City Life

We went to the Oak Creek IKEA opening at 5 a.m.: A minute-by-minute report

May 17, 2018

At about 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, IKEA opened a new store in Oak Creek, Wisconsin—the company's 48th store in the United States. We had been led to believe that, regardless of weather, the grand openi...

Water Taxi MKE launches this Saturday

Matt Wild

May 17, 2018

"Why Are There No Water Taxis On The Milwaukee River?" asked WUWM last summer. Well, now there are. Water Taxi MKE, the brainchild of Paddle Tavern co-founder Redmond Tuttle, launches this Saturday. For $5-$10,...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the second Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild

May 14, 2018

Monday morning, in an event akin to the release of The Godfather Part II, The Empire Strikes Back, or Ernest Saves Christmas, the SECOND of Milwaukee's new streetcars arrived downtown. Like its predecessor back...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (May 6-12)

Matt Wild

May 14, 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...

Marquette University did something unpredictable with its Twitter account

Matt Wild

May 12, 2018

It's graduation season, which means millions of graduating high school students are preparing for the real world, and millions of graduating college students are preparing for the real possibility of 20 years o...

I spent 24 consecutive hours at WMSE

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2018

Since May 4, WMSE has been in the throes of its Spring Membership Drive. Over the span of one week, the listener-supported station that's been "the big sound downtown" for 37 years has been trying to raise a to...

Milwaukee media’s IKEA “sneak peeks,” ranked

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• On Tuesday, OnMilwaukee got a "first look" at the new IKEA store in Oak Creek...

East Side Oak Leaf Trail will be closed for repairs beginning May 14

Matt Wild

May 11, 2018

The Oak Leaf Trail is a Milwaukee gem, a 100-plus mile recreational trail that circles Milwaukee County. Unfortunately, a popular chunk of the popular trail will soon go dark: On Friday, Milwaukee County Parks ...

MKE SEX: Wax on, wax off

Lucky Tomaszek

May 11, 2018

broadstreet.zone(49071); Dear MKE SEX,I have a friend (and short term play partner) coming to visit me as she drives across the country from Maine to Oregon. We've been online friends for a million years. ...

Here’s the Riverwest FemFest 2018 lineup, schedule

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2018

Last year, the third annual Riverwest FemFest featured more than 70 performances at seven venues over the course of four winter days and nights. More than a year after the female-focused and femme-identified ph...

Milwaukee County voters might be asked about kinda-sorta legalizing marijuana this November

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Thursday morning, in a meeting of the Committee on Judiciary, Safety and General Services, a resolution was unanimously passed that will add an advisory referendum question about marijuana to Milwaukee County b...

Prepare for a summer of fun with this Milwaukee County Parks commercial from 1984

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Hey! It's summer! Sort of? Yeah, it's gonna be cold and rainy this weekend, but whatever. Now's the time to get out of the house and enjoy all the summer-y things Milwaukee has to offer: festivals, concerts, an...

New festival, Black Arts Fest MKE, will come to Henry Maier Festival Park

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

Milwaukee's "City Of Festivals" nickname is well-deserved. From the early weeks of spring through the arrival of autumn, the city plays host to dozens of fests, block parties, and celebrations of different heri...

Here’s another 2018 Milwaukee summer festival guide, this one with more Bob Uecker

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 7, 2018

Is there anything better than summer in Milwaukee? No, no there is not. For four months out of the year, Milwaukee becomes a warm and joyous place stocked with an improbable number of summer festivals, street p...

Here’s the 2018 PrideFest entertainment lineup

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2018

With all due respect to earlier-occurring newcomers Riverwest FemFest, Arte Para Todos, Gloss Weekend, and Cream City Comedy Festival, Milwaukee’s festival season truly and officially begins with PrideFest. The...

8,000 years and dozens of lawsuits later, Silk Exotic is finally opening a downtown strip club

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Yep, after many, many years and many, many lawsuits, that downtown Silk Exoti...

People are still talking about those Milwaukee UFOs that were really a flock of seagulls

Matt Wild

May 3, 2018

In the early morning hours of February 27, Milwaukee's FOX6 WakeUp program caught a glimpse of some strange lights flying over downtown. "Are those fireworks? What is that?" the crew initially wondered, before ...

Someone just gave the Friends of the (Mitchell Park) Domes a cool $2M

Matt Wild

May 2, 2018

The last time we checked in on the Mitchell Park Domes, the embattled icons were no longer falling apart and were instead hosting the delightfully old-fashioned Kooky Cooky House. Fun! Even more fun: the non-pr...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 1, 2018

May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we’ll be gearing up for block parties, weekly concerts, and a massive wave of occurrences be...

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

Matt Wild

April 30, 2018