August 24, 2013, Saturday - '12-'13 Season Celebration at Southern Theater

Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Come CELEBRATE the closing of the '12-'13 season!
 
We are throwing a party and we want YOU to come.  On Saturday Aug 24th from 7p - 10p we'll be drinking and eating on stage with friends and aritsts from this past year (and others!).
 
The highlight of the night will be the drawing of the winner of our GIGANTUS raffle.
 
Tickets to the event are just $15. We'll have libations and snacks on hand, live music, and plenty of great company.
 
So come out and celebrate with us and while you are at it purchase a GIGANTUS ticket and get your shot at one of 3 AMAZING TRIPS!
 
Tickets

August 24, 2013, Saturday - Historic Main Street Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Minneapolis Riverfront Tour

Stroll through Minneapolis’ oldest neighborhood with a Mill City Museum guide, and learn about the rich past and exciting future of historic Main Street. The tour will highlight the life in the village of St. Anthony, changes along Main Street throughout the years, and such landmarks as the 1855 Upton Block, 1858 Martin and Morrison Building, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, the Pillsbury A Mill and the Chalybeate Mineral Springs. This tour will begin and end at Pracna Restaurant, 117 Main Street S.E. Tours include admission to Mill City Museum.

Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

August 24, 2013, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Live Cultures Day

Produce Planner: At the Market this Saturday, you will find: Somerset seedless grapes, Beacon apples, sweet corn, cantaloupe, muskmelon, blueberries, aronia berries, blackberries, raspberries, herbs, arugula, kale, Swiss chard, green beans, brussel sprouts, head lettuce varietals, spinach, kohlrabi, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, zucchini, summer squash, fresh mushrooms, baby bok choi, cilantro, mint, basil, carrots, rhubarb, red and golden beets, purslane, jalapeño peppers, green peppers, cherry tomatoes, slicing and heirloom tomatoes, Japanese eggplant, filet beans, spring greens salad mix, spring onions, cippolini onions, red and white onions,  garlic, radishes, cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, turnips, and more! 

Mill City Cooks, 10 am: 
Market Chef Heather Hartman (with intro by Dr. Greg Plotnikoff) will prepare two recipes: Cucumber Red Onion Salad in a Goat Yogurt Dressing topped with Kiss My Cabbage Sauerkraut, AND a Summer Melon Soup with Kombucha!

Live Music, 11am – 1pm: 
Mill City welcomes the delightfully adventurous Orange Mighty Trio back to the Market today!

Art Market, all day:
Featuring Aprilierre, Guillermo Cuellar, Chris Chookiatsirichai, Ty Aymond, and Ginny Sims!

Meet Your Vegetables, sponsored by Allina Health, all day: Allina Medical Clinic – Nicollet Mall staff members invite you to Meet Your Vegetables at the Market! They’ll have recipe cards for Zucchini Ribbon Salad so now you know what to do with all that delicious zucchini!

Sponsor: Thank you Penny George Institute!

August 23, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: The Dustin Lee Band and Ben Cook-Feltz

August 23, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Fathom Lane / Fairfax, AK / Savannah Smith

August 23, 2013, Friday - Angela's Little Yogis at Central Library

Time: 11:00am –11:30am

Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Location: Cancer Survivor's Park, Marquette Plaza on Nicollet Mall between Washington and 3rd Avenue

Angela's Little Yogis

For families. Join us for child and family yoga, led by a certified children's yoga instructor, after Family Storytime in the park. Bring a beach towel to mark your yoga space. If it rains, we'll meet in the Children's Library.
Sponsored by the Base Management.

August 23, 2013, Friday - Live Music Friday at Aloft

Time: 9:00pm-11:00pm

Location: WXYZ bar, Aloft, 900 Washington Avenue South

Fridays thru August 30, enjoy live music in the courtyard (or inside if the weather doesn't cooperate).

August 23, 2013, Friday - Midwest Photo Safari: "Minneapolis Nights" Mill Ruins Park and the Stone Arch Bridge

Time:
This safari begins 30 minutes before local sunset (your tour confirmation will have an exact time). We meet at Hennepin Bluffs Park on the east bank of the river. The Safari runs 90 minutes to 2 hours on Friday Nights.

Location:
This tour begins at Hennepin Bluffs Park on the east bank of the Minneapolis riverfront. We walk across and under the famous Stone Arch bridge to photograph the Minneapolis night skyline. We will learn the principles of low light settings on your digital SLR's or the various "scene" mode settings of your digital point and shoot camera.

More Information and Registration.

August 23, 2013, Friday - Stories in the Park at Central Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Location: Cancer Survivor's Park, Marquette Plaza on Nicollet Mall between Washington and 3rd Avenue

Stories in the Park

For families. Join us for Family Storytime and enjoy summer storytime fun! Bring your picnic blanket and snack if you'd like. If it rains, we'll meet in the library.

August 22, 1013, Thursday - Twin Cities River Rats Waterski Show

The 2013 Twin Cities River Rats shows are scheduled for 7pm most Thursday nights through August 29, and take place at 1758 West River Road N (between the Plymouth and Broadway bridges).

The Twin Cities Rivers Rats describe their show as an aquatic Broadway musical featuring multiple water ski acts choreographed to music and built around a theme.

These are free events.

August 21, 2013, Wednesday - Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Meeting

Time: 5:00pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Agenda

Meeting are broadcasted live on the City of Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79, or online at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/tv/79. Those interested in viewing the MPRB meeting are encouraged to attend at MPRB headquarters, located at 2117 West River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55411, or view during the 10:30 p.m. Monday (12/3) rebroadcast on Channel 79.

August 21, 2013, Wednesday - 'Let's Keep Dancing' Performance at MacPhail

Time: 7:30pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

Let's Keep Dancing

Join engaging musical theater performers Joey Clark, Andrea Leap and Jerry Rubino for a humorous concert about facades in our romantic relationships, told through theatrical songs from the Great American Songbook to the musical theater composers of today. Deceptions and self-deceptions, miscommunication and mystery, with music from Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Pasek and Paul, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Leiber and Stoller, Jonathon Larson, Adam Gwon and others. Presented in a cabaret setting in MacPhail's Antonello Hall, with a reception to follow.

Admission is free and open to the public, although seating is limited. Video recording will be taking place during the performance.

This concert was made possible by an Artist Development Grant from the McKnight Foundation and MacPhail Center for Music.

August 21, 2013, Wednesday - The Soap Factory Common Room Tour

Time: Tour will depart from the Common Room sign at The Soap Factory’s front dock at precisely 6:30pm.

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

For the fifth year, Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant will be leading Common Room, a series of artist-led tours originating at The Soap Factory. This year, we'll be heading out in a 1953 Twin Cities Rapid Transit chartered bus into Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Common Room began as a month-long series of interactive art events, out of a refurbished art deco office at The Soap Factory. Since 2011, Vucci and Sturdevant have taken the Common Room concept outside the four walls of the Soap Factory and into the city, activating public spaces and redefining our relationship with our surroundings.

All tours will depart via bus from the Common Room sign at The Soap Factory’s front dock at precisely 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday in August. The tours will be approximately 90-120 minutes. Our buses will only accomodate about fifty people, so advance registration will be recommended, check back here in July for ticket information.

August 21, 2013, Wednesday - RLife LIVE at The Depot

Time: Starts at 4:30pm

Location: The Depot Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, 225 3rd Avenue South

Badger Hill Brewing samples 4:30pm-6:30pm

The Dang Ol'Tri'ole take the stage at 6:30pm

August 20, 2013, Tuesday - Music & Movie in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Music 7:00pm, Movies air 15 minutes after sundown.

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)

Tonights entertainment: See website.

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos on our facebook page of you enjoying the concerts. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Enjoy more than 250 FREE concerts and movies in Minneapolis parks this summer!

August 20, 2013, Tuesday - Minneapolis History Pub Crawl: Riverfront Red Light Districts at the Mill City Museum

Times: 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Minneapolis History Pub Crawl: Riverfront Red Light Districts at the Mill City Museum

Fee: $35/$30 for MHS members.

Reservations: required, register online.

Discover the lost history of prostitution on the Minneapolis riverfront on this unique tour with historian Penny Petersen, author of "Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront." The trolley tour of the Minneapolis riverfront includes stops at three former red-light districts that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. Petersen will highlight the surprising stories of the powerful madams who ran them. Women of independent means, madams built custom bordellos to suit their tastes and exerted influence over leading figures and politicians. Learn why the city’s vice districts were clustered near the river, how the sex trade was interconnected with the Minneapolis economy and the stories of the real women who made their living there. The tour will include a stop for beverages and appetizers at a pub near the former Main Street red light district and will conclude with a social hour with the author at a nearby pub. Ages 21 and up only. Appetizers at the first stop included in the tour price. All drinks sold separately.

Note: The tour will include up to two blocks of walking. Please advise ticketing staff of physical challenges.

August 20, 2013, Tuesday - Summer Memories: Print Your Own Poster on the Sign Press at MCBA

Time: 10:00am-noon

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Summer Memories: Print Your Own Poster on the Sign Press

For families with children age 3 and up

As summer winds down, think back on all of the great memories. Then come to MCBA and print a poster that encapsulates all of those good times! Create a pressure print image and print a bold message on top using beautiful wood type lettering. Participants will use Vandercook and sign presses to print multiple copies of their posters -- great souvenirs for family and friends!

$40 ($36 members) + $8 supply fee for an adult/child pair;
$20 ($18 members) + $4 supply fee for each additional participant

More details or to register.

August 19, 2013, Monday - Mill District Neighborhood Association Meeting at Mill City Museum

8/19/13 NOTE - tonight's meeting has been cancelled due to Alatus LLC last minute conflict.

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Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 6th Floor ADM Conference Room (Enter at 710 2nd Street South - Arrive early to assure a seat)

The Mill District Neighborhood Association meets on the 3rd Monday of each month at the Mill City Museum, unless otherwise noted.

AGENDA -

6:30pm / Introductions

6:35pm / Presentation - 301 Washington Ave S. Mixed Use Project
Alatus LLC is proposing development of a 13-story mixed use building with 320 dwelling units at 301 Washington Avenue S.  The proposed building would also contain two commercial spaces on the first floor; a restaurant at the corner of Washington Avenue S and 3rd Avenue S and a second commercial space at the corner of Washington Avenue S and 4th Avenue S. An alternative to this second commercial space is potential for walk-up townhome units in this corner of the building.

View the preliminary plan:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/wcms1p-111915.pdf

7:15pm / Mill District Condo Council - Laurie Jones
Update on mission, meeting structure/standing agenda, meeting schedule.

7:30pm / Gold Medal Park Theater Project - Josh Fazeli
Shakespeare in the park? Josh Fazeli, a graduate of the BFA UofM/Guthrie program, discusses a theater based programming concept for Gold Medal Park.

8:00pm / Adjournment

August 19, 2013, Monday - RiverFirst Movie at Scherer Brothers Site

Time: 7 pm, with movie starting 15 min. after sunset

Location: Scherer Brothers Site, Sibley and Eighth Avenue NE

The final RiverFirst movie series is Monday, August 19, featuring Desperately Seeking Susan, is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna.

Come at 7 pm to enjoy dinner from one of the two on-site food trucks -- or bring a picnic. Then roll out a blanket and enjoy the Minneapolis cityscape in the setting sun. Movies start 15 minutes after sunset.

RiverFirst movie events are produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board's Music & Movies in the Parks team and presented by the Minneapolis Parks Foundation with support from the McKnight Foundation. Check out our poster for all the details. And connect via Facebook and Twitter for the latest info.

August 18, 2013, Sunday - Fifteen’s 5K

Time: 8:00am

Fifteen's 5K

Run with us to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Join Glen, Alisha and the Minnesota Twins players for a great race and a game at Target Field, where everyone crosses home plate!

The race starts near Gold Medal Park. It runs past the Guthrie Theater, the Mill City Museum and the scenic banks of the Mississippi river. The route will take runners through the North Loop neighborhood and the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis before runners cross home plate in Target Field and finish the race!