Time: 9:00pm $10 Cover
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Sensacion Latina is a seven-piece band that plays a variety of Latin rhythms including Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Bachata, Cha-Cha and more.
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $5
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: reina del cid
Time: 10:00am-Noon
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Suminagashi: Japanese Paper Marbling with Aki Shibata
Suminagashi is an ancient Japanese art form to decorate and marble paper using sumi ink. First, you float the ink on a tray of water, then make patterns and designs using oil, bamboo tools or even your own breath! You will make a one-of-a-kind design each and every time with Suminagashi. After marbling several papers, we will turn some of them into mini greeting cards. Then you can take the rest of your beautiful papers home to display, turn into more cards or use in other art projects. $33 ($30 members) per adult/child pair; $17 ($15) each additional participant. For families with children ages 6 and up.
Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Avenue between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street South).
Weave your way through the skyscrapers of downtown Minneapolis on a food adventure! Enjoy VIP service at some of the newest and hottest award winning restaurants and learn the art of local beer making. Visit quaint eateries that have pride in local ownership, including a favorite since 1932. You'll leave the tour with a tasty experience of the best food finds Minneapolis has to offer while learning the history of downtown and soaking in the local culture.
Sites you will enjoy: Broadway Theatre District, Mary Tyler Moore Statue, the tallest building in Minneapolis, a building modeled after the Washington Monument, the largest structure ever moved on rubber-wheeled dollies and much more...
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Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: the minor planets (dana thompson & eric christopher)
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The 2012 Twin Cities River Rats shows are scheduled for 7pm Thursday nights through August 30, and take place at 1628 West River Road (between the Plymouth and Broadway).
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.
If you haven't already enjoyed a River Rats show, their website is loaded with fun videos to give you an idea of what to expect. These are free events.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the critically acclaimed books When I Was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, The Turkish Lover and América’s Dream. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Good Housekeeping, among other publications. Born in Puerto Rico, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and now lives in New York. Her newest novel, Conquistadora, set in the 1800s, tells two coming-of-age stories: one of the daughter of Spanish aristocrats who becomes head of a plantation in the new world, and the other of Puerto Rico itself.
Program is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served. Program begins at 7 PM. Doors open at 6:15 PM. Book sale and signing follow presentation. For more information: 612.543.8107.
A program of Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Premier sponsor: The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank. Supporting sponsor: Dorsey and Whitney LLP. Additional support provided by Marquette Hotel, Minn Post and Magers and Quinn Booksellers
Time:
This safari begins 30 minutes before local sunset (your tour confirmation will have an exact time). We meet at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the river. The Safari runs about 90 minutes on Thursday and Friday Nights.
Location:
This tour begins at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the Minneapolis riverfront. We start by photographing this interesting park, then walk across 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.
Time: 10:30am–11:30am
Location: Children's Library at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Art Out of the Box: Black and White and Read All Over
Registration required, begins Jun 13. Register online or call 612-543-8000.
Entering grades 2-5. Artists can say a lot in just black and white. You'll investigate form and fiction found in sculpture from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, then sculpt characters to tell your own stories. What story will your sculpture tell?
Funded by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library; Presented in partnership with Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Location: Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studio, 818 South 2nd Street
The Guthrie WorldStage Series presents a CoisCéim Dance Theatre production of Swimming with My Mother & Deep End Dance, an award-winning film produced by Wildfire Films.
Run time: approximately one hour with no intermission.
Seating in the Dowling Studio is general admission and begins 30 minutes before curtain.
A young boy takes a lesson from his mother, a swimming coach. Life passes in laps, things change and the boy teaches his mother to dance. As their own stories intertwine and swell like a rising tide, the bonds of familial love are revealed to the sultry tones of Nat King Cole. Performed by acclaimed Irish choreographer David Bolger (H.M.S. Pinafore) and his 78-year-old mother Madge, this award-winning production is told with affectionate humor, as a gentle and joyful celebration of the things we pass on and the things we inherit.
The evening ends with the short dance film Deep End Dance. It features a fully dressed man as he is pushed into a swimming pool by his mother. He brushes himself off and begins dancing underwater, always aware that she’s watching. After a while she joins him in the turquoise dappled waters and they perform a duet of playful somersaults and pirouettes.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road
The regular meetings are rebroadcast on Channel 79 on Saturdays at 1 p.m. and on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 5 p.m.
Webcasts of MPRB regular board meetings are posted on the MPRB website two to five business days after each meeting and are available for viewing, along with Webcasts for the recent two months, at http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=900.
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Central Library, Room N-202, 300 Nicollet Mall
Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and Agenda.
Time: Movie starts 15 minutes after sunset. Click here to find out sunset time.
Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)
Tonights Movie: Summer School
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.
Enjoy Music and Movie combo nights: Tuesdays at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, start your evening with 7:00pm music! June 12, 19, 26, July 10, 17,24, 31, August 7, 14, 21.
Questions or comments? Email us at concerts@minneapolisparks.org
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!
Times:
Social - 6:00pm dinner/drink specials
Discussion - 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street
Book: The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
Books & Bars isn’t your mother’s book club. We provide a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion of interesting authors, fun people, good food and drinks.
Reservations - 612-379-3138
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)
Tonights entertainment: Felonious Bosch - Jazz inspired world music
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.
Enjoy Music and Movie combo nights:
Tuesdays at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park
Fridays at the Lake Harriet Bandshell (beginning June 9th).
Questions or comments? Email us at concerts@minneapolisparks.org
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!
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, McGuire Proscenium Stage, 818 South 2nd Street
Kevin Costner and Modern West
The modern genesis of Modern West began when Kevin’s wife, Christine, encouraged him to reconnect with his love of music. However, the history of the band goes back over 20 years when Kevin met John Coinman in a dirty, downtown warehouse in Los Angeles during an acting workshop. They began to play and write music together along with Blair Forward. That collaboration turned into the band Roving Boy – a rock band with an edgy Western style and a small record deal in Japan where they had a #1 single called Simple Truth. As Kevin’s star began to rise, the band continued behind-the-scenes playing, writing, and recording anytime they could get together. Coinman and Forward both ended up in Tucson, Arizona, where they met guitarist/producer Teddy Morgan and drummer Larry Cobb. In 2005 when the three former Roving Boys decided to build a new band together, they brought in Teddy and Larry and named it Modern West. Born from a shared love of music and comprised of a tight-knit group of longtime friends, Kevin Costner and Modern West draw their influences from a broad tapestry of American music and beyond. The show itself flows from original material penned by the band to cover songs written by some of music’s giants.
www.kevincostnermodernwest.com
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Nicollet Island Amphitheater
Tonights entertainment: Barbara Meyer - Jazz and Big Band
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.
Questions or comments? Email us at concerts@minneapolisparks.org
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!
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Begins at Gold Medal Park (10th Avenue South & 2nd Street South), next to the Guthrie Theater - ends in Northeast Minneapolis
The Riverwalk Tour explores the Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis. You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling a variety of food at historical landmarks, as well as visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls while crossing the Stone Arch Bridge into historical St. Anthony on Main.
You'll learn about the history of both these neighborhoods including a stroll along the oldest street in Minneapolis. Taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods.
Reservations.
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Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Beginning with the arrival of Minnesota’s first rail line in 1862, Minneapolis boomed in population, flour milling, lumber production and warehousing as a rail network extended throughout the Upper Midwest. Take a guided tour to discover the impact of railroads on the Mill City, visiting railroad landmarks such as the Stone Arch Bridge, Milwaukee Road Depot and the Minneapolis Eastern Railway engine house and trestle. Along the way find clues to the vanishing railroad landscape and learn about the future of Twin Cities rail. The tour will begin and end at Mill City Museum, where participants can visit the museum’s gallery, included in the price of the tour.
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
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