Holy crap remember the time ESPN called Milwaukee a terrible city and then the entire city melted down and then a few weeks later the Bucks won the NBA Championship and then a month later our mayor was named the new U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg?
I love living in Wisconsin and forever waking up to headlines like "Top candidate for governor vows to make voting illegal for Democrats, says he's 'unsure' if sex outside of marriage will be punishable by fine or death"
Press release: Milwaukee Bucks and Fiserv Forum President Peter Feigin will announce a new development in Deer District at a press conference on the Plaza on Monday, May 23 at 10 a.m.
Me: Here's info on a downtown Milwaukee event that drew 8 gazillion people last year and is expected to draw 8 gazillion people again this year.
Some weirdo dipshit: Maybe fix the crime and people will go downtown again!
NEW SPECIAL REPORT: RNC event bookings have been "underwhelming" and a "failure," says Gary Witt (
@Iamablur
). The Pabst and Riverside will sit empty during the convention. Downtown restaurants also worry about the lack of activity.
Let's recombobulate:
I'd like to announce that I'm planning a 36-story luxury apartment tower and hotel complete with a highly immersive exhibit celebrating Milwaukee's storied past for the empty parking lot behind Boswell Books. Construction begins tomorrow
BREAKING: We're gonna need $200 million from the city and county to fix the stall in our office bathroom and hang some new posters on the walls or we're moving Milwaukee Record to Beaver Dam
It’s Saturday and the weather is perfect and the buses, the streetcar, and Summerfest are all packed and everyone looks great and this is Milwaukee at its absolute best
Lots of howlers in the lawsuit filed by neighbors to prevent a 55-unit apartment building from being built near Downer Ave. My favorite: IT'LL BE HARDER TO GET GOOD SEATS AT CAFE HOLLANDER AND THE ANNUAL BIKE RACE
Absolutely disgusting that Milwaukee still wants to (and now likely WILL) host this traitorous “political party.” All to appease a tourism group and a restaurant owner. “It’s just business” apparently trumps election lies, bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ rights, and 100 other things
Oh wow remember when Wisconsin Republicans were ready to kill the state's mask mandate and then the night before they read a Journal Sentinel story that said we'd lose $49 million in food aid and then they were like um give us a few days to figure this out
Going to a family function with family members I see once every 5 years at best and I’m gonna take a shot every time someone asks me if I still live in MKE and then says something incredibly shitty about MKE wish me luck it was nice knowing you all
I posted this photo with a “Milwaukee Skyline (2023)” caption but now I’m being told by multiple folks that there are in fact much better views of our skyline? News to me! I’ll check into it!
Drove out to Serb Hall to document the pro-Trump “Defend Your Vote” rally, and you know what? Fuck ‘em. Fuck these delusional liars and racist traitors. Fuck ‘em. There are a LOT of them here right now, but fuck ‘em all. I’m turning around and taking a walk and enjoying the sun.
10 years ago Bar Rescue changed the Y-Not III into a ‘70s-themed bar called Nick’s House and then less than 2 years later it closed and then 2 months later it was demolished and it’s been an empty lot ever since
Shout-out to all the Milwaukee politicians, business owners, and tourism groups that are devastated by recent events...but not devastated enough to tell the 2024 Republican National Convention to go fuck itself
"I've read a lot of things where they've said there's gonna be 50,000 people here, but this looks like a weak Admiral's game," Brashier says. "There's just not a lot of people down here."
Just a perfect "Dontcha hate it when Nazis protest the same things you do?" tweet from this upstanding local publication please give them a few more awards
@MKEPressClub
And the award for Best Comment I've Ever Received In My Life goes to...
"Save your covid comments bitching and moaning about republicans for a different topic. Fucking wanted to read about cheese curds and you drop that bull shit."
Fun fact:
@TylerJamesMaas
and I launched
@milwaukeerecord
8 years ago today. We've since published more than 8,000 articles, and all of them have been good. Happy anniversary to us!
Apples and oranges, and yes, MKE should host every national convention it can, etc., but it's still fun to note that the homegrown Midwest Gaming Classic drew 30,000 folks this past April and downtown was open and busy and fun
Hi I’m at an East Side bar that’s being flooded by an East Side restaurant upstairs and all the just-fired-because-they-complained-to-management employees of the East Side restaurant are here and the East Side bar is buying them shots
Went to the Domes and they were handing out souvenir holiday stickers and when the older guy ahead of me got one he was like “You call this a souvenir? Gee, thanks” and I wonder how many Facebook comments this winner leaves on local news stories every day
A moment of silence for
@AaronRodgers12
, who, exactly one week ago, was forever banished from society after the woke mob put the final nail in his cancel culture casket. Condolences to his girlfriend, his podcast host, and the great MLK
Milwaukee went into meltdown mode FOR A FULL YEAR when some ESPN dolts called the city "terrible." But here we are, two years later, kissing the asses of a "political party" that vocally loathes us. Beautiful work, everyone!
Not a week (day?) goes by on the Milwaukee subreddit without a new "worst/overrated restaurant?" thing and it's always Lowlands restaurants and BelAir followed by every other restaurant in the city
I know it’s not the case, but I still refuse to believe A.) real people live in the apartments in the old Grand Avenue mall, and B.) this indoor pickleball court has ever been used
Oh my god I miss the Prospect Mall, the seedy East Side mini-mall with a seedy two-screen movie theater, a seedy video store (with porn), a seedy used record/book store (with porn), a wood paneled Chocolate Factory, and Thai Joe's
It's National Frozen Custard Day and I'll always cherish the time I was at Kopp's with my then 3-year-old kid and she said "Daddy, I love ice cream!" and a local food host who was standing nearby loudly and irately said "It's CUSTARD!"
Republicans: "We hate you, Milwaukee. We tried to throw out your votes the last time and you better believe we'll do it again. We hate you."
Milwaukee: "Check out our great entertainment and dining scenes! Did you know that the first modern typewriter was patented here?"