First Impression: Osgood’s
//Bartolotta Restaurants seem to have a sizable stake in metro Milwaukee dining. At this point in time, it's almost more strange for a new dining establishment to open in or around Milwaukee and not be nes...
Kevin Allison reaps rewards from RISK!
//In the years since being a cast member on the seminal sketch show The State, Kevin Allison fell on some tough times. As his comedy cohorts were amassing credits, he battled social anxiety, stage fright, ...
Tracklist: 10 “outrageous” Sheriff Clarke tweets (from the past 72 hours)
//There’s an old Onion article where a just-past-his-prime Marilyn Manson is going door-to-door in a small Kansas City suburb trying to shock people. Draped in sheep entrails, Manson arrives at the home of...
Get fucked up (in more ways than one) with the video for Soul Low’s “Always Watchin’ Out”
//Soul Low is the kind of band you’d like to take home to your mom: youthful, charming, dapperly dressed. But even nice guys (or, in the parlance of Soul Low, nice dads) have a hard time meeting that speci...
The Frying Dutchmen prepares for takeoff
//Tonight, The Frying Dutchmen will hit the road for the first time. Though tonight's soft opening outside Blackbird Bar will be the food truck's first time feeding the general public, the inaugural journe...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 9: Walter’s On North
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 Week 1, Week 2, We...
“Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage” will voyage to Riverside Theater March 13
//The Star Trek franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. That’s five decades of Star Trek books, Star Trek comics, Star Trek video games, Star Trek action figures, Star Trek conventions, Star...
Where are they building luxury apartments you’ll never be able to afford THIS week?
//Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Where are ...
Jackass’ Preston Lacy does, uh, something at Cactus Club
//Ironically, comedy can oftentimes be a cruel and humorless industry. While the art of making others laugh can propel people to international notoriety, untold levels of wealth, and immense influence, the...
Exclusive: Stream GGOOLLDD’s new EP, ‘For The Night’
//It’s incredible to think that GGOOLLDD has only been around for two years. Originally intended to be a playful project that would dissolve after its inaugural show in an East Side attic three Halloweens ...
Ton Johnson talks storytelling, comic collaboration, 2016 goals
//Though he says he tried and failed to be the class clown in high school, Milwaukee comedian Anton "Ton" Johnson eventually developed his material enough to give stand-up a belated try. Since he made his ...
Watch Red Letter Media predict exactly what will happen in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
//It’s hard to overstate just how much Red Letter Media has influenced the way the Internet talks about Star Wars. The Milwaukee-based production company—made up of Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, the cherubic ...
Let’s talk about excessive guest lists at shows, Milwaukee
//Earlier this week, Milwaukee musician Klassik, fresh from a Halloween show at Company Brewing, took to Twitter to speak his mind about a seemingly innocuous subject: guest lists at shows. Here’s what he ...
On The Record Episode 42: Milwaukee punk rock
//Punk rock isn’t dead. In fact, it’s in quite good shape in and around Milwaukee these days. Between punk and hardcore bands like Direct Hit!, Expire, and Tenement currently making waves across state line...
Holy fucking shit the Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season
//Holy fucking shit the Milwaukee Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock next season. As revealed today by the club, the All-Fan Giveaway will be available at the July 10, 2016 Brewers/Ca...
I tried (and utterly failed) Zaffiro’s first “Big Z Challenge”
//I'm incredibly sad to inform you, reader, that this is quite possibly my final post at Milwaukee Record. You see, I am dying. Probably very soon.Okay, perhaps none of that stuff is exactly true. Howe...
Former Schwartz booksellers spin tale of mystery, murder, shady animals in ‘Shady Hollow’
A small-town gossip columnist stumbles across a body floating in a pond. An intrepid reporter takes up the case and starts sniffing around. A peaceful village is revealed to be a mysterious place full of dark s...
Welcome to November: Here’s what you’re doing this month
November. Summer is now far in the rear view mirror. Your Halloween costume has been washed, de-vomited, and stored away for later use. The extra hour of sleep you enjoyed over the weekend as a result of daylig...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 8: Club Garibaldi
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 Week 1, Week 2, We...
Author Patrick Tomlinson prepares to launch ‘The Ark’
National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo if you’re into the whole brevity thing, began yesterday. Writers throughout the country go on something of a creative crash diet to do the one thing everybody needs to...