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.

Summerfest 2019 is just around the corner. Like, it starts this Wednesday, folks. It’ll be your chance to see acts like The National, Walk The Moon, Neon Trees, Taking Back Sunday, Young The Giant, The Head And The Heart, and more perform in the open-air and bleacher-filled majesty of Henry Maier Festival Park.

From within, Von Trier is a calm outpost. Here, the busy street life outside is more sensed than seen. The light is filtered through the stained-and painted-glass windows, giving color and dimension to the chandeliers, plaques, beer steins, and the tons upon tons of Schmiedearbeiten executed by wrought iron workers, some now dead for centuries.

Interested in finding out about the newest businesses to open in Milwaukee? From a Japanese joint to a bar, read on for the newest destinations to open their doors around town.

Beans & Barley buzzed on a recent Saturday morning. There were couples, families, singles, senior citizens, teens, and three burly men in the booth behind me enjoying Super Green Smoothies. Breakfast has always been popular at Beans, and this sunny Saturday morning was no exception.

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.

East Side axe-slinging bar AXE MKE will ring in its first birthday this weekend – and it'll celebrate the only way it knows how: by throwing blades at stuff. Found at 1924 E. Kenilworth Pl., AXE MKE's birthday "axe-travaganza" will host a variety of events and a new variety of things to throw your axes at – most notably on Thursday, June 13, when the festivities begin with a Cake Smash Party from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

Need more ramen in your life? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top ramen outlets in Milwaukee, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fill the bill.