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On The Record Episode 58: Spring show preview

March 16, 2016

//After trudging through yet another long, unforgiving, and somewhat boring Wisconsin winter, spring has arrived. Well, almost. Along with the increased sunlight and climbing temperatures, a wealth of grea...

We went to Anime Milwaukee 2016 and this is what we saw

Tea Krulos

March 15, 2016

//Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea KrulosAnime MKE (AMKE, pronounced am-key, for short) returned for its ninth year the weekend of March 11-13. Started as a small event at UW-Milwaukee, the ...

Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

Matt Wild

March 15, 2016

//Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony di...

You can rent this East Side bird house for $825 a month

Tyler Maas

March 15, 2016

//The East Side is changing. Sure, the neighborhood—like much of Milwaukee—has always been in a state of flux, but the rapid and rampant construction of massive, view-obstructing condos and cookie-cutter a...

Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...

Blondie, GGOOLLDD to close out PrideFest 2016

Tyler Maas

March 14, 2016

//Passes to Pridefest 2016—June 10-12 at Henry Maier Festival Park—have already been selling quite well, especially considering the long-running LGBTQ+ celebration and annual kickoff of Milwaukee's festiva...

Here’s the undeniably awesome lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Day show at Turner Hall

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//On Thursday, April 14, Milwaukeeans young and old will join as one, raise their voices to the heavens, and celebrate the greatest holiday to be based on an area code. Yes, we're just one month away from ...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

March 14, 2016

//Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on the ci...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 47: Arielle Yanasak

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 14, 2016

//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...

Carly Rae Jepsen (and Bob Saget?) takes Turner Hall on bumpy, fun adventure

Monica Reida

March 12, 2016

//Carly Rae Jepsen will forever be known best for "Call Me Maybe," the hit single the Canadian singer released in 2012. If you were near anything that emitted sound during that summer, you heard the song. ...

O.J. Mayo and 10 other strange Milwaukee sports injuries

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2016

//Yesterday, Bucks guard O.J. Mayo's saw his season (and likely his Milwaukee basketball career) come to an abrupt end when he fractured his ankle falling down his home stairs. Now relegated to sixth-man—e...

Ladies Rock Milwaukee bands women together through collaboration

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2016

//Last year, the inaugural Ladies Rock Milwaukee camp brought 16 women together for a weekend anchored on the principles of positivity and collaboration. Four bands worth of first-time musicians picked up ...

Antler House’s “Wabbit” video takes light sounds heavy places

Tyler Maas

March 11, 2016

//It's been a while since we've heard from Antler House, whose 2014 debut full-length Through The Dirt was equal parts ghastly and gorgeous. Excluding a scant few shows since the record release, the local ...

MKE SEX: Anxious about asexuality

Lucky Tomaszek

March 11, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX,I've recently realized I'm somewhere on the asexual orientation. I've only been sexually attracted to four people in my entire life and my feeling about sex is, "This is pretty much two sw...

Tucked Away: Thai Bar-B-Que

Tommy Ciaccio

March 10, 2016

//Milwaukee isn't exactly suffering a drought when it comes to Thai food. There are classics like Farwell Avenue stalwart E.E. Sane, but if that doesn't fit your mood, there are four other restaurants dish...

Spock you like a hurricane: Justin Freer and Dennis McCarthy talk “Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage”

Rob Wieland

March 10, 2016

//Music is an important part of the pop culture breakfast. Theme songs, especially, spark a rush of nostalgia and emotional connection to favorite scenes or characters. But of all the pop culture franchise...

The Living Statues sidle up to the bar in slick, sexy “Valicity” video

Matt Wild

March 10, 2016

//Who among us, man or woman, hasn't sidled up to a bar one lonely night and stewed over love lost or discarded? And who among us, man or woman, hasn't done so at The Hotel Foster while the object of our o...

Here’s an up-to-date timeline of the Mitchell Park Domes saga

Matt Wild

March 9, 2016

//On January 29, 2016, a fallen chunk of concrete was discovered in one of the Mitchell Park Domes, thus kicking off a heated and increasingly confusing battle over the fate of the beloved-but-aging Milwau...

On The Record Episode 57: Milwaukee Comedy Festival and Fringe Fest co-founder Matt Kemple

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 9, 2016

//Matt Kemple is a busy man. When he's not producing theatrical events and comedy showcases at the Underground Collaborative (which he founded and manages), he's booking nationally known comedians like God...

Comedian Dylan Payne making good on early opportunities

Tyler Maas

March 9, 2016

//With a little more than a year of true stage time to his credit, comedian Dylan Payne is part of an encouraging young crop of comics pushing Milwaukee stand-up onward after the city said goodbye to a han...