Up & Under Pub will close September 27
Brady Street was dealt a sizable blow today, as Up & Under announced it will be closing for good after Sunday, September 27. The long-running bar and music venue located at 1216 E. Brady Street let customer...
My First Band: Jim Hanke (Vinyl Emergency Podcast)
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Over the course of the show's 137-episode run (and counting!), Jim Hanke's Vinyl Emergency podcast has featured in-depth conversations with notable musicians about their record collect...
I made William Henderson’s baked bean recipe from the 2001 ‘Green Bay Packers Family Cookbook’
In the days leading up to last weekend's season opener, I must admit I was having a hard time getting into the Green Bay Packers spirit. Between a still-very-much-ongoing pandemic, unseen levels of political an...
Milwaukee Milkmen are 2020 American Association champions
Last night, while the Brewers were enjoying a rare day off and we were in the thick of our Pretty Good Online Auction, a metro Milwaukee team was in the process of bringing home a title. That's right, sports fa...
MVP! (again)
According to multiple sources...MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!...
Tune in (and bid) for the live finale of Milwaukee Record’s Pretty Good Online Auction!
TL;DR: Milwaukee Record's Pretty Good Online Auction ends today at 7 p.m.! Bid now! We'll be doing a Facebook Live stream from 1-7 p.m. Tune in!Are you a fan of auctions? Are you a fan of auctions filled wi...
Joe Wong talks about some collaborators who helped bring ‘Nite Creatures’ to life
Milwaukee native Joe Wong makes a living by adding musical accompaniment to other people's visual works. When he's not contributing aural touches to elevate television shows like Russian Doll, The Midnight Gosp...
In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Sept. 6-12)
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...
Here’s the 2020 Milwaukee Comedy Festival lineup
Originating long before the city had anything even resembling a sustainable comedy community, Milwaukee Comedy Festival has grown and evolved in kind with Milwaukee’s humor scene. In fact, the annual comedic un...
Our Tuesday Tunes concert series has been canceled
Back in early March, just days before COVID-19 made its presence fully known in Milwaukee and the U.S. as a whole, we unveiled the lineup for our Tuesday Tunes music series at Crafty Cow. Over the course of eig...
Watch a Lion’s Tooth video tour of the MOWA comics exhibit
Last month the Museum of Wisconsin Art launched an amazing exhibition about the history of comics in Wisconsin, with emphasis on the career of cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen, from his beginnings in the ...
My First Band: Trapper Schoepp
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Through the years, Trapper Schoepp has released four excellent albums, played hundreds of shows all over the U.S. and Europe, shared the stage with some of music's most noted names, ha...
Mandatory Milwaukee: Klement’s Factory Outlet
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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 exp...
Watch interviews with Frank Nitty, Lt. Gov. Barnes, Mayor Barrett on Showtime’s ‘The Circus’
The latest season of the Showtime political documentary series The Circus (subtitled Inside The Craziest Political Campaign On Earth) is airing now. It's great. This past Sunday, in an episode entitled "Law And...
Take a ghostly tour of Riverside Theater October 9-31
Like we said the time we stayed overnight at that haunted cigar bar, the interesting thing about ghosts is that they don't exist. Like, c'mon, they really don't. Buy hey! We're still suckers for pretending they...
“Riots to Revival” is coming to Milwaukee to baptize you in a pool of COVID-19
If you're driving by the Milwaukee County War Memorial on September 15 at 6 p.m., you might spot a large gathering of people not socially distancing, spraying droplets and singing along with some Christian cont...
Bay View Bash is hosting a parade this weekend
Like pretty much every other large scale event, festival, and block party in Milwaukee, Bay View Bash isn't happening this year. COVID-19 concerns caused the long-running late summer staple to cancel this year'...
The woods have eyes in the ravenous video for Brat Sounds’ “Mona Lisa Frank”
When we last checked in with Brat Sounds, the eminently enjoyable Milwaukee band was releasing one of our favorite albums of 2019 (Bad Luck) and battling Satan himself in the Evil Dead-esque video for "Sunny D....
India Palace coming soon to Wells Street in Downtown Milwaukee
If you blinked during the tail end of 2019, you may have missed the coming and going of a lunch-only Shah Jee's location at 228 W. Wells St. in Downtown Milwaukee. The spot opened in August 2019, but was perman...
Gaze upon the four new murals being painted underneath I-794 along North Broadway
If you thought Milwaukee went mural-happy in 2019, it's gone all out in 2020. Murals celebrating local civil rights leaders, murals celebrating local frontline workers, and murals celebrating local otters and b...