Here’s the MishMash Fest 2016 lineup
//One event we failed to mention in our otherwise thorough and exhaustive Summer Festival Guide was MishMash Fest. Since The Fatty Acids unofficially christened the inaugural event with an amp fire back in...
MKE SEX: Losing the appetite for oral
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Dear MKE SEX,About eight months ago, I had a baby. The birth was hard, but just a normal kind of hard. Nothing dramatic. My husband was great during the whole thing, and afterward we felt closer than e...
On The Record Episode 72: Mid-summer recap and Ask Us Anything (Live!)
//For yet another endearingly slipshod Facebook Live episode, hosts Tyler Maas and Matt Wild take a breath, wipe their brows, and recap the first half of Summer 2016. Items discussed include the best Milwa...
Make these fancy craft cocktails using Hi-C Ecto Cooler
//Friday brings the long-awaited release of Ghostbusters to theaters everywhere. In preparation for the highly anticipated and/or dreaded reboot of the legendary 1984 film, geeks and nerds and dogs and cat...
I beaned Milwaukee Brewers great Geoff Jenkins with a wiffle ball
//On July 12, 2016, Potawatomi Hotel & Casino hosted the inaugural Potawatomi All-Star Wiffle Ball Tournament. This "first of its kind" wiffle ball competition claimed to be the largest such tournament...
Review: Elvis impersonator at a classic car show in the St. Francis Hardee’s parking lot
//There are a lot of factors that can go into making a show a "can't-miss" event. Perhaps an artist is at the height of his of her popularity or is making an ultra-rare live appearance after years of seclu...
Counter-Craft Night Market prepares to light up Riverwest
//Milwaukee's past and present are stuffed with maker-friendly arts-and-crafts extravaganzas. Influential events like Art Vs. Craft and Gallery Night And Day have laid the handmade groundwork for the Urban...
Enlightened Brewing Company readies taproom for late July open
//Almost three years ago, Tommy Vandervort and James Larson moved their small arsenal of brewing equipment to a small, secluded room in an upper level of Lincoln Warehouse that had space for about 10 peopl...
Introducing the “People’s Socks of Milwaukee”
//On June 14, following a highly publicized contest that drew more than 1,000 entries, a group called "The People's Flag of Milwaukee" unveiled, well, the "People's Flag of Milwaukee." The new flag was mea...
Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent is increasing faster than any other U.S. city
//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...
Twin Brother frontman goes it alone (for now) on ‘Solo’
//Save for a rare show here and there, Twin Brother has been in hiding for much of 2016. There are some reasons for that, actually. Not long after the release of 2014's Swallow The Anchor, the emotive folk...
Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September
//The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Ni...
First Impression: Urban Harvest Brewing Company
//Once regarded for such amenities as its good-to-great Mexican restaurants, sustaining a pocket of night clubs, and, well, being pretty close to 2nd Street and all its nightlife, 5th Street in Walker's Po...
Bare witness to The Blue Mooners’ “Never Meant To Moon You” video
//Way back in 2014, we formally introduced you to the informal musical stylings of The Blue Mooners, a side project with a fixation on bare buttocks. Since the release of that self-titled debut, which incl...
Yeah, Bro! Episode 64: Military with Mike Nauheim
//Every week, we’ll be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about “gay things” (usually) with straight men. You can also stream our partner p...
Paul McCartney still had something to prove at last night’s Marcus Amphitheater show
//When Paul McCartney came to Miller Park in July of 2013, Milwaukeeans made some silent calculations and determined that this would probably be our last chance to see the Beatle perform. Some 43,000 of us...
Tracklist: 19 bygone Milwaukee festivals
//As can be expected for a place with the "City Of Festivals" nickname, Milwaukee isn't exactly hurting for fun, unique, and downright strange events. Though residents always seem open to getting out and c...
There will (technically) be a bar in the basement of Grand Avenue
//When the Applebee's on Wisconsin Avenue tragically closed last month, the chain restaurant's departure didn't just leave the already-ailing Shops Of Grand Avenue with one fewer occupant, it also cost the...
I used Summerfest shuttles as my personal taxi service
//Every year, Summerfest brings close to a million people to Henry Maier Festival Park. With the 11-day festival's attendance equaling roughly one-sixth of the state's population, parking anywhere in the v...
Poor turnout at “People’s Flag” meeting points to potential problems with “People’s Flag” movement
Wednesday night, in a show of community support not seen since that time 71 people signed a Change.org petition to book DJ Paris Hilton at every Summerfest until the apocalypse, a dozen people, three journali...