The attendance tallies for the Wisconsin State Fair are in, and they're impressive. This year the event drew about a million people, more than Summerfest. So why doesn't it attract the same kind of media coverage and attention that Summerfest does? This week on The Disclaimer, WMSE's weekly panel with Ryan Schleicher, Milwaukee Record editor Matt Wild and I, we discuss how the city views the State Fair, and why it's held to a different standard that Milwaukee's signature music festival. Then Matt turns his attention to an improbably controversial mural at Fink's and the latest installment of the Beloit List, that goofy annual roundup that reminds the rest of the world how old they are in relationship to incoming college students, making those students seem like aliens from the process.
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