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Help a local photographer, men’s health by supporting MKE Beard Project Kickstarter

August 21, 2015

Milwaukee is great and all, but there doesn't seem to be enough dudes with beards. Oh wait, they're fucking everywhere. This post was being written by a dude with a beard. As commonplace as the beard has become...

35mm screenings of Jaws, The Shining highlight MFF2015’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 20, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is one month and four days away. That’s one month and four days to prepare for an onslaught of films ranging from the highbrow and challenging to the rowdy and crowd pleasing. A...

Jacob Bach’s Yeah, Bro! podcast straightens out gay misconceptions

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

As part of long-running The Improvised Musical (aka T.I.M.) and a variety of other ComedySportz productions, Jacob Bach has honed his ability to pulls laughs out of audience-inspired unfamiliarity. Having a fir...

Three. Stacks. Eliot starts strong with debut record, The Message Is Real

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

As shocking as it is, Three. Stacks. Eliot's days old album is also the jazz-rooted (mostly) instrumental band's first release to date. It's not easy to be thrown, what with the group's frequent presence behind...

On The Record Episode 32: The Roast Of Milwaukee at Bremen Cafe

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 19, 2015

Milwaukee Record is proud to present a very special episode of On The Record. On Thursday, August 6, to coincide with Milwaukee Comedy Festival’s opening night, we rounded up eight stand-up comedians with local...

Funny and flustered, new laureate Matt Cook scribbles loose plans for Milwaukee’s poets

Justin Kern

August 19, 2015

When is a poet not like an HVAC repair guy? When are they definitely, finally, maybe freed from the lacy cuffs of Wordsworth and worthy of serious attention—or at least recognition from the mothers of the neigh...

The Ryan Rumble: Comedy from a common name

Tyler Maas

August 19, 2015

You have to hand it to Milwaukee comedians for continually churning out new, interesting, and sometimes just plain weird ideas for stand-up showcases. In recent months, comics have ridiculed videos of their old...

The story behind Fink’s “Couples Are Boring” sign (and how you can change it)

Matt Wild

August 18, 2015

If you’ve walked, biked, driven, or stumbled past the corner of N. Humboldt Ave. and N. Water St. / E. Kane Pl. this summer, you’ve undoubtedly seen a striking addition to one of the intersection’s main draws, ...

WC Tank finds new direction with Vanishing Points

Tyler Maas

August 18, 2015

Last fall, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visual artist Wesley Charles Tank—aka “WC Tank”—released Almost Forever, a five-song EP the eccentric art-rapper wrote and self-produced in its entirety, along with s...

Tommy Wiseau and The Room will return to Oriental Theatre in September

Matt Wild

August 18, 2015

In a world of cynical imitators and cheesy-on-purpose clones (we’re looking at you, Sharknado), The Room remains the gold standard for completely sincere, completely stupefying so-bad-it’s-good cinema. The empt...

Tracklist: The Milwaukee Lion, and 16 other local social media accounts dedicated to animals

Matt Wild

August 17, 2015

//Remember back in July, when Milwaukee was captivated by the rumor/maybe-not-a-rumor of a wild lion roaming the streets? Of course you do. The initial sighting of a “lion-ish” creature milling about the 2...

First Impression: Amilinda

Todd Lazarski

August 17, 2015

For every thousand or so of the soulless calorie dispensaries that make up the corporeal restaurant world, there’s at least one Amilinda (315 E Wisconsin Ave., 414-369-3683): an ephemeral kitchen presence, lurk...

“Tied House” laws, explained by a brewer they affected

Tyler Maas

August 14, 2015

On Wednesday, pretty much everybody in the city reported that Like Minds, an upstart Milwaukee brewery (which, to this point, has been brewed and bottled at Hinterland Brewery in Green Bay), decided to relocate...

Waukesha man took some stuff (LSD), drove a truck (into two police cars), and was buck (naked)

Matt Wild

August 14, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If you follow the news these days, it’s easy to dwell on the things that divi...

Luke Chappelle has been hiding paintings all over Bay View

Tyler Maas

August 14, 2015

They say art can be found almost anywhere if one looks hard enough. Of course, “they” are probably saying this while tripping balls on mushrooms or while pontificating to classmates in a freshman-level sculptur...

Mystery One Bookstore is closing

Matt Wild

August 14, 2015

Sad news for crime and/or awesome bookstore fans: Mystery One Bookstore (2109 N. Prospect Ave., 414-347-4077), the long-running hole-in-the-wall serving up crime and mystery fiction on Milwaukee‘s East Side, wi...

Under The Sun Tour brings ’90s nostalgia to State Fair

Tyler Maas

August 13, 2015

In Sugar Ray’s last known hit, 2001’s “When It’s Over,” singer Mark McGrath asks, “When it’s over is it really over?” For the SoCal pop-rock band, yes, it pretty much was, despite the two albums that followed b...

Help Milwaukee natives fund new comedy series, Shangri-L.A., featuring Mark Borchardt

Matt Wild

August 13, 2015

It’s a tale as old as time: aspiring filmmakers move to Los Angeles in hopes of fulfilling their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams; aspiring filmmakers watch as their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams get kicked, punched...

Reports of Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Matt Wild

August 13, 2015

Back in April, we broke the news that popular cocktail lounge At Random was for sale. That for-sale status quickly changed, but the thought of losing the beloved business clearly worried many Milwaukeeans. Anot...

On The Record Episode 31: Alia Janine talks life after porn (with Jaqi Furback)

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 12, 2015

Milwaukee native Alia Janine (pictured, right) spent the first 30 years of her life in Wisconsin. Not long after her departure, she started her career in the adult film industry. Four years and approximately 16...