that has been in effect since July 2020 and has been extended every 60 days even...

8 (mostly virtual) ways Milwaukee is celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Matt Wild

January 18, 2021

There’s a lot of hate, ignorance, and stupidity floating around these days, which makes this day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, all the more needed. Looking for something productive to do today, Milwaukee? Here a...

Stay updated on Wisconsin’s COVID-19 response, vaccine progress with weekly newsletter

Matt Wild

January 14, 2021

Want to stay updated on Wisconsin's COVID-19 response and vaccine progress? There's a new weekly email newsletter for that.The Department of Health Services (DHS) announced the newsletter Thursday morning. ...

The night an MCTS driver saved my life (maybe)

Emily Johnson

January 13, 2021

The other day I was video chatting with my mom about, of all things, the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS). If you read my Pulitzer-winning piece about cheese-filled burgers and depression, you might remem...

In case you blinked last week, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (Jan. 3-9)

Matt Wild

January 11, 2021