February 4, 2013, Monday - Blues at the Crossroads 2: Muddy & The Wolf at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Wurtele Thrust Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South

Blues at the Crossroads 2: Muddy & The Wolf

After a successful tour with the Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts, BLUES AT THE CROSSROADS returns to celebrate the two legends, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Both musicians vie for the honor of the “father of modern Chicago Blues” and both are considered the key bluesmen inspiring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Mayall, Eric Clapton and others who brought about the 1960’s British blues explosion.Though friends, Muddy & The Wolf were rivals for the top slot, and this spurred on both to top the other and create classics of the genre, including Spoonful, Mannish Boy, Rolling Stone, and Smokestack Lightning. The Fabulous Thunderbirds join Blues At The Crossroads 2 as the core band backing greats James Cotton, Bob Margolin, JJ Grey and Jody Williams.

February 4, 2013, Monday - Geeks Who Drink at Aster Cafe

Time: 7:30pm (no cover)

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Geeks Who Drink is a Denver-based company that hosts bar trivia at over 200 pubs and restaurants in 21 states. Their quiz is a collective effort of dozens of quizmasters, writers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and artists.

February 2, 2013, Saturday - Tet: Vietnamese New Year 2013 at Central Library

Time: 1:30pm

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

Tet: Vietnamese New Year 2013

For families. Kick off the Year of the Snake. Learn unicorn moves and drumming to drive off bad luck. Listen to zodiac tales, watch and dance along with a cultural dance group, and enjoy a martial arts demonstration. Feel free to attend in traditional clothing.

This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Presented in collaboration with Hung Vuong Association of Minnesota.

February 2, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Mississippi Peace

February 2, 2013, Saturday - Poetry Reading: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robins, and Kristin Naca at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Poetry Reading: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robins, and Kristin Naca

Join us for a unique evening of exceptionally enthralling poetry with Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robbins, and Kristin Naca.

Hadara Bar-Nadav will read from her recently published ekphrastic collection The Frame Called Ruin reviewed as “terse and fiery,” by Publishers Weekly.  Bar-Nadav is the author of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), which was awarded the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook, Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/ GreenTower Press, 2010), was awarded the Midwest Poets Series Award. She is also co-author, with Michelle Boisseau, of Writing Poems, 8th edition (Pearson, 2011). Her awards include fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and lives in Kansas City with her husband, Scott George Beattie, a furniture maker and visual artist.

Adam Clay will read selections from his collection A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) reviewed by Publishers Weekly as “a poet that locates himself at the borders between nature and language.” Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.

Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011), and two chapbooks: Circus (Flying Guillotine, 2009), and Little Felons (Strange Machine, 2013). Born in Portland, Oregon, he teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
 
Kristin Naca is a Filipina American poet who grew up in northern Virginia, graduated from University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh with an MFA, and from University of Nebraska in 2008, with a PhD Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Harper Palate, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Octopus Magazine, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review. She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002. She teaches at Macalester College. She lives in Minneapolis.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

February 2, 2013, Saturday - SWEET SATURDAY Local Artist Showcase and Sale at Local D'Lish

Time: 10:00am-2:00pm

Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street

Mark your calendars for SWEET SATURDAY Local Artist Showcase and Sale on February 2nd from 10am-2pm.  Local D'lish will house a variety of artisans selling everything from hats, scarves, and clothing to cards, jewelry and home accessories. Original artwork bought directly from local artists is a great way to shop for Valentine's Day, birthdays, be-here-before-you-know-it holidays (like Mother's Day!) or just a sweet treat for yourself!

February 2, 2013, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

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

Reservations: recommended, call 612-341-7555 or register online

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building on this guided tour. A museum interpreter will take visitors into the building’s many nooks and crannies, highlighting the lives of the men and women who worked there, how the building functioned during its peak flour milling years and the many changes to the building over time. Also covered will be how the mill ruin was converted to a museum and office building.

Although many parts of the A mill can be explored on a self-guided basis during a regular museum visit, this is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building, and the only chance to see some of its non-public spaces. The tour includes admission to the museum gallery as well as the Flour Tower show.

February 1, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Caitlyn Smith

February 1, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Jude Nutter at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mentor Series Reading: Jude Nutter

The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Jude Nutter reading along with program participants Kelly Hansen Maher (poetry) and Jason Francis O'Keane (fiction)
 
Kelly Hansen Maher lives in Northeast Minneapolis and attends Hamline University as a part-time writing student while working full-time as an attorney editor for Thomson Reuters. Kelly holds a BFA in theater from Emerson College, and a JD from the University of Minnesota. Kelly’s poems have been published in a handful of literary journals, and her plays have been staged in Seattle, Portland, and New York City. She’s at work on her first full-length poetry collection, and a book of personal nonfiction. She loves garden writing, museums, Lake Superior, and old English pubs.

Jason Francis O’Keane lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three daughters. He received his MFA from Hamline University, where he was an assistant fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. In his earlier life, he was a practicing aerospace engineer, but quit to become a stay-at-home dad and feed his writing habit.    

Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up near Hannover, in northern Germany. Her first book-length collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame Press), her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in poetry. A third collection, I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (University of Notre Dame Press), was awarded the 2010 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and voted Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Review. In 2004/2005 she spent two months in Antarctica as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Writers and Artists Program.