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Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Salem

October 26, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Double Perch Lunch available all day, every day at Tower Tavern in Manitowoc

Caleb Westphal

October 25, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #564: Tower Tavern in Manitowoc, ...

Jack White will play intimate shows at Cactus Club tonight, The Rave tomorrow

Matt Wild

October 25, 2024

One night after a last-minute surprise show at Madison's High Noon Saloon—and an even more last-minute and surprise show at Milwaukee's Vanguard restaurant—the one and only Jack White will play Milwaukee's Cact...

Bug Moment at its best on new single, “Purple Guy”

Matt Wild

October 25, 2024

Bug Moment's metamorphosis from a glitchy bedroom project to the city's finest "emo-adjacent rock melancholia" band is one of the great Milwaukee music scene success stories of the post-pandemic era. Twenty-twe...

Get ready for The Sugar Maple’s “Hall-Ooo-Ween, An Adventure Time Pop-Up & Art Show” with these photos

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2024

In case you somehow missed the news, allow us to let you know Sugar Maple is hosting a pop-up devoted to Adventure Time this weekend. The ambitious and unconventional "Hall-Ooo-Ween: An Adventure Time Pop-Up &a...

We’re screening ‘Escape From New York’ at Avalon Theater on November 20

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2024

The year is 1997. Due to rising crime rates in the country, New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison that holds all the nation's violent offenders. All bridges and waterways are blocked off,...

Vacancy Chain pours on the “Halloween Hot Sauce” with new seasonal single

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2024

Last summer, Milwaukee/Chicago's Vacancy Chain formally made its presence known with the release of Count The Stars. In the year-plus since that excellent debut album first encountered eardrums, the indie rock ...

Milwaukee Recreation is offering a Yoko Ono class this fall and we’re all for it

Matt Wild

October 24, 2024

Milwaukee Recreation rules. For more than 100 years (!) the Milwaukee Public Schools program has made the city a better place by offering innumerable recreational and educational opportunities to folks of all a...

Anodyne Coffee is now available in single-serve pods

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2024

Coffee pods kind of suck. The only thing more terrible than the stale, non-locally roasted grounds that don't yield anywhere near as much coffee as most humans desire is the horrendous impact their plastic cont...

Bird City, Milwaukee County: Brown Deer and Lights Out

Kyle Arpke

October 23, 2024

Bird City, Milwaukee County is a monthly column celebrating the 11 cities, towns, and villages that have achieved Bird City status within Milwaukee County. Citizens of these locations have made bird conservatio...

Holy Pinto returns to form with new single, “Death Is In The Air”

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2024

With a run of recent shows both in his adopted home of Milwaukee and in overseas locales like Austria and Hungary, Holy Pinto—the musical moniker of English-born singer/songwriter Aymen Saleh—has been keeping q...

Milwaukee has made nearly $500K from those darn electric scooters this year

Matt Wild

October 23, 2024

Those darn electric scooters have been incredibly popular in Milwaukee in 2024, and the city has the numbers—and the cash—to prove it.A total of 816,500 trips have been recorded on Lime and Spin scooters th...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Caley Conway

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 23, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, October 22, 2024: Ca...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Good Housekeeping thinks Milwaukee is among “best places in the world to visit in November”

Matt Wild

October 23, 2024

Here at Milwaukee Record we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot. It keeps track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists and studies, as well as any time a national publ...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Zaffiro’s has been the upper crust of local pizza since 1954

Tyler Maas

October 22, 2024

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some beloved local pizzerias come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Zaffiro's Pizza.Being a local legend is a double-edged ...

R.I.P. that incredible Mrs. Incredible mural on Humboldt

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

Just two months after we featured it in the hallowed pages of Milwaukee Record, that mural on the north wall of car stereo installation and window tinting joint Expert Electronics (2231 N. Humboldt Ave.) has ch...

Get lost in the dream-pop goodness of Brief Candles’ ‘Unfinished Nature’

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

In the final moments of David Lynch and Mark Frost's 2017 Twin Peaks revival, a puzzled and temporally adrift Agent Cooper asks "What year is this?" The same question comes to mind while listening to the music ...

Early in-person voting begins TODAY, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 22, 2024

There's a big election coming up on Tuesday, November 5. Perhaps you've heard of it?Well, if you're looking to skip the Election Day lines and avoid hanging out in a school gymnasium for 30 minutes while "e...

Holey Mackerel shifts focus to indoor fun with “SipNShanty” fall and winter pop-up

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2024

Since opening last August in the longtime site of River Hills Family Fun Center in nearby Greenfield, Holey Mackerel—metro Milwaukee’s newest miniature golf destination and family fun facility—has been hard at ...

Here are the new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Forum for the 2024-25 Bucks season

Matt Wild

October 21, 2024

Your Milwaukee Bucks kick off their 2024-25 this week (get your tickets HERE), which can mean only one thing: The Bucks are back, baby! And with them, a host of new food and beverage items coming to Fiserv Foru...