City Life

June 28, 2018

Earlier this month, Milwaukee Record's own Matt Wild stopped by the set of TMJ4 chat show The Morning Blend to talk about poop. To be more specific, he talked about how a gift from the Milwaukee County Transit ...

The SummerRest: 40 non-Summerfest shows

June 25, 2018

Summerfest begins Wednesday, and will bring more than 800 acts to 13 stages—not even counting those weird side stages near the lake—and close to a million people through the gates for 11 days of music, activity...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 17-23)

June 25, 2018

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...

Dear FOX6: Please, please, please unearth this “Drinking in the ’80s” series from 1984

June 25, 2018

Dear FOX6,Hi! How are you? Happy Monday! Milwaukee Record here. In case you didn't know, we're big fans of your station. Really! Ted Perry is the best, and FOX6 WakeUp is our second-favorite local morning s...

Hey! Let’s all go to tomorrow’s Domes meeting and vote for the indoor zipline option

June 25, 2018

Hey! There's a public meeting at the Mitchell Park Domes on Tuesday, June 26 at 6 p.m. to discuss, well, the Mitchell Park Domes. The Domes Task Force is hosting the informational meeting and will be asking the...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin was on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ and she brought some Spotted Cow

June 22, 2018

This article is from 2018.Politics, politicians, and life in general: it's enough to make you drink. So why not crack open a cold one if you're going to discuss the hellscape that is 2018? That's just what ...

Follow these 16 simple tips if you want to avoid being murdered by the streetcar

June 20, 2018

The last time we checked in on the Milwaukee streetcar (give us a few more weeks before we finally call it "The Hop"), people were taking pictures of the thing. But a lot has changed since then—for one, it's al...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The many charms of Lake Park, past and present

Catherine Jozwik

June 18, 2018

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 explore how they might figure...

Here’s what’s going on at today’s Good City Fest 2018

June 16, 2018

Can you believe Good City Brewing has only been around for two years? Since opening in early 2016, the craft brewery has been an instrumental part of the gradual resurgence of the city's East Side. They've esta...

We dropped by ‘The Morning Blend’ to talk about poop

June 15, 2018

We've sung the praises of the Milwaukee County Transit System in these pages before. The bus is great, the bus is easy, and the bus has amazing drivers. But did you know that MCTS is also a useful tool for teac...

Someone paid $25,000 for a signed Prince guitar that probably wasn’t owned or played by Prince

June 15, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• The BMO Harris Bradley Center is in its final days. The soon-to-be-replaced are...

MKE SEX: My crush has a feeding fetish

Lucky Tomaszek

June 15, 2018

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,During one of those late night tell-all conversations that close friends have after drinking too much, a dude I'm really into said he has a feeding fetish. Specifically, ...

Happy Flag Day! Here’s a diamond pendant that kind of looks like Milwaukee’s boring unofficial flag

June 14, 2018

Happy Flag Day! As regular readers of this site probably know, this important patriotic holiday also doubles as the official birthday for Milwaukee's unofficial new flag. Exactly two years ago, the winner of th...

PrideFest Milwaukee crushes attendance record with 45,400 visitors in 2018

June 12, 2018

Yesterday, in our photo recap of PrideFest Milwaukee, we speculated that “it’s safe to say this year’s PrideFest was one of the biggest installments yet.” It turns out it was THE biggest yet. According to a pre...

Relive PrideFest Milwaukee 2018 with these photos

June 11, 2018

Though finals numbers have yet to come in, it's safe to say this year's PrideFest was one of the biggest installments yet. In spite of the rain and fog that reared its head here and there, the 31st annual celeb...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 3-9)

June 11, 2018

What’s new, and what’s coming soon to the East Side

June 7, 2018

Back in July 2016, we asked a simple question: Is the East Side dying? Alarmist and eye-catching to be sure ("Is the East Side slowly changing in order to better accommodate current and ever-shifting trends in ...

We demand to know more about this 1984 commercial for Giggles nightclub

June 6, 2018

The internet is a wonderful and awful place. Wonderful because a near-infinite amount of human knowledge is instantly available at our fingertips; awful because despite that near-infinite amount of human knowle...

A guide to PrideFest’s Milwaukee Record Stage