August 19, 2014, Tuesday - Historic Pub Crawl: Cedar-Riverside with Preservation Alliance of Minnesota

Time 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Cost: $10/person Tickets

Join the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota on a Historic Pub Crawl that explores the West Bank and Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. One of the most diverse areas in Minneapolis and one that is ever changing, the West Bank offers the perfect mix of social history and architecture to share over a pint.

Palmer's Bar, The Nomad World Pub and Acadia Cafe

• Experience a place that was once referred to as the "Haight Ashbury of the Midwest"
• Learn how the area has changed throughout the years
• Grab a drink at a place that survived prohibition, became a hippy stronghold in the 1960's and was just named one of the Best Bars in America
 
ROUTE SCHEDULE
 
****Registration will begin at 6:00pm at Palmer's Bar****
6:00-6:45pm Palmer's Bar (500 Cedar Ave)
7:00-7:45pm: The Nomad (501 Cedar Ave)
8:00-9:00pm Acadia Cafe(329 Cedar Ave)

July 19, 2014, Saturday - MCBA’s Unabashedly Bookish Bash!

Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue S
 
Take a trip to the tropics for a cool, casual party with a nod to the summer patio get-togethers of yesteryear — MCBA’s Unabashedly Bookish Bash is a benefit with a luau twist!

We will transform our studio space into a tropical hideaway complete with sunsets and grass huts, where you can enjoy pu pu platter delicacies, umbrella-adorned cocktails and delectable wines, groove to live roots music by The Dead Pigeons, and mix and mingle with artists and art lovers.
 
A highlight of the Bash is the Art Mart, featuring donated work by local, national and international artists. Check out our “Cover-Up” gallery of altered book covers, a selection of framable altered vintage postcards, and incredible book, paper and print treasures. Plus you can win big at our Bookish Bash Raffle, where one lucky winner will win an instant collection of books, prints and gifts.
 
Proceeds from the Bash support the myriad programs we offer artists. We hope you will attend and help us reach our ambitious goal of raising $25,000.
 
Tickets
 
Tickets for the Bookish Bash are on sale now! You can purchase tickets online (below), by phone at 612 215 2520, or in person at The Shop at MCBA.
 
A limited number of VIP tickets are available — VIPs will receive a commemorative letterpress print, free raffle tickets, and access to an exclusive cocktail reception and Art Mart preview from 6-7pm.

The Unabashedly Bookish Bash is partnering with some of the best in the local food and spirits scene in the Twin Cities:

Our friends at Norseman Distillery are providing organic barrel-aged rum for our tropical cocktails, while Day Block Brewery (voted Best New Brewpub in 2014) is giving us a special taste of their local craft beers.

Food Network award winner Pimento Jamaican Kitchen is serving up authentic Jamaican street food, from spicy jerk chicken and pulled pork to a special family recipe for coconut rice and beans.

Sample lemon meringue tartlets and Valrhona chocolate bouchons from Cocoa & Fig, and make sure to save room for a cool tropical dessert! Our friends at Izzy’s Ice Cream are churning out special batches of banana macadamia nut ice cream and coconut guava sorbet just for you.

The Bash also offers a real musical treat -- guests will be serenaded by West Bank roots-folk-Americana band The Dead Pigeons!

July 19, 2014, Saturday - National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Time:  1:00pm

Location: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main Street SE

NT Live at the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul: A Small Family Business

NT Live is a groundbreaking initiative of London's National Theatre that broadcasts the world's finest stage performances to cinema screens to 22 countries around the globe.

Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack's integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax.

A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed by Olivier Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn, A Small Family Business returns to the National Theatre for the first time since its celebrated premiere in 1987, when it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

Tickets are available through the Film Society. Information about The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul and details of its programming can be found at http://www.mspfilmsociety.org/. $20 Regular; $15 Film Society Members

More information.

July 19, 2014, Saturday - Family Riverfront Quest Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm (Bookmaking 1:00 - 1:30pm; Tour 1:30 - 2:30pm)

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Riverfront Quest Family Tour

Fee: $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17; $7 MHS members ages 6-17, free for adult and senior MHS members.

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

Try out questing with a family-focused tour of the Minneapolis riverfront outside Mill City Museum. A Quest is a community treasure hunt that guides people through, and teaches them to see, a unique part of their community. This quest includes solving rhyming riddles and searching for hidden boxes with pictures to place in a quest journal that participants can make before the tour. Journal materials and admission to Mill City Museum are included in the tour cost. The tour is designed for ages 6–11, but can be enjoyed by all ages. Adults and seniors must be accompanying a child.

The tour includes one mile of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility. 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. Tours are held rain or shine.

For more information visit http://www.millcitymuseum.org/tours.

Additional date: August 16

July 19, 2014, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Immigrant Farmer Cultural Day

Produce Planner: At the Market this Saturday, you will find: Blueberries! Strawberries, sour cherries, rhubarb, pac choi, totsoi, fennel, beets, onions, scallions, salad mix, head lettuce, red butter lettuce, little gem romaines, cabbage, purplette onions, broccoli, sugar snap peas, snow peas, herbs, spring onions, garlic scapes, chives, arugula, nettles, chickweed, radishes, carrots, kale, Swiss chard, stinging nettles, potatoes, purslane, cilantro, oregano, tarragon, lemon thyme, dill, fresh mushrooms, dried beans, and much more!
 
Mill City Cooks, 10 am: Market Chef Heather Hartman with special guest May Lee from Mhonpaj’s Garden.
 
Live Music, 11 am – 1 pm: MCFM welcomes the delightfully adventurous Orange Mighty Trio back to the Market today!
 
Dot Survey, all day: Stop by and answer a few easy questions about your experience at MCFM!
 
Art Market, all day: Featuring Ink Orchard, Fresh Mud, Larissa Loden, and Christy Wetzig.
 
Sponsor: Thank you Wedge Community Co-op and Car2Go!

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Member Specials 7/19/2014!

Become a Market Member and get a $5 off coupon at the Wedge Community Co-op, a free package of Mrs. Kelly's Tea of the week, weekly specials at the market all season long, and a $5 market token good for anything at the market! This Saturday's specials include:
 
-Black Cat Natural Foods: Buy one, get one 1/2 off (of equal or lesser value) before 10 am!   
-Barkley's Bistro: "2 Clucks for $15 Bucks" get 2 bags of their signature recipe Chick'n Cheddar buttons for just $15!
-Northern Lakes Wild Rice: $1 off 1 lb of wild rice; 
-Loon Organics: $1 off any $10 purchase;
-Kiss My Cabbage: $1 off Lemon Corainder Leek Kraut;
-Verdant Tea: a free drink with purchase of $25+ loose leaf tea!
-Birchberry Native Arts and Food: $1 off any $10 purchase;
-Olsen Naturals: $1 off any $10 purchase;
-Singing Hills Goat Dairy: $1 off on any 2 chevre or any 2 feta;
-Stones Throw Urban Farm: French breakfast radishes - buy 2 get 1 for 1/2 price!
-Sunshine Harvest Farm: 10% off all lamb products;
-French Nugget: 10% off any purchase;
-The Bolt: $1 off any beverage!
-Zula Juice: $1 off a bottle of juice or 10% off a 3 Day Cleanse.
 
Just show your "I'm a Member" bag! 

July 19, 2014, Saturday - Yoga Rocks the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Meet at 10:30a - Class begins at 11:00am

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park
 
Each weekly event features an OUTDOOR ALL-LEVELS 75-MINUTE YOGA CLASS (BEGINNERS WELCOME!) featuring the areas most inspiring local and national yoga teachers and kids yoga program, Camp YRP (for your little yogis), accompanied by LIVE MUSIC or DJ with some of the top and emerging musicians in the country.

July 19 features:

Kaja Foat of Foat Design will lead us in a special class with live music by Krysta Rayford of K.Raydio. Sarah Gillian Yoga from Lil Breathers will lead Camp YRP - Kids Yoga. Minneapolis Third Ward Representative, Jacob Frey will also be there to speak briefly. As always, 10% of what we do goes right back to Minneapolis non-profit, Open Arms of Minnesota and nation non-profit The Give Back Yoga Foundation. A special thanks to Athleta for helping in large to make this happen!!! We also appreciate all of our sponsors, KFAI - 90.3 FM Minneapolis - 106.7 FM St. Paul, Minneapolis Yoga Conference, Human Rights Campaign, Radiant Life Yoga, The Om Collective, Minnesota Power Yoga, YOGA Garden, Blooma, Boiler Room Coffee, Zula Juice, ThriftyHipster.com, Adventures of Super Stretch and 1000 Petals Yoga.

THE 2014 LINE UP

July 19, 2014, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Food Tours Minneapolis Riverwalk Tour

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

Hungry for an off-the-beaten path Minneapolis food experience? Join us as we explore one of the city's trendy and historical neighborhoods, Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis. You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling food at the first Thai restaurant in Minnesota, drinking local Minnesota brewed beer at the oldest restaurant in Minneapolis, and enjoy a local favorite - the cheese curds. You'll also enjoy mouth-watering pasta located in the historical Chase building, home-made gelato, and nosh on savory European style baked bread as we stroll through the local Farmers Market.

Along with sampling food we will also visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls as we walk along 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. You'll taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods that most tourist never see!

Reservations.

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July 19, 2014, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery

July 19, 2014, Saturday - Bike with a Ranger: Minneapolis Riverfront

Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Location: Matthews Park, Minneapolis. Meet in the parking lot north of the park. Parking is free.

Bike with a Ranger is a family-friendly way to explore the Mississippi River. Join us this summer on a three-hour, nine mile ride. (For exercise enthusiasts, each ride may burn up to 350 calories for a 150 lb person!)

See the Mississippi River's only major waterfall and explore the great river's only gorge. We will ride through modern parks while exploring the river's ancient geology and its extraordinary human history that led to the founding of the Twin Cities and its development into a regional and worldwide economic powerhouse.

Cost
$8 / $5 for Mississippi River Fund Members
Kids under 10 ride for free.
Registration is required. Space is limited to the first 20 people who register. Register online with the Mississippi River Fund.

Future dates August 9 and September 13.

July 18, 2014, Friday - Mill City Summer Opera Presents Puccini’s Tosca at Mill City Museum

Minneapolis' newest opera company, the Mill City Summer Opera, presnets Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.

Tosca will be presented at 7:30 p.m. July 18, 20 and 22. Mill City Museum’s dramatic Ruin Courtyard will again be the venue for all performances.

Mill City Summer Opera was founded in 2011 to bring the Twin Cities exceptional opera performances set in a nontraditional venue. Artistic Director David Lefkowich and Music Director Brian DeMaris have assembled a first-rate design team and cast, featuring acclaimed American soprano Jill Gardner and exciting tenor Dinya Vania as Cavaradossi. Gardner and Vania sang these roles together at the Lyric Opera Baltimore in 2011 to great acclaim. 

July 18, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Mattie's on Main

Time: call to confirm, 612-886-2121

Location: Mattie's on Main, 43 Main Street SE

Tonight: Erin Schwab & Jay Fuchs

July 18, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Edward David Anderson

July 18, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Amanda Vernon

Amanda Vernon is an internationally-acclaimed recording artist from Grand Rapids, Michigan who has shared her music across the US and in 6 foreign countries. Through a genre she calls, “soulful pop,” this singer, pianist, and composer speaks to authentic beauty through music, the language of the soul.

July 17, 2014, Thursday - Exhibit Opening: Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis History at the Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Exhibit Opening: Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis History

Fee: Free

Celebrate the opening of "Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis History." This new exhibit showcases photographs about the 100-year history of Dunwoody College of Technology and its impact on the local community. Dunwoody is the only private, nonprofit technical college in the Upper Midwest and a national innovator in technical education. Its founder William Dunwoody was a prominent figure in the Washburn Crosby Company, whose A Mill is the home of Mill City Museum.

Light hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available. The exhibit will be displayed in the museum’s central Mill Commons and is free and open to the public during regular museum hours through October 5, 2014.

July 17, 2014, Thursday - Live Music at Mattie's on Main

Time: call to confirm, 612-886-2121

Location: Mattie's on Main, 43 Main Street SE

Tonight: George Scot McKelvey and Friends

Upcoming date:
Erin Schwab & Jay Fuchs, Fri Jul 18, 2014

July 17, 2014, Thursday - 1934 Minneapolis Truckers' Strike at Central Library

Time: 6:30pm–9:00pm

Location: Central Library, Doty Board, 300 Nicollet Mall

1934 Minneapolis Truckers' Strike

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the 1934 truckers' strikes, Canadian labor historian Bryan Palmer will talk about his book “Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934.” The strikes had state-wide significance and galvanized the labor movement in Minnesota. Other speakers include Minnesota historian Mary Wingerd, historian and author William Millikan, and authors David Thorstad and John Lauritsen. Books will be available for purchase.

Sponsored by Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library.

July 16, 2014, Wednesday - Brag Minneapolis with Betsy Hodges at The Southern Theater

Time: 8:00pm

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 South Washington Avenue

The Theater of Public Policy presents Brag Minneapolis - With Betsy Hodges

In her State of the City address, Mayor Betsy Hodges said "we can't afford to be modest." She announced that July 14-20 would be "The Best Week of Bragging About Minneapolis Ever." She's shouting to the rooftops about how great our city and the people in it are.

She asked T2P2 if we'd do a show where we turn everyone's brags into hilarious comedy. We said yes, and now you have the chance to see your stories of life in Minneapolis brought to the stage! Join us for a memorable evening and come see Mayor Hodges and others as they brag!

What is the show?

Our interview based show is a powerful medium for exploring issues and bringing them to life using theater. All of the ideas and challenges brought up in this conversation serve as the inspiration for the improvised scenes to follow. The improvisers tasks are not to make light of the issues or mock the players involved. Instead, scenes make the previous conversation come to life with living, breathing characters in the situations described. It’s a show unlike any other.

July 16, 2014, Wednesday - Art Out of the Box: Eye Wonder at Central Library

Time: 2:00pm–3:00pm

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

Art Out of the Box: Eye Wonder

Registration required, begins Jun 18. Register online or call 612-543-8000.

Entering grades 2-5. Discover artists' secrets and uncover illusions meant to trick the eye by looking closely at art from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Museum-trained teens will help you make art to hide your own secret messages. Materials provided.

Presented in partnership with Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Sponsored by the Friends of the Hennepin County Library.

July 16, 2014, Wednesday - Mill City Summer Opera Presents Puccini’s Tosca at Mill City Museum

Minneapolis' newest opera company, the Mill City Summer Opera, presnets Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.

Tosca will be presented at 7:30 p.m. July 16, 18, 20 and 22. Mill City Museum’s dramatic Ruin Courtyard will again be the venue for all performances.

Mill City Summer Opera was founded in 2011 to bring the Twin Cities exceptional opera performances set in a nontraditional venue. Artistic Director David Lefkowich and Music Director Brian DeMaris have assembled a first-rate design team and cast, featuring acclaimed American soprano Jill Gardner and exciting tenor Dinya Vania as Cavaradossi. Gardner and Vania sang these roles together at the Lyric Opera Baltimore in 2011 to great acclaim. 

July 16, 2014, 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.