May 10, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Sara Renner Acoustic Show: featuring Bruce Balgaard & Chryss Altamirano

May 10, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Swag with Melvilles

Benjamin Joerg, Paul Christenson, Robbin Julien, Kevin Lenhart and Tim Shaikoski, bring their cumulative years of individual success as performing and recording artists to make up this band of 5 friends and day professionals. As SWAG, they are delivering guitar driving, danceable and relevant music by contemporary artists commonly heard on local radio stations, such as Cities 97 and KS95.

Music by artists such as Kings Of Leon, Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, The Killers, Muse, Prince, Neon Trees, Tonic, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, INXS, OAR, Snow Patrol, Pink, Goo Goo Dolls, Eve 6, Fall Out Boy, Fuel, 3 Doors Down, JET, Foo Fighters, and Dishwalla.

May 9, 2013, Thursday - Midwest Photo Safari St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail

Join us near downtown Minneapolis on St. Anthony Main and the west downtown riverfront district to photograph the sites of the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail. This is a 2-3 hour safari running 3 days a week, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Morning sessions 7:30 AM to 10 AM and afternoon NOON till 2:30 PM. Sunday hours 9 AM till 11:30 AM.

Our Morning and Sunday session takes place on the EAST BANK (St. Anthony Main side) of the Heritage Trail. Highlghts include:

The Ard Godfrey House in Chute Park - Our Lady of Lourdes Church - Nicollet Island Historic Area - The Third Avenue Bridge - Old Saint Anthony Neighborhood - Water Power Park - The Historic Pillsbury "A" Mill

Your tour directors and photographer/guides will provide you with the best exposure, angles, and composition tips. While we walk, your guides provide some historical facts about this interesting area. You are sure to come away with compelling images of your visit to this historically significant, and photographically popular, Minneapolis area.

More Information and Registration.

May 9, 2013, Thursday - Ten Thousand Things' Measure for Measure at Open Book (4 nights)

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Ten Thousand Things presents Streetcar Named Desire. An all-new take on this universal story of family dysfunction, delusion and desire.

Dates and Times:
Thursday, May 9th
Friday, May 10th (Audio Described)
Saturday, May 11th
Sunday, May 12th
Thursday, May 23rd
Friday, May 24th
Saturday, May 25th
Sunday, May 26th

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday shows at 8pm; Sunday shows at 4pm

May 9, 2013, Thursday - 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:

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

May 9, 2013, Thursday - 2013 East Side Wine Tasting at Nicolet Island Pavilion

Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:  Nicollet Island Pavilion

One of the most exciting wine events in Minneapolis! Mark your calendars for an evening of wine, food, and entertainment! On Thursday, May 9th, East Side Neighborhood Services (ESNS) will host its annual wine tasting event, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the Nicollet Island Pavilion. Tickets and proceeds benefit the programs of ESNS. The wine tasting traditionally raises $21,000.

An Array of Fine Wines
River Liquor Store and Surdyk's will provide a variety of wines from many regions including: Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Zinfandel, Chianti, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz, Riesling, Syrah, Sangiovese and many more. A selection of micro brews, spirits and alcohol-free options are also available for sampling. Taste wines you've never tried, enjoy some of your favorites, and have your questions answered by the experts.
 
Famous East Side Cuisine
Minneapolis is home to a variety of exciting ethnic and classic American restaurants, cafes, coffee houses and caterers. Samples from eateries such as Jax Café, Nye's and Stanley's will enhance your wine tasting experience.
 
Cigar Tent
The Cigar Tent offers a variety of domestic and imported cigars and aperitifs. The tent is located next to the Pavilion on the bank of the Mississippi River, providing patrons a wonderful view of our city. There is an additional charge for cigars.
 
Silent Auction
Bid on fabulous items from fine jewelry to sports equipment. Choice items such as restaurant and entertainment certificates, sport suites and tickets, recreation and vacation packages, original art and more. The annual silent auction allows East Side Neighborhood Services additional funds that provide the opportunity to support programs that strengthen the community of Northeast Minneapolis. We thank our many donors that provide us with goods and services.

More Info http://www.facebook.com/events/432991910117766/
 

May 8, 2013, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

A SIP OF SCIENCE - Climate change: charting preparation and societal response to weather extremes.
 
Is it spring around here yet??
  
Climate change researchers suspect that changing global climate will lead to an increase in severe weather events, flooding, a rise in sea level, intense hurricanes and destructive tornadoes around the world.  How can society prepare for these types of events?  Is it possible to do so?  Craig Edwards, MPR meteorologist and retired Chief Meteorologist of the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities, discusses changes in extreme weather in our region and how developing educational programs to raise public awareness about climate change can help prepare our society for the impacts of future extreme weather events.
 
About our speaker:
With more than 40 years of experience, MPR meteorologist Craig Edwards has a long history with understanding the complexity of  Minnesota's weather and monitoring regional climate change. Serving for 15 years as the Chief Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities, Craig was instrumental in launching regional weather coverage on Minnesota Public Radio.  He is a member of the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society.  His contributions and expertise have been cited in national publications such as the USA Today and the Washington Post, as well as local publications such as the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine and Minnesota Monthly.
 
In 2010, Craig also became the first on-sight game-day meteorologist in Major League Baseball. He began his fourth season of providing weather support to the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on April 1st.
  
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 8, 2013, Wednesday - Loire Seminar with Arnaud Saget at Sorella Wine & Spirits

Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm

Location: Sorella Wine & Spirits, 1010 Washington Avenue South

A Very Special Event - Loire Seminar with Arnaud Saget

Arnaud is a sixth generation descendant of Guy Saget for whom this magnificent Loire Valley estate is named. We will be tasting and discussing 5-6 of the Guy Saget wines with Arnaud and getting a little history on the winery and Loire Valley winemaking. This is a white-wine-focused event with Sancerre, Pouilly Fume, Muscadet, Loire Sauvignon Blanc, Vouvray (Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2012) and Chinon (red).

Seating is limited; call the store at 612-339-4040 to reserve your space.  $5 per person

May 7, 2013, Tuesday - Revisiting Twain's Mississippi: Photos by Chris Faust at Central Library

Time: 7:00pm–8:00pm

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Revisiting Twain's Mississippi: Photos by Chris Faust

Gain additional insight into Cargill Hall’s “Revisiting Twain's Mississippi: Photos by Chris Faust” exhibit. Local author John Anfinson (“The River We Have Wrought” and “River of History”) will speak on the history of the Upper Mississippi River. He’s historian and cultural resources specialist, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.

Faust will tell us more about Bosse's work for the Army Corps of Engineers and how he used his training as a biologist and his passion for exploration to re-photograph the Mississippi River a century later from the vantage points that Bosse used. His work is exhibited regularly in galleries around Minnesota. His work is held by the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Weisman Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Reception will precede program.

This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Sponsored by the Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators and in collaboration with Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

May 6, 2013, Monday - 3rd Annual Downtown Greening Awards at Central Library

Time: 4:00pm - 5:45pm

Location: Pohlad Hall, Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Great cities have great public spaces. The Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District is pleased to invite you to attend the 3rd Annual Greening Awards, where downtown organizations, businesses, property owners and individuals are recognized for enhancing the public realm in Downtown Minneapolis through greening over the past year. Mayor Rybak and John Erwin, chair of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, will share their views on exciting downtown greening and public realm initiatives under way.

Special guest - Adrian Benepe, Senior Vice President and Director of City Park Development for The Trust for Public Land and former Commissioner of New York City’s Parks and Recreations Department – who will make the keynote address, sharing his insights regarding the transformative power of strategic investments in urban parks.

Open to the Public (there is no charge, seating is on a first-come first-served basis). 

Questions: Info@MinneapolisDID.com

May 4, 2013, 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.

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Motherhood & Words Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Motherhood and Words Curated by Kate Hopper

Kate Hopper has been coordinating the annual Motherhood & Words Reading since 2007 as way to showcase excellent literary nonfiction of women writing about motherhood.

Katrina Kenison is the author of Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir, and Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment.  Kenison spent many years working in publishing, first as an in-house editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in New Haven, New York, and Boston, and then, from 1990 through 2006, as the series editor of The Best American Short Stories. She co-edited, with John Updike, The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is also the author, with her yoga teacher, Rolf Gates, of Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga. With Kathleen Hirsch she co-edited an anthology of short stories about motherhood, Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Country Living, Family Circle, Redbook, and other publications.
 
Caroline M. Grant is co-editor, with Lisa Catherine Harper, of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat. She also co-edited Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, with Elrena Evans. She is Editor-in-Chief of LiteraryMama.com and the Associate Director of the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. Visit her website (http://carolinemgrant.com) for more information, including clips from her radio and television events.
 
Kate Hopper is the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood (forthcoming). She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Kate holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and a Sustainable Arts Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Literary Mama, and the New York Times online. She is an editor at LiteraryMama.com. For more information about Kate’s writing and classes, visit www.katehopper.com.

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Salsa del Soul

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Pacifier's Mini Photo Sessions at Chute Square Park

Time: 10:00am-6:00pm

Location: Pacifier, 310 East Hennepin Avenue (Event takes place at Chute Square, 28 University Ave SE)

MINI PHOTO SESSIONS ARE BACK!

We're hosting a day of Mini Photo Sessions with Olive Avenue Photography on Saturday, May 4. Each 20-minute session is $35 and covers 2 children, additional children are $10 each. Receive a free 5x7 print with ...a $75 Pacifier purchase, or a free 8x10 with a $100 PACIFIER purchase in preparation for the shoot or the day of. Olive Avenue also offers special mini session discount prints and digital packages.

Call and book your session NOW at 612.623.8123. Sessions always fill-up quickly!

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Flamin' Oh's: "Kinda Unplugged"

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Cosmic Arcade All Ages Discovery Day at MCBA

Time: 10:00am-2:00pm

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

Cosmic Arcade All Ages Discovery Day

Free and open to the public

"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person -- perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Explore the outer reaches of both our universe and our collective imagination in Stellar: Book Art and the Cosmos, featuring work by dozens of local and international artists. Enjoy book, print, paper and installation artworks on the themes of space, science (fiction and non-fiction), exploration and humanity.

Featured artists include:
Tim Abel (Racine, WI); Mary Bergs (Minneapolis, MN); Laura Beyer (Birmingham, MI); Elizabeth Boyne (Iowa City, IA); Cynthia Brinich-Langlois (Milwaukee, WI); Patty Bruce (Boston, MA); Emily Chaplain (Memphis, TN); Tiberiu Chelcea (Ames, IA); Young-ju Choi (Ilsan, South Korea); Johanna Drucker (Berkeley, CA); Wendy Fernstrum (Marine on St. Croix, MN); Brad Freeman (Chicago, IL); Kirsten Furlong (Boise ID); Philip Gallo (Minneapolis, MN); Travis Hocutt (Waterford MI); Tom Hubbard (Chagrin Falls, OH); Rachel Katz (Portland, ME); Ray Klimek (Athens, OH); Mari LaCure (Beverly, MA); Ginny Lloyd (Jupiter, FL); Jared Martin (Minneapolis, MN); Heather Matthew (Nunderi, Australia); Leah Mayers (Chicago, IL); Nora Lee McGillivray (St. Paul, MN); Andrea McKennan (Minneapolis, MN); Cathryn Miller (Grasswood, Saskatchewan, Canada); Ellen Mueller (Buckhannon, WV); Scott K. Murphy (Saint Joseph, MN); Heidi Neilson (Long Island City, NY); Lauren Orchowski (New York, NY); Mark Ryan (Minneapolis, MN); Mark Addison Smith (New York, NY); Regula Russelle (St. Paul, MN).

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Food Tours Minneapolis Riverwalk Tour

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Begins at Gold Medal Park (10th Avenue South & 2nd Street South), next to the Guthrie Theater - ends in Northeast Minneapolis

Hungry for an off-the-beaten path Minneapolis food experience? Join us as we explore one of the city's trendy and historical neighborhoods, Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis. You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling food at the first Thai restaurant in Minnesota, drinking local Minnesota brewed beer at the oldest restaurant in Minneapolis, and enjoy a local favorite - the cheese curds. You'll also enjoy mouth-watering pasta located in the historical Chase building, fresh baked European style bread at a local Farmers Market, home-made gelato, and lip smacking BBQ sliders from a historical restaurant that once operated as a mattress company.

Along with sampling food we will also visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls as we walk along the Stone Arch Bridge into historical St. Anthony on Main. You'll learn about the history of both these neighborhoods including a stroll along the oldest street in Minneapolis. You'll taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods that most tourist never see!

Reservations.

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May 4, 2013, Saturday - Ward 3 DFL Convention

Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm

Location: DeLaSalle High School, One DeLaSalle Drive

At the 3rd Ward DFL Convention, delegates chosen at the April 16th caucuses will vote to endorse their City Council candidate.

May 4, 2013, Saturday - Henry Mack: The Oldest Soldier at Central Library

Time:  1:00pm–2:00pm

Location: Doty Board Room at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Henry Mack: The Oldest Soldier

Local author and historian Stephen Chicoine will give a talk on Mack, who escaped slavery, fought in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later became a familiar sight in North Minneapolis, living to the astounding age of 106.

May 4, 2013, Saturday - What's in Dragonfly's Box? at Central Library

Time: 11:00am

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!