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It’s Milwaukee Record’s 5-year anniversary! How about that!

April 7, 2019

On Monday, April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record became a thing. Following months of planning, fretting, and drinking at the BBC for some reason (R.I.P.), former A.V. Club Milwaukee city editor Matt Wild and former A...

Dollars For Donuts: Papas Bakery

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2019

Milwaukee loves donuts. Dozens of bakeries in the city and its surrounding suburbs help people get a sweet start to their day with long johns, crullers, jellies, powdered, cream-filled, cake donuts, and more. I...

Here’s the awesome Washington Park Wednesdays lineup

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2019

Like each and every summer, metro Milwaukee will play host dozens of festivals, block parties, and free weekly music celebrations between June and September that all help make enduring the six to eight other sn...

My First Band: Mike Krol (Mike Krol, The Reactants)

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 5, 2019

Before he was the front man, bandleader, and namesake of a Los Angeles-based project on the Merge Records roster, Mike Krol was a Wauwatosa teen who loved ska. Recently, while in Milwaukee to play a homecoming ...

Bay View Missed Connections is a landing page for localized lust

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2019

Though useful, neighborhood Facebook groups can sometimes be too much to handle. Between endless bickering, unnecessary politicizing, and people bringing up topics that don't even remotely apply to the region t...

8,000th version of Milwaukee flag to be unfurled at City Hall on April 9

Matt Wild

April 5, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

274 Friday fish frys and counting: Klemmer’s Banquet Center

Caleb Westphal

April 5, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here."IMMEDIATE SEATING" beamed from the neon sign in front of Klemmer's Banquet Center (10401 W. Okl...

Madness, mayhem lurk below the surface of Milwaukee-made ‘Lake Michigan Monster’

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

"I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in ten days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it."So says the titular Steve Zissou in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Ste...

AJ Bombers will feature special Big Boy burger April 8-14

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

Big Boy restaurants—home to double-decker cheeseburgers, tasty fries, and the iconic suspender-clad Big Boy—opened in California in the 1940s, but they soon became a beloved Wisconsin tradition. The Marcus Corp...

Ozzy Osbourne postpones 2019 tour, Summerfest show, will play Summerfest 2020 instead

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

Bad news, Ozzy Osbourne fans: The legendary Prince of Darkness has postponed his 2019 tour due to an "injury sustained while dealing with his recent bout of pneumonia." That tour included a July 4 show at Summe...

MKE Music Rewind: Competitorr, “Stop Go”

Matt Wild

April 4, 2019

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.I moved to Milwaukee in the fall of 1996, but sometimes it feels lik...

15 (more) unconventional Milwaukee performance venues

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2019

Back in February, we rounded up 20 "unconventional" performance venues that bring music, comedy, and other live entertainment to unlikely places in and around the city. As we said in that article, "in addition ...

Stomata, B~Free announce special May 3 performance at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Josh Hoppert

April 3, 2019

After months of planning, composing, songwriting, and more planning, the time has finally come. On May 3, get ready to sit comfortably or dance beautifully in the beauty and comfort of The Harris Theater at the...

Times Cinema prepares to beam down “Sci-Fridays” movie series

Matt Wild

April 3, 2019

Do your weekends need a blast of geeky air? Of course they do. Well, if Friday nights with Svengoolie on MeTV and Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder aren't enough, you'll soon have another option. Times Cinema has annou...

Pixies played The Rave and they were great and here’s what they played and said between songs

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Similar to our "Pixies played Summerfest and they were great and here's what they played and said between songs" review from July 2018, let's keep this short and sweet: Legendary alternative rock band Pixies pl...

After 45 years, Mott The Hoople return to Milwaukee for stunning Miller High Life Theatre show

Caleb Westphal

April 2, 2019

When Mott The Hoople last played in Milwaukee, the Domes were less than a decade old, Summerfest was approaching its seventh season, and Richard Nixon was in the last throes of his presidency. The date was May ...

Vote today, Milwaukee, because it’s super important (again)

Matt Wild

April 2, 2019

Hey! Today is the 2019 Spring General Election! Fun! Okay, so it's not the flashiest election out there, but that doesn't mean it's bereft of some super important races. And because only a fraction of voting-ag...

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets brings weakened pulse of Pink Floyd to Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

April 2, 2019

Nick Mason stressing that his Saucerful Of Secrets tour is not a tribute act smacks of Spinal Tap to be sure. Okay, fine: It's a Pink Floyd cover band, how's that? And one of only about three in the whole world...

Welcome to April: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 1, 2019

April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season is back, the first full month of spring is upon us, and rampant festival announcements combine with extended daylight and occasional days of unseasonable ...

Milwaukee Fools: 5 Milwaukee-related goofs, pranks, and hoaxes

Matt Wild

April 1, 2019

Don't you just love April Fools' Day? Don't you just love when every publication on planet Earth suddenly thinks they're The Onion and pens some rib-tickling "satire"? Yeah, ugh. Anyway, here are a few amusing ...