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First Impression: Beerline Cafe

Tyler Maas
As recently as five years ago, the culinary landscape surrounding the Humboldt Bridge had a much different look. Ironically, an unthinkably long construction project on the causeway connecting Riverwest and Mil...

First Impression: The High Note Karaoke Lounge

Rachel Seis
// Sometimes you’re driving in your car, windows rolled up, belting out a tune as loudly as your lungs allow and it hits you—the world needs, nay, deserves, to hear you sing these words over accompanied music...

Direct Hit! now has its own hot sauce

Tyler Maas
// It’s been a big 2015 for Direct Hit! This year, the Milwaukee pop-punk quartet toured Europe, headlined a stage at Summerfest, created a widely successful all-ages festival of their own, released a re-reco...

The cupcake is fucking dead: A eulogy

Tyler Maas
// It was the English scribe John Keats who first fashioned the prose, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”There was a time, once—a time not...

First Impression: South Shore Terrace

Tyler Maas
As recently as two years ago, Milwaukee was a city that was home to only some beer gardens. Pretty embarrassing, right? It seems like it's been a lifetime since that comparably lean epoch of outdoor imbibing ha...

There’s going to be a Dead Horses beer

Tyler Maas
With there being only so many Grammy Awards to go around, the platinum-selling record quickly becoming a relic of the past, and the WAMI board preoccupied honoring Judas Priest instead of talents from this cent...

First Impression: Merriment Social

Todd Lazarski
Hit the Milwaukee Public Market on a Friday afternoon, try the Benelux rooftop or Wicked Hop patio or the new Colectivo on any warm-ish day of the week, and it’s pretty clear the Third Ward is the new Milwaukee...

First Impression: Amilinda

Todd Lazarski
For every thousand or so of the soulless calorie dispensaries that make up the corporeal restaurant world, there’s at least one Amilinda (315 E Wisconsin Ave., 414-369-3683): an ephemeral kitchen presence, lurk...

First Impression: La Masa Empanada Bar

Tyler Maas
Last Saturday, as thousands of people were enjoying music, beverages, BMX demonstrations, and seeing The Lizard Guy in his natural habitat at the Brady Street Festival, one business was celebrating its soft ope...