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Public Domain: Devil Met Contention performs “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”

October 15, 2019

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The music video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been he...

Check out The Vanguard’s new menu items

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2019

Last week, we announced The Vanguard would be saying goodbye to 12 of its menu items. Even though some popular fare and other longer-tenured items—most notably the beloved Wampa-Della and the Wee-Bey—have eithe...

Behold the new signage on the almost-complete BMO Tower in Downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 15, 2019

If it feels like Downtown Milwaukee's skyline is different these days, it's because it is. Big time. And one of the biggest additions just celebrated a milestone: This week, construction crews successfully inst...

Green Bay Packers celebrity fans, ranked

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2019

During a game in 2019, the worlds of professional football, pop culture, and politics all came together to voice their (predominately unfavorable) opinion about comedian and daytime talk show juggernaut Ellen D...

Chevy Chase will bring ‘Christmas Vacation’ to Riverside Theater December 27

Matt Wild

October 14, 2019

Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas, we have one. Tickets to see An Evening With Chevy Chase, preceded by a 30th anniversary screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, at the ...

Some folks aren’t keen on the idea of a north side slaughterhouse—er, “meat processing plant”

Matt Wild

October 14, 2019

UPDATE 10/15: The Common Council unanimously voted to send the Strauss proposal back to the Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee for further discussion and community input. Urban Milwaukee has a fu...

Egg & Flour Pasta Bar is opening a Bay View location

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2019

Back in May, Egg & Flour Pasta Bar opened inside Crossroads Collective. Since then, the brainchild of former Black Sheep executive chef Adam Pawlak has garnered favorable reviews and has thrived in the East...

Heart anything but a nostalgia act at deep-cut Fiserv Forum show

Cal Roach

October 13, 2019

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson have helmed Heart for more than four decades, almost entirely responsible for the group's success through more personnel and stylistic changes than the average fan could even keep t...

Fritz’s Pub has closed

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 13, 2019

After 41 years in business, Milwaukee fish fry staple Fritz's Pub (3086 S. 20th St.) has closed. The long-in-the-works and oft-delayed closure was announced via Fritz's Facebook page early Saturday morning: La...

Tucked Away: Copper Kitchen is the gold standard in Milwaukee diners

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2019

Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...

My First Band: Noah Gundersen (Beneath Oceans, Young In The City, Glorietta)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 11, 2019

At just 30 years old, Noah Gundersen has already managed to accomplish more than most musicians do in a lifetime. The Seattle-based singer and songwriter has put out more than a dozen albums and EPs, which have...

301 Friday fish frys and counting: Spanky’s Hideaway (Mequon)

Caleb Westphal

October 11, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here."I'll take a Miller," beamed a voice from a few stools away from me, at the end of the long, com...

Streetcar ridership down again, suggesting weather and festival season might have something to do with it

Matt Wild

October 11, 2019

It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

Memo to the Academy: Bob Uecker’s “Restaurant To Be Named Later” video is 2019’s Best Picture

Matt Wild

October 11, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Here are the facts: In December 2019, Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at Mil...

The Vanguard will say goodbye to 12 menu items this weekend

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2019

Since opening in late 2014, The Vanguard has quickly established itself as the pinnacle of tubed meat delicacies in Milwaukee. Even though its everyday offerings that have wowed critics, lured professional athl...

Milwaukee bus drivers are pretty much superheroes at this point

Matt Wild

October 10, 2019

Remember the time when a Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver picked up a homeless man in the middle of winter and took him to an emergency shelter? How about the time when an MCTS bus driver rescued a lo...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times spent 36 hours in Milwaukee and had a nice time

Matt Wild

October 10, 2019

Warning! Warning! This is not a test! Our patented Great Job Milwaukee Bot 6000 is informing us that The New York Times—yes, The New York Times!—has just published a glowing article about Milwaukee! It's part o...

Here’s everything you need to know about Beet Street 2019

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2019

Following three years of family-friendly and fall-focused fun, Cactus Club has decided to bring the Beet Street Harvest Festival back for another installment. On Saturday, October 12, the Bay View bar (with add...

Home crap home: Join us and Lakefront for a “Hanksgiving” screening of ‘The Money Pit’ at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild

October 9, 2019

Remember that part in Breaking Bad when the bathtub fell through the floor? The Money Pit did it first. (Okay, just the bottom of the tub fell through the floor in Breaking Bad, and there was a dissolved drug d...

LiveSCREAM Theater: Watch ‘Attack Of The Giant Leeches’ with guests Jack Packard and Maggie Iken

Matt Wild

October 9, 2019

Tuesday night, we grabbed some moonshine, hopped in a rickety canoe, and chilled out in an underwater leech grotto for the second installment of Milwaukee Record LiveSCREAM Theater. Yep, we watched 1959's Attac...