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Get ready for Gloss Weekend with this festival compilation

May 16, 2017

Though there's still another full month of spring left, Milwaukee's colossal "summer" festival season in almost in full swing. One of the first events to usher in the epoch of entertainment is Gloss Weekend. Fo...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re kind of “fit”

Matt Wild

May 16, 2017

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 deign...

A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2017

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2017

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized "Milwaukee's largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community." The massive early June event brings together talented area artists and mus...

Diane, here are 5 ways to celebrate the return of ‘Twin Peaks’ in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

May 15, 2017

On Sunday, May 21, Twin Peaks will make its unlikely, highly anticipated, sure-to-be-demented return to television. The new 18-episode Showtime series—written by original co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost,...

Stream the Milwaukee-produced, 27-track anti-Trump compilation “UNPRESIDENTED”

Matt Wild

May 15, 2017

Back in 2015, a group of likeminded Midwest musicians embarked on an ambitious multi-media project dubbed "UNINTIMIDATED: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker." Organized by IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures dru...

Longtime East Side restaurant Hotch is closing

Matt Wild

May 12, 2017

Another day, another East Side closing: Hotch, located at 813 E. Kenilworth Pl., is closing after an impressive 11-year run. Owner Angie Storm tells Milwaukee Record that the building's landlord gave ...

Useful life tips from the 1991 Milwaukee Brewers

Tyler Maas

May 12, 2017

Though the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers are unabashedly rebuilding, the young and exciting team is over the .500 mark through the season's first 35 games. Eric Thames is breaking franchise records with his colossal d...

175 consecutive Friday night fish fries and counting: Muskie’s Gourmet House

Caleb Westphal

May 12, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his record-in-the-making here.Cinco de Mayo, the day when Americans celebrate Mexico's victory over French forces at the Ba...

Everything is awful, so here are some new restaurants (and Ferris wheels) coming to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

May 12, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Rejoice, East Side! A new Stone Creek Coffee is coming to Downer Avenue! The ...

MKE SEX: Talking about consent, even when you don’t want to talk about consent

Lucky Tomaszek

May 12, 2017

broadstreet.zone(49071); On a recent Monday night, I made my annual three-hour drive to teach a consent workshop at one of the UW schools. These events are my favorite part of my job. I believe that consent is...

Looking back at the life (and death) of Robert “Tractor” Traylor

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

On May 11, 2011, Robert "Tractor" Traylor died alone in an apartment in Puerto Rico, succumbing to a heart attack at just 34 years of age.Before Traylor's abbreviated life suddenly and silently ended exactl...

Feast your eyes on 18 more Milwaukee-area patios for some reason

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

Over the last two years, we’ve listed seven patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee, 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios, then 13 more goddamn patios. Finally, we found another 15 patios. Surely, ...

Let’s watch this wacky Milwaukee Art Museum commercial from 1983

Matt Wild

May 11, 2017

Tonight at 5 p.m., the Milwaukee Art Museum will celebrate the opening of A Social Event Archive, a collection of more than 700 submitted photographs depicting "public or private social occasions." The piece is...

Here’s the lineup for the inaugural Bumstead Block Party

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2017

Since opening last fall, Bumstead Provisions has supplied Bay View with another option for excellent food, as well as a place to buy beer and liquor to-go, a site to try to consume gigantic pretzel sandwiches, ...

Violent Femmes and Corey Feldman: 14 standout (non-festival) summer shows

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 10, 2017

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city’s 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

Here’s the lineup for the 2017 Locust Street Festival

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2017

The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city’s best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 11, the 41st installment of the ...

Andrew Shelp talks expansion, highlights, future of Milwaukee Psych Fest

Kevin Mueller

May 10, 2017

Long known as a power pop town, Milwaukee has often forsaken its burgeoning psychedelic music scene in favor of more accessible sonic pursuits. Over the last five years, however, musician Andrew Shelp (of Moss ...

Milwaukee Record’s guide to Milwaukee-area frozen custard

Lauren Keene

May 9, 2017

If beer is Milwaukee's signature drink and cheese is Milwaukee's signature snack, frozen custard is the obvious candidate for Milwaukee's signature dessert.Custard was introduced to a wide audience at the C...

Tucked Away: Holy Land Grocery & Deli

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2017

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...

Here’s the 2017 Cream City Comedy Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2017

In its inaugural year, Cream City Comedy Festival brought 11 stand-up, improv, and variety shows to venues in four Milwaukee neighborhoods over the course of four days. Better yet, all the shows were free. Best...