First Impression: Supper
//Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Supper (1962 N. Prospect Ave., 414-509-6074), the new venture from Gina Gruenewald, of Wolf Peach ownership and wood-fired deliciousness, offers a contemporary ta...
Scrimshaw’s ‘Welcome To The Henry Herschel Commercial’ is wonderfully weird, just plain wonderful
To enter the world of Scrimshaw is to enter a world where Dr. Demento rules the radio, Mad magazine is required college reading, and Don Knotts is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the 10th year running. Milwa...
Who owns “Milwaukee.com,” and why is nothing there?
//Right now, at this very moment, there are approximately 8,000 websites you can visit to get information on what’s happening in Milwaukee. There’s the city’s official website. There’s the tourism-minded V...
On The Record Episode 44: Food trends
//Milwaukee food is having something of a moment right now. Long known as a bastion of beer, brats, cheese, starchy sides, and, uh, pretty much nothing else, the city—in line with the national “foodie” sur...
The Belle Weather packs light on ‘Suitcase’
//After more than three overcast years, the sun is beginning to shine favorably on The Belle Weather. The Sheboygan-based band first earned some awareness with 2013’s Hold On, 11 fair-to-middling songs fir...
Exclusive: Stream Bad Wig’s debut EP
//Late last month, we reported the band Milwaukee had come to know and love under the moniker The Midwestern Charm would forge on under the name Bad Wig. The change in identification came as a result of a ...
Make your intimate, icky dreams come true by starring in a new ad for Sybaris Pool Suites
//Remember that scene in Blue Valentine when Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams go to a cheesy “romantic” motel and have incredibly depressing sex? God, what an uncomfortable, disheartening scene. God, wha...
Skinny Puppy bring politicized industrial, over-the-top theatrics to The Rave
//The Milwaukee stop of Skinny Puppy’s “Down The SocioPath” tour graced The Rave Monday night, with opener Youth Code in tow. Canada’s Skinny Puppy, touring as a four-piece, including original members Ogre...
Patton Oswalt will headline Laugh It Up Milwaukee on January 30
//You'd be hard-pressed to find a modern comedian who as influential, who is quoted as often, or who holds a higher average ranking among today's self-described comedy nerds than Patton Oswalt. The veteran...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 10: Vanguard
//In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to Riverside Theater, ruin your favorite movies
//Back in December 2014, everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, champion of reason, and walking meme Neil deGrasse Tyson dropped by Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater for two enlightening shows dedicated to all th...
RISK! takes Colectivo’s back room on emotional, rewarding ride
//Over the course of six years and 700-plus episodes, there isn't much that RISK!—the popular storytelling podcast hosted by Kevin Allison of The State semi-notoriety—hasn't done. The comic and his eclecti...
Fourth annual Mad Planet Ugly Sweater Holiday Party lineup, date announced
//In its first three years, Mad Planet’s Ugly Sweater Holiday Party has combined some of Milwaukee’s best musical acts and worst seasonal garments into a wonderful yuletide event that has become as much a ...
Are there really anti-Semitic messages hidden in a Shorewood sculpture?
UPDATE #2: What in the actual fuck they’re taking it down and changing it. Mary Louise Schumacher has more.UPDATE #1: Mary Louise Schumacher has a response to the “controversy” from two gallery owners speak...
Extra Points: 69 things that happened since the last time the Detroit Lions won at Lambeau Field
//To paraphrase the dude from Staind, it's been a whiiiiiiiile since the Detroit Lions have beat the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. More specifically, Detroit hasn't emerged victorious from a game in ...
Wisconsin ranked No. 1 for trendy true-crime serial documentaries
//Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Netflix is jumping on that sweet, sweet Serial/Jinx bandwagon with a 1...
Mozzaluna Pizzeria & Ristorante and local award hate
//Annual local award season has come to Milwaukee in full force. Not coincidentally, local award backlash season arrived in Milwaukee just nanoseconds later. The party paramount in the crosshairs of crotch...
Sheriff Clarke parked in a handicapped-accessible spot at the War Memorial on Veterans Day because he’s lazy and morally bankrupt
//When he’s not busy squeezing out liberal-baiting tweets so tired and by-the-numbers they make Rush Limbaugh look like Oscar fucking Wilde, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. is keeping Milwauk...
Uncanny Soup Co. is closed
//Back in November 2014, we paid a visit to then-new Water St. soup joint Uncanny Soup Co. (612 N. Water St., 414-231-3706). Here was our verdict:
Of all the soup places in Downtown Milwaukee, Uncanny Sou...
On The Record Episode 43: Victor DeLorenzo and Janet Schiff
//As a founding member of the seminal Violent Femmes, Victor DeLorenzo has left an indelible impression on the world of music and pop culture, one that reaches far beyond the Femmes’ hometown of Milwaukee ...