January 12, 2012, Saturday - Live Band Karaoke at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Live Band Karaoke with "DSMU Downstairs Mixup"

January 12, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Andra Suchy and Spare Change

January 12, 2013, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour

Time: 2:30pm

Location: Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S)

Taste Twin Cities Food Tours

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 the newest and hottest award winning restaurant 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.

Register.

January 12, 2013, Saturday - Scratch vs. Mix: Which Brownie is Better? at Mill City Museum

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

 
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.

January 11, 2013, Friday - Minneapolis Home & Landscape Expo at the Dome (3 days)

Times:
Friday 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Location: The Metrodome

The 2012 Minneapolis Home and Landscape Expo will connect thousands of Minneapolis area residents with the region's leading renovation, remodeling, and design experts.

More Info

January 11, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Wolves at the Door

January 11, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Natalie Lovejoy
 

January 11, 2013, Friday - Graywolf Press Publication Launch with Dobby Gibson at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

Graywolf Press Publication Launch with Dobby Gibson

Join us for a public launch of Dobby Gibson’s second collection of poetry, It Becomes You.
 
Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always served with wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson’s It Becomes You explore the divergent conditions by which we’re perpetually defined—the daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.
 
“Dobby Gibson’s poetry . . . is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it’s fantastic.”—The Corresponder.

January 10, 2013, Thursday - I am Anne Frank at the Southern Theater (4 nights)

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Dates and Times: January 10 - 13, 8:00pm

Nautilus Music Theatre - I am Anne Frank
 
A music-drama by Enid Futterman and Michael Cohen
featuring Vanessa Gamble as ANNE FRANK

Nautilus Music-Theater presents its award-winning production of I AM ANNE FRANK, the inspiring story of a young girl standing tip-toe on the edge of her future during a time of hatred and intolerance.

This new music-drama by writer Enid Futterman and composer Michael Cohen combines spoken excerpts from Anne's diary with songs that reveal the power of her inner life. Fully faithful to its source material, Anne's famous chronicle of two Jewish families secreted in a cramped garret in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation is still as suspenseful and moving as ever. Her writing is propelled by an undying faith in the goodness of people. This heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting story stirs our deepest emotions as it insists upon honoring the endurance of the human spirit.

New York critics called Futterman and Cohen's work "A moving, poignant, and in every sense tasteful piece of musical theatre... beautiful, flawless... this is what theater is all about."

Nautilus' production earned rave reviews from critics and audiences alike when it premiered in 2006. The production won a coveted Ivey award, which noted that "the impressive artistic contributions of the talented cast, combined with the matchless vision of the directors, made Nautilus production of I AM ANNE FRANK a stunning collaboration of fine acting, sharp stage direction, effective lighting, and gorgeous music -- a wonderful blend of music and acting, and an innovative way of telling an important story".

This powerful production is intended for mature audiences and especially for young adults. And ticket discounts are available for groups of ten or more -- call 651-298-9913 for more information.

Vanessa Gamble has appeared in numerous Nautilus productions over the last 12 years, including THREE VISITATIONS, INTO THE WOODS, and GOBLIN MARKET, along with many Rough Cuts presentations and Composer-Librettist Studios. She'll be joined by tenor Joel Liestman (recently seen in THE VIEW FROM HERE) and music director Jill Dawe. The production is staged by Nautilus' artistic director Ben Krywosz, with lighting design by Michael Wangen and choreography by JP Fitzgibbons.
 
Tickets
$18 General Admission
$14 Students and Seniors
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/

January 9, 2013, Wednesday - Public Skating at the Metrodome

Time: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location: The Dome (both levels)

Rollerdome - Let's Go Skating!

Throughout the winter the upper and lower concourses of the Metrodome become the Rollerblade® Rollerdome, annually hosting thousands of inline skaters who come to relax, exercise, train, socialize, or just watch others turn endless effortless laps on the roughly half-mile smooth concrete loop. Park your car in the free lot adjacent to Gate D and enter the revolving doors.

Rollerdome Prices

• Parking - Free in the Metrodome VIP lot adjacent to Gate D
• Adult - $6.50
• Student (with ID) $5.50
• Pre-teen & Senior $4.50
• Skate rental $5.00
• Rollerblade® Rollerdome accepts all major credit cards, personal checks and cash

Visit their website for updates and additional information.

January 8, 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.

January 7, 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.

January 5, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 10:00pm $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Soul Tight Committee

January 5, 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: recommended, 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 on this guided tour. 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. Also covered will be how the mill ruin was converted to a museum and office building.

Although many parts of the A mill can be explored on a self-guided basis during a regular museum visit, 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 as well as the Flour Tower show.

January 5, 2013, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Jelloslave

January 5, 2013, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour

Time: 2:30pm

Location: Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S)

Taste Twin Cities Food Tours

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 the newest and hottest award winning restaurant 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.

Register.

January 4, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm $10 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  G.B. Leighton

January 4, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: The Shiny Lights

January 3, 2013, Thursday - Dog Day at the Metrodome

Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location: The Dome

Dogs are invited to the Metrodome for some running and socializing on the lower concourse.

Admission:  $5 per dog/owner combo (up to 2 dogs)

Parking:  Free in the Metrodome parking lot located on the east side of the stadium.

Entrance:  Gate B

Cleaning supplies and water for the dogs will be provided.  Vendors and pet licensing will also be available.  All dogs must be licensed to participate.

January 2, 2013, 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.