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Food (including Friday fish fry) is coming back to Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom

September 6, 2018

It's been a wild ride for the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom. Since opening in April 2017, the microbrewery/taproom has revitalized a 144-year-old building in the once-shuttered Pabst Brewery site, resurre...

Join us for an Election Night screening of ‘Idiocracy’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

September 5, 2018

Could you ever envision a time in which an unqualified, temperamental President and his inept cabinet "lead" an advertising-laden nation, whose listless populace derives entertainment from watching people injur...

MKE Music Rewind: Since By Man, “Push The Panic”

Sahan Jayasuriya

September 5, 2018

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.If you were going to hardcore shows in Milwaukee in the early 2000s...

12 (more) notable comedians with Wisconsin roots

Tyler Maas

September 5, 2018

broadstreet.zone(32806); Back in early 2016, we previewed a doubleheader by South Milwaukeean-born comedian Jackie Kashian and Milwaukee stand-up Tom Clark by acknowledging the accomplishments of those two poi...

The Killers, Violent Femmes, Fiserv Forum shine at first Fiserv Forum show

Matt Wild

September 5, 2018

"We've been playing that haunted, dirty Eagles Ballroom for 15 years. Look at us now!"So said Killers frontman Brandon Flowers early in his band's set Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. (Flowers quickly followe...

Four years later, what are we still doing in Shrekfest’s swamp?

Tone Madison

September 4, 2018

The following piece by Scott Gordon was originally published on Tone Madison.In his defense, the guy who started this whole Shrekfest thing in Madison had no intention of actually putting on an event called...

Milwaukee preps for two EDM fests, awaits response from lawyer who hates EDM fests

Matt Wild

September 4, 2018

Plenty of big shows are headed Milwaukee's way (just check out the first two months at the Fiserv Forum), but few will delight EDM fans more than not one, but two electronic festivals coming next month. The ina...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (Aug. 26-Sept. 1)

Matt Wild

September 4, 2018

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...

Buckle up, Milwaukee, for the 2019 Budget Open House Series

Matt Wild

September 4, 2018

Who doesn't love a good open house meeting? We know we do: from problematic Pokemon players to scandalous Swing Park stuff, we're always first in line to attend these oft-ridiculous public meetings. (Oh, and do...

UPDATE: The elusive East Side comic book shop iguana has been captured

Matt Wild

September 4, 2018

All good iguana hunts must come to an end: Today, according to a post on the Riverwest Neighborhood Facebook page, a five-foot-long iguana that escaped from his East Side comic book shop home earlier this summe...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 2, 2018

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee’s festival season. Though the seasonal shift essentially puts a nine-month ...

On The Record #137: 10 years of Mondo Lucha!

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 31, 2018

Since starting in 2008, Mondo Lucha! has brought high-flying wrestling action, burlesque dancers, and live music to its annual Turner Hall showcase. Along the way, the variety show has managed to work with reno...

243 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Landmark Inn (Mequon)

Caleb Westphal

August 31, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.You've probably had similar thoughts. You've driven past a place that looked intriguing, a...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful “Goop” website likes our food

Matt Wild

August 31, 2018

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...

Public Domain: The Handsome Family perform “Home On The Range”

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 30, 2018

The Handsome Family have been singing about America—old America, new America, weird America—for nearly 25 years. Beginning with 1994's Odessa and continuing through 2016's Unseen, husband-and-wife duo Brett and...

The 10 best September call-ups in Milwaukee Brewers history

Kyle Lobner

August 30, 2018

For the Milwaukee Brewers and every team across Major League Baseball, roster depth is on the way.Baseball is perhaps the only sport that dramatically alters its roster rules for a portion of the regular se...

Annual “Mindset List” looks into the lives of college freshmen born in the year 2000

Matt Wild

August 30, 2018

Beginning in 1998, Beloit College's annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors a peek inside the minds and world views of incoming college freshmen. "So-and-so has never been alive during thei...

Go inside the downtown Boston Store on its final day in business

Matt Wild

August 29, 2018

This is it, folks: Today, August 29, 2018, is the final day of business for Boston Store. The department store's parent company, Bon-Ton Stores Inc., declared bankruptcy earlier this year; recently, it announce...

13 standout ways to celebrate Harley-Davidson’s 115th anniversary

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2018

Today marks the first day of Harley-Davidson's 115th Anniversary weekend. Between August 29 and September 2, Milwaukee will host hoards of bikers and motorcycle enthusiast who have come out to celebrate one of ...

WORK shifts gears on ‘Strictly Cruis’n’

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2018

WORK is a curious name for a band as loud and rowdy as the long-running trio from Milwaukee. With lyrics jam-packed with references to drinking and general revelry, along with a sound the touches the edges of p...