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Best night club, 2009: The Mad Planet
Rosemary Silagy moved from Chicago to Milwaukee 19 years ago to open The Mad Planet.  
By OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writers

Published Feb. 15, 2009 at 5:06 a.m.
Tags: mad planet, dance club, best of, decibel / deep bar, moct


"Bar Month" at OnMilwaukee.com is back for another round! The whole month of February, we're serving up intoxicatingly fun bars and club articles -- including guides, unique features, drink recipes and more. Grab a designated driver and dive in!

The votes are in and the winners have been selected for OnMilwaukee's Best: Bars & Clubs, 2009. The results of this readers' poll, including an editors' pick, are available in this series of articles that run all month long in the Bars and Clubs section of OnMilwaukee.com.

OnMilwaukee.com chose The Mad Planet as Milwaukee's best night club. The Riverwest club -- owned by Rosemary Silagy -- opened almost 20 years ago.

With its eclectic crowd and funky motif, The Planet is a people watchers' wonderland. Punks, goths, hipsters, bachelorette parties and everyone in between mix it up on a regular basis inside The Planet -- or outdoors on the tree-canopied patio.

Every Friday night is '80s Night at The Mad Planet, and the club serves as a popular venue for local and national bands, too.

OnMilwaukee.com editors' choice: MOCT

Runners-up:

2. Decibel / Deep Bar
3. MOCT
4. Kenadee's
5. La Cage
6. Rain
7. Club Anything
8. Three
9. Aura
10. Cush
11. Club Timbuktu
12. Notte
13. Liquor Sweets
14. Vanity Ultra Lounge
15. Fuego
16. Texture
17. Mecca



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The Mad Planet
533 E. Center St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
(414) 263-4555

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Posted by Mayflower on March 20, 2009 at 12:37 p.m. (report)

Mad Planet is Awesome! I always have an amazing time. Thanks for being completely different from the others on this list.

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Posted by JKrunken on Feb. 16, 2009 at 7:11 p.m. (report)

Yes! Rosemary throws the best dance party in town!

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Posted by Jen-n-wi on Feb. 16, 2009 at 8:29 a.m. (report)

Are you kidding??? boy what a sad state of affairs our club scene is in to pick this place! Nothing against the people who own it or go there. Its ok, but the best in town??? Last time I was there I almost fell asleep it was so boring. You can only look at so many tats and skinny guys wearing womens pants. This reminds me people on here being asked whats the best restaurant in town and survey says, applebee's! lol. when it should be Lake Park or some other fine dining establishment. OMC got it right with MOCT

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Posted by Joscasta on Feb. 16, 2009 at 7:33 a.m. (report)

Uh.. Kenadee's is a bar.. not a nightclub.

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Posted by Z_boy on Feb. 15, 2009 at 9:51 a.m. (report)

Hooray to the Mad Planet. I think the "best of" selection for this place is right on the money. If you want to just dance, people watch, come as you are, and have fun, this is the place. There's none of that mentality or worry of having to come dressed in the latest and most expensive fashions, as so many of these hip and trendy places would expect of you. Now if only the Planet would retire the 80s retro night or move it to a weekday night. It would be so refreshing to have something like a 70s funk night for a change.

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