City Life

Milwaukee’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been canceled due to coronavirus

March 12, 2020

This just in...54th Annual Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been CanceledMILWAUKEE – The City of Milwaukee, Westown Association and the Shamrock Club of Wisconsin have made the un...

Milwaukee currently has “no plans” to cancel St. Patrick’s Day Parade due to coronavirus

Matt Wild

March 10, 2020

UPDATE (3/12/20): It's canceled.Last week, we gave you the details about Milwaukee's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, coming to downtown Saturday, March 14. A few days later, we gave you a quick overview of...

Reminder: There’s a big election on April 7. Here are some voting deadlines

Matt Wild

March 10, 2020

Are you ready to vote again, Milwaukee? You should be! On Tuesday, April 7, Milwaukee will go to the polls and vote in the 2020 Spring Election. Ballots will feature a statewide race for Justice of the Supreme ...

Milwaukee Record’s comprehensive guide to Mama Tried events

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2020

(UPDATE 3/12/2020): As a precautionary measure done in effort to limit the spread of coronavirus, both Flat Out Friday and the Mama Tried Motorcycle Show have been postponed to a later date. The new dates have ...

Milwaukee Health Department is on top of the whole coronavirus thing, has some helpful tips

Matt Wild

March 5, 2020

Representatives from the Milwaukee Health Department spoke at a special meeting of the Public Safety & Health Committee Thursday morning about how they are preparing for a theoretical coronavirus outbreak i...

Show your love for the streetcar, beer, at inaugural “Hops and Stops” pub crawl April 4

Matt Wild

March 5, 2020

The awesomeness of the Milwaukee streetcar—a.k.a. The Hop—and the awesomeness of beer: two things all Milwaukeeans can agree on! (Right?) So wouldn't it be nice if those two things could be combined into one ev...

Northwestern Mutual gives $1M to Milwaukee Public Museum to support “current, future museum”

Matt Wild

March 4, 2020

Consider this your weekly reminder that the Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it won't be around for much longer: On Wednesday, Northwestern Mutual announced a $1 million grant to the Milwaukee Public Museum. ...

Check out the under-construction areas of the former Grand Avenue that are still open

Matt Wild

March 3, 2020

By now we all know that the once-glorious/empty Grand Avenue mall in Downtown Milwaukee is being transformed into The Avenue. The place where the singing bears used to delight crowds will soon become a food hal...

We closed Wolski’s and opened Highbury on the same day (and did local late night stuff in between)

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2020

On Saturday, the world enjoyed an extra day. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, earth is still granted a 29th day in February (or "Leap Day") once every four years. We don't k...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (February 23-29)

Matt Wild

March 2, 2020

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...

Here’s the event schedule for the 2020 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

March 2, 2020

Hey! Here's the event schedule for the 54th Annual Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick's Day Parade in Downtown Milwaukee! On Saturday, March 14, the parade will take off from Old World Third Street and Wisc...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 1, 2020

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 changes and ...

MKE SEX: Let’s talk about shortened pelvic floor muscles

Lucky Tomaszek

February 28, 2020

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,I was recently told at my annual gyn exam that I have shortened pelvic floor muscles. The doc just mentioned it and then moved on. I didn’t think to ask for more info ...

On this day in 1963: Lake Michigan freezes over (maybe)

Matt Wild

February 27, 2020

We're no meteorologists and/or "Weather Experts," but this winter has been remarkably mild. And hey, we'll take it! But even so, there's a question that always pops into our heads around this time of year: Is i...

McBob’s, other businesses will donate money to families affected by Molson Coors shooting

Matt Wild

February 26, 2020

In the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting at the Molson Coors campus, several Milwaukee-area businesses (and musicians) have announced fundraisers to help the families affected by the tragedy. Here are those bus...

7 Leap Day events in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

February 25, 2020

Leap Year. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, Western civilization is still granted a 29th day in February once every four years. It’s been said that every day is a gift, but—...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Central Library has been an incomparable, important public resource since 1898

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2020

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...

Some sensible (and stupid) quotes about the push to extend Wisconsin bar hours during the DNC

Matt Wild

February 21, 2020

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• It should be simple: Milwaukee is hosting the 2020 Democratic National Conve...

Remnants of 1920 Milwaukee still on display in the city today

Josh Hoppert

February 20, 2020

The following article originally appeared in the January 2020 edition of Colectivo Coffee’s “Off The Record” print-only periodical/crossword puzzle. You can pick up “Off The Record” free of charge at all 13 Mil...

The Hop will get 35 “smart kiosks” to provide revenue, tracking, MPD surveillance, selfies

Matt Wild

February 20, 2020

Have you ever been waiting for The Hop and thought to yourself, "I wish there was a 55-inch screen here that provided me with real-time tracking data, 360-degree surveillance from the Milwaukee Police Departmen...