April 13, 2013, Saturday - Paint It Green: The African Gris Gris at Central Library

Time: 1:00pm–2:00pm

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

Paint It Green: The African Gris Gris

Register Online or call 612-543-8000.

K-grade 6. A gris gris is a decorated pouch that holds something that might bring good luck and is worn around the neck or attached to a belt. Use leather or fabric scraps to create your own shape, size and color of gris gris. Materials provided.

This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Presented in collaboration with ArtStart.

April 13, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:

Downstairs Mix UP - Live Karaoke

DSMU will soon be your favorite live karaoke band – if they're not already!

April 13, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Okemah Prophets with special guests

April 13, 2013, Saturday - Monster Energy AMA Supercross at the Dome

Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, will be making a return to the Metrodome for the 2013 season on April 13.

Time: Main Event - 7:00 PM

Doors Open/Practice & Qualifying - 12:30 PM

Tickets: Available at all Ticketmaster Outlets, online at ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000.

Tickets will go on sale at the Metrodome box office outside Gate B starting April 1st. The box office will be open from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Monday - Friday and will accept cash only.

All tickets are $2 more if purchased the day of the show.  Additional fees may apply.

Click here for map of track.

Pit Party: 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Pit Passes: Available at participating Subway locations from 3/25/13 thru 4/12/13 while supplies last. Pit Passes will also be available to purchase at the Metrodome Box Office starting April 1 for $10. The box office will be open Monday thru Friday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will accept cash only.

Visit www.supercrossonline for more details

April 12, 2013, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Jewell Parker Rhodes at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Mentor Series Reading: Jewell Parker Rhodes

The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents fiction mentor Jewell Parker Rhodes reading with Jennifer Bowen Hicks (nonfiction) and Paige Riehl (poetry).
 
Jennifer Bowen Hicks has published work in North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, Brevity, Defunct Magazine, and Connotation Press. She is the Nonfiction Editor for the literary journal Hunger Mountain. She started a prison writing workshop in the Twin Cities, where she lives with her husband, two sons, and a mess of backyard chickens.
 
Paige Riehl is a poet and college faculty who teaches literature, composition, and creative writing. Her poetry and prose have appeared in several literary publications, including Meridian, Saint Paul Almanac, South Dakota Review, and Nimrod. She won first place in the 2011 Literal Latte Poetry Contest and was a finalist for the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry sponsored by Nimrod International Journal. Paige loves to travel and has explored 17 countries. She lives in Saint Paul with her husband and son.
 
Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of Ninth Ward, a children’s book, the forthcoming children’s novel Sugar, as well as six novels for adults: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Voodoo Season, Yellow Moon, and Hurricane and a memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness. Her writing guides include Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Among her honors are the American Book Award, two Arizona Book Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts Award in Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence. She is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University.
 
Presented in collaboration with the Givens Black Books Community Reading Program.

April 12, 2013, Friday - 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:

April 19, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 25, 2013 @ 7:00pm
April 26, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 3, 2013 @ 7:00pm
May 5, 2013 @ 5:00pm
May 9, 2013 @ 7:00pm
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

April 12, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:   Havana Hi-Fi

April 12, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:

Davina and the Vagabonds

Hot jazz-blues-cabaret-soul-lounge-rock that warms the soul an just plain makes ya wanna dance.

April 11, 2013, Thursday - MISTERMAN at Southern Theater (4 nights)

Times: Performances are Thur-Sat at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm.

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

In MISTERMAN, an exciting work by Tony-award winning playwright Enda Walsh (ONCE), the forces of small town oppression and Catholic guilt work on Thomas Magill, a well-meaning evangelist who has an obsession with sin. Honed by narrow and dogmatic cultural influences, Magill is a fundamentally flawed soul who has evolved a rather twisted view of human morality. Sifting through his memory and his collection of tape recordings, he repeatedly relives his search for heavenly peace in the small town town of Innisfree, Ireland. However, since the events are revealed and relived through the central character, reality and imagination are deeply and inseparably entwined. Walsh’s visceral wit, occasional lyricism and awareness of short attention spans, ensures that this is a work that enjoys delving into the nastier zones of human behavior with a wild and mischievous exuberance.

This one-person show is performed by John Catron, directed by Frank Artistic Director Wendy Knox, with sound design by Michael Croswell, set design by Michael Sommers, lighting by Mike Kittel and costumes by Kathy Kohl, stage managed by Spencer Putney. Cameo voiceovers by Patrick Bailey, Bain Boehlke, Virginia Burke, Chris Carlson, Joe Dowling, Annie Enneking, Melissa Hart, Mark Rhein and Cheryl Willis.

Tickets

April 11, 2013, Thursday - Artist Talk with Pritika Chowdhry at The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Pritika Chowdhry is a participating artist in the R.U.R. exhibition, March 2 - April 21st, 2013.

Listen to a Soapcast interview with Pritika Chowdhry about her work in R.U.R.

April 11, 2013, Thursday - Poets and Poetry Films at Central Library

Time: 6:00pm–7:30pm

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Poets and Poetry Films

Celebrate National Poetry Month. Come to be challenged and inspired by poets and filmmakers defining the genre of poetry films. Both programs include poetry reading and poetry films followed by audience Q&A.  Featured guests include Ed Bok Lee and Heid E. Erdrich.

Also Thursday, April 25, 6:00–7:30pm with featured guests Morgan Grayce Willow and Jeffrey Skemp.

April 11, 2013, Thursday - 2013 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival Opens

Purchase Tickets for the 2013 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival by phone at 612-331-7563, or online.  Films play at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 SE Main Street.

The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival presents a number of programs and special film focuses that highlight the diversity of worldwide filmmaking, that hone in on an important aspect of current events, or that highlight a piece of history that deserves remembrance. This spring, these special categories include:

World Cinema, Documentary and American Independents Programs

World Cinema, Documentary and American Independents programs make up the main slate of the MSP International Film Festival. World Cinema feature a lineup of new narrative films from more than 60 countries, the Documentary program presents a lineup of non-fiction feature-length films from around the world, and American Independents highlights new works from emerging and veteran US filmmakers.
 
Songs of Exile: Cinema of Displacement and Dispossession

This selection of documentary and narrative features centers around the topic of displacement-- whether voluntary or imposed--and the disruptive physical, psychological or cultural consequences that may follow. Fear not, although the series rubric may sound lugubrious, the line up is far from it.

More REEL

Programmed in conjunction with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibition ‘More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness’(March 21-June 9, 2013), this special series focuses on documentary and narrative films that creatively blur boundaries between fact and fiction. 'More REEL' is framed by a pair of Werner Herzog’s pioneering ‘directed documentaries’ and includes recent features and shorts that similarly deploy fabrication and imagination in a quest for ‘ecstatic truth.’ The series was co-programmed by former Walker film/video curator Bruce Jenkins.

MINNESOTA-Made

An audience favorite, MINNESOTA-Made returns with a slate of new films with local connections. Programmed by filmmaker and musician Craig Rice, with Shelli Ainsworth and Susan Marks as advisors, along with other filmmakers and industry notables.

Childish Films

2013 marks the eighth year of Childish Films at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Curators Deborah Girdwood and Isabelle Harder (who also program a free monthly Childish Films series for the Friends of the Hennepin County Libraries) are dedicated to providing ongoing opportunities for families to experience a vital international film culture in the Twin Cities. Every Spring since 2005, Childish Films at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival showcases some of the best international shorts and feature films for kids in current circulation. By serving this young audience, Childish Films extends the festival’s reach to welcome the next generation.

The East of Europe

A slate of new and groundbreaking films hailing from one of the oldest worlds are highlighted in this sidebar curated by longtime Festival programmer by Al Milgrom.

Late Nights

What could be more crowd pleasing than watching a baby explode? Cuban zombie-exterminator for hire? A passionate love-affair with a literal straw-man? Late Nights at the MSP International Film Festival goes there, and so much further, this spring with a catalogue of camp, horror, comedy, and suspense that will leave you haunted and positively thrilled. Our most daring program to date will also be the most unforgettable, so make sure to bring a friend and hold on tight, because it’s gonna be a wild ride.

April 10, 2013, Wednesday - RLife LIVE IDOL - Round Two at Stone Arch Bar

April 10, 2013, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

A SIP OF SCIENCE -  The Silica Sand Mining Boom in the Central Midcontinent: Why the Boom, Why Here, and Why the Controversy?

The recent rapid expansion of silica sand mining in the central United States is driven by demand for proppant, a material used in hydrofracking to keep fractures open as oil and natural gas are extracted from the subsurface. Certain bedrock layers in the Midwest region, especially parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, are dominated by sand grains particularly well suited for use as a proppant. These layers are well known to both sedimentologists and industry as some of the most "mineralogically and texturally mature" sandstone on Earth. Tony Runkel from the Minnesota Geological Survey will provide an overview of the expansion of silica sand mining in this region, including geologic interpretations of why our "mature" sand is so special, and why the expansion has been controversial.
 
About our speaker:

Tony Runkel is Chief Geologist of the Minnesota Geological Survey, and adjunct professor in the Department of Earth Sciences - both are units of the University of Minnesota. His research emphasis targets the sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and fracture attributes of Paleozoic bedrock in southeastern Minnesota (including the Twin Cities Metropolitan region), which includes the quartz-rich sandstone layers that are the focus of this presentation. Tony grew up in southeastern Minnesota, and holds a B.A. in Geology from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. from the University of Montana, and a PhD. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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.

No cover

April 9, 2013, 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.

Council Member Cam Gordon is giving a presentation on an ordinance change that he is proposing that would allow a new kind of pedicab. In addition, MPRB Commissioner Anita Tabb will give an update on Park Board projects.

April 8, 2013, Monday - Geeks Who Drink at Aster Cafe

Time: 7:30pm (no cover)

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Geeks Who Drink is a Denver-based company that hosts bar trivia at over 200 pubs and restaurants in 21 states. Their quiz is a collective effort of dozens of quizmasters, writers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and artists.

April 6, 2013, Saturday - Coffee 101 – Cupping Coffee at Local D'Lish

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street

Coffee 101 – Cupping Coffee 

Teresa Townsend of True Stone Coffee Roasters will share her expertise during this 2 hour class.

You’ve tried wine tastings. How about a coffee tasting? Join Teresa from True Stone Coffee Roasters for a unique opportunity to cup some of our finest coffees in their purest form. Learn how to taste the nuances in a great cup using the industry’s proven method for identifying quality coffee. Get a better understanding of the drink’s complex flavors by tasting coffee from around the globe with different processing methods and roast profiles. This is a great opportunity for coffee lovers and those new to the drink as well. Work in coffee? Let us know; coffee professionals are eligible for a 10% discount!
 
Price per person is $20. Street parking in front of the store is free on weekends.

Registration

If you have more specific questions about this class, please feel free to contact the instructor at: teresa@truestonecoffee.com 

April 6, 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.

April 6, 2012, Saturday - Say Word! Youth Poetry Festival at Central Library

Time: 10:30am

Location: Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall

Say Word! Youth Poetry Festival

For teens. Join us for a one-day youth spoken word event with sidewalk dance ciphers, a non-competitive open mic, workshops, guest performances and slam competitions aimed at crowning the 2013 Say Word! Champions. For more information, or to register your team, visit http://www.mnspokenword.com.

Presented in collaboration with Minnesota Spoken Word Association.

April 6, 2012, 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!