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We’re showing ‘BASEketball’ at Avalon Theater

March 3, 2017

Way back in July of 1998, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were enjoying newfound success with South Park, which premiered the previous summer. As the world was first getting to know the groundbreaking and influentia...

Joan La Rosa returns from comedy crash course in China

Tyler Maas

March 3, 2017

In no particular order, starting out in stand-up comedy and moving to a faraway country whose language you don't know are probably the first and second biggest fears for most Americans. Joan La Rosa is the exce...

This Is It! wants you to re-design its logo

Tyler Maas

March 3, 2017

This Is It! is nothing short of a Milwaukee—no, a Wisconsin—institution. Billing itself as "Milwaukee's oldest gay bar, "TITs" has been a presence on Wells Street in Cathedral Square since 1968. Initially, it k...

The new Fuel is nothing like the original Fuel, and that’s fine

Matt Wild

March 2, 2017

My first Milwaukee memories are of Fuel Cafe. I moved here in 1996, three years after the now-iconic coffee shop/cafe opened in Riverwest. Like many of my friends, I spent an inordinate amount of time at Fuel. ...

Stream The Zach Pietrini Band’s ‘Holding Onto Ghosts’

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

Zach Pietrini is a work in progress. That's not an indictment of his talent as much as it is an acknowledgement of Americana troubadour's unwillingness to spend too much time in any single creative territory. S...

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

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season changes an...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (February 19-25)

Matt Wild

March 1, 2017

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 ...

The Phoenix Cocktail Club is offering a “Mardi Gras menu” for a limited time

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2017

Though The Phoenix Cocktail Club has only been open since New Year's Eve, the Cathedral Square restaurant and lounge has quickly shown patrons they're not your typical downtown establishment. Certain drinks c...

Public Domain: Stomata performs “Alouetté”

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo’s Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve n...

First Impression: City Lights Brewing Company

Tyler Maas

February 28, 2017

As encouraging as it is to see a sudden influx of brand new breweries, brewpubs, and the like opening up in Milwaukee (and nearby suburbs), the newfound allure of Brew City has also brought about the relocati...

Retro-game-inspired ‘Quest For The Sacred Orb’ reminds grade school adventurers it’s dangerous to go alone

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

What does it mean when a theater troupe, having recently produced original plays inspired by the works of whacked-out directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch, claims its latest production is its most expe...

Here are the nominees for the 2017 WAMI Awards

Matt Wild

February 28, 2017

Who's got WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? Do you have WAMI fever? We all have WAMI fever. Today, the folks behind the Wisconsin Area Music Industry unveiled the nominees for WAMI's 37th annual awards show...

15 interesting things about Milwaukee, the Bucks in George Karl’s new memoir, ‘Furious George’

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2017

Last month, legendary NBA coach George Karl published a book he co-wrote with Curt Sampson entitled, Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection. In the revealing...

Something To Do’s “Tina Fey II” music video phones it in

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2017

Aren't videos shot on phones the worst? Between the low definition picture, high likelihood of user error—seriously, stop filming things vertically, people!—and garbled audio, there's not much reason to captu...

People behind “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” still trying to make it the official flag of Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 24, 2017

It's been nearly nine months since the unveiling of the so-called "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The People's Flag, as you may or may not choose to remember, was the product of an much-ballyhooed contest that ...

Buckle the f*ck up: The Milwaukee Streetcar cometh (in April)

Matt Wild

February 24, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Buckle the fuck up and prepare to either rejoice or use the word "boondoggl...

Bo & Airo go off in new “Sirens” music video

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2017

As far as projects formed out of a pun made in a text message conversation go, it's safe to say Bo & Airo is one of the best around. In 2015, Bo Triplex (namesake and bandleader of Bo Triplex And His Beau...

MKE SEX: Quickies, pt. 2

Lucky Tomaszek

February 24, 2017

broadstreet.zone(49071); Last July, I wrote "Quickies," 10 questions answered in 25 words or less. The short answer format seemed to resonate with a lot of folks. In the seven months since then, I've collected...

Inside Milwaukee’s green rooms: Company Brewing, Linneman’s, Mad Planet

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2017

While countless people flock to Milwaukee's numerous clubs, theaters, arenas, concert-equipped coffee shops, and other performance spaces every year, only a select few are allowed to peer behind the scenes. U...

Remembering the time the ‘Bugle American’ offices totally got firebombed

Matt Wild

February 23, 2017

Milwaukee has a long, strange history of alternative newspapers. There's the Shepherd Express, of course (originally dubbed the Crazy Shepherd), which still graces news racks and restaurant window ledges toda...