B93.3, Dogtopia of Milwaukee Eastside and the Eastside BID Presents Hops and Hounds Eastside Outing on Saturday, June 4 from 11am-6pm, supporting the Dogtopia Foundation.

Summer Soulstice is returning this year on June 18th! You are not going to want to miss this FREE showcase of great music along with a variety of food, arts & crafts, and activities.

The East Side Business Improvement District (BID) announced Thursday, June 10, they are teaming up with Milwaukee Makers Market for the markets hosted from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the second and fourth weekends of the month, June through September in the East Side Art Lot

Milwaukee's Black Cat Alley is looking for Wisconsin-based artists to create three new murals. Women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists will be prioritized, according to a news release from the East Side Business Improvement District.

In the bygone days of summer 2020, the East Side saw what was once a boring parking lot brought to life with 10 picnic tables painted by local artists. The lot, at 1915 E. North Ave. became an outdoor hangout for diners carrying out from area restaurants.

Ruta’s is set to open in the popular East Side food hall on April 8. The self-described purveyor of “vibrant” Indian food will take over the space previously occupied by soup-and-sandwich restaurant Frida.

It's unclear how many people will go shopping during Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and the rest of the post-Thanksgiving weekend — what with COVID-19 still surging in Wisconsin. But merchants are doing what they can to attract shoppers into stores or online.

Last Friday, beloved East Side mainstay Hooligan's suffered a fire, the second notable restaurant fire this month after the cheel in Thiensville lost its restaurant due to a blaze on Nov. 8. Thankfully no one was hurt in the East Side incident, but the building's interior and exterior took significant damage according to reports.

This July, AARP Wisconsin awarded Milwaukee’s East Side Business Improvement District #20 a Small Dollar, Big Impact Grant to invest in the East Side Art Lot project. This $1,000 award helped fund the creation of a safe outdoor space for the community.

The East Side Art Lot, a new creative public space located in the heart of Milwaukee's East Side neighborhood, will offer a special "Live At The Lot" event featuring drinks, live music, socially-distanced seating and access to 15 nearby restaurants.

Two Milwaukee artists and one Stevens Point artist will paint murals in September at Milwaukee’s premier street art destination, Black Cat Alley. Black Cat Alley is a public arts destination owned by the East Side BID, and managed by the artist-led group that founded it in 2016.

More than 100 artists entered a competition to add murals to the East Side's Black Cat Alley this month and a community jury selected a pair of Milwaukee artists and another from Stevens Point to paint new works in the city's best permanent outdoor art gallery.

Found at 1915 E. North Ave. in between Beans & Barley and Von Trier, the East Side Art Lot turns a flat, unassuming space for parked cars into a vibrant meeting ground and lunch spot, enlivened by ten picnic tables each uniquely hand-painted by local artists.

The East Side Business Improvement District is creating carryout dining space for nearby restaurants on a sparsely used city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave. Known as the East Side Art Lot, it will help support neighborhood restaurants that have been required to reduce their indoor seating capacity to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The East Side Business Improvement District (BID) is finding new ways to add extended outdoor seating for businesses and residents to use safely. For example, the BID is transforming an underutilized city-owned parking lot at 1915 East North Ave.

It’s called the East Side Art Lot. And it will breathe new life into the underutilized city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave., between Von Trier and Beans and Barley. “The East Side Art Lot will bring together our local community, local artists and local restaurants and shops that make the East Side so special.”

A new public space coming to the oft-empty, city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Avenue. Businesses stepped forward wanting to do light programming if we could make this happen. We also saw an opportunity to pay local artists to help make the space feel more vibrant.

The East Side Business Improvement District in the city of Milwaukee is taking over a parking lot to provide restaurants additional outdoor seating while highlighting the work of local artists. The BID is creating what it calls an art lot, which will be in the city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave.

The East Side Business Improvement District (BID) is tackling this issue with its new initiative to create a space for restaurant patrons to go if outdoor seating is at capacity or simply if someone wants a quiet, outdoor space to relax. This space is called the East Side Art Lot and will be located at 1915 E. North Ave.

A city-owned parking lot in the heart of East North Avenue later this summer could be transformed into a gathering space with picnic tables painted by artists. The concept by the East Side Business Improvement District would help restaurants reopening after the pandemic by providing outdoor seating for people buying carry-out, said Liz Brodek, executive director of the East Side Business Improvement District.

As Snack Boys prepares to open its new East Side location in the former Hotel Foster / Globe East, 2028 E. North Ave., next week, we got another peek at the colorful murals painted inside over the winter by local installation artist Kristina Rolander.

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure in the city’s future. Enter Black Cat Alley. No, seriously: enter Black Cat Alley. Let’s step inside and take a look!

Splash Studio, on the city's east side, wants to add a little color to your world during this pandemic. It's selling "Take & Make Packages" online.

The bar, Cupid Studio, will be packed with themed drinks, snacks, games and photo ops. The menu includes things like: a "Box of Chocolates" flight featuring a Chocolate Orange Bourbon Old Fashioned, Chocolate Martini and Cinnamon Hot Chocolate.

An Elf-themed pop-up bar will be open in Milwaukee during the 2019 holiday season. Buddy the elf is taking over Splash Studio near Oakland Avenue and North Avenue Nov. 29 through Dec. 29, when Splash Studio will become Elf Studio.

Remember a few years ago, when the East Side was lousy with empty bars, empty buildings, and gone-out-of-business businesses? Yeah, it’s not really like that anymore. If you needed proof, this past Saturday’s Summer Soulstice Music Festival should have done the trick.

This week Urban Milwaukee will celebrate East Side Week in honor of the historic and innovative area between the lakefront and Milwaukee River. We’ll be publishing an article on a different aspect of the East Side on Monday through Friday.

The spring Gallery Night & Day is Friday night and Saturday, with dozens of galleries, museums and other art purveyors showing work by the widest array of artists, some of whom will be there to chat about them with you.

The Summer Soulstice Music Festival – celebrating its 19th year – today announced its lineup of local music hitting its three East Side stages during the upcoming 2019 edition, hosted on East North Avenue and Murray Avenue from noon until midnight on Saturday, June 22.

Juried artist selection announced, includes renowned international, national and local street artists

We’ve got something to add to your ‘art stops’ list but you won’t need to squeeze it into the packed schedule of Gallery Night/Day. In fact, you should visit when it’s raining. The evolving art piece is simply known as The East Side’s signature bus shelter with adjoining business shelter on Oakland and North Avenue. It’s easy to miss now that it’s set against the backdrop of looming new development projects, most recently the new 4-story mixed-use building right across the street. Mini donuts are a staple on the corner, with the latest operator Chubby's Drive Thru adding patio seating.

Three imaginative outdoor art pieces on North Ave and Cramer Street will serve as the gateway to the new East Library entrance. The artist was chosen by popular vote and happens to be both an Eastsider and an East Library user.