City Life

Bounce Milwaukee co-owner will attempt to break Guinness World Record for longest pinball play

October 30, 2019

Do you like pinball? We like pinball. We're not great at pinball, but one time we got 210,330,670 on the Creature From The Black Lagoon machine at Landmark, so there's that.Now, do you like pinball enough t...

Haunted bunk beds, and 4 other Wisconsin-related mysteries from the original ‘Unsolved Mysteries’

Matt Wild

October 29, 2019

For TV viewers of a certain age, few things are as unnerving as Unsolved Mysteries. The series' original 1980s and '90s run combined creepy reenactments, a creepy theme song, and a wonderfully creepy Robert Sta...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (October 20-26)

Matt Wild

October 28, 2019

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...

MKE SEX: Couples’ night at the strip club (and tips about tipping)

Lucky Tomaszek

October 25, 2019

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,My husband and I are going away for one night on Thursday. There is a strip club up north near where we’re staying. Neither of us has ever been to one before so I some...

40 Milwaukee Halloween events

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 22, 2019

broadstreet.zone(32806); It technically isn’t Halloween until next Thursday, but the vast majority of Milwaukee’s seasonal celebrations are to take place over the weekend. From Friday night through October 31 ...

Let’s watch more clips of the Milwaukee Elvira vamping it up in 1985

Matt Wild

October 22, 2019

Hello, darlings. Last year we told you about Milwaukee's very own version of legendary horror movie host Elvira. Yes, Milwaukee had something of an "official" Elvira look-alike back in 1985, as confirmed by the...

Milwaukee is looking for someone to figure out how to design the city’s 8,000th flag

Matt Wild

October 21, 2019

Previously on Milwaukee Flag...On April 25, 2019, Milwaukee's Steering and Rules Committee approved a resolution to create a new process to come up with an official city flag. This despite the fact that A.)...

Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this video of corgis dressed as MCTS buses

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2019

When Milwaukee County Transit System isn't busy getting a vast portion of the city from point A to point B or telling the public about the most recent act of legitimate heroism by one of its amazing drivers, MC...

Behold the new signage on the almost-complete BMO Tower in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 15, 2019

If it feels like Downtown Milwaukee's skyline is different these days, it's because it is. Big time. And one of the biggest additions just celebrated a milestone: This week, construction crews successfully inst...

Some folks aren’t keen on the idea of a north side slaughterhouse—er, “meat processing plant”

Matt Wild

October 14, 2019

UPDATE 10/15: The Common Council unanimously voted to send the Strauss proposal back to the Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee for further discussion and community input. Urban Milwaukee has a fu...

Milwaukee Record Recommended: October 14-20

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 14, 2019

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

MKE SEX: “Breaking up” with your FWB

Lucky Tomaszek

October 11, 2019

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,I’m looking for a little support to help me “break up” with my FWB for the third time...hopefully. If I don’t chicken out. It started out good with lots of laughs and ...

Streetcar ridership down again, suggesting weather and festival season might have something to do with it

Matt Wild

October 11, 2019

It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

Memo to the Academy: Bob Uecker’s “Restaurant To Be Named Later” video is 2019’s Best Picture

Matt Wild

October 11, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Here are the facts: In December 2019, Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at Mil...

Milwaukee bus drivers are pretty much superheroes at this point

Matt Wild

October 10, 2019

Remember the time when a Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver picked up a homeless man in the middle of winter and took him to an emergency shelter? How about the time when an MCTS bus driver rescued a lo...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times spent 36 hours in Milwaukee and had a nice time

Matt Wild

October 10, 2019

Warning! Warning! This is not a test! Our patented Great Job Milwaukee Bot 6000 is informing us that The New York Times—yes, The New York Times!—has just published a glowing article about Milwaukee! It's part o...

Here’s everything you need to know about Beet Street 2019

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2019

Following three years of family-friendly and fall-focused fun, Cactus Club has decided to bring the Beet Street Harvest Festival back for another installment. On Saturday, October 12, the Bay View bar (with add...

Coming soon (?) from the group that brought you the canceled Pokémon bar: Bumper Cars on Ice!

Matt Wild

October 4, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Do you enjoy wacky, zany, and Instagram-friendly pop-up events? Do you enjoy...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (September 22-28)

Matt Wild

October 2, 2019

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 1, 2019

In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee's brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainmen...