Here’s the lineup for Mitten Fest 2015
You know a show is going to be great when close to a thousand people on Facebook have already committed to going without even knowing who’s playing.In its first two years, Burnhearts’ annual Mitten Fest ser...
Watch Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank on the set of Frankie Latina’s Snapshot
Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...
Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month
January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...
Go on a Packers vision quest with Calliope’s Al Kraemer
On Sunday, January 11, the Green Bay Packers will square off against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field for what will undoubtedly be a nail-biting, edge-of-your-bleacher-seat playoff game. At stake is the priv...
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Soul Low: Kind Spirit
If there were a war for Milwaukee’s most affable band—an exceedingly polite and well-mannered war, mind you—the victor would undoubtedly be Soul Low. On 2013’s excellent UNEASY, the young group offered up eight...
First Impression: The bar where Screech allegedly stabbed some dude on Christmas
Perhaps “Second Impression” would be a more accurate phrase for this piece, as readers throughout Wisconsin and the world as a whole initially became acquainted with Grand Avenue Saloon (550 W. Grand Ave. in Po...
Jim Gaffigan starts Pabst Theater run on funny, familiar note
Monday night marked the eighth consecutive year in which veteran comedian Jim Gaffigan bestowed his unique construct of everyman-isms upon Milwaukee. By this point, the comic’s annual post-holiday run of shows—...
The 15 best comedy shows we saw in 2014
Today marks the beginning of Jim Gaffigan's three-night run of shows at Pabst Theater. For going on eight years, the food-obsessed comedian's late December appearances at the venue have served as the unofficial...
Tracklist: 12 things you’re doing New Year’s Eve
Though it's billed as a night of celebration, New Year's Eve can actually be quite a stressful ordeal. Between the crowded bars, escalated Lyft and Uber fees, knowing you're going to fuck up the date on your Ja...
Klassik is poised for big things in 2015
Since hitting the scene in 2011, Kellen Abston (better known by his hip-hop moniker of "Klassik") has been in a state of perpetual motion. After making a name for himself in Milwaukee by way of 2012's In The Ma...
Tracklist: 10 amazingly tolerable Milwaukee-made holiday songs
Along with unending department store lines, wrapping gifts, trying (and inevitably failing) to attend every holiday gathering you’re supposed to, and the threat of receiving an Arby’s gift card, the constant wa...
Twin Brother’s Sean Raasch hits his stride in 2014
If you hadn't heard of Milwaukee indie-folk trio Twin Brother prior to this summer, not only do we forgive you for the oversight, we're ashamed to admit we were right there with you. It wasn't until the materia...
TARDIS party: Inside The Time Lords’ Ball at Turner Hall
Milwaukee rarely lacks options for celebrating the end of the year. From the bottle service pub-crawls on Water Street to the packages in the ’burbs that allow guests to get shitty in a ballroom and stumble bac...
The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2014
On April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record launched with a story entitled—appropriately enough—“Welcome to the Milwaukee Record.” Since that time, we’ve published over 600 stories, reached over one million readers (yes...
First Impression: Nino’s Southern Sides
Not too long ago, Shorewood was a much different place, with the tiny village flanking Milwaukee’s northern border boasting as many grocery stores as it did bars. A culinary scene that started with Benji’s Deli...
County Board votes to preserve the majesty of O’Donnell Park
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If you’ve heard it once you’ve heard it a thousand times: Downtown Milwaukee ...
First Impression: 8Bit
The concept of an arcade bar has been around since someone got the bright idea to put video games in bars. The arcade classic Root Beer Tapper, for example, wasn’t always about serving root beer. The concept ha...
Watch Temper Temper’s 2005 “Cactus Nights” appearance
We've said it before and we'll say it again: 2014 is/was Milwaukee music's finest year in recent memory. Before this especially fruitful annal in local music, we'd probably point to the early-to-mid 2000s as th...
Tracklist: 10 final Bar Rescue takeaways
And so it’s come to this. Okay, so it’s not quite Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism. No, we didn’t compile an irrefutable report that a Heisman trophy candidate’s deceased girlfriend never existed, nor di...
First Impression: Riverwest Pizza
It’s a scientific fact that pizza will never go out of style. Stuffed-crust, fancy, or frozen, pizza is a universal constant that transcends age, gender, and taste. Still, the everyman/woman food is enjoying a ...