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In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (June 12-18)

June 20, 2022

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...

Relive a slice of the 2022 Summer Soulstice Music Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 20, 2022

After two pandemic years away, the East Side's long-running Summer Soulstice Music Festival looked a little different in 2022. Instead of a giant chunk of the North/Prospect/Farwell area serving as the fest's f...

Lap steel metal band Velocihamster covers “Ace Of Spades,” more on ‘Uncaged’

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

As we all know, there can be only one lap steel metal band in the world. Luckily, Milwaukee is home to that lap steel metal band, Velocihamster.Yes, we've covered the unlikely band in these digital pages be...

The I-94/Stadium Interchange project is improving. But its future remains uncertain

Dan Shafer

June 17, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) he...

My First Band: Eric W. Krueger (Sunday Flood, Leading The Blind)

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 17, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); This week's guest is Eric W. Krueger, who has been a musical mainstay in the Fox Cities—a region in northeast Wisconsin—for close to 30 years. Though he's been active in a wide range o...

Stuff We Missed: Brewers unveil City Connect uniforms! Basketball coming to AmFam Field?

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week:• Do you like alternate sports uniforms? Do you like alternate spor...

New and open now at 3rd St. Market Hall: Kompali Tacos y Tortas

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

It's Friday, so you know what that means: downtown food hall 3rd St. Market Hall has added 17 new vendors! (Seriously, we think we missed a few in the past week alone.)Today, 3rd St. has added Kompali Tacos...

I asked my mom to review the new Leinenkugel’s “Lodge Pack”

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2022

With all due respect to Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company—the seventh oldest brewery in the country, which single-handedly carried Chippewa Falls to national consciousness—and its storied history, the western W...

Here’s the Milwaukee “News Clues” category from last night’s ‘Jeopardy!’

Matt Wild

June 16, 2022

In case you missed it, Milwaukee had its own "News Clues" category on last night's episode of Jeopardy! And just barely, too—it was thankfully the first category chosen, and Jeopardy! was subsequently preempted...

Oriental Theatre’s COVID-canceled ‘Cats’ screening claws its way back to July 23

Matt Wild

June 16, 2022

It's been two loooooong years since Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre announced that, thanks to an online petition, it would screen the misbegotten 2019 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's misbegotten 1981 stage m...

The competition is heating up in Round 3 of our Milwaukee Summer Bracket!

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 15, 2022

broadstreet.zone(98321); Things are heating up! After two Milwaukee Summer Bracket rounds that found more than 25,000 total votes being cast, our hand-selected field of 64 Milwaukee summer standbys has been re...

Milwaukee edition of Red Bull Flugtag will feature flying bratwurst, giant KN95 mask, more

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

In case you missed it, Red Bull's long-running Flugtag event—in which folks construct their own ridiculous "flying" machines and "fly" them off a ramp into a body of water—is set to make its Wisconsin/Milwaukee...

Soundtrack your summer with L’Resorts’ breezy new record, ‘Explorers’

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

There are countless Milwaukee summer traditions: festivals, block parties, complaining about the heat even though we just suffered through 8,000 months of winter. For the past three years, Milwaukee tropical-po...

Seventh Stanine Festival to make Milwaukee debut July 30

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2022

Milwaukee's sprawling summer festival season isn't just back, it's more massive and longer-lasting than ever before. Adding the already dizzying list of large-scale festivals, block parties, long-running weekly...

Milwaukee will be featured in a “News Clues” category during tonight’s ‘Jeopardy!’

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?Who is Cavalier Johnson?What is that snow pile outside the Marcus Center parking structure that Milwaukee Record meticulously monitors every winter?We're guessing those ...

Jack White, Alanis Morissette, and 23 more standout Milwaukee summer shows

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 14, 2022

What’s this? A list of shows? A list of summer shows? Yep! After what seemed to be an endless winter that never truly gave way to spring, summer is finally on the horizon. The season officially starts June 20, ...

A guide to finding former Bucks players on BIG3 rosters

Tyler Maas

June 14, 2022

If you're anything like us, you haven't watched a second of basketball since the Milwaukee Bucks were unceremoniously ousted from the NBA playoffs by the infuriatingly annoying Boston Celtics a few weeks ago. I...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Bringing the air conditioners up from storage because it’s gonna be 90 today

Matt Wild

June 14, 2022

Some places summer traditions come and go, while some places summer traditions become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples summer traditi...

Join Ruth B8r Ginsburg on June 25 for a parade and fundraiser for reproductive freedom

Matt Wild

June 14, 2022

"We will not stop fighting for ourselves and each other. This event is part of that fight."That's a statement from venerable Milwaukee band Ruth B8r Ginsburg. For the past seven years, the femme-led force o...

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s The Smile will play Riverside Theater November 29

Matt Wild

June 13, 2022

The Smile—a new band featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, plus Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner—recently released its debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention. It's great.The Smile—a ...