November 5, 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.

November 5, 2014, Wednesday - Wake Up With Jacob! at Wilde Roast Cafe

Time: 7:30am - 9:00am

Location: Wilde Roast Cafe, 65 Main Street SE

Join us for the next "Wake-Up With Jacob!" - a monthly community engagement event with Minneapolis City Council Member Jacob Frey.

For November 5, Council Member Frey will hold open office hours at Wilde Roast Cafe from 7:30am-9:00am. Stop by for coffee and conversation with Jacob.

Stay tuned for details on our December event "Budget and Beers", in which Council Member Frey and Ways & Means committee chair, Council Member John Quincy will answer questions and gather feedback on the City of Minneapolis' 2015 proposed budget.

November 5, 2014, Wednesday - Yellowstone National Park Ranger Presentation on Yellowstone Wildlife Conservation Challenges and Opportunities at Mill City Museum

Time: 6 - 7:30 p.m.

Location: Mill City Museum, Mill Commons, 704 S. 2nd Street

RSVP: Please RSVP to Kesha Richardson at krichardson@npca.org. Seating is limited, so be sure to respond by Friday, Oct. 31.
 
Yellowstone National Park ranger presentation on Yellowstone wildlife conservation challenges and opportunities.

Yellowstone National Park offers visitors the opportunity to view iconic wildlife, including grizzly bears and bison, in their historic landscape. The path to protection of Yellowstone's wildlife has been a long one, with many remaining management challenges.

Join NPCA and special guest David Hallac, chief of the Yellowstone Center for Resources at Yellowstone National Park, who will share the story Yellowstone's grizzly bears and bison and discuss the challenges and opportunities for continued conservation.

About the speaker: David Hallac manages the Yellowstone Center for

Resources, the resource management and science division at Yellowstone National Park. He oversees a number of park programs, including wildlife and aquatic sciences, vegetation ecology, forestry, Native American tribal relations, and many others. He leads a variety of complex conservation initiatives such as trans-boundary bison conservation and management, and climate change research. Dave lives at Mammoth Hot Springs inside Yellowstone National Park with his family.

November 4, 2014, Tuesday - VOTE

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November 2, 2014, 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 Button

Patty and The Buttons preach the gospel of hot rhythm and happy feet. The band is similar to what you would find in a dance hall, cafe or nightclub anywhere around the world between 1920-1940. Despite being an ensemble firmly rooted in tradition, the band presents their music without being shackled to history. They play their own compositions as well as takes on music of the era. Patty’s eclectic taste gives the band diverse influences including New Orleans Traditional Jazz, Western Swing, Gypsy Melodies, Ragtime Piano Blues, Jug Music and 1930′s Popular Song.

The core instrumentation of accordion, clarinet, guitar and bass is light and swift, but also melancholic and lush when it needs to be. Patty , mostly known as an accordionist doubles as the bands vocalist. His voice is inspired most by the old time hollers and croons from the dawn of recording once described as “Tom Waits meets Rudy Vallee.” More than anything, The Buttons is a group that is always enjoying themselves… Which seems to give audiences permission to do the same.

November 1, 2014, Saturday - EQ: Surviving the Mic with Nikki Patin at The Loft

Time: 8:00pm

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

EQ: Surviving the Mic with Nikki Patin

$5 / free for Loft members

To speak truth to power is to tell what has happened with no apologies and no shame. For the poet, the challenge becomes how to make the hard stories into beauty and magic, how to connect the personal to the universal, how to turn truth into power. Join us and witness the powerful voices of Surviving the Mic as they speak truth and invoke their own power. Featured this evening will be Mojdeh Stoakley, Edith Bucio, Nazirah P. Mickey, and Nikki Patin. Learn more at www.survivingthemic.org.

Nikki Patin has been writing for over two decades. She has taught hundreds of workshops on performance poetry, body image, sexual assault prevention and LGBT issues. Patin has performed, taught and spoken at elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities such as the University of Chicago, Adler School of Psychology, Northwestern University, Nancy B. Jefferson High School (located within the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center), University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison and many others. Patin was featured on the fourth season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, was voted one of 30 under 30 most influential LGBTQ people in Chicago by Windy City Times and took the gold medal in the 2006 Gay Games International LGBT poetry slam. Patin was voted “Best Standout Performer” in the Dunedin Fringe Festival while headlining a tour of her one-woman show, “The Phat Grrrl Revolution” throughout New Zealand and Australia. She has released several chapbooks, a full-length collection of writing and design, two EPs and a full-length album entitled “Bedroom Empire.”

November 1, 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.

October 31, 2014, Friday - Halloween Bash at Mattie's on Main

Time: 9:00pm - 1:00am

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

October 31, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $8

Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight: Machinery Hill – Halloween

Spend Halloween with Machinery Hill. Minnesota’s scariest band.

This Minneapolis-based band takes their name from the Minnesota State Fair’s large display of farm equipment. Their original style blends American folk with unexpected touches of ska, klezmer, celtic and a bit of rock & roll. If you look up “diverse” in the dictionary, it says “see Machinery Hill.” Catchy original songs with well-crafted lyrics are showcased along with striking interpretations of traditional tunes. They have performed along with such diverse acts as Beausoleil, Buckwheat Zydeco, Frente, Phish, Black 47, Brave Combo, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black and Queen Ida; and have headlined at The Great River Folk Festival, among others.

Machinery Hill is the 1996 winner of the Minnesota Music award for best world beat CD, the 1999 MMA winner for specialist recording and has been included in TPT’s series “MN. Original (episode #226.)

October 30, 2014, Thursday - Wendy's Wiggle, Jiggle and Jam! at Central Library

Time: 10:00am

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

Live Show! Wendy's Wiggle, Jiggle and Jam!

For families. Get creative with fabulous musical fun. Everyone in the audience will get a chance to be a star on stage. Halloween costumes admired, but not required.

October 30, 2014, Thursday - Murder Mystery at Old Spaghetti Factory

Time: 7:00pm

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?

Information and tickets.

October 29, 2014, Wednesday - Breakfast with a Preservationist at the Mill City Museum

Time: 8:00am to 9:00am

Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Conference Room: 6th Floor, 710 South Second Street

Preserve Minneapolis

Breakfast With a Preservationist: Conservation Districts

It may be easy to call conservation districts “historic preservation lite,” but this subject deserves our studied public attention. What, exactly, are conservation districts? In what ways will they (and, for that matter, in what ways WON’T they) affect neighborhoods and city planning and development?
 
Join us for our next Breakfast With a Preservationist to learn more about conservation districts, through a panel discussion featuring John Smoley, senior planner for the Minneapolis’s department of Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED), and two Prospect Park residents, Joe Ring and Bob Roscoe, members of their neighborhood’s committee whose study of conservation districts led the current effort to enable CPED to undertake the ordinance enactment.
 
Minneapolis conservation districts would be both similar and different to historic districts. The regulatory aspect of conservation districts address how proposed design changes of a property would affected neighborhood physical character instead of obeying a particular building’s architectural style – a broader and more flexible approach than historic districts.
 
The program begins at 8AM. Typical presentations take 40 minutes, which always transition into very thoughtful questions by audience members. The event stops at exactly 9AM.
 
Please bring a contribution for the coffee and bakery goodies.
 
Parking is available in a ramp across the street or along 2nd Street South’s metered spaces. Coffee and bakery will be available, as will the usual great questions and commentary. We stop exactly at 9AM.

October 29, 2014, Wednesday - Business of Beer Panel Discussion and Hoppy Hour at Aria

Time: 3 – 5:30 pm

Location: Aria Event Center, 105 First Street North

Business of Beer Panel Discussion and Hoppy Hour

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journaland its co-sponsors invite you to join them for the first Business of Beer and Hoppy Hour. Leaders from local craft beer breweries will share their insights on what’s happening in the beer industry, how they launched their businesses, lessons learned, their favorites beers as well as what new brews are coming our way soon.

The event will include a Hoppy Hour and Beer Tasting before and after the panel discussion. Confirmed panelists include Jacque Berglund (Finnegan’s Inc.) and Mark Stutrud (Summit Brewing).

To reserve your testing spot: http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/event/114901.

October 28, 2014, Tuesday - Minneapolis Music Company presents: Devilish Dances at The Soap Factory

Time:7:30pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Minneapolis Music Company presents: Devilish Dances

Featuring theater and dance by Live Action Set and musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra, MacPhail Center for Music and St. Olaf College.

Minneapolis Music Company presents their inaugural production Devilish Dances at The Soap Factory. Combining music by Wynton Marsalis, prose by Stanley Crouch, theater and dance by Live Action Set, plus musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra, MacPhail Center for Music and St. Olaf College.

Marsalis' composition The Fiddler's Tale is a classic cautionary story, featuring the devil as the main protagonist. His victim, Beatrice Connor, a violinist and band leader, gets seduced by the promise of easy fame, untold wealth and all the glitz and glamour of the commerical music industry. Written in 1998, the story captures the challenges facing artists and is strikingly relevant to the world today.

Wynton Marsalis was inspired by Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, written almost a century ago. Marsalis brilliantly moves across styles and genres from neoclassical to blues. Stanley Crouch's words are evocative and haunting, forming a perfect companion to this colorful score.

Join us for this hour-long production, the Twin Cities premiere of a rarely heard masterpiece!

Tickets here!

October 28, 2014, Tuesday - Public Meeting #3 Mississipp​i East Bank Trail for Peds and Bicyclists at MPRB

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Public Meetings re: Mississipp​i East Bank Trail for Pedestrian​s and Bicyclists

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) will be constructing a new trail for bicyclists and pedestrians along the east bank of the Mississippi from Plymouth Avenue north to Marshall St. NE near the BNSF railroad bridge. MPRB invites you to attend this third meeting to help plan the trail.  The topic is Final Plan and Next Steps.

Previous Meetings:
•Tuesday, Sept. 16 Meeting #1 - Project background and neighborhood preferences.
•Tuesday, Oct. 7 Meeting #2 - Trail alignment options and discussion.

Project Website

If you require language translation or other accommodations, please contact 612-230-6472 at least 2 business days in advance of the meeting.

October 27, 2014, Monday - The Soap Factory and Live Letters Present: Bad Bad Hats and Har-di-Har

Time: Doors at 7:30 Show at 8:00

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

The Soap Factory and Live Letters Present: Bad Bad Hats and Har-di-Har

We are excited to introduce a new music series presented by The Soap Factory and Live Letters

Tickets

LIVE LETTERS is a series created to document live music by hosting small concerts in alternative spaces around Minneapolis. The Soap Factory is excited to partner with LIVE LETTERS in a new catalog of shows continuing this October.

Our October 27 installment features songwriting duo Bad Bad Hats and the sounds of dream pop/experimental folk group Har-di-Har.

October 27, 2014, Monday - Chefs for Change at People Serving People

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm (shelter tours beginning at 6:30pm)

Location: People Serving People, 614 South 3rd Street

Chefs for Change: A Chef's Table Culinary Experience

Chefs for Change is a cooking demonstration and an elegant dinner party with a purpose. It is hosted by a top executive chef from the Twin Cites Metro area. Over the past several years, chefs from restaurants including The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Porter and Frye and Capital Grille have hosted Chefs for Change events on one or more occasion.

October 27 Tickets

Treat yourself to a chef’s table experience hosted by local restaurant, Spill the Wine, as you support the children and families at People Serving People. All proceeds directly support services provided to homeless families staying at our shelter.

October 26, 2014, Sunday - Baking Memories: 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.

October 26, 2014, Sunday - Billy Joel Tribute at Crooked Pint

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

October 25, 2014, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Harvest Festival!

Apples: Honeycrisp, Regent, Sweet Sixteen, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chickweed, chives, cilantro, cucumbers, dried beans, eggplant, fennel, garlic, green beans, green peppers, ground cherries, head lettuce, heirloom beans, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, lemongrass, mushrooms, okra, onions, oregano, peanuts, pears, pac choi, potatoes, pumpkins, purplette onions, radishes, raspberries, Romanesco, salad mix, scallions, shiso, sorrel, squash: butternut, delicata, acorn, and other varieties, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, tarragon, tomatillos, tomatoes: cherry, Roma, heirloom, and other, totsoi, turmeric, turnips, and much more!

Mill City Cooks, 10 am:
Market Chef Heather Hartman will be joined today by her very own daughter Josephine today! The duo will be preparing Celery Root & Apple Wild Rice Chowder and a Blue Cheese Dressing For a Broccoli- Cauliflower-Carrot Salad.

Kids' Acitivity, all day:
Stop by the OHK Grange booth today and paint a gourd to take home and display on your dinner table! 
 
Live Music, 11 am - 1 pm:
MCFM welcomes back Light of the Moon today! This eclectic collaboration serves up a wide range of roots music from the American South, ranging from Appalachian tunes and Old-time country, Country Blues and Swing...on banjo, guitars, harmonicas, feet, voices, tinwhistle, and more!
 
Art Market, all day:
Head to the back of the train shed where you'll find 4 talented local artists. This week, stop and see the unique works of Barn Swallow Garden, Jo Severson, Crookedwood, and The Abbey Alpacas!

Member Specials 10/25/2014!
 
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:

Barkley's Bistro:  Buy the "treat fleet" and get 1 pint of bones du jour for FREE;
Birchberry Native Arts and Food: $1 off any $10 purchase;
Buffalo by Bike: $1 off ground bison;
Loon Organics: $1 off any $10 purchase;
Kiss My Cabbage: $1 off Lemon Coriander Leek Kraut;
Mhonpaj's Garden: $1 off rutabagas;
Northern Lakes Rice: $1 off 1 lb of wild rice;
Verdant Tea: a free drink with purchase of $25+ loose leaf tea!
Seed to Seed Farm: $1 off 1 lb of broccoli!
Mrs Kelly's Tea: $1 off any $10.50 purchase;
Singing Hills Goat Dairy: $1 off on any 2 chevre or any 2 feta;
Stones Throw Urban Farm: Kale for $3 or 2 bunches for $5!
Martha's Joy: $1 off pickled beets;
The Bolt: $1 off any beverage!

Just show your "I'm a Member" bag! (To become a member, visit our lovely staff at the Info Booth on Saturday!)