March 31, 2013, Sunday - Public Skating at the Metrodome

Time: 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM (upper concourse)

Location: The Dome

Rollerdome - Let's Go Skating!

Throughout the winter the upper and lower concourses of the Metrodome become the Rollerblade® Rollerdome, annually hosting thousands of inline skaters who come to relax, exercise, train, socialize, or just watch others turn endless effortless laps on the roughly half-mile smooth concrete loop. Park your car in the free lot adjacent to Gate D and enter the revolving doors.

Rollerdome Prices

• Parking - Free in the Metrodome VIP lot adjacent to Gate D
• Adult - $6.50
• Student (with ID) $5.50
• Pre-teen & Senior $4.50
• Skate rental $5.00
• Rollerblade® Rollerdome accepts all major credit cards, personal checks and cash

Visit their website for updates and additional information.

March 30, 2013, Saturday - Paws to Read at Central Library

Time: 10:30am–Noon

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

Paws to Read

For families. Certified volunteers will help put young readers at ease so they can cuddle up with a dog or other animal and practice reading aloud. Call ahead to find out what types of animals will be visiting.

Presented in collaboration with North Star Therapy Animals.

March 30, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Hookers $ Blow

March 30, 2013, Saturday - Bluegrass Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11am - 1pm  No Cover

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Bluegrass Brunch from 11:00-1:00 featuring: Chris Silver Band

Chris Silver is best known throughout the country as a virtuoso flatpick guitar and mandolin player
and can heard at festivals, theaters, and clubs and radio shows across the globe. Formerly of the
bands Stoney Lonesome, Tangled Roots, and the Kate Mackenzie Band, Silver has taken acoustic
his Roots and Americana music to new levels through his solo appearances and shows his own band.

During the past decade, Chris has made several appearances on Garrison Keilor’s A Prairie Home Companion, recorded four songs in the studio with the legendary Taj Mahal, released six solo recordings, and in 2008, won the Minnesota State Flatpicking Championship held at the State Fair.

March 30, 2013, Saturday - A Reading by Minnesota State Arts Board Grant Winners at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

A Reading by Minnesota State Arts Board Grant Winners

The Loft Literary Center hosts a reading by recipients of a 2012 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Reading will be fiction writer Nona Kennedy Carlson and poets Heid Erdrich and Kate Lynn Hibbard.

Nona Kennedy Carlson is the recipient of a 2011-2012 Loft Mentor Series Award, a 2012 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, and a 2012 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, temenos, Dust and Fire, The Talking Stick, and Minnpost. In 2012 her story, "Shift," was selected by Joyce Carol Oates as a finalist for the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and her short story "Queer" received the Jonis Agee Award for fiction. She is currently at work on Boom, a novel in stories set against the backdrop of the Bakken Oil Boom and the war in Iraq.

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems. She is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for 2012-2013. Her grant allowed her to produce new poems and create poetry films with Elizabeth Day, Margaret Noori, R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., and animator Jonathan Thunder. Her poem films will be screened as part of this event.

Kate Lynn Hibbard's first book of poems Sleeping Upside Down won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was published by Sliverfish Press. Her second collection, Sweet Weight, was published by Tiger Bark Press in 2012. She is editor of When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience. Her honors include the Aestrea Foundation's Lesbian Writing Finalist Award, a McKnight Artist Fellowship in Poetry, two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and residencies at Hedgebrook and the Cornucopia Arts Council. She is working on a manuscript of historical poetry about women's experiences in the Great Plains frontier.

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

March 30, 2013, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour

Time: 2:30pm

Location: 800 LaSalle Plaza (On Hennepin Avenue between 8th & 9th)

Taste Twin Cities Food Tours

While it's chilly outside, join us as we weave our way through the cozy corners of downtown Minneapolis skyways on a food adventure. We will stroll through the "Broadway" Theatre District and enjoy VIP service as we visit some of the newest and hottest award winning restaurants downtown has to offer. The tour includes seeing the Minneapolis skyscraper that was modeled after the Washington Monument and visiting the famous Statue of Mary Richards tossing her hat. Along the way we will also visit quaint eateries that have pride in local ownership; including a favorite since 1932. You will participate in tea sampling and learn the secrets behind the great food you are enjoying. You'll leave the tour with a tasty experience of some of the best food finds Minneapolis has to offer all while learning history of downtown and soaking in the local culture.

Register.

March 29, 2013, Friday - Crime and Pun-Ishment Murder Mystery at Old Spaghetti Factory

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, 233 Park Avenue (and Washington Avenue South)

Crime and Pun-Ishment

Step back in time to the era of gangsters and their molls. Minneapolis, grab your beaded frocks and pin striped suits and brace yourselves for this "roaring twenties" style murder mystery. Un-organized crimes prevail in The Murder Mystery Company's award winning show, Crime and Pun-ishment. Bring your friends, family and don't forget your detective skills to help solve the case!

Information and tickets.

Upcoming dates:

April 4, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 7, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 11, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 12, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 19, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 25, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 26, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 3, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 5, 2013 @ 5:00pm
May 9, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 12, 2013 @ 5:00pm
May 16, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 19, 2013 @ 5:00pm
May 24, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 26, 2013 @ 5:00pm
June 9, 2013 @ 7:00pm

March 29, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Apollo Cobra

March 29, 2013, Friday - Peter Gloviczki Publication Launch with Jesse Lee Kercheval and Ray Gonzalez at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Peter Gloviczki Publication Launch with Jesse Lee Kercheval and Ray Gonzalez

Join us for an evening of poetry—support an emerging writer and his mentors.
 
Peter Joseph Gloviczki is a teacher, a communication researcher, a poet and a sportswriter. His first book of poems, Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry, 2013), was a top-8 finalist at Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. In May 2012, Gloviczki earned his PhD in mass communication at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation was a case study of the "In Memorial: Virginia Tech" Facebook Group, which was formed on the same day as the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech school shootings. He lives in Minneapolis. Visit him online at http://petergloviczki.com or follow him on Twitter @petergloviczki.
 
Jesse Lee Kercheval is currently the Sally Mead Hands Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing from 1994 to 2010 and was also the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Wisconsin. Kercheval is the author of twelve books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novella Brazil (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010) won the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest. Her poetry collection Cinema Muto (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009) was selected by David Wojahn for a Crab Orchard Open Selection Award. Her story collection The Alice Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) won the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. Her first story collection The Dogeater (University of Missouri Press, 1987) won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction. Space (Alonquin Books, 1998), her memoir about growing up near Cape Kennedy during the moon race, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her novel The Museum of Happiness, set in Paris in 1929, has been reissued with a new afterword by the author by the University of Wisconsin Press as part of the Library of American Fiction.
 
Ray Gonzalez received his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and is a professor in the English Department. He is the author of ten books of poetry including Faith Run (University of Arizona Press, 2009) and Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (BOA Editions, 2009), Consideration of the Guitar (2005); The Religion of Hands (2005), which received the 2006 Latino Heritage Award for Best Book of Poetry; The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (2002), a winner of a 2003 Minnesota Book Award; Turtle Pictures (2000), a winner of a 2001 Minnesota Book Award, and The Heat of Arrivals (1996), a winner of a 1997 PEN/Josephine Miles Book Award. He is the author of three books of nonfiction: Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays (University of Arizona Press, 2008), Memory Fever (1999), and The Underground Heart (2002), which received the 2003 Carr P. Collins/Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Book of Nonfiction. He is also the author of two books of short stories: The Ghost of John Wayne (2001) and Circling the Tortilla Dragon (2002). His poetry has appeared in the 1999, 2000, and 2003 editions of The Best American Poetry. He is the editor of twelve anthologies including Sudden Fiction Latino: Short Short Fiction from the U.S. and Latin America (W.W. Norton, 2010) and No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 Poets (2002). He has served as Poetry Editor of The Bloomsbury Review since 1980. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature from the Border Regional Library Association in 2003.

March 29, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $6

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Lynhurst + Kelly Jo Mitchell

March 27, 2013, Wednesday - RLife LIVE IDOL - Round One at Stone Arch Bar

March 27, 2013, Wednesday - Kingdom Undone at Southern Theater (4) days

March 27 - 30 Performances:
7:30pm Wednesday–Saturday
3pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Kingdom Undone

A revolutionary twist on a celebrated story. When revolution spins out of control, Judas Iscariot, and a young Zealot named Isaac, rush toward their ultimate liberation, or their undoing. Kingdom Undone merges earthy drama, music and unexpected humor with the passion of Jesus’ final days and the messy justice that turned the world on its head. "This has the potential to become an estimable piece in the Passion literature." -- Graydon Royce, Star Tribune.

By Jeremiah and Vanessa Gamble, founders of Theater for the Thirsty, directed by Jeffrey S. Miller (The Refreshment Committee), musical direction by Michael Pearce Donley (Triple Espresso), featuring Dustin Bronson as Judas (Pillsbury House, The Illusion, Park Square, Workhouse) and a stand-out cast of Twin Cities talent.

Tickets: $15 - $25, Discounts for groups, seniors, students and fringe buttons holders at www.kingdomundone.com or 800.838.3006.

Additional information info@kingdomundone.com

March 26, 2013, Tuesday - Book Arts Roundtable at MCBA

Time: 7:00pm

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

All About Color

Join Darin, Greg and Beth, top management from Wet Paint Artists' Materials in St. Paul, for a discussion about color. Refresh your basic knowledge of color theory; learn the most up-to-date information on pigments; and hear about the practical applications of color theory to paint, inks and paper.

March 25, 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.

March 24, 2013, Sunday - Scratch vs. Mix: Which Brownie is Better? at Mill City Museum

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

 

Scratch vs. Mix: Which Brownie is Better?

Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.

See how history is revealed in food in the Baking Lab. Museum staff demonstrate making brownies from scratch versus a mix and share the history of the development of baking mixes. Visitors will be able to taste the results and vote on their favorite, learn home baking tips and take home a copy of the recipe.

March 23, 2013, Saturday - Family Day: Women of Mill City at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 Second Street South

Family Day: Women of Mill City

Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with performances by four Mill City Museum History Players and a series of family activities. Families can enjoy portrayals throughout the day of women in Minneapolis and the region in the 19th and 20th centuries: bonanza farm domestic manager and diarist Mary Dodge Woodward (1880s), labor writer and organizer Eva McDonald Valesh (1880-1900), influential Minneapolis head librarian Gratia Countryman (1900-1930), and Pillsbury Home Service Director Ruth Andre Krause (aka “Ann Pillsbury”, 1950s). Visitors also can go on a museum scavenger hunt to discover the important role of women in the history of Minneapolis, take a short quiz to discover which “women’s work” of the 18th and 19th centuries would suit them best, and try their hand at the “Piecework Challenge,” testing their speed against nineteenth century work standards.

March 23, 2013, Saturday - Readings by Alicia Conroy, Kathleen Glasgow, Rebecca Kanner, & Molly Quinn at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Readings by Alicia Conroy, Kathleen Glasgow, Rebecca Kanner, & Molly Quinn

Current Minnesota State Arts Board winners will read from their work.
 
Alicia L. Conroy of Minneapolis publishes fiction, features and reviews. Her story collection, Lives of Mapmakers, was published by Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press in 2006 and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. Conroy’s short stories have been published in literary journals including Ploughshares, Puerto del Sol, and Ontario Review. She has received a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and was a finalist for both the Bush Artist Fellowship and the McKnight Artist Fellowship She has served on the steering committee for the Twin Cities local of the National Writers Union and the planning committee for the Twin Cities Book Festival, and taught at The Loft Literary Center.
 
Kathleen Glasgow received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she has been coordinating the Creative Writing Program since 2002.  Her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and other journals. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the SASE/Jerome Foundation.
 
Rebecca Kanner holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has won an Associated Writing Programs Award and a Loft mentorship Award. Her stories have been published in numerous journals including The Kenyon Review and The Cincinnati Review. Her personal essay, “Safety,” is listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011. She is a freelance-writer and teaches writing at the Loft in Minneapolis. Her first novel, Sinners and the Sea, will be published by Howard Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, April 2, 2013.
 
Molly Quinn studied English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Nursing at Normandale Community College. Her fiction has been published in River City and Blithe House Quarterly. She is the recipient of a Loft Mentor Series Award and a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is a Registered Nurse in Inpatient Psychiatry at Hennepin County Medical Center, and is currently working on a collection of short stories inspired by this experience. She and her husband live and write in Minneapolis.

March 23, 2013, Saturday - Bluegrass Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm (no cover)

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Bluegrass Brunch from 11:00-1:00 featuring: Rum Cullies

March 23, 2013, Saturday - Guthrie Theater / YMCA Play Care! for Twelfth Night

Time: All performances begin at 1:00pm, child care drop off begins at 12:30pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 2nd Street South

Bring your children (ages 4 to 11) to the Guthrie's Level Eight Education Suite where they will explore a variety of activities developed and led by qualified and trusted YMCA child care professionals. All activities are tailored to your child's age (ages 4 & 5, 6 & 7, 8 & 9, 10 & 11), including movement, arts & crafts, games and more. Once they're settled in, head downstairs, take your seat and prepare to be entertained!

Additional 2013 Play Care Dates (advance reservations are required):

• Saturday, April 20, 1 p.m. - Nice Fish
• Saturday, May 18, 1 p.m. - Nice Fish
• Saturday, June 1, 1 p.m. - The Primrose Path
• Saturday, June 15, 1 p.m. - The Primrose Path
• Saturday, July 13, 1 p.m. - Clybourne Park
• Saturday, July 27, 1 p.m. - Clybourne Park
• Saturday, August 17, 1 p.m. - Born Yesterday
• Saturday, August 24, 1 p.m. - Born Yesterday

To purchase, call the Guthrie Box Office at 612-377-2224 or order in person at the Guthrie Box Office.

March 23, 2013, Saturday - City of Lakes Community Land Trust's Fundraiser at Wilde Roast Cafe

Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Location: Wilde Roast Cafe, 65 Main Street SE

Please make plans to join us for the CLCLT’s 4th Annual Fundraiser, “Coming Home” on March 23, 2013 at the Wilde Roast Cafe in NE Minneapolis!  Click here to purchase tickets.
 
Music by American Idol Semi-Finalist Reed Grimm and the Shoeless Revolution!

Tickets: http://clclt.org/