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5 days ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Princess Byers |Lori Fredrich |Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo
My challenge to you: join me in supporting at least one locally-owned restaurant each week during 2025. This list includes 52 of the best in Milwaukee and beyond.
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6 days ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Lori Fredrich |Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo |Dan Garcia
Michelle Zauner’s last visit to Summerfest as Japanese Breakfast was in 2023 and she toured off of the success of her Grammy-nominated 2021 album “Jubiliee” and her best-selling memoir, “Crying in H Mart.”This year, she returned following the spring release of “For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)” And if you were lucky enough to catch her 85-minute Japanese Breakfast set on Saturday night at the BMO Harris Pavilion at Summerfest, you caught her at a very special moment in time.
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6 days ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Bobby Tanzilo |Dan Garcia |Allen Halas |Molly Snyder
In honor of Summerfest 2025, enjoy this previously published article about the Big Gig's iconic moments in the 1990s. While Summerfest was finding its legs in the 1970s and growing bigger and bigger in the 1980s, the following decade was more one of building on the success of the Big Gig, entrenching it deeper into the Milwaukee psyche and lore.
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6 days ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo |Dan Garcia
From lakefront vibes to street fests - don't miss our Milwaukee Festival Guide! Click here for your full summer line-up. The Milwaukee Festival Guide is brought to you by our partners at Landmark Credit Union & Harley-Davdison Museum !While the first Saturday of Summerfest was definitely affected by scorching temperatures, it didn’t stop a sizable crowd from flocking to the Generac Power Stage for a late afternoon set from rising star Iann Dior. “It’s hot as a bitch out here.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Molly Snyder |Dan Garcia |Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo
Anyone who’s lived in Milwaukee for a while has heard chatter about Summerfest caring more about beer sales than live music. Whether or not this is a true statement could be argued to exhaustion; however, local musician Eoin McCarthy has a story about how the Big Gig rallied around his music and, eventually, the music of hundreds of others.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Dan Garcia |Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo |Lori Fredrich
From lakefront vibes to street fests - don't miss our Milwaukee Festival Guide! Click here for your full summer line-up. The Milwaukee Festival Guide is brought to you by our partners at Landmark Credit Union & Harley-Davdison Museum !Milwaukee’s lakefront came alive yesterday, as Summerfest 2025 officially kicked off with an unforgettable opening day.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Bobby Tanzilo |Allen Halas |Matt Mueller
In what seems fairly common these days, a 1905 home on Lake Drive has a pending offer even before it was even shared by the realtors. The seven-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 5,725-square-foot Georgian Revival home at 2242 N. Lake Dr. was priced at just $499,000, which seems like a steal. Seeing this post with photos online made me wonder about this house:You can see the full listing with info and many photos here. Designed by architects Max Fernekes and Edwin C.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo |Lori Fredrich
From lakefront vibes to street fests - don't miss our Milwaukee Festival Guide! Click here for your full summer line-up. The Milwaukee Festival Guide is brought to you by our partners at Landmark Credit Union & Harley-Davdison Museum !While he may be nearly two decades removed from his breakout singles, one thing people have never forgotten about Mike Jones is, well, his name.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Bobby Tanzilo |Lori Fredrich |Allen Halas
Milwaukee has been called America’s most German city, and even as times have changed, much of our culture has roots in Germany. Think beer, and Usinger’s sausages. Think Mader’s and beer gardens. And Summerfest. Yes, though it might not look much like it today, the roots of the World’s Largest Music Festival lie in Munich and its annual Oktoberfest tradition.
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1 week ago | 
onmilwaukee.com | Lori Fredrich |Allen Halas |Bobby Tanzilo
From lakefront vibes to street fests - don't miss our Milwaukee Festival Guide! Click here for your full summer line-up. The Milwaukee Festival Guide is brought to you by our partners at Landmark Credit Union & Harley-Davdison Museum !Summerfest is finally here, which means it's time to loosen up your belt and make room for all the new foods that kick off festival season in Milwaukee.
