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Great Job, Wisconsin! People wonder why we’re so “cold,” “humid,” and “drunk”

October 18, 2016

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 dei...

Join us October 24 for the Local Coverage draft at Company Brewing

Tyler Maas

October 18, 2016

After two encouraging, fun, and overwhelmingly positive years of Milwaukee Record's "Local Coverage" benefit, we're thrilled to announce the show that brings a diverse menagerie of Milwaukee acts together to ...

Xposed 4Heads’ “Save All Monsters” is a graveyard smash

Matt Wild

October 18, 2016

When we last checked in with Xposed 4Heads, the on-again, off-again, three-decades-and-counting Milwaukee goof-rock band was celebrating the holidays—all the holidays—with a wacky tune called "Sing Along Agai...

19 Milwaukee Halloween weekend shows

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2016

Even though there's still close to two weeks between now and Halloween weekend, there's so much going on in the Milwaukee from October 28 through October 31, you'll probably need time to set your plans. With ...

Relive Beet Street Harvest Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 17, 2016

For approximately eight hours this weekend, a two-block chunk of Bay View was transformed into a fall utopia. Saturday's inaugural Beet Street Harvest Festival—a collaboration between Goodkind, Palomino, and ...

Hey you guys! Sheriff Clarke is totally going to beat up Daniel Bice by the bike racks after school!

Matt Wild

October 17, 2016

Over the weekend, professional internet troll, hat-wearer, television pundit, podcast host, speaker, and, oh yeah, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke made headlines when he tweeted it was "pitchforks and t...

An oral history of The Mistreaters’ Packers van going up in flames on a Texas highway

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2016

The Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys rivalry has been raging since 1967's unforgettable Ice Bowl. Things went Green Bay's way in the '60s and Dallas' in the '70s. Both teams kind of sucked ass in the 1980...

MKE SEX: Consent, assault, and rape culture

Lucky Tomaszek

October 14, 2016

broadstreet.zone(49071); A week ago, videotape was released of the Republican presidential candidate talking about some of the perks of being a star. By now, we've all seen the tape, and witnessed brutal knock-...

“Slap Fights With Kpolly” brings James Spader drawings, butts to Hot Pop

Matt Wild

October 14, 2016

When we last caught up with Milwaukee artist Kristopher Pollard—a.k.a. Kpolly—he was fulfilling his duties as Milwaukee Film Membership Manager by donning a blue bathrobe and dancing seductively before a scre...

There’s a burger beef between two restaurants in Cudahy

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2016

Cudahy is a lot of things. It's often reduced to stereotypes (of varying accuracy) directed at its longstanding industrial identity. It's a vibrant and promising place where young families, business owners, and...

Here’s everything you need to know about the inaugural Beet Street Harvest Festival

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2016

Last month, we announced the inaugural Beet Street Harvest Festival. The fall fest—taking place on Wentworth and Potter avenues in Bay View from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 15—is an ambitious joint...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent went up another 7% from September to October

Matt Wild

October 13, 2016

First Impression: Bumstead Provisions

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2016

It's been a long road there, but Bay View is now home to a restaurant unlike any other in the neighborhood and, arguably, the entire city. In summer 2015, Twelve12 Hospitality Group—which owns and operates Cr...

The Vanguard will become a seafood restaurant called Hook, Line & Sinker for a night

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2016

The Vanguard isn't afraid to shake things up. Though the sausages the Bay View restaurant and bar serves up on a daily basis are deserving of the oodles of acclaim from local and national dining sources alike...

Oh yeah, Judge’s on North Ave. will probably become luxury apartments, too

Matt Wild

October 12, 2016

Like Joni Mitchell once sang: they paved an East Side dive bar, and put up some luxury apartments. Yes, Judge's Irish Pub, located at 1431 E. North Avenue, vacant since 2013, and once a beacon for so...

On The Record Episode 82: Fall stuff and Ask Us Anything (Live from Cactus Club!)

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 12, 2016

For another completely random—though decidedly less slipshod—Facebook Live episode of On The Record, hosts Tyler Maas and Matt Wild set up shop at Bay View's venerable Cactus Club to discuss a whole bunch of ...

Milwaukee drummer Casey Marnocha talks about landing spot in Oozing Wound

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2016

While a Milwaukee musician being part of an out-of-town act isn't unheard of, it is something of a rarity. Recently, former Catacombz drummer Casey Marnocha became the latest local musician to get the distinc...

Cue up debut demo from Milwaukee’s scandalous, sleazy Sex Scenes

Matt Wild

October 11, 2016

Depending on your age, your first exposure to sex likely involved one of the following: finding a stack of Playboys in the woods; watching a scrambled Skinemax channel on TV; the internet. Whatever that porta...

Don’t call me write: NOFX will sign books at Boswell in November

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2016

Boswell Book Company can always be counted upon to add a dash of sophistication and charm to Downer Avenue with an impressive selection of literature and engaging discussions with respected authors on a regul...

13 standout moments from the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 10, 2016

After 15 days of events, parties, panel discussions, and more movies than any sane human being could possibly watch (282 of them, to be exact), the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival came to a close last week Thurs...