OMG! MKE Has a Sonic!

Sonic officially opened the first drive-in franchise in the Milwaukee area today, and I couldn’t be more excited.  My only experience with Sonic was in Louisville, KY, last summer while Sis and I visited big brother.  It was glorious. I can’t wait to get another strawberry fruit slush, corn dog and tots.  Shit, I even [...]

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Milwaukee’s Christmas Tree for 2008

Every November a local family is selected to have a beautiful conifer plucked from their yard and moved downtown to Red Arrow Park to be put on display as the City/County official Christmas Tree. The tradition continued yesterday morning with the Alvarez Family from Bay View. Crews showed up at 6:30a to chop down the [...]

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Music in MKE: Fleet Foxes

by joe steve: another night of musical goodnessThe music lineup the trio of the Riverside Theater, the Pabst Theater and the Turner Hall Ballroom has been putting out in recent months has been amazing. From Vampire Weekend a few months back to My Morning Jacket last Friday with the likes of Jose Gonzales and Peter [...]

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Can’t make this shit up

From today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel NewsWatch… Woman shot in leg by own hidden gun Today’s lesson in gun safety: Doctors at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa treated a 30-year-old woman for a gunshot wound to her upper right thigh Wednesday. Police asked the woman, Josephine Wagner, what happened. According to a criminal complaint, Wagner told police [...]

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Music in MKE: Bon Iver

By Joe Steve: Jazzed for a Good WinterHey kids, long time no see. It has been one of those typical get-out-and-do-everything-possible summers for myself, like many others lucky enough to live in the Midwest. Drinking outside when possible consumes much of the time I used to spend writing…all apologies. Minus the one that is currently [...]

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Music in MKE: My Morning Jacket

by joe steve: eagerly waitingMy Morning Jacket is coming to Milwaukee this fall to promote the new album Evil Urges, coming out June 10, and I couldn’t be happier about it. They haven’t been in MKE since 2006, shortly after Z came out (which still gets played regularly on my iPod) so it’s time for [...]

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Music in MKE: The Kooks

by joe steve: the days are now hours till BtBWhile waiting for the Zane Lamprey interview to be archived on FM102.1, I figured I’d drop some more music on the ATS faithful. Luke from The Kooks (popular tracks: Naive and She Moves In Her Own Way) was recently interviewed by 102.1 to bump the new [...]

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Beer Day in MKE: April 7th

by joe steve: livin the high lifeI’m not sure how I possibly missed this yesterday, being so significant to the existence of the city of Milwaukee and all, but our boy downtown – Mayor Tom Barrett – declared yesterday the official ‘Beer Day’ in Milwaukee. Citing the importance that Milwaukee plays and has played in [...]

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Music in MKE: Jose Gonzalez

by joe steve: hoping Adler comes throughThe Jose Gonzalez show from the Pabst last night was a great performance. The opener, Mia Doi Todd has a beautiful voice and a ‘nice’ sound, but the most entertaining part of her 40 minute performance was watching her percussionist go to town on the congas and wood box. [...]

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Music in MKE

by joe steve: listen upJust a quick reminder that Jose Gonzalez will be in Milwaukee tomorrow night with Mia Doi Todd for a show at the Pabst. It seems as if tickets are still available online here or by calling the Pabst at (414) 286-3663 or by going down to the box office tomorrow night [...]

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