It's Party Time in Milwaukee

And we're not talking a post-Halloween beer blast in "America's drunkest city." Nope -- this party is to celebrate Milwaukee's No. 2 rank in Maxim magazine's roundup of America's best party places.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl writes the whole thing off as just another chance to reinforce the city's "most tired stereotypes -- beer, brats and bowling," but in my book, that's darn close to a holy trinity.

Stingl goes on to say that Maxim mentioned perennial fun spot Koz's Mini Bowl, but ran an unrelated photo of a chippie with a bowling ball to accompany the story. Too bad about that. Koz's is one of the coolest places I've been, and the only place I've ever knocked over the duck pins.

Bill from Milwaukee, our man on the street in Brew City, takes this latest honor in stride. "Go figure," he writes. "I think it was TDA's last swing through town that helped push us up the list."