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Body Futures ring in 2018 with ‘Maybe It’s Just The Weather’

January 2, 2018

It takes a lot of nerve to release an album during the first few days of a new year. “Here you go, new year,” the move seems to say. “Top this.” In the case of Milwaukee’s Body Futures, it’s a move with guts to...

The best Milwaukee fish frys of 2017 (according to a guy who ate one every Friday this year)

Caleb Westphal

December 29, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. In April 2017, he began writing a weekly column documenting and reviewing his latest fish fry destinations. Here are his top places for 2017, with exce...

208 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Ted’s Ice Cream & Restaurant

Caleb Westphal

December 29, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending quest here.About a year ago I was given a copy of the Directory Of Wisconsin's Best Ma & Pa Restaurants, a p...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 17: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac

December 29, 2017

When the 7-8 Green Bay Packers travel to the 8-7 Detroit Lions this New Year’s Eve, it will be the last calendar day of 2017 and the last day of both teams’ 2017 seasons.The Lions were in the hunt longer, not...

It’s cold, so let’s watch this guy shotgun a can of Old Milwaukee Ice

Matt Wild

December 28, 2017

Good grief, it's cold outside. Remember that part in Planes, Trains & Automobiles where Steve Martin asks John Candy to take a guess at the temperature, and Candy replies "One." It's that cold. So let's wat...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the celebrity deaths, frightening political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Sunday, mu...

Bar Rescue’s own Campbell’s Irish Pub is for sale

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

In 2014, we broke news that Bar Rescue would be using its infallible tactics of serving sliders and overly complicated Smirnoff Vodka shaker cocktails to save not one, but two Milwaukee bars. The first one, Y-N...

I did a 30-day hot yoga challenge and I almost flooded Milwaukee with sweat

Tea Krulos

December 26, 2017

This all started with a conversation about my back. Often hunched over for my work as a writer, a bartender, and an all-around tall guy with bad posture, my spine gets angry with me. I was telling a tale of woe...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Watch Dustin Diamond play Harvey Weinstein, get stabbed to death in Milwaukee music video

Matt Wild

December 26, 2017

And lo, on the day after Christmas, in the year of our lord 2017, Nashville-by-way-of-Milwaukee hard rock band TENLo released a video in which Dustin Diamond plays Harvey Weinstein and totally gets stabbed to d...

Remaking A Murderer: The rationale behind (and ramifications of) screening ‘My Friend Dahmer’ in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

December 22, 2017

Last night concluded the theatrical run for a drama about a troubled, misunderstood, and forgotten high school kid growing up in the Midwest in the late 1970s. The low-budget indie film has grossed less than $1...

Happy holidays, Milwaukee. Here are a bunch of restaurant openings and closings

Matt Wild

December 22, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Hey! Christmas break is kinda-sorta here! Why are you looking at the internet...

207 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Just Art’s Saloon

Caleb Westphal

December 22, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending quest here."Was möchten Sie gerne?" the man behind the bar asked me as I sat down."Ah, that's German, right?...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 16: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac

December 22, 2017

Ten weeks ago the Packers were 4-1, Aaron Rodgers was the odds-on MVP favorite, and the 3-2 Vikings had, in the two weeks prior, lost at home to the Detroit Lions, then barely survived the limping Chicago Bears...

Public Domain: The Fatty Acids perform “Toyland”

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 21, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly 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 ...

1983 Arcade Bar opens today. Here’s a look inside

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

Unless your gaming diet has consisted of nothing but Call Of Duty for the past few years, you know that arcade games—particularly retro arcade games—are back. Across the country, "arcade bars" have tapped in, T...

“How you got a mall with no stores in it?” “Beer And Cheese” roasts Grand Avenue mall, Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

As Milwaukee continues to redefine and reimagine itself in the awful, awful 21st century, it's comforting to know that for many people—say, Chicago-born and New York City-based comedians—our city will forever b...

Move over, ramen joints: 8,000 poke places are coming to the East Side

Matt Wild

December 21, 2017

Back in October, we got bored one night and thought, "Why don't we eat at three East Side ramen joints and write a thing about it?" The resulting thing, "I experienced the magic of the 'grown-up' East Side by e...

Hear another track from the forthcoming ‘Land By The Lake II’ hip-hop compilation

Tyler Maas

December 21, 2017

Throughout 2017, we've given you a few samples of Land By The Lake II, the forthcoming follow-up to a compilation that producer and engineer DSCRIBE curated to help “create a snapshot of Milwaukee's potent hip-...

7 hidden and underrated Milwaukee-area coffee shops

Catherine Jozwik

December 20, 2017

Nearly every caffeine junkie in the Milwaukee area has sipped a latte at a Colectivo, imbibed a dark roast at Stone Creek Coffee, and drank a Starbucks Frappuccino that could put them in a sugar coma.But Mi...