Tagged Opinion

No, Milwaukee, it isn’t okay to cheer for the Chicago Cubs

October 25, 2016

Hey, fans of the Milwaukee Brewers. Perhaps you've been told otherwise by a columnist who insists "we are still part of Chicagoland" before he chases the outdated rehashing of Milwaukee's little-man syndrome ...

Oh great, there’s going to be another Jeffrey Dahmer movie

Tyler Maas

October 7, 2016

It seems like Hollywood is plum out of new ideas. Periodically, when they aren't adapting Lethal Weapon into a TV series or harvesting '80s nostalgia to redressed as a Netflix original, television executives ...

St. Francis needs to step up its bench game

Tyler Maas

September 27, 2016

Sitting between the bustle of Bay View and Cudahy's thriving industry is a small, sparsely populated section of Milwaukee County called St. Francis. Given its size, the 2.5-square-mile chunk of land is the ty...

Coo Coo Cal’s ‘Disturbed’ is 15 and local hip-hop is in a great place

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2016

Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the release of Coo Coo Cal's Disturbed. The sophomore record by the Milwaukee rapper (a.k.a. Calvin Bellamy) was his one and only release on Tommy Boy Records, just ...

A-side/B-side: So what do we think of this year’s Summerfest lineup?

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 2, 2016

//In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Matt ...

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

Matt Wild

March 24, 2016

//The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...

Was The Spot 4MKE a boon or a bust? It depends on who’s reporting

Matt Wild

March 16, 2016

//Late last week, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin broke the news that The Spot 4MKE, a highly touted "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee, had been put on "indefin...

Milwaukee development, the Shops of Grand Avenue, and a requiem for the underdog

Matt Wild

February 4, 2016

//There's a moment early on in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy when the novel's befuddled protagonist, Arthur Dent, is lying in the mud in front of a bulldozer, protesting the unexpecte...

A-side/B-side: Why is Milwaukee getting so worked up over a Portillo’s coming to town?

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 9, 2015

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Tyler Maas: ...

Why Milwaukee could, should (but probably won’t) host Riot Fest

Tyler Maas

September 18, 2015

// Last weekend, Chicago hosted its 11th iteration of Riot Fest. The annual festival, which was founded in the Windy City, started as a punk-, ska-, and hardcore-focused affair that bounced around exclusively...

I floated in a sensory deprivation tank at Float Milwaukee and, well, it was something

Matt Wild

September 1, 2015

The first thing to know about Float Milwaukee—the city’s newest and only sensory deprivation flotation tank business—is that the folks who run it have heard all the Altered States jokes before. The 1980 sci-fi ...

Why do some Milwaukee musicians leave? Why do others stay?

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 27, 2015

On Saturday, August 29, glistening electro-pop outfit Dream Attics will mark its impending relocation to Austin, Texas by playing a goodbye show at Linneman’s. Milwaukee bands packing up shop and heading elsewh...

50 Cent vodka signing at Oak Creek Woodman’s: A minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild

July 30, 2015

Remember when the news broke that 50 Cent would be signing bottles of vodka at the Oak Creek Woodman’s? Of course you do. Remember when everyone asked, “Why is 50 Cent signing bottles of vodka at the Oak Creek ...

The 15 best things my 14-year-old cousin said at Vans Warped Tour yesterday

Andrew Winistorfer

July 29, 2015

Vans Warped Tour rolled into Henry Maier Festival Park yesterday, and for the 20th year, it provided a place for teens dressed in ways that will embarrass them in 10 years to see bands no one over 25 has ever h...

I tented out inside Miller Park and it was fun and weird

Matt Wild

July 28, 2015

I have a shameful confession to make: I haven’t been to a single Brewers game this year. Yes, the team is mostly a mess and the season is a lost cause, but Miller Park is one of my favorite Milwaukee destinatio...

End of an error: Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe scales back

Tyler Maas

July 21, 2015

Last week, a new era dawned upon Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe. Though it was “consistently rated as one of the best comedy clubs in the country for two decades” (source: a Shepherd Express print ad that gave no attr...

Learning to let go, lighten up, and love Sofar Sounds

Matt Wild

June 18, 2015

Some of my first live music memories are of seeing shows in basements, attics, and living rooms. These were dingy, dirty affairs, with oodles of teenage crusty punks (and their dogs, always their dogs) crammed ...

I finally saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast at the Oriental Theater

Matt Wild

June 11, 2015

Prior to last month, I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show only once, when I was 15. My friends and I were gathered in the wood-paneled basement of the only girl who would give us the time of day, watching m...

I went to the motherfucking Bead & Button Show

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2015

What the fuck did you do last weekend?Milwaukee’s nightlife was vibrant as hell by the time June’s first Friday rolled around. Close to 50 bars, restaurants, cafes, and retail shops in one neighborhood tran...

I saw the dude from Staind at the world’s largest bratwurst festival

Tyler Maas

June 4, 2015

It's been a while since you've heard Staind, probably. Formed way back in 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the band's two-decade run has seen the nu metal act rise from relative obscurity to widened notoriet...