Mike Berg is impressing with depressing comedy

Tyler Maas
The struggle many comedians face is the task of harvesting laughs from difficult topics. However, if framed and delivered correctly, literally no topic is off limits. Less than a year into stand-up, Mike Berg h...

First Impression: South Shore Terrace

Tyler Maas
As recently as two years ago, Milwaukee was a city that was home to only some beer gardens. Pretty embarrassing, right? It seems like it's been a lifetime since that comparably lean epoch of outdoor imbibing ha...

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s fall 2015 lineup

Matt Wild
The UWM Union Cinema (formerly Union Theatre) has been a hidden-not-really-hidden gem of Milwaukee’s East Side since 1972. Located inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union, the unassuming thea...

There’s going to be a Dead Horses beer

Tyler Maas
With there being only so many Grammy Awards to go around, the platinum-selling record quickly becoming a relic of the past, and the WAMI board preoccupied honoring Judas Priest instead of talents from this cent...

Label of love: Dusty Medical Records turns 10

Tyler Maas
These days, it takes little more than a name, some MP3 files, and a Bandcamp page to have a record label. With more bands than ever and less financial at risk in an exceedingly digital modern music landscape, i...

First Impression: Merriment Social

Todd Lazarski
Hit the Milwaukee Public Market on a Friday afternoon, try the Benelux rooftop or Wicked Hop patio or the new Colectivo on any warm-ish day of the week, and it’s pretty clear the Third Ward is the new Milwaukee...