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Mandatory Milwaukee: Taking out the window AC units because it’s gonna be cold for 8,000 months

October 16, 2023

Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become iconic. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: taking out the window AC units because it's gonna be cold for 8,000 months! ...

WMSE will broadcast live from The Hop on October 25

Matt Wild

October 16, 2023

If there are two things all Milwaukeeans and random Facebook commenters from Brookfield can agree on, it's A.) independent radio station WMSE 91.7FM rules, and B.) downtown streetcar The Hop rules. So what happ...

Oh, the places you’ll go with Social Cig’s “Wonderin'”

Matt Wild

October 16, 2023

If all goes well, our lives are long. They're filled with love, loss, lessons learned, and lessons forgotten. They're filled with open roads and dead ends. But no matter where we find ourselves at any given mom...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Felix

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 13, 2023

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...

Stuff We Missed: West Allis is suing Burger King

Matt Wild

October 13, 2023

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• You know that vacant Burger King on 106th and Greenfield in West Allis? The ...

25 things to do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2023

It’s cruel, really. Our beloved Green Bay Packers are but five weeks into the regular season and we already have to take a week off from watching them—right after an 11-day span between Week 4 and Week 5, no le...

Watching the river flow: 2,300 words about Bob Dylan’s October 12 show at Riverside Theater

Zack Pieper

October 13, 2023

Say what you will, Bob Dylan is a worker. After touring almost nonstop for more than 30 years as part of his "Never Ending Tour," he announced a slew of dates named after his acclaimed 2020 album Rough And Rowd...

Here’s Gold Steps’ pitch-perfect pop-punk cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”

Matt Wild

October 13, 2023

Taylor Swift needs no introduction, but allow us to say that Milwaukee alt/pop/rock band Gold Steps rules. In the last year alone the group has released an EP on Revival Recordings, toured the U.S., played a to...

Listen to Steely Dan’s long-lost Schlitz jingle from the early ’70s

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Want to hear a new Steely Dan song? Well, it's actually a 50-year-old song that was recently uncovered. And it's not so much a "song" as it is an extended jingle. Oh, and that 109-second composition is about Sc...

Crafty Cow introduces new menu items, all you can eat Friday chicken and fish fry specials

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Though Crafty Cow has been making specialty burgers and tasty fried poultry preparations for the entirety of its near-decade-long existence, the restaurant—which has locations in Milwaukee, Oconomowoc, and Wauw...

Sip & Purr Cat Cafe will relocate to Brady Street in 2024

Matt Wild

October 12, 2023

Popular East Side "drink some drinks and pet/adopt some cats" spot Sip & Purr Cat Cafe, located at 2021 E. Ivanhoe Pl. since opening in 2018, announced Thursday that it will high-tail it to Brady Street in ...

Barely Civil’s “Coasting, Mostly” could be a contender for Milwaukee song of the year

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Back in early August, we—"we" meaning me, Milwaukee Record co-founder/editor Tyler Maas—boldly proclaimed Shontrail's "When I'm Alone I Get Real High" to be the front-runner for Milwaukee's song of the summer h...

The Great Milwaukee Can Koozie Swap & Bar Chip Bonanza is coming to Promises on November 4

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2023

Back in May, Milwaukee Record and Busch Light joined forces to host an unconventional event at Promises (538 W. National Ave.) based around the almighty beer sleeve. "The Great Milwaukee Can Koozie Swap" brough...

Bonnie Raitt pays tribute to John Prine, Paul Cebar, Hamm’s Beer at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

October 11, 2023

The first generations of rock and rollers didn't have long-term career plans; maybe they hoped they'd die before they got old, or maybe they figured on some day getting haircuts and getting real jobs. Now in th...

Barnacle Bud’s will transform into a “warm and inviting supper club” this December

Matt Wild

October 11, 2023

If you're looking for Milwaukee's best outdoor bar and seafood restaurant that's tucked behind a bunch of warehouses and nestled on the banks of the Kinnickinnic River, it's hard to beat Barnacle Bud's (1955 S....

C-viche’s Bay View location to close October 22

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2023

Today, C-viche (2165 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-800-7329) announced it will be closing its original Bay View location. In a message posted on Facebook and on Instagram, management announced the final day in the ...

Jason Momoa will sign bottles of vodka in New Berlin and Brookfield on Oct. 19 and we’re going

Matt Wild

October 11, 2023

We've published more than 10,000 articles in our nearly 10-year-existence, and one of those articles looms large in our legacy (such that it is). Yes, on July 30, 2015, we published "50 Cent vodka signing at Oa...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Snag

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 11, 2023

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE. Beginning in 2023, we're also collecting episodes on a handy Soundcloud playlist.milwaukeereco...

The Dragon’s Sandbox: Come to Walker’s Point for dinner and a dungeon crawl

Rob Wieland

October 10, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever. The current edition has sold millions of copies and is the most popular version in years, if not the entire 49-year history of the game. Actual play shows like ...

The last word on Archie’s Flat Top, a soon-to-be West Allis standby

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2023

Damn. Where did summer go? As always, the season was a crazy, busy, plan-filled blur that flew by in what seemed to be an instant. Now that fall has emphatically announced its presence and the action has (mostl...