MKE SEX: Reaction to Dr. Ford’s testimony
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New Brady Street escape room, Caspian P. McSnooty’s Gallery of Fine Art, opening October 12
Don't you just love escape rooms? You know, those things where you and a bunch of friends/coworkers are locked in a room and you have to find clues or whatever to get out? Yeah, we've never done one either, but...
New Scott Walker ad is a timely spoof of 1970s kid show ‘The Electric Company’
In case you haven't been paying attention, there's a general election coming up in November. You should totally vote! (Need some info? Click here.) In the meantime, let's puzzle over a new ad from Governor Scot...
Milwaukee County is up deferred maintenance creek without a paddle
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Are you a fan of Milwaukee County and all the things Milwaukee County offers?...
25 Milwaukee shows, festivals, and random events to check out this fall
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Our weekly Tracklist is brought to you by the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival.Hello, fall. Hello, sweater weather and crunching leaves. Hello, oodles of shows, festivals, and random e...
The Hop to host streetcar bike ride, despite discouraging “less comfortable cyclists” from riding near streetcar
Today at 6 p.m. (weather permitting, we assume?), The Hop and the Wisconsin Bike Fed will host a free bicycle ride along Milwaukee's soon-to-be-fully-operational streetcar route. This "relaxed ride through the ...
Battle of the ‘Boygans: Sheboygan, Wisconsin vs. Cheboygan, Michigan
Sheboygan is a city in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Michigan.Cheboygan is a city in Cheboygan County, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron.Depending on whom you ask, the cities de...
You’ll always remember where you were when WalletHub named Milwaukee the 32nd “most fun” city in America
There are certain events that are forever burned in America's collective memory: the moon landing, September 11, that time at the VMAs when Axl Rose got into it with Kurt Cobain. Provided you were actually aliv...
Relive Bay View Bash 2018 with these photos
Is it possible to sum up Bay View Bash 2018 with one photo? Certainly not. How about 40 or so photos? Not really, but let's give it a shot anyway. This year's Bash scored big on gorgeous weather, great music, g...
Fuel Cafe and Lakefront Brewery celebrate 20 years of collaboration with Doomsday festival (and beer)
Way back in 1998, a pair of young Milwaukee-based businesses joined forces to make something special. Along with the incorporation of some coffee from Colectivo (then known as Alterra, of course), Fuel Cafe and...
In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Sept. 9-15)
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...
Take a look inside Dandy, Milwaukee’s newest vintage store and event space
Lately, Milwaukee has experienced an explosion of vintage shops, as the city's resale and maker scenes have both grown and improved considerably in recent years. Though there are exponentially more places to pi...
MKE SEX: Experimenting with different kinds of condoms and lube
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Dear MKE SEX:Practicer of safe sex here! But we have a question to slip into your column.Up until intercourse, there's plenty of slippy slide-y excited wetness. I usually orgas...
Now there’s a petition to save Milwaukee County parks, preferably without the help of parking meters
Back in February, a controversial plan to install paid parking meters in Milwaukee County parks and along the lakefront was roundly booed, protested, and eventually shot down. Milwaukee County Executive Chris A...
Beet Street Harvest Festival returns October 13
It's been quite a run, but this weekend's Bay View Bash pretty much concludes summer festival season here in Milwaukee, right? Wrong. The city will officially be festing into fall with Beet Street Harvest Festi...
Ever notice how Mayor Barrett and Alex Trebek kind of look alike?
Hey. It's Thursday. It's getting late. The weekend is on the horizon. Just a few more hours and one more day to go. Yawn.Hey. Ever notice how Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Tre...
Remembering that weird “This Is My Milwaukee” video from 2008
Take a stroll through YouTube these days and you'll find a bevy of gorgeously filmed, breathlessly narrated videos celebrating the city we call home. Big budget tourism videos share space with amateur love lett...
Right Wisconsin editor celebrates back to school season by calling MPS students “little convicts”
Last week, in an editorial for website Right Wisconsin, editor James Wigderson celebrated the back to school season by grunting, drooling, banging away at his keyboard, and calling Milwaukee Public School stude...
Meet Joe Schonasky, the guy we mistakenly thought was Guy Fieri
Over the weekend, the Donkey Sauce was all over our face when we—more accurately, when I (Tyler Maas)—published an erroneous account of Food Network personality Guy Fieri dining at a Pewaukee pizza place. While...
Here’s an important update on Peapod, the suburban squirrel with a human friend
A few weeks ago, we sought to brighten up lives a little by documenting the budding friendship between a Glendale man named Bruce Dierbeck and an uncharacteristically brave suburban squirrel he named "Peapod." ...