First Impression: Pepi’s Place
//Let's be clear, Pepi's Pizza isn't new. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Milwaukee pizzeria with a longer history or more loyal customer base than the Italian joint that thrived on 16th Street be...
Exclusive: Stream the new City Of Ghosts EP, ‘PRISMS’
//Excluding a select few shows, including an acoustic Warped Tour set a few years ago and playing in support of Glassjaw at The Rave last month, Milwaukee's City Of Ghosts hasn't exactly been on the radar ...
What can two commercial jingles from the ’80s teach us about the Milwaukee of today?
//Imagine Kraftwerk played by a kindergartener. Imagine a John Carpenter soundtrack piped through a Commodore 64. Imagine Daniel Johnston getting ahold of a busted synth and trying to sell you a couch and ...
Tracklist: 7 comedy specials filmed in Milwaukee
//Last Saturday, Pabst Theater hosted veteran comedian Kathleen Madigan for a pair of shows, which doubled as a live filming for her yet-untitled fourth comedy special. Citing reasons like the city's ease ...
Stream all three songs from Northless’ pummeling ‘Cold Migration’
//There's a reason terms like "pummeling" and "heavy as fuck" get tossed around when talking about Northless—the band's music tends to be, well, pummeling and heavy as fuck. For nearly a decade, the Milwau...
Here’s the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest
//Spring is in the air, and with it, summer festival announcements. Summerfest has already announced a handful of Marcus Amphitheater headliners (including Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Def Fucking Leppard), a...
Yeah, Bro! Episode 46: Producer and manager Mary Baird
//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...
First Impression: Urban Beets Cafe & Juicery
//While food trends come and go, and we'll be the first to admit buzz words like "artisan", "gluten-free" and "farm-to-table" have been misused and abused so often lately that the terms have been rendered ...
Brewers confirm that Hank the Dog is, in fact, the real Hank the Dog
//Friday morning, at an alternately silly and very, very serious press conference held at the Wisconsin Humane Society, Milwaukee Brewers officials confirmed that Hank the Dog is, in fact, the real Hank th...
We went to every George Webb in the world on February 29
This article was originally published in 2016.Leap Year. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, Western civilization is still granted a 29th day in February once every four ye...
FOX6 meteorologist Vince Condella is retiring
//For the past 34 years, Vince Condella has been Milwaukee's favorite Harley-riding, cool-uncle-vibing, occasionally mustachioed TV weatherman. Sadly, all good things (and all good stylin' meteorologists' ...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations
//Last week, owners of Milwaukee's venerable and forever-awesome Fuel Cafe announced plans to open a second Fuel in Walker's Point. Not only was it big news, it revealed just how much Fuel's reputation had...
Exclusive: Stream Slow Walker’s ‘Robert Plantain’s Grunge Lords’
//Milwaukee is hurting for rock and roll. Despite the positive state of local punk rock and (evidently) heavy metal, and there being no shortage of "indie rock" bands clustered beneath the catch-all classi...
Get ready for Thursday’s Bruce Springsteen show with a synthwave cover of “Dancing In The Dark”
//On Thursday, March 3, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will pitch their tent at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and deliver a fiery, delirious, three-hour sermon on the life-affirming power of Rock ...
Welcome To March: Here’s what you’re doing this month
//March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season chang...
Help make Rob Wieland’s new comic book, ‘Girls’ Heist Out,’ a kickass reality
//Throw a rock and you'll hit at least 8,000 local crowdfunding campaigns hoping to save a bar, save some domes, or finally get some men's underwear with waterproof pockets to market. There's an almost end...
Yeah, Bro! Episode 45: Gay superheroes with Alan Guszkowski
//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" with straight men. You can also stream our partner podcast on ...
Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ resurrected as grade school play ‘The Bully, The Liar & The Thief’
//In Jim Jarmusch's 1995 "psychedelic Western" Dead Man, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the dystopian town of Machine for a new job. Things don't go as planned, unfortunately, and Blake ends up sho...
I went to the new Whole Foods and Metro Market in one day
//The Milwaukee area has been graced by the opening of two grocery stores in little more than a week with the mammoth (and initially controversial) Metro Market opening on Oakland Ave. in Shorewood, and Wh...
Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder talks feminism, the Midwest, cat films
//In Jennifer Reeder's film A Million Miles Away, we witness teenage girls communicating with one another via subtitles, and sometimes wittily cryptic emojis. They whisper plans of starting bands, revoluti...