November 14, 2016, Monday - Humans of Minneapolis Book Signing and Artist Talk at Central Library

Time: 6:00pm-8:00p

Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Humans of Minneapolis Book Signing and Artist Talk

Come celebrate the official release of the Humans of Minneapolis book with author Stephanie Glaros! There will book a book signing from 6-7pm and an artist talk from 7-8pm. Light refreshments will be served.

The Humans of Minneapolis book is a curated collection of the best stories and photographs from the popular Humans of Minneapolis blog. It contains personal accounts of joy, loss, transformation and community. Minneapolis artist and photographer Stephanie Glaros will describe her six-year project from blog to book. Books will be available for purchase. 

November 13, 2016, Sunday - Songs from the Street at Plymouth Congregational Church

November 13, 2016, Sunday - Tales of the Falls, a Storytelling Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Tales of the Falls

$16 adults, $14 seniors and college students, $12 ages 5-17, $4 discount MNHS members, includes museum admission

The story of the Minneapolis riverfront will come alive in this unique program led by master storyteller Richard Rousseau. Rousseau will spin three tales that weave the history of St. Anthony Falls with the expectations of the present in three different historic spaces within Mill City Museum. Between stories, participants will walk to the next location while learning about the Washburn A Mill, the home of Mill City Museum.

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The tour includes about two blocks of moderately-paced walking.

The story of the Minneapolis riverfront will come alive in this unique program led by master storyteller Richard Rousseau. Rousseau will spin three tales that weave the history of St. Anthony Falls with the expectations of the present in three different historic spaces within Mill City Museum. Between stories, participants will walk to the next location while learning about the Washburn A Mill, the home of Mill City Museum.The tour includes about two blocks of moderately-paced walking.

November 13, 2015, Sunday - Swing Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Today: Swing Brunch with Patty and the Buttons

November 12, 2016, Saturday - The Bullfrog Bash at The Depot

Time: 6 PM - 11:30 PM 

Location: The Depot, 225 Third Avenue South

The Bullfrog Bash

Join us November 12, 2016 for our annual Bullfrog Bash benefitting Jeremiah Program families, Minneapolis and St. Paul!

The evening promises to dazzle, featuring a live auction, raffle prizes, all while telling the incredible stories of Jeremiah moms and children.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1833889416843737/?action_history=null

November 12, 2016, Saturday - Dinner Detective at Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown

Time: Doors open at 6:00pm

Location: Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown, 1500 Washington Avenue S

Dinner Detective Minneapolis

The Dinner Detective is America’s LARGEST, award-winning interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show! Our high-energy, modern-day whodunit is combined with a full four-course meal.

Our immensely popular murder mystery shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows (or just dinner shows in general), with The Dinner Detective, you and your guests will not find themselves staring at cheesy costumes, there will be no recited campy dialogue and certainly no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not! All scripts are based on actual cold cases and are created in house. From the get go, the guests are seated with the performers and most likely will not realize it! Our Detectives enter the room, proceed to interrogate guests, find clues and start the investigation. This allows our guests to socialize with and interrogate each other, while deciphering real life-based clues. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime!

November 12, 2016, Saturday - Friends of the Mill District Singers Rehearsal at the Guthrie

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30Pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 S 2nd Street

For more information, please contact Claudia Kittock at cjkittock@gmail.com.

November 12, 2016, Saturday - Northeast Holiday Boutique Crawl

Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm

Location: Northeast Minneapolis Riverfront District, E Hennepin Avenue

Northeast Holiday Boutique Crawl

Hosted by Northeast Minneapolis Riverfront District

Kickstart your Holiday shopping at the Northeast Shops! 

November 12, 2016, Saturday - Whisk(e)y Whirl at Martin Patrick 3

Join Mpls.St.Paul Magazine at our first ever WHISK(E)Y WHIRL!

Tickets

5:00-7:00 | Martin Patrick 3 | 212 N 3rd Avenue
(VIP ticket purchasers will receive early entry at 4:00pm)

Maybe you’re in the know, or maybe you’re in the beginning stages of accepting the magic of brown liquor into your life. Either way, you’re going to want to show on Saturday, November 12.

Whisk(e)y Whirl will introduce you to some of the world’s finest whiskies, bourbons, and barrel aged spirits in an intimate setting where you can chat it up with the pros and explore that special alchemy that happens with oak, distilled grains, and time.

We’re playing this match in the backroom of Martin Patrick 3 in the North Loop, because they  bring game in barware and it’s an additional chance to do a little sip ‘n’ shop if you’re feeling it. We’ll have plenty of snacks to bolster, plus a couple of master mixologists spinning drinks, along with our own whisk(e)y woman Steph March and all of the good feels to launch you into your best holiday season.

Get in on the VIP hour from 4-5 pm for some exclusive sips, or join in generally at 5 pm for the happiest hours of the day. We’ll reveal some of the brand partners shortly, but be advised that this is a limited ticket event, so you’d be wise to book soon.

November 12, 2016, Saturday - An Evening of Regional Folk Songs at the Ukrainian Event Centre

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Ukrainian Event Centre, 301 Main Street SE

An Evening of Regional Folk Songs

The Minneapolis Ukrainian Community will have an opportunity to hear from one of Canada's most revered Ukrainian choirs November 12 and 13. The Oleksander Koshetz Choir (O. Koshetz Choir), a Ukrainian Canadian choir with a 70-year history, will embark on a tour to Minneapolis with a concert performance at the Ukrainian Event Centre on November 12. The choir, directed by Miroslava Paches, is one of Winnipeg, Manitoba's most celebrated community choirs. The tour coincides with the choir's 70th anniversary. Admission is $20 at the door. The public is invited to join the choir to celebrate Ukrainian culture through music. The O. Koshetz Choir also will visit Saint Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church, 515 University Ave. NE, as a guest choir for the traditional liturgy at 10 am on Sunday, November 13.

November 12, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market in Mill City Museum

The Mill City Farmers Market boasts the best indoor winter market in town from November to April. Shop from over 40 local farmers, food vendors, and artists from 10:00am to 1:00pm inside the Mill City Museum.

2016/2017 Winter Market Schedule:
Thanksgiving Harvest Markets – November 12 & 19
Holiday Markets – December 3, 10, & 17
January 14 & 28
February 11
March 4*, 11, & 25
April 8 & 22
*At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen

November 12, 2016, Saturday - McKnight Judge Reading: Patrick Rosal at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00 pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

McKnight Judge Reading: Patrick Rosal

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Patrick Rosal is the author four books, most recently Brooklyn Antediluvian and previously Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, My American Kundiman, and Boneshepherds. His work has been published in many journals, magazines and anthologies including The New York Times, Grantland, The Breakbeat Poets Anthology, Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, Language for a New Century and elsewhere. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to the Philippines. His books have been honored with the Association of Asian-American Studies Book Award, the Asian American Writers Workshop Memebers' Choice Award and the Global Filipino Award and has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets and the National Book Critics Circle. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden.

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Patrick was the judge for the McKnight Artist Fellows in Writing, Poetry and Spoken Word. This reading is free and open to the public. Reception follows.

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More Info: https://www.loft.org/shop/product_detail/7/events/556/mcknight_judge_reading_patrick_rosal/ 

November 11, 2016, Friday - Stop Policing My Person at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Dowling Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South

Stop Policing My Person presented in partnership with TruArtSpeaks 

Listen in as future leaders of our society share their perspectives on The Parchman Hour. Stop Policing My Person is an open mic style event featuring performances by Washburn High School students with support from TruArtSpeaks mentors and alumni.

With the support of DJ Just Nine and other TruArtSpeaks artists, students will perform original spoken word poems responding to the content of the play while incorporating course content, their lived experience, and current events. Given the current social state, the past doesn't seem so distant and these students have something to say about it.

Stop Policing My Person will be followed by a discussion with the audience. Tickets are free; reservations are required.

November 11, 2016, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $7

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  The April Fools

November 10, 2016, Thursday - Thursday Musical’s Thursday Morning Artist Series at MacPhail

Time: 9:30am reception, 10:30am concert

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

Thursday Mornings' November 10 Concert:

Kaitlyn Lalmond, piano - Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winner 2016
David Viscoli, piano
Russell Dedrick, flute

Upcoming Dates:

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016

Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017

Thursday, Mar. 2, 2017

Thursday, Mar. 16, 2017

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2017

Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017 

November 10, 2016, Thursday - Writers in Conversation: Patrick Rosal and Elissa Altman at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Writers in Conversation: Patrick Rosal and Elissa Altman

The Loft presents Patrick Rosal and Elissa Altman as they discuss elements of craft in writing. Patrick will read from his latest work, a book of poems entitled Brooklyn Antediluvian, and Elissa will read from her forthcoming memoir Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw before settling in to elaborate on matters of craft, inspiration, history and politics, and how they converge in the mind of a writer intent on telling her or his story. $15 regular admission; $13.50 members.

November 10, 2016, Thursday - Preschool Holiday Session: Book Ornaments/Ornament Books at MCBA

Time: 1:30pm–2:30pm

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

Preschool Holiday Session: Book Ornaments/Ornament Books

Get a jump on literacy in interactive pre-school book arts classes with Ellen Ferrari. Children and adults work together to make paper, print patterns, shapes and letters and construct colorful books in a fun environment. Each class begins by reading a story and continues by investigating examples produced by working artists. Vocabulary, tools and processes will also be introduced. These workshops emphasize visual decision-making, improving manual dexterity and a love of books and can be repeated over and over again as projects change each session. Dress for mess. For families with children ages 3-5. Register for a single class or an entire six-class session at a reduced rate!

November 9, 2016, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe (River Room) 125 SE Main Street

November Sip of Science - Flyover Country: the mobile app for Earth science with Amy Myrbo, Research Associate and Director of Outreach, Diversity and Edusation at LacCore/CSDCO, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota

Due to the increased popularity of the Sip of Science program, we are now REQUIRING RSVPs and tickets at the door. Please click the above link to RSVP.

Are you the sort of person who wants to know all about the landscape you're flying over, driving through, or hiking across?  What geologic wonders are under your feet?  Were fossils discovered here?  Were there volcanoes in this spot a billion years ago?  What could you unravel if you had access to the databases and field trip guidebooks that Earth scientists use?  Amy will talk about the popular mobile app Flyover Country, developed at the University of Minnesota and funded by the National Science Foundation.  It can be used worldwide when you travel - or from your armchair, to learn about a place you've always wanted to visit.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amy Myrbo is a Research Associate and Director of Outreach, Diversity, and Education at LacCore/CSDCO, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota.  When not leading Team Flyover Country, she studies the dangers of sulfate discharge to wild rice and wetland ecosystems, and helps other scientists take core samples from lakes around the world.

November 9, 2016, Wedensday - Fall Student and Teacher Artist Reading at The Loft

Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Fall Student and Teacher Artist Reading

Please join us for the Fall 2016 Student and Teaching Artist Reading, where students and teaching artists from the Loft Literary Center's fall classes share their work. Six reading spots will be available to students involved with a Fall 2016 class. All genres are welcome.

November 8, 2016, Tuesday - Election Day!

2016 Election Day Voting

All 132 polling places in Minneapolis will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

You need to vote at your assigned polling location. Not sure where that is? Find out at http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/

Need to know more about what you're voting on? Find out what is on the ballot and starting in late September download a copy of your sample ballot at http://vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/BALLOT