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15 ways to celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day

February 6, 2017

Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundantly tr...

Relive Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2017 with these photos

Tyler Maas

February 6, 2017

For the fifth consecutive year, Burnhearts curated a winning wintry mix of live music, rare and delicious craft beer, tasty food and barrel-aged cocktails, locally-made wares, and charity that comes together ...

Dad’s “Pastor” music video is an exorcise in absurdity

Tyler Maas

February 6, 2017

When last we heard from Dad, the Milwaukee rap-scallion was transporting listeners to the 18th century with his Civil War-based "17th Century" music video. In the four months since premiering the single, Dad—...

The Shorewood Library is selling a life-size ‘Goodnight Moon’ diorama for $75 (or best offer)

Tyler Maas

February 4, 2017

If you were among those who kicked yourself for missing out on the affordable oddity of the Johnson's Park dinosaur that sold for $11 at auction, there's something else currently on the market that might be o...

Milwaukee Record Stage will return to PrideFest

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2017

While the current conditions outside aren't doing much to support the claim, Milwaukee's festival season is right around the corner. Though this weekend's Mitten Fest is a good preview for what's to come, the...

Milwaukee musicians join Bandcamp in sharing the wealth today

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2017

With America's executive and legislative branches pretty much turning their backs on immigrants and refugees these days, the onus of maintaining some semblance of responsibility and social consciousness for o...

Sheriff Clarke gets a lot of free shit for doing whatever it is he does, is being sued

Matt Wild

February 3, 2017

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• It's been a hot minute since we checked in with Milwaukee County Sheriff Da...

New ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season will feature Milwaukee contestant

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2017

Last night, RuPaul's Drag Race announced the 13 competitors who will be featured on the ninth season of the Emmy-winning Logo network series. While most of the contestants composing the bakers dozen hail from...

Pokemon Go and Pokemon Go-like games will have to apply for permits in Milwaukee County Parks

Matt Wild

February 2, 2017

Yes, Milwaukee is still talking about Pokemon Go. And still trying to make it (and other games) pay for permits to take up virtual space in Milwaukee County Parks. Wait, scratch that last part, because Milwau...

First Impression: Third Coast Provisions

Tommy Ciaccio

February 2, 2017

Less than a decade ago, Milwaukee's restaurant scene—if you could call it that—was a spackling of stalwarts-turned-culinary linchpins. Most of these spots had clear and easily defined concepts (French bistro,...

Milwaukee Bucks trade guy with uncredited ‘Parks & Recreation’ cameo for guy with recurring ‘Parks & Recreation’ role

Tyler Maas

February 2, 2017

Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks finalized a trade that will send struggling center Miles Plumlee to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for a pair of veteran seven-footers, Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes. The deal f...

PHOX says goodbye (for now) at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach

February 2, 2017

Farewell tours must be the worst. Imagine being onstage, "celebrating" this thing that has made you who you are, knowing the whole time that it's about to end. Especially when you're an iconic frontwoman gett...

Secondhand news: A guide to Milwaukee-area thrift stores

Lauren Keene

February 1, 2017

After the Great Recession, thrifting became a staple activity for many Americans coping with financial instability. In Southeastern Wisconsin alone, Goodwill's profits increased by 90 percent from 2009 to 201...

Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2017

Tyler Maas

February 1, 2017

After months of cold, dreariness, premature darkness, and an absence of outdoor activity, the fifth annual Burnhearts Mitten Fest is just days away. For eight hours on Saturday, February 4, portions of Potter...

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

Tyler Maas

February 1, 2017

February holds the distinction of being the year’s shortest month, one of Wisconsin’s coldest spans of time, and the final full month of winter. However, this particular February finds Milwaukee artists and v...

Milwaukee’s dreamy connection to The Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream”

Matt Wild

February 1, 2017

The music of the 1950s and early '60s remains strangely evocative. Sure, pop songs from that time may conjure up images of malt shops and sock hops, but there's something ethereal, something otherworldly about,...

Public Domain: Field Report performs “The Lost Chord”

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 31, 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...

We ate more than 7 pounds of pretzel sandwich for, uh, science

Tyler Maas

January 31, 2017

It's not exactly going out on a limb to declare Milwaukee Record to be the city's—and likely the state's—foremost outlet for all your "ill-fated and all-around dumb food and drink adventures executed for no p...

Here’s the 2017 Traveling Beer Garden schedule

Matt Wild

January 31, 2017

Do you like drinking? (Click here if you don't.) Do you like drinking outside? Do you like drinking in places you wouldn't normally expect a lot of (legal) drinking, like public parks? Then you're in luck, be...

12 (non-touristy) things to do in Milwaukee (without drinking)

Maggie Iken

January 30, 2017

Five months ago, I stopped drinking. Coincidentally, my social life also got a lot tamer/lamer around the same time. Living in a city known for beer, I find myself staying in almost every night and not having...