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Milwaukee Record Cats Of The Week: Denver and Aspen

March 2, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Richfield’s Sawmill Inn fish fry is an all-around winner

Caleb Westphal

March 1, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #530: The Sawmill Inn Restaurant ...

Discourse Coffee’s all-day cafe at Radio Milwaukee is now open

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2024

Last September, Discourse Coffee announced plans to open a new all-day cafe in the first floor of Radio Milwaukee headquarters. Today, that cafe (located at 158 S. Barclay St.) quietly opened to the public. Alw...

Welcome to March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 1, 2024

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 changes and w...

Trapper Schoepp helps friend in need with “Meet Me At The End Of The World” cover

Matt Wild

March 1, 2024

When he's not busy writing songs about Lawrencia Bembenek (!), recording albums in Johnny Cash's cabin (!!), getting co-writing credits on Bob Dylan songs (!!!), or shooting videos with the "Jump To Conclusions...

Garden Home goes through “The Worst Of It,” comes out on other side

Matt Wild

March 1, 2024

"At times in life, you literally must 'feel the worst of it' to appreciate the good things in life and remind yourself to be grateful."Those wise words come from Dylan Mazurkiewicz, vocalist for Milwaukee p...

I ran the fast food gauntlet at Lake Forest Oasis

Tyler Maas

February 29, 2024

Today, the world got to enjoy an extra day. Due to an oversight in the Gregorian calendar thousands of years ago, earth is still granted a 29th day in February (or "Leap Day") once every four years. We don’t ...

We’re screening ‘Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy’ at Avalon Theater on March 27

Tyler Maas

February 29, 2024

Bark twice if you're in Milwaukee! If you missed seeing the trailer before last night’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World showing and you didn’t see our recent article that announced all of our spring film screenings...

Bob Uecker Boulevard and Bernie Brewer’s Beer Garden: A west side “What if?”

Dan Shafer

February 28, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE.Earlier this month, the Milwaukee Brewers made an announcement ...

Inaugural “Pours for Parks” beer festival to benefit Milwaukee County Parks

Tyler Maas

February 28, 2024

If Milwaukee knows two things, it’s beer and public parks. Beyond the city’s rich brewing history, the region is also home to a large and ever-improving arsenal of craft breweries. Similarly, the Milwaukee Coun...

Here’s the schedule for the 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Parade (and more!) in downtown Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 28, 2024

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner (March 17), and with it, the return of the Shamrock Club of Wisconsin's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Yep, on Saturday, March 9, the 56th installment of the parad...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Exit Statements

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 28, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, February 27, 2024: E...

“I put people on to stuff”: The musical universe of DJ Mosh Wah

Juan Miguel Martinez

February 27, 2024

The smell of a record store is like nothing else in the world. It takes you back to a time before cell phones, social media, and Spotify. If you're too young to remember the days when vinyl records were the onl...

10 Leap Day events in and around Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2024

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 years. It’s been said that every day is a gift, but—...

Romans’ Pub building to become new bar called Busby’s

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2024

Last July, Milwaukee lost one of its first and most-respected craft beer figures when Romans' Pub owner and namesake Mike Romans passed away. His bar closed the following month, bringing the future of the build...

Brady Street Futons is closing

Matt Wild

February 26, 2024

Talk about the end of an era: After more than 30 years in business, Brady Street institution Brady Street Futons is closing. Questions about the local futon, mattress, and upholstery shop located at 1200 E. Bra...

Landmark By The Lake Restaurant bolsters Cudahy’s reputation as a breakfast destination

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2024

Opened in 1993, Landmark Family Restaurant has been (and still remains) a bastion of breakfast food and lunch fare on Kinnickinnic Ave. in Milwaukee's Fernwood neighborhood. As many of the diner's contemporarie...

40,000 tear sheets from old Eisner advertising museum going up for auction

Matt Wild

February 26, 2024

For 10 years, between 2000 and 2010, the William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design was a unique destination in Milwaukee's Third Ward neighborhood. The museum and event space housed tens of thousands...

Listen to new Cozy Danger song, buy Cozy Danger pizza cutter

Matt Wild

February 26, 2024

You know that painfully human thing of knowing you shouldn't do something, but doing it anyway? You know that gnawing, festering, erosive guilt that comes with it? Yeah, we all do. And so does Milwaukee indie-r...

Scam Likely teases sophomore album with winning new single, “Winner”

Matt Wild

February 23, 2024

When we last checked in with Scam Likely, the upstart alt/indie-rock band was busy releasing one of the best Milwaukee albums of 2023, Getting Worse. From the woozy goth-romantic vibe of "Domestic Bliss" to the...