Milwaukee has its fair share of happy hours: Bootleggers’ hosts 21-cent drink nights on the 21st of every month; Hegarty’s doubles your dough on Wednesday; and Nomad gives away $1 drinks for 15 minutes Monday through Thursday. With some many choices, it can be hard to choose where to go. But when you throw in [...]
Have you ordered a brat at Usinger’s? Seen an indie band at the Cactus Club? Kayaked down the Milwaukee River?
If not, time to try OnMilwaukee.com’s “100 things to do in Milwaukee.” Whether you’re a freshman exploring Milwaukee or a senior counting down your last days, this essential list covers all bases of Cream City.
Some of [...]
Hungry for some comfort food? Head to MSOE’s Kern Center for the 8th annual Rockabilly Chili Contest on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For $6 admission and $1 per chili sample, you can chomp on 57 chilis from 48 restaurants, like Beans and Barley, Comet Cafe, Iron Horse Hotel and Stack’d Burger Bar.
The event [...]
Need a Bourbon Street spot for Fat Tuesday? Head to West Allis’ Crawdaddy’s (6414 W. Greenfield Ave.) for a New Orleans-inspired celebration.
Although every Tuesday is a Fat Tuesday party at Crawdaddy’s, this week the restaurant is offering specials. The southern-style restaurant has $5 hurricanes, specials on Lakefront’s Big Easy and beer from Abita, a brewery [...]
What was up with all the hairy, pudgy, old men running around in tightie-whities during the Super Bowl commercials?
There were three of them this year: Dockers’ “Men Without Pants” commercial featured a horde of middle-aged men tramping through a field in their baggy underwear, singing, “I wear no pants.” So much for wearing Dockers.
CareerBuilder’s “Casual [...]
Grab a little culture and jazz kick this Friday and Saturday at Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s “S’Wonderful: The Music of George Gershwin.”
MSO will be playing such catchy songs like “S’Wonderful,” “One Man I Love,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.”
George Gershwin, the famous American composer who emulated the Jazz Age, wrote the lyrics for movies like [...]
If you haven’t seen “Summer Heights High,” you’re missing out. The Australian documentary (picked up by HBO) is the best thing to run since “Arrested Development.”
“Summer Heights High” stars Chris Lilley, a 36-year-old actor, who somehow morphs into three high schoolers at the fictional Summer Heights High: Mr. G, a flamboyant drama teacher with a [...]
The grumpy, international food guru makes his way to Milwaukee this Friday, 8 p.m. at the Riverside Theater.
Anthony Bourdain, host of Travel Channel’s “No Reservations,” has traveled from Singapore to Uzbekistan, Iceland to Mexico, eating raw meat and eyeballs from seal carcasses along the way. Bourdain became famous after he wrote “Kitchen Confidential,” a memoir [...]
This song, by indie rockers from Portland, Ore., is this week’s Pick of the Week. “Furr” is the title track from the band Blitzen Trapper’s 2008 album. They’ve been around since 2003, so it’s pretty late to hop on the Blitzen Trapper bandwagon, but we’ll do it anyway.
The track was ranked #4 on Rolling Stone’s [...]
Meal swipes running out? Got scanty shelves? Check out Downer Avenue’s Festive Friday, this Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. for a free food solution.
Boswell Book Co. offers meat samples and roasting chesnuts. Cafe Hollander boasts a fire pit with free hot chocolate (and a fish fry, but you have to pay). Horny Goat Brewing [...]