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Hey! Here’s the 2024 Traveling Beer Garden schedule!

March 21, 2024

Hey! Do you like drinking? Do you like drinking in parks? Then you're in luck, because Milwaukee County Parks' ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden is returning for 2024. YES.The beer/park extravaganza will o...

Bird City, Milwaukee County: Touring the parks of Glendale (and keeping cats indoors)

Kyle Arpke

March 20, 2024

Bird City, Milwaukee County is a monthly column celebrating the 11 cities, towns, and villages that have achieved Bird City status within Milwaukee County. Citizens of these locations have made bird conservatio...

We’d say Barely Civil’s ‘I’d Say I’m Not Fine’ is downright outstanding

Tyler Maas

March 20, 2024

After learning about about Barely Civil embarrassingly late—at least for a publication that specializes in Milwaukee arts and music coverage—by way of the band's excellent 2020 sophomore album I'll Figure This ...

19 photos of Deer District’s new New Fashioned, plus 1 photo of last night’s nice sunset

Matt Wild

March 20, 2024

The first thing to know about The New Fashioned (1122 Vel R. Phillips Ave.) is that it's big. The former Punch Bowl Social space in the Deer District clocks in at two floors and 25,000 square feet. Milwaukee's ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (March 6-19)

Matt Wild

March 20, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

Milwaukee musician Sigmund Snopek III is the subject of a new 6.5-hour documentary

Matt Wild

March 20, 2024

If you've been around the Milwaukee music scene for a while—and/or have ever attended a Locust Street Fest—you know Sigmund Snopek III. The tireless musician and WAMI Hall of Famer has been beating his own drum...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Best of Local/Live (and more!)

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 20, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, March 19, 2024: Best...

Early voting starts today for the April 2 Spring and Presidential Preference Election

Matt Wild

March 19, 2024

Remember last month when you voted in the relatively quiet and straightforward 2024 Spring Primary? Well, get ready for the slightly more exciting general election: the 2024 Spring and Presidential Preference E...

A guide to finding Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers on UFL rosters

Tyler Maas

March 19, 2024

In case you haven't heard, there's a brand new football league. Yes, the combination of FOX Corporation's financial capital, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's star power/influence, and America's need for year-round p...

Hear some of the season’s best local music with our “Winter 2024” playlist

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 19, 2024

We made it, Milwaukee. In a matter of just a few hours, winter will be officially over—though we're not ruling out a few more instances of snow and sub-zero temps in the weeks to come—and spring will be upon us...

Here’s Milwaukee County Executive Crowley’s 2024 State of the County address

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 19, 2024

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley delivered his 2024 State of the County address Tuesday afternoon at Discovery World. During the address, among other things, "County Executive Crowley discussed envision...

Those “insane” advisory bike lanes on Edgewood Avenue: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

March 18, 2024

If there's one thing Milwaukee residents and people who simply pass through Milwaukee can agree on, it's that the city has a reckless driving/driver problem. Article after article, study after study, and horror...

Only 16 songs by The Promise Ring remain in our “March Sadness” bracket

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 18, 2024

And then there were 16! Following two "March Sadness: The Promise Ring Song Bracket" rounds that found approximately 12,000 total votes being cast, our hand-selected field of 64 compositions by The Promise Ring...

Midwest Gaming Classic, Rockabilly Chili and 16 other Milwaukee spring festivals

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 18, 2024

Milwaukee is known as the "City Of Festivals" for good reason. The city and its surrounding suburbs routinely play host to dozens upon dozens of ambitious undertakings that range from festivals, block parties, ...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: NiNi

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 16, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Kenosha’s Birchwood Grill boasts buffet with 5 billion choices

Caleb Westphal

March 15, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #532: Birchwood Grill in Kenosha,...

Nicki Minaj, Joe Pera, The Sloppy Boys and 27 other standout spring shows

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 15, 2024

Between the gradual increase of daylight, the return of baseball, rising temps, a fever pitch of Aaron Rodgers-related idiocy, and a steady stream of festival announcements, it’s starting to feel a lot like spr...

Dogs In Ecstasy give us liner notes for ‘Clear The Decks: Demos From The First 100 Years (Long May They Reign)’

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 15, 2024

"Dogs In Ecstasy will never die."That's the final line of the "new" Dogs In Ecstasy album, Clear The Decks: Demos From The First 100 Years (Long May They Reign). We're putting "new" in quotes because, as th...

BLAX previews ‘The Blaxploitation’ with new single, podcast

Matt Wild

March 15, 2024

When we last caught up with BLAX, the veteran Milwaukee MC was channeling director Wes Anderson for the wonderful "Intelligent Beings" video. The video came a year after the release of the full-length Angeline,...

Stuff We Missed: Those darn scooters might return to Wauwatosa, too

Matt Wild

March 15, 2024

Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: those darn scooters! Again!• In case you missed it, those darn dockless electric...