May 12, 2012, Saturday - Oz Presents Spring Fling '12 at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm  $6 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Oz Presents Spring Fling '12

May 12, 2012, Saturday - 'Cake Mix and the Rise of Convenience Foods' at Mill City Museum Baking Lab

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 Second Street South

Cake Mix and the Rise of Convenience Foods

The postwar era of the late 1940s and 1950s ushered in a new era of kitchen conveniences. Using the example of the cake mix, this demonstration highlights the dramatic changes in cooking habits during this era and how those innovations affect our lives today. Visitors will learn about food history, sample cakes made from scratch and from mix, and take home a copy of a recipe.

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

May 12, 2012, Saturday - Opening Day and Mother's Day Celebration at Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am-1:00pm

Location:  Find us rain or shine on the Chicago Mall between the Guthrie Theatre and Spoonriver restaurant, and in the historic train shed of the Mill City Museum.

The Mill City Farmers Market opens for its 7th season of “Healthy Foods, Local Farmers”.

Come celebrate Mother’s Day with Opening Day festivities at Mill City Farmers Market! We will relish in the start of another Market season, farm-fresh foods, local fine arts and crafts, and honor moms with fresh spring flowers and family friendly activities.  Kids can get their hands dirty with a free planting activity sponsored by Juut Salonspa.  Celebrate this year’s early harvest by filling your baskets with plenty of asparagus, rhubarb, arugula, carrots, snow peas, Mother’s Day bouquets, market meats, cheeses, baked goods and much, much more!

At 10:00 am, don’t miss Mill City Cooks kitchen for a cooking demo of Spring Asparagus Bisque with Market Chef, Heather Hartman, who will be assisted by her lovely daughter, Josephine in honor of Mother’s Day!

Be sure to meet today’s featured authors: Kim Ode, author of Rhubarb Renaissance; Tricia Cornell, author of Eat More Vegetables: Making the Most of Your Seasonal Produce; and Brett Laidlaw, author of Trout Caviar: Recipes from a Northern Forager . Books will be available for purchase at the market courtesy of the Mill City Museum Store.  A signed book makes a great Mother’s Day gift, especially when paired with a homemade market fresh dinner--preferably made for Mom, not by Mom!

Don’t forget to peruse our unique selections at the Art Market, featuring ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodcraft.  Also, be ready to enjoy a vivid performance from gypsy-jazz artists Gypsy Mania, playing from 11:00am – 1:00pm.  
 
We welcome the return of many Mill City Farmers Market vendors, as well as several new.   Be sure to check out these great new vendors:

Kiss My Cabbage will add sauerkraut & kimchi to the market’s offerings; Down in the Valley Bakehouse brings gluten free fare 2nd Saturdays; Cherry Tree House Mushrooms comes with oyster & shitake mushrooms and grow-your-own kits; Barkley’s Bistro introduces healthy, local treats for our four-legged friends; handcrafted St. Croix Chocolate; plus fresh sprouts and micro greens from Bossy Acres!

May 12, 2012, Saturday - Talking Image Connection: FLO(we){u}R Power at The Soap Factory

Time: 8:00pm

Location:  The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street SE

A Talking Image Connection reading in connection with FLO(we){u}R.

Talking Image Connection brings together writers, contemporary art and new audiences in art galleries around the Twin Cities.

Brian Beatty's jokes, poems and stories have appeared in many print and online publications.
He's also the creator and host of mnartists.org's monthly literary podcast, You Are Hear. Brian's
2012 Minnesota Fringe Festival show is titled "Minimum Rage."

MC Hyland is the author of Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press) and the chapbooks Every Night
In Magic City (H_NGM_N), Residential, As In (Blue Hour Press) and (with Kate Lorenz and
Friedrich Kerksieck) the hesitancies (Small Fires Press). She lives in Minneapolis, where she
runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab Reading Series, and works at Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Andrea Jenkins, author of two chapbooks, tributaries: poems celebrating black history and
Pieces of A Scream, is a Poet, Spoken Word and Performance Artist. Winner of the 2010 Naked
Stages and Verve Grant(s) she co-curates the Queer Voices, one of the longest running LGBT
reading series in the country. Most recently she was published in the anthology, Gender Outlaws
II: The Next Generation.

Alison Morse's poems and stories have been published in Water~Stone Review, Natural Bridge, The Pedestal, Rhino, Opium Magazine, mnartists.org and other places. In 2012, she completed a collection of stories about Kenyan social justice activist Wahu Kaara for the Women PeaceMakers Program at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. She is also the 2012 "poet laureate" for the St. Paul JCC. Alison teaches English and runs TalkingImageConnection.

Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in South Minneapolis. He has
written for a variety of places, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!,
Mpls. St. Paul and in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. In
addition, Andy writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis-St. Paul for
MinnPost. He also directs and host Salon Saloon and is co-creator of the Common Room at The Soap Factory. The results of Andy's solo and collaborative explorations and conversations about artmaking often take the physical forms of pamphlets, printed matter, books, and drawings. They also manifest themselves in ephemeral, site-specific performance and interactions. By the way, Andy was born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky and has lived in Minneapolis since 2005.

May Lee Yang is a playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist. She has been hailed by Twin Cities Metro Magazine as “on the way to becoming one of the most powerful and colorful voices in local theater.” Her theater-based works have been presented at Mu Performing Arts, the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT), Out North Theater, the 2011 National Asian American Theater Festival, the MN Fringe Festival and others. Her most recent works include Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman and Ten Reasons Why I’d Be a Bad Porn Star. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Performance Network, the Midwestern Voices and Visions Residency Award, the Playwright Center, the Loft Literary Center, and is a winner of the 2011 Bush Leadership Fellowship. In her 9-5 life, she works as the Executive Director of Hmong Arts Connection, a non-profit based in St. Paul, MN.
http://www.lazyhmongwoman.com/.

Michael Kiesow Moore's work has appeared in Talking Stick 20, Water~Stone Review, The Rockhurst Review, Evergreen Chronicles, The James White Review and the book Losing Loved Ones to AIDS, among other publications, and his awards include a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship. Michael founded and curates the Birchbark Books Reading Series at Birchbark Books and teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center. He also teaches classes on “Writing Peace into the World,” and founded the Loft’s Peace and Social Justice Writers group. http://www.michaelkiesowmoore.com/.

May 12, 2012, Saturday - Parker Quartet Presents Intimate Letters: Mozart, Janácek and Beethoven at MacPhail

Time: 7:30pm

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

Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. During the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons, the Parker Quartet was the first-ever Quartet-in-Residence at the SPCO, and during the 2009-10 season, the quartet was also the first-ever Artist-in-Residence with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and American Public Media (APM). The SPCO is thrilled to partner with the Parker Quartet once again to bring their exceptional artistry to the Twin Cities community.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online or by calling the Ticket Office at 651.291.1144.

May 12, 2012, Saturday - Windows into Mood: Stories of Depression and Mania at Guthrie Theater

Time:  8:00am-5:00pm

Location:  Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South

Windows into Mood: Stories of Depression and Mania

Exploring mood and creativity.  Open to the general public and medical professionals.

Registration and additional information.

May 11, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  quasar f. mankwe ndosi

May 11, 2012, Friday - Ten Thousand Things Season Finale 'Vasa Lisa" at Open Book (3 days)

Location: Open Book, Target Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Times: 
Friday and Saturday shows start at 8:00pm
Sunday show (call for time)

A new play by Kira Obolensky with music by Peter Vitale Directed by Michelle Hensley Featuring Tracey Maloney, Sally Wingert, Jim Lichtscheidl, Elise Langer, and Luverne Seifert Based on Russian folk tales, Kira Obolensky's world premiere play traces the journey of a young woman who ventures into a dangerous woods to confront Baba Yaga the witch. 

contact@tenthousandthings.org 612-203-9502

May 11, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm  $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  The Dollys

May 11, 2012, Friday - Guitar, Winds, Brass and Percussion Departments Recognition Recital at MacPhail

Time: 7:30pm

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

Guitar, Winds, Brass and Percussion Departments Recognition Recital

MacPhail provides numerous opportunities for students to perform. More than 400 recitals are scheduled each year, ranging from informal recitals to auditioned honors recitals.

May 10, 2012, Thursday - 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 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.

More Information and Registration.

May 10, 2012, Thursday - The War Within/All's Fair Opens at Southern Theater

Time: See Show Dates and Times listing below.

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

The MOVINGCOMPANY presents THE WAR WITHIN/ALL'S FAIR, directed by Dominique Serrand and featuring Nathan Keepers and a cast of Twin Cities' favorites.

THE WAR WITHIN/ALL'S FAIR is a theatrical mayhem inspired by "war"- not the war we typically think of, far away in another country, but the war within ourselves, the everyday wars we all battle, all the little wars we create or find around and in between us.

Appropriate for ages 10 and up.

Show Dates and Times

May: 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27

June: 7, 8 , 9, 10

All shows at 7:30pm

Tickets available through ticketworks. Call 612.343.3390

May 10, 2012, Thursday - What's in Dragonfly's Box? at Central Library

Time:  3:30pm–4:30pm

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

What's in Dragonfly's Box?
Preschool-grade 3. Visit the Children's Library to see what crafts or activities the dragonfly has in its box.

May 10, 2012, Thursday - Coffee House Press Publication Reading with Dylan Hicks at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

Coffee House Press Publication Reading with Dylan Hicks
 
Come to the Loft May 10th to hear celebrated musician Dylan Hicks read and discuss his debut novel Boarded Windows published by Coffee House Press.

“Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit. Dylan Hicks knows his music and his prose is a song in itself. He’s given light to the shuttered and boarded parts of life.”—SAM LIPSYTE

Wade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He’s also a complicated father figure to this novel’s narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade’s stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector,Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening. Steeped in the culture and spirit of Uptown Minneapolis in the nineties, Boarded Windows explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks’s debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America’s boomer counterculture.

The book will include a free download of Sings Bolling Greene, a soundtrack to the novel written and performed by the author.

Dylan Hicks is a songwriter, musician, and writer. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, New York Times, Star Tribune, City Pages, and Rain Taxi, and he has released three albums under his own name.A fourth, Sings Bolling Greene, is a companion album to this novel and will be released in May 2012. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Nina Hale, and his son, Jackson. This is his first novel. Visit the author online at http://www.dylanhicks.com/.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

May 10, 2012, Thursday - Jazz Thursday: The Dakota Combo at MacPhail

Time:  8:00pm

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

The Dakota Combo is MacPhail's premier student jazz ensemble led by Adam Linz.  Tuition for the group is funded by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education.

Membership to this combo is determined by competitive auditions, and the combo has produced their own recordings, received the Mingus Spirit Aware at the Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival in New York, and Performa t jazz venues throughout and beyond the Twin Cities.

May 9, 2012, Wednesday - Range of Motion 'Tough Enough Bootcamp' at Mill Ruins Park

Time:  6:00am - 7:00am

Location:  Mill Ruins Park parking lot at the base of the hill (free parking).

Range of Motion (ROM) Wellness

Your humpday mornings just got a little tougher.  After that the rest of the week is a cakewalk.  Join this exciting bootcamp-style class meant to make you work hard in order to improve your conditioning, gain foundational strength and power, and burn calories like nobody's business.  Group fitness classes improve your performance and give you the feedback and energy to be your best.

Pre-pay $8/session for 8 weeks ($64) or $12 for drop-in classes.  Try out the class for $5, which will be applied to your final cost if you decide to continue.

We start at the Mill City Ruins and will find fun and exciting routes and urban and natural "gym" equipment to push your body where you didn't think it could go.  This class will challenge you physically and mentally but you will always control your comfort zone and how you choose to work.  It is not meant as an introduction to exercise and it is not for the faint of heart.  However, all exercises have their modifications and you are encouraged to find your limitations and train in accordance.

Be sure to have a light snack or meal 30 minutes prior to class and bring something to eat or drink post class to stimulate metabolic recovery and prevent post-exercise low blood sugar crashes. Water and sweat towels will be provided but you are encouraged to bring a towel and/or yoga mat.

To RSVP for class, Email Jeremy at jeremy@rom-wellness.com, or call 612.205.7644.

*If you are new to exercise this will challenge you. If you have any pre-existing medical conditions, chronic pain, or acute injuries please consult your physician prior to beginning a new exercise routine. During these workouts you may encounter contraindicated movements for your specific condition and should be able to decide when you should sit the exercise out or talk to me about specific modifications.

Class repeats every week until Wednesday, May 23, 2012:

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 6:00am - 7:00am

May 9, 2012, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

A Sip of Science:  Outdoor StreamLab (OSL): Life-size Outdoor Experiments to Strengthen Stream Restoration Science    
  
If you've ever visited Water Power Park, the balcony of the Guthrie Theater, or taken the elevator tour at the Mill City Museum, you've likely seen the constructed stream channel adjacent to the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. The Outdoor StreamLab (OSL), built on an abandoned floodway and fed by the waters of the Mississippi River, provides a unique opportunity to take high resolution, laboratory-quality environmental measurements in controlled outdoor conditions. This setting allows researchers to conduct experiments on stream and river processes that are dependent on sunlight, including algae growth, investigating the effect of vegetation on flowing water, or studying interactions between flowing water, sediment transport, and aquatic habitat. The OSL stream has been flowing continuously since June, 2008 (even in winter!) to maintain a natural stream ecosystem.

As the OSL moves into its fifth year of research, OSL manager Jessica Kozarek will explore what we have learned from these life-size experiments and how researchers seek to understand the effect restoration practices will have on the complex interactions between physical, chemical, and biological river and stream processes.

About our speaker:

Jessica Kozarek is a Research Associate and OSL research director at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota. She received her BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State before her obsession with flowing water (and with kayaking) brought her to a MS and PhD in Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.

A SIP OF SCIENCE bridges the gap between science and culture in a setting that bridges the gap between brain and belly. Food, beer, and learning are on the menu in a happy hour forum in which researchers pair with musicians, artists and storytellers to put science in context through storytelling.

This talk takes place during happy hour at the Aster Cafe - Food and Drink Available for Purchase.

May 9, 2012, Wednesday - Graywolf Press Publication Reading: Albert Goldbarth at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

Graywolf Press Publication Reading: Albert Goldbarth 
 
Please join us for an evening of poetry as Albert Goldbarth reads and discusses his latest collection of poetry published by Graywolf Press.

Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday people—overprotective parents, online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. In Goldbarth’s poetry—expansive, wild, and hilarious—he argues that our ordinary failures, heroics, joy, and grief are worth giving voice to, giving thanks for. Everyday People is an extraordinary new book by a poet who “in thirty-five years of writing has amassed a body of work as substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation” (William Doreski, The Harvard Review).

“Again Goldbarth directs his amazing collection of little-known facts toward the same simple truths: people fall in and out of love, grow old, die, and hope to be remembered, even as Goldbarth hopes to remember and cherish every odd quotation he incorporates from an ‘astute, high-style comic strip,’ from Whitney Houston, from Charles Darwin, from his friends, all treated with a sympathetic and finally optimistic gusto, ‘large and excited and various and full of that / exuberance we call everyday life.’”—Publishers Weekly

“Albert Goldbarth must be accounted one of our most considerable poets.”—Poetry

Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry, including To Be Read in 500 Years and The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.

May 8, 2012, Tuesday - Books & Bars Series at Aster Cafe

Times:

Social - 6:00pm dinner/drink specials
Discussion - 7:00pm-8:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

Book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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

May 8, 2012, Tuesday - DMNA Board Meeting at Central Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Central Library, Room N-202, 300 Nicollet Mall

Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and Agenda.

(Included on the agenda:  Washington Avenue reconstruction update by Lisa Bender from the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition.