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August 1, 2016

//For those keeping score at home, this past weekend featured the Riverwest 24, MishMash Fest, German Fest, Milwaukee Brewfest, and probably 14 other FestFests. With all that ridiculous summer action, it w...

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

August 1, 2016

//Though it feels like summer just started, we've now entered the last full month of the season. Summer isn't going out with a whimper, though. Quite the opposite. Though the vast majority of the city's fe...

Journal Sentinel website, commenting system have finally been USA Today’d

August 1, 2016

//As predicted back in December 2015, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website has been completely redesigned to match the many sites owned by Gannett Co. Inc., and Gannett's USA Today Network. The redesign ...

Here’s the 2016 Center Street Daze Festival music lineup

August 1, 2016

Entering its 19th year, Center Street Daze Festival serves to remind Milwaukee the end of festival season is in sight. Just two months earlier and a few blocks north, Locust Street Festival Of Music And Art uno...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 3rd best city for beer lovers

August 1, 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, or any time a national publication deigns ...

Public Domain: Something To Do performs “Any Little Girl, That’s A Nice Little Girl, Is The Right Little Girl For Me”

July 29, 2016

//Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo's new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of th...

A Riverwest 24 dictionary for first-time riders

Kevin Mueller

July 29, 2016

//This weekend's Riverwest 24 can seem like an overwhelming experience. It is a 24-hour bike race, after all. But the Riverwest 24 is much more than just a bicycling competition. It offers an opportunity t...

Here’s everything you need to know about the 2016 Milwaukee Comedy Festival

July 29, 2016

//The Milwaukee Comedy Festival will officially kick off next Thursday. Going on its 11th year, the event pre-dates the city's still-swelling comic boom, and certainly helped local comedy evolve, through s...

MKE SEX: Quickies

Lucky Tomaszek

July 29, 2016

//A lot of sex ed questions require long, thoughtful, sensitive responses to fully articulate the facts while respecting each person's own situation and choices. Other sex ed questions are pretty clear cut...

Activities Archive unearths lost treasures from Milwaukee’s recent music past

July 28, 2016

//Zack Pieper and Didier Leplae have been sitting on some music. A lot of music.Over the course of the last 15 years or so, the two longtime Milwaukee musicians have performed in dozens of local bands ...

Let’s talk about the supposed death of the East Side some more

July 28, 2016

//Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

WMSE’s Friday Night Freak Show is returning to Times Cinema

July 28, 2016

//Rejoice, lovers of cult films and darkened theaters: After a 10-year break, WMSE's once-mighty Friday Night Freak Show is returning to the Times Cinema. Hell yes.The original incarnation of the midni...

Milwaukee Record’s guide to $1 beer specials

July 27, 2016

With literally thousands of bars in and around Milwaukee vying for limited drinking dollars, business owners need to get creative to stay ahead of the competition. Some bar owners draw in customers with great f...

A-side/B-side: Is the East Side dying?

July 27, 2016

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Tyler Maas:&...

Hamburger Mary’s is moving to the former La Perla building

July 27, 2016

Less than two weeks after the abrupt shutdown of longtime Walker's Point restaurant La Perla (why does this sound so familiar?), the building that housed the business for more than two decades has a new ...

Pop-up cocktail bar, “Club Paradise,” set to pop up at All Purpose July 28

July 27, 2016

//The concept of "pop-up" events has taken hold in Milwaukee in recent years, giving the city pop-up restaurants, pop-up art installations, and pop-up concerts. Now, a pop-up cocktail bar is set to take ov...

Visit The Globe East circa 1996 with Big Mother Gig video, prep for band’s reunion

July 26, 2016

//For Milwaukee music fans of a certain age and temperament, The Globe East will forever hold a special place in their alcohol-blurred minds, their noise-damaged ears, and their rapidly wilting hearts. The...

Hear Dan Harmon talk about losing his virginity under the Hoan Bridge

July 26, 2016

//This week Thursday through Saturday, comedian John Roy will come to Wisconsin to record his next album at Madison's renowned Comedy Club On State. Beyond amassing an impressive list of credits on every l...

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