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Joey Ryan & the Inks EP-release show

Wisconsin TV reporter dances for comedy vignette at scene of fire that killed three kids

Chuck Steinmetz, president of Milwaukee's WITI-TV Fox 6 TV channel, has apologized after one of his reporters filmed a comedy vignette last Friday at the scene of a fire in Milwaukee's West Allis neighborhood that killed three children.SEE ALSO: Fox 9 led last night's 10 o'clock newscast with a real ... More >>

Art-A-Whirl 2013 lineup: Night Moves, Jaill, STNNNG, and more

Art-A-Whirl, the yearly tradition of rotisserie music and art in northeast Minneapolis returns for the weekend of May 17-19. For the event, the 331 Club and its parking lot turn into a hub of live music for three days straight, and it's all free to those wise enough to get off their hind ends and in ... More >>

Nick Kosevich: A bitters-sweet cocktail tale, part 2

Locally, he's led the the Twin Cities cocktail culture to new heights. Around the Midwest he's spreading the gospel of artisan bitters and craft cocktails. Yesterday we discussed the beginning of Nick Kosevich's career and the storied time he spent at Town Talk (catch up here). Today we learn more a ... More >>

Latrell Sprewell arrested in Wisconsin after he refused to stop blasting music

Latrell Sprewell closed out his NBA career as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves in the spring of 2005. Months earlier, he infamously turned down a three-year, $21-million contract extension, citing concern it wouldn't be sufficient to feed his family.SEE ALSO: Bryant McKinnie racked up unpaid $ ... More >>

Noise musician Peter J. Woods on new album Fear, Joe Smith, and Minneapolis bro-downs

Count Milwaukee's Peter J. Woods among the uncompromising innovators who keep modern noise music thrilling. Initially as Raperies (Not Draperies) -- and later, solo -- and in collaboration with outfits Phoned Nil Trio, the Peter J. Woods Free Jazz Ensemble, and xALLxFORxTHISx, Woods' recordings have ... More >>

DeVotchKa

Twin Cities has far and away the largest black-white unemployment gap, says new study

Last year, 17.7 percent of blacks living in the Twin Cities were unemployed. That's significantly down from 21 percent in 2010, but still high enough to earn our metro a dubious distinction -- the unemployment gap between blacks and whites in the Twin Cities is higher than any other major metro in t ... More >>

Flying pit bull attack leaves Wisconsin man with serious injuries

A Milwaukee man was with his wife, walking their pit bull around 5 p.m. Saturday  when they were attacked from above... by another pit bull.The dog somehow leapt from a second-story balcony and pounced on the couple's pit bull, at which time the 55-year-old husband wrestled the attacking pit bu ... More >>

Wisconsin legislator receives an envelope full of poop

​Someone in Milwaukee really, really wants a mine in Northern Wisconsin. He or she wants that mine so badly, in fact, that when state Sen. Lena Taylor wrote an op-ed in the Milwaukee Courier pointing out that extracting iron ore can cause health problems for nearby residents, this mining supporte ... More >>

Brief Candles' Kevin Dixon on the five-year gap between records

​By Dave HoenackFive years passed between They Live We Sleep, the second album by Milwaukee quartet Brief Candles, and last year's Fractured Days. Five years! That's fairly five lifetimes in the Minneapolis scene. In 2006, the winner of the City Pages "Picked to Click" poll was the Alarmists. A ... More >>

Schlitz Kickin' Country to podunkify the Triple Rock Saturday

​With only a few months under its eight-second-champion-sized belt buckle, the Schlitz Kickin' Country series has already established a fine local tradition of fine country records, fine country bands, and of course, The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous. This Saturday, with a little help from DJ Tr ... More >>

Farewell Milwaukee, Romantica

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 1

Photos by Mark Mallman​The demo recording of "Let it Be" starts with Paul McCartney talking to the sound engineer. He says "This is going to knock you out, boy," and then proceeds to perform one of rock's greatest ballads. Those few snide words before he starts always reminds me of what the roa ... More >>

Stone Arch Festival of the Arts dissolves: An open letter from music booker Stacy Schwartz

​Sad news to hit the local arts world today: The long-running Stone Arch Festival of the Arts, which annually showcased over 200 artists and four free stages of music along St. Anthony Main, will be no more. The festival's founder, longtime local music advocate Ira Heilicher (son of legendary Soma ... More >>

Found Footage Festival

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wins Pultizer, none for Strib or Pi-Press

​The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were announced this morning, and the only metro daily newspaper in the Midwest to win was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in the explanatory journalism category. Staffers Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood were comme ... More >>

Farewell Milwaukee

Ieshuh Griffin, "Not the whiteman's bitch," fights election rules

Griffin is fighting election rules again.​Ieshuh Griffin is at it again: Fighting a battle against election rules and what she calls a "a very corrupt government" in Milwaukee. She gained national notoriety last year for her controversial campaign slogan, "Not the whiteman's bitch." Now Griffi ... More >>

Mayfair Mall stunned by teen rampage and gun shot

Screenshot of people filing out after management closed the mall.​A mob of teenage vandals trashed the Mayfair Mall in suburban Milwaukee last night and forced officials to close the mall early. Police confirmed this morning that at least one shot was fired outside the mall during an attempt ... More >>

Minneapolis is nation's 11th drunkest city

A pint of prevention is worth...uh....nevermind.​The Daily Beast collected statistics on alcohol use and abuse to rank the nation's most drunk metropolises. Minneapolis ranked 11th, based on the following data:

Terry Duncan fined $500 for cussing aboard Wisconsin bus, dammit

solidstateNo profanity please.​Terry Duncan climbed aboard a Milwaukee bus and started lacing his conversation with a fellow rider with a string of four-letter Anglo Saxon monosyllables of the "s..." and "f..." persuasion. Then he found out you can't do that in Milwaukee. And faster than you ... More >>

Minneapolis school calls gas station snack "lunch"

Should schools serve kids the rations of truckers and road trippers?​Sure, adults might pick up a Slim Jim-- along with a Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos--to fuel a long night of driving, but should schools be serving the shrink-wrapped sausages to impressionable young stomachs? A parent o ... More >>

Twin Cities way more relaxed than the rest of America

Photo: MuladProof that Twin Citians know how to relax.​We do stress out over things here on the tundra. Look at the Vikings, for crying out loud. Or Michele Bachmann. And don't even get us started on the fact that we have yet another election recount with national import on our hands. But com ... More >>

Milwaukee's Drugs Dragons release new 7"

Dusty Medical Records​Usually when you don't know what speed to play a record, it's not a good sign. But with "I Hate Rat People," the second release from Milwaukee's Drugs Dragons, the whole thing comes shrouded in mystery. It arrived in a photocopied, collage-art white sleeve and, upon closer ... More >>

Ieshuh Griffin, "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch'" says she's Supreme Court bound

Screen shot via The Milwaukee DrumIeshuh Griffin's campaign literature ​ Ieshuh Griffin -- whose campaign slogan is "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch'" -- lost two attempts last week in her ongoing crusade to put that oh-so-catchy tagline on the Nov. 2 ballot. Now, the Wisconsin Assembly candidate says ... More >>

Ieshuh Griffin's "NOT the whiteman's bitch" case tossed

Screen shot via The Milwaukee DrumGriffin's campaign literature​Ieshuh Griffin, who wants to use the slogan "NOT the whiteman's bitch" as her tag line on the Wisconsin ballot, got no love from federal court. A judge rejected her lawsuit demanding to use the phrase because she filed the wrong p ... More >>

Giant sinkhole swallows Milwaukee's attention and a Cadillac Escalade

Screen shot from Journal SentinelMilwaukee news media drink in the sight of a giant sinkhole that opened during torrential rains​Milwaukee, apparently, is drowning. Something like 7 inches of rain fell there inside a couple of hours on Thursday evening. Tornadoes touched down. Thousands of hom ... More >>

Ieshuh Griffin's "NOT the whiteman's bitch" not OK on Wis. ballot [UPDATED]

Screen shot via The Milwaukee DrumGriffin's campaign literature​Updated: Griffin makes good on her threat and takes her case to court. Details after the jump. Maybe there are better campaign slogans than "NOT the whiteman's bitch" for a black woman to proudly declare her political independenc ... More >>

Kings Go Forth

Minneapolis is not the "Manliest City" in America

Photo: GoldbergGetting our man on​Damn. We're not as manly as Milwaukee, so we'll let you notch one up there, cheese heads. But Minneapolis still broke the Top 20 in Sperling's annual "America's Manliest Cities" survey. The biggest hunk of American manhood can evidently be found in Nashville, ... More >>

Wis. school bus driver took toilet breaks in plastic bags on bus (Video)

She crapped into a plastic bag and threw it onto a city street​Maybe a solitary moment of urgent internal plumping panic, brought on by a reaction to some new medication, would be a good enough excuse for using the empty school bus you drive as a toilet. Maybe. That was a Milwaukee school b ... More >>

Sex assault probe yields massive anacondas

Maybe they can shoot another sequel in Milwaukee​Police in Milwaukee are still scratching their heads over this one: Investigators working an alleged sex assault on Wednesday stumbled into a home filled with hundreds snakes, turtles, lizards, rodents, a crocodile and other assorted beasts -- i ... More >>

P.O.S. announces headlining tour with Dessa

He's bringing his Doomtree crewmate along for the ride.

Farewell Milwaukee: Band to watch

Sample some music by a promising new local Americana band.

Wis. man steals truck with 900 swine flu vaccines, ruins the supply

We're still trying to figure out what this man thought he was going to do with 900 doses of swine flu vaccine.

Now Open: Molly Cool's

Seafood comes to the southern suburbs...

College bucket fund not the best way to pay for school

We'll give this guy a high-five for effort, but you'll probably need buckets times infinity full of coins to actually afford to go to school.

Accused GOP convention sandbag thrower pleads guilty

The man accused of dropping a 50-pound sandbag onto Interstate 94 during the Republican National Convention pleaded guilty Monday.

Cool food movie, Fresh, plays this Wednesday

Head to the Riverview to check out the new film that's reimagining America's food system.

What's Wrong with Wisconsin?

Growing Power gets a genius grant

Superdanger: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Minneapolis/St. Paul: Almost the beer drinking capital of North America

Tomb Raiders

Sifting through the bones of an infamous Halloween rave bust

Gentlemen, Unsheath Your Bats!

Baseball: More like it used to be than ever before

The Middle Of Somewhere

With American Movie, director Chris Smith finds the heart of cinema in the unlikely environs of Milwaukee

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