The Oriental Theatre is closing one of its two small screens for a few months, as part of Milwaukee Film's second phase of renovations at the east side movie palace. The theater's westernmost screen — the one closest to the theater's entrance at 2230 N. Farwell Ave. — will go dark after Sunday's showings, Milwaukee Film said Wednesday.

Milwaukee, WI – The East Side Business Improvement District is on the final climb toward the 19th annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival, Saturday, June 22, 2019 from noon to midnight. Summer Soulstice, presented by Sol Cerveza, is Milwaukee’s hyper-local neighborhood music festival is a celebration of the music, art, and activities that make Milwaukee awesome, officially kicking off the summer festival season. Four Stages of Free Music:

Anyways, back to the good stuff. Merge then takes its crackling little pebbles of meaty perfection, covers them in the sauce of your choosing and serves them up in the restaurant's fun, modern atmosphere featuring retro video games on its screens – dibs on "Mario Kart 64" – and big eye-catching murals on the walls. The sauces range from bourbon barbecue to honey mustard, Nashville hot chicken to Asian-inspired flavors like soy garlic and sweet and spicy.

This might be the busiest weekend Milwaukee's ever seen. Here's a road map to what you'll be doing Friday through Sunday.

Hacienda is the modern, experimental beer arm of Door County Brewing. - It's a taproom and restaurant with 12 beers on draft as well as bottles and cans to go. - The menu includes baked cheese curds, beer cheese fries, duck confit empanadas and salads.

Happy National Doughnut Day, everyone! We hope you're doing your best Homer Simpson impression today and noshing a doughnut – or a dozen – to celebrate this most glazed of special days. And to help you go nuts for doughnuts, we're gathered up several local and national bakeries that are offering free doughnuts or special one-of-a-kind flavors for you to dig into.

AXE MKE has become a popular destination for Milwaukee locals and visitors. “Since opening a year ago, we’ve had so much fun hosting everything from date nights, birthday parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties and corporate events to ‘we were just walking by and wanted to check it out’ guests,”

The taproom, which opens to the public Saturday, is a whirl of color and creative design from the ball-shaped lights hanging from the ceiling to the Madras upholstered banquette seating on the taproom's western half.