Share Article January 2, 2015, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe
Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $10
Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE
Tonight: Tim Houlihan
Tim Houlihan and his band of tasty players serve audiences a generous portion of original material descended from the likes of Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Shawn Colvin, and Joni Mitchell. After releasing a new record, completing a tour of the East Coast, and a visit to SXSW, the band features Tony Sigfrinius, Paul Madsen, Todd Lester, Johnny Hagen, and Jaymi Holt. Come and enjoy clever lyrics, bouncy melodies, and fresh takes on familiar covers.
January 1, 2015, Thursday - Happy New Year!
Wishing our neighbors all the best in 2015! :)
December 31, 2014, Wednesday - Carnaval: NYE 2015 at MUSE Event Center
Time: 9:00pm-2:00am / VIP Entry at 8pm
Location: MUSE Event Center, 107 3rd Avenue North
This New Year's Eve, immerse yourself in the captivating and colorful world of Carnaval. Leave the cares of the past year behind as you embrace this alluring realm of dazzling costumes and magnificent celebration. Don your finest New Year's Eve attire and enjoy an evening of sultry spectacles in a vibrant party atmosphere.
This upscale bash will transport you to Rio de Janeiro for a dazzling street party with an array of enchanting performances. Year after year, this event has proven itself to be the premier New Year's Eve party in Minneapolis. This year's sparkling affair promises to be the most unique and exciting New Year's Eve celebration in the Twin Cities.
Doors for this event will open at 8:00 for VIP guests, who are invited to enter through an exclusive VIP entrance with expedited check-in. From 8:00-9:00, VIP guests will be greeted with a complimentary glass of champagne and will also enjoy an array of tempting hors d�oeuvres provided by Crave. General admission guests can start their evening at 9:00. Spectators will be amazed by breathtaking performances presented throughout the evening. Erbert & Gerbert's will be providing complimentary late night snacks for guests after the clock strikes midnight.
Our NYE 2014 event sold out; purchase your tickets early to guarantee entry. We are limiting capacity this year and are expecting to sell out before doors open.
December 31, 2014, Wedensday - New Years Eve at Aster Cafe
Time: December 31, 2014 @ 8:00pm - January 1, 2015 @ 1:00am
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
THE ASTER CAFÉ NEW YEAR’S EVE BONFIRE PARTY WITH TRAILER TRASH
Includes complimentary champagne toast at midnight.
This ticket is good SOLELY for admission to the River Room after 9PM on New Years Eve 2013. Tickets are limited.
If you would like to partake in the prix fixe menu that INCLUDES admission to this event, please call the Aster at 612.379.3138 for a reservation. There are prix fixe seatings at 5:30 and 8PM. ONLY the 8PM seating includes admission to the River Room for Trailer Trash. $65 for the 5:30 prix fixe seating and $85 for the 8PM seating which includes tickets to the concert in the River Room. You may purchase prix fixe only for the 8PM seating by calling the Aster.
From 9pm – 1am the historic Aster River Room will be transformed into a Texas roadhouse bar. There will be no dinner service in the River Room, only in the Aster Cafe earlier in the evening.
December 30, 2014, Tuesday - Learn Together: Reading With Horse Power! at Central Library
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Learn Together: Reading With Horse Power!
Decmber 29, 2014, Monday - National Theatre Live: John at St. Anthony Main Theatre
Time: 7:00pm
Location: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main Street SE
NT Live at the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul: John
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.
Internationally renowned DV8 Physical Theatre brings its powerful new production to the National Theatre. DV8 Physical Theatre has produced 18 highly acclaimed dance-theatre works and four films for television, which have garnered over 50 national and international awards.
The company's new production, John, authentically depicts real-life stories, combining movement and spoken word to create an intense and moving theatrical experience. Lloyd Newson, DV8's artistic director, interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John. What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching. Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search in which his life converges with others, in an unexpected place, unknown by most.
John contains adult themes, strong language and nudity. Suitable for ages 18 years+
Tickets are available through the Film Society. $20 Regular; $15 Film Society Members
December 27, 2014, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum
Times: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A museum interpreter will take visitors into the building’s many nooks and crannies, highlighting the lives of the men and women who worked there, how the building functioned during its peak flour milling years and the many changes to the building over time.
This is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building and the only chance to see some of its non-public spaces. The tour includes admission to the museum gallery, Baking Lab, Water Lab and Flour Tower show.
December 27, 2014, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour
Time: 2:00pm
Location: 800 LaSalle Plaza (On Hennepin Avenue between 8th & 9th)
Taste Twin Cities Food Tours - Downtown Minneapolis Skyway
Future dates: Jan (2015) 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Feb 7, 14
Tour Facts
•Indoor 3 hour walking tour in the heart of downtown Minneapolis using the skyway system
•Saturdays at 2:00pm
•Flat route with slight inclines and declines, approximately .8 of a mile, bathrooms available at some stops
•5 stops
•Tour limited to 12 people, advance tickets required. Private tours available year round for larger groups.
•Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S)
•$45/pp
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.
•Mouth watering flat bread pizza at a local hot spot
•Fine chocolates to be savored
•Locally brewed Minnesota draft beer paired with appetizer (non-alcoholic tastings available)
•Ham and Pear Crisp Sandwich with fresh home-made chips from the restaurant that has "damn good food"!
•Sinfully delicious variety of cupcakes
•Deliciously sweet and salty popular Chicago Mix® popcorn
•Sip on warm and comforting loose leaf tea (private tours only)
•Variety of a delicious French pastry; the Macaroon
•Featured on the Cooking Channel Unique Sweets - Bourbon Whiskey Caramel Donut Bread Pudding Loaf (private tours only)
*Tastings subject to change without notice. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
December 26, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe
Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $8
Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE
Tonight: Winterset
Winterset is a Minneapolis-based group of the Americana/rock influence. Members include Steven LaFollette (vocals/songwriting/acoustic guitar), Dan Stewart (bass/vocals), Aaron Speer (drums), Cassie LaFollette (mandolin/keys/vocals), and Andrew Carey (electric guitar).
December 22, 2014, Monday - Sounds of Blackness at The Guthrie
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Wurtele Thrust Stage, Guthrie, 818 South 2nd Street
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS – A MUSICAL FANTASY
Minnesota’s three-time Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness returns with its 36th Anniversary performance. The Night Before Christmas – A Musical Fantasy is a contemporary adaptation of the beloved poem “A Visit From St Nicholas.” This family-friendly musical production brings Santa, Mrs. Claus and Rudolph the Rappin’ Reindeer to life in hilarious song and dance as they learn the true meaning of Christmas. The music ranges from R&B/Hip-Hop to Jazz, Blues and Gospel and features Sounds of Blackness singers and band in show-stopping, roof-raising songs and scenes.
This is a must-see performance during the holiday season at the Guthrie Theater.
December 21, 2014, Sunday - Opera on Screen at St. Anthony Main Theatre
Time: 1:00pm
Location: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main Street SE
Opera on Screen: “Eugene Onegin” at the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul:
Tchaikovsky is best known for his symphonic scores and ballets such as the Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. Yet his operas also occupy a place of honor in his oeuvre, and two of them, “Eugene Onegin” and “The Queen of Spades,” both based on novels by Pushkin, are among his very finest works. The plot of “Onegin” is quickly told: on a Russian country estate, awkward, inexperienced young Tatyana is seized by a sudden passion for the handsome, blasé new neighbor Eugene Onegin. She writes him a love letter, but he makes it clear to her that he is not interested. Later, Tatyana‘s sister flirts with Onegin, her fiancé challenges him to a duel and is killed by Onegin. Years later, Onegin returns, finds that Tatyana has married an aged prince, and tries to win her back but fails...
Tchaikovsky called his opera a sequence of “lyric scenes.” Its structure prefigures narrative techniques that later came into use in cinema: abrupt cuts and chronological leaps, intimate close-ups, atmospheric interjections... Bearing this practically cinematic structure in mind, director Andrea Breth has produced an intimate chamber play that mines the depths of veracity, precision and charisma of her singer-actors. The stage suggests both the concrete location of the action as well as the psychological condition of those driving the action forward. Breth‘s “phenomenal ‘Onegin’ interpretation” (F.A.Z.) even allows the integration of silent secondary episodes and miniature dramas.
The title role is a tour de force for any baritone, who must walk a tightrope between cynical, insufferable snob and sympathetic, broken-hearted lover. Peter Mattei, who “has acquired a fabulous vocal profile and is a gifted actor blessed with debonair self-confidence”, carries this off superbly. (Peter Hagmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung) But the true hero of the opera is Tatyana, a multi-layered, conflicted, driven, doubt-ridden heroine. As portrayed by the dazzling Russian soprano Anna Samuil, this Tatyana “is ready to start a revolution.” (Julia Spinola, F.A.Z.) Since her 2003 debut in the West, and her appearance as Musetta (La Bohème) at the Met alongside Anna Netrebko, Anna Samuil – a protegée of Daniel Barenboim – has been acclaimed as a vibrant new voice on the operatic stage. Daniel Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic accompany these “scenes of a marriage that could have been” with beguilingly dark sonorities that allow for brilliant flashes of light from the winds and waves of passionate lyricism in the third act.
December 21, 2014, Sunday - Murder Mystery at Old Spaghetti Factory
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, 233 Park Avenue (and Washington Avenue South)
"A Dance With Death"
Do you have the necessary detective skills to collar the criminal?
December 20, 2014, Saturday - Childish Films at Central Library
Time: Doors open at 10 am for seating, snacks, and hands-on activities. Live pre-show performances begin at 10:30 am.
Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Today's feature: The Wind in the Willows – Winter Tales
Warm up with Young Fiddlers Association and enjoy a wintry mix of magical stop motion animated adaptations based on Kenneth Grahame’s classic, The Wind in the Willows.
• Winter Sports, Cosgrove Hall, A&E Entertainment 1985, 20 min At the first real snow of winter, Toad digs out his skis and enthusiastically dreams up a winter sports competition for his fellow river-bankers.
• The Yuletide Entertainment, Cosgrove Hall, A&E Entertainment, 1984, 25 min Badger produces a Christmas variety show in Toad Hall that goes awry when Toad gags on a moustache.
Doors open at 10 am for seating, snacks, and hands-on activities. Live pre-show performances begin at 10:30 am.
Childish Films @ the Library is a free program of children’s cinema and arts for all ages. Each screening features a pre-show activity, an educational introduction, and complimentary healthy snacks. Admission is free with open seating to the public. Most films are best enjoyed by ages 3 and older, but children and people of all ages are welcome to attend. If you have specific questions about the content of a particular film, please e-mail our curators. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 612.543.8107 for more information.
Sponsors: Patricia Ploetz, Pamela Ploetz, Weston Woods, Minnesota Parent, Whole Foods Market and CRASH+SUES.
Future dates:
Saturday, Jan. 17, 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m.
December 20, 2014, Saturday - An 'Eventually' Christmas: Holidays at the Mill at Mill City Museum
Times: 5:00pm, 6:00pm, 7:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
An 'Eventually' Christmas: Holidays at the Mill
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 for children ages 6-17 and MNHS members; $2 off adult admission with Fringe Festival button.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
This unique play performed in the museum's Flour Tower elevator ride, features "The Ghost of Mill City Past" guiding an intimate look at the 1920 Washburn Crosby holiday party. The script is based on real stories taken from the pages of the company's employee newspaper, The "Evenutally News!" Scenes unfold on different floors of the mill and visitors will meet different characters along the way. Witness the rocky romance of Celia and Otto; meet marketing mastermind Benjamin S. Bull; experience the awesome sweeping power of Bill Smith; and learn the secret origin of the Washburn Crosby marketing slogan, "Eventually-Why Not Now?" This piece is written by playwright Joseph Scrimshaw, directed by Laura Salveson, and stars a cast of professional Twin Cities' actors. Not recommended for children under the age of 8. Ticket includes a voucher for museum admission, and post-performance refreshments. Museum store is open for holiday shopping.
December 20, 2014, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour
Time: 2:00pm
Location: 800 LaSalle Plaza (On Hennepin Avenue between 8th & 9th)
Taste Twin Cities Food Tours - Downtown Minneapolis Skyway
Future dates: Dec 27; Jan (2015) 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Feb 7, 14
Tour Facts
•Indoor 3 hour walking tour in the heart of downtown Minneapolis using the skyway system
•Saturdays at 2:00pm
•Flat route with slight inclines and declines, approximately .8 of a mile, bathrooms available at some stops
•5 stops
•Tour limited to 12 people, advance tickets required. Private tours available year round for larger groups.
•Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S)
•$45/pp
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.
•Mouth watering flat bread pizza at a local hot spot
•Fine chocolates to be savored
•Locally brewed Minnesota draft beer paired with appetizer (non-alcoholic tastings available)
•Ham and Pear Crisp Sandwich with fresh home-made chips from the restaurant that has "damn good food"!
•Sinfully delicious variety of cupcakes
•Deliciously sweet and salty popular Chicago Mix® popcorn
•Sip on warm and comforting loose leaf tea (private tours only)
•Variety of a delicious French pastry; the Macaroon
•Featured on the Cooking Channel Unique Sweets - Bourbon Whiskey Caramel Donut Bread Pudding Loaf (private tours only)
*Tastings subject to change without notice. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
December 20, 2014, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe
Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $8
Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE
Tonight: Laura Nicholson
Minneapolis singer songwriter, Laura Nicholson brings her positive, adventurous approach to life into her music. “I love connecting to people through my music,” Nicholson says. “I write love songs, songs about the good times and the bad times. My ultimate goal is to make my audience feel that they are not alone. We are all in this together, so let’s jam out in song!”
Nicholson has her first album in the works and travels back and forth to Nashville to record and write with her mentors, Caitlyn Smith and Rollie Gaalswyk, and other Nashville-based artists. And with such a busy music schedule, Nicholson still manages time to continue her studies at Bethel University where she’s majoring in communications and marketing. She plans on making Nashville her home after graduation. Until then, the Twin Cities is in for some very special musical treats with the heartfelt songs and captivating voice of Laura Nicholson.
December 19, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Davina and The Vagabonds
December 19, 2014, Friday - An 'Eventually' Christmas: Holidays at the Mill at Mill City Museum
Dates/Times:
Friday, December 19: 6:00pm, 7:00pm, 8:00pm
Saturday December 20: 5:00pm, 6:00pm, 7:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
An 'Eventually' Christmas: Holidays at the Mill
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 for children ages 6-17 and MNHS members; $2 off adult admission with Fringe Festival button.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
This unique play performed in the museum's Flour Tower elevator ride, features "The Ghost of Mill City Past" guiding an intimate look at the 1920 Washburn Crosby holiday party. The script is based on real stories taken from the pages of the company's employee newspaper, The "Evenutally News!" Scenes unfold on different floors of the mill and visitors will meet different characters along the way. Witness the rocky romance of Celia and Otto; meet marketing mastermind Benjamin S. Bull; experience the awesome sweeping power of Bill Smith; and learn the secret origin of the Washburn Crosby marketing slogan, "Eventually-Why Not Now?" This piece is written by playwright Joseph Scrimshaw, directed by Laura Salveson, and stars a cast of professional Twin Cities' actors. Not recommended for children under the age of 8. Ticket includes a voucher for museum admission, and post-performance refreshments. Museum store is open for holiday shopping.
