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Tuesday
Oct302012

October 30, 2012, Tuesday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2012

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 6th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 5 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

Tuesday
Oct302012

October 30, 2012, Tuesday - 4th Annual Dead Writers' Halloween Party at Kieran's Irish Pub 

Date: 6:00pm

Location: Kieran's Irish Pub, 601 1st Avenue North

The Loft Literary Center invites the bookish and morbid to Kieran’s Irish Pub on the night before Halloween for a ghoulishly indulgent evening of literature, libations, parlor games, costumes, prizes, and a séance with the dead.  The evening will consist of a short open mic starting at 6:15 p.m., after which local authors Scott Wrobel, Matt Rasmussen, Nona Kennedy Carlson, and Sarah Caflisch will gather around an Ouija board in an attempt to communicate with a famous author—selected via Facebook poll (click the link to vote), with Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, Hunter S. Thompson, and Virginia Woolf all in the running—from beyond the grave.

Special guest Dave Schrader, co-host of Darkness on the Edge of Town Paranormal Radio, will be on hand to tell some of the scariest stories he's heard on his show.

The evening will continue with parlor games and the Loft’s annual Dead Writers’ costume contest. Dress as your favorite dead author! Prizes will be given away for the best and most creative costumes.
 
$5 suggested donation—no one will be turned away.

Tuesday
Oct302012

October 30, 2012, Tuesday - Adult Anime Club at Central Library

Time: 5:00pm–7:00pm

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

Adult Anime Club

Get together with other adult anime and manga fans to watch episodes, discuss manga, play games and generally geek out. This club is for anyone aged 18 and older. Please be prepared to present proof of age.

Additional dates:

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5–7 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 5–7 p.m.

Tuesday
Oct302012

October 30, 2012, Tuesday - Dance Programs with Rachel Damiani at 501F1T

Time: 6:00pm until 8:00pm (Dance Fitness @ 6pm, Dance Workshop @ 7pm)

Location: 501F1T, 501 Washington Avenue South

DANCE FITNESS = Sizzling Samba, Fiery Tango, Energetic African Dance provide a great cardiovascular workout!
• All Levels & Abilities Welcome
• Learn Dance Steps To Be Active to Burn Calories
• Coordinate Dance Steps To Stimulate Your Brain
• Experience Your Inner Grace & Elegance
...FREE FOR 501FIT CLIENTS!

DANCE WORKSHOPS = Learn the basics of the Waltz, Cha-Cha, Swing, Rumba, Tango and Foxtrot!
• Designed for Beginners, All Levels Welcome
• Individuals Can Join in, Partners Not Required
• Open Dancing Available to Reinforce Steps
• Affordable Price, Package Discounts Available!
$15/Person $10 for 501FIT Clients!

Monday
Oct292012

October 29, 2012, Monday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2012

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 6th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 5 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

Monday
Oct292012

October 29, 2012, Monday - Nuruddin Farah Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

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

The Loft and the University of Minnesota's Department of English proudly present a reading by Nuruddin Farah for the paperback release of his novel Crossbones.

About the book:

A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist" (The New York Times Review of Books). Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers. A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, appartently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of teh country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.

About the author:

Born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia, Nuruddin Farah is the author of ten novels, a nonfiction book, and numerous articles and stories in English. His worked has been translated into more than 20 languages. Long before the collapse of Somalia's government, he was pushed into exile by the dictator Siyad Barre, and has lived, taught, and written in many African countries. He currently resides in Cape Town, South Africa. Because his first novel, Sweet and Sour Milk, concerns the plight of a young Somali woman forced into an arranged marriage, and because his work traces relations between dictatorship at the national scale and patriarchal tyranny at the family scale, he has been celebrated as a "feminist" African writer. Having dealt with dictatorship, breakdown, and exile in earlier works, Farah has begun in this trilogy to imagine possible modes of a return to Somalia.

Sunday
Oct282012

October 28, 2012, Sunday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2012

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 6th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 5 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - What's in Dragonfly's Box? at Central Library

Time: 11:00am

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

What's in Dragonfly's Box?

Preschool-grade 3. Join us in the Children's Library to see what crafts or activities the dragonfly has in its box! Happy Halloween! Join the dragonfly in getting ready for Halloween. Materials provided.

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - How'd They do That Workshop at The Guthrie: Appomattox

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Location:  McGuire Proscenium Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South

What was the inspiration for the set? Was the play rewritten in rehearsals? Aren't those wigs itchy? Through these eye-opening workshops, you can learn how the Guthrie's artists and staff create a production - from early development and designs to rehearsal, costume fittings and staging of the play.

$15 per person per workshop.

Upcoming 2012-2013 workshops:

The Servant of Two Masters
Saturday, December 15, 2012
McGuire Proscenium Stage

Long Day's Journey into Night
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage

Other Desert Cities
Saturday, February 23, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage

Twelfth Night/The Taming of the Shrew
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage

Nice Fish
Saturday, April 20, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage

The Primrose Path
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage

Clybourne Park
Saturday, June 15, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage

Born Yesterday
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market

Join us for our final regular season Market of the year!  There is an abundance of fresh, fall produce waiting for you to take home.  Remember, the season never ends at Mill City– our Winter Markets begin November 10th inside the Mill City Museum!  We will be here every SECOND SATURDAY of each month from November 10th – April 13th!

Produce Planner:
Radishes, spinach, spring salad mixes, garlic, carrots, beets, fresh herbs, kale, Swiss chard, collards, peppers, sweet and red onions, red potatoes, brussel sprouts, heirloom tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, eggplant, delicata, acorn, and butternut squash, cabbage, green grapes, sweet corn, pumpkins, apples, and more!

Mill City Cooks, 10 am:
Chef Heather Hartman and daughter Josephine will be keeping us warm today with a demonstration of Miso Soup with Market Vegetables!

Live Music/Entertainment, 11 am to 1 pm: Moonlight Duo is back!
The Moonlight Duo is Mary DuShane & Nick Jordan.  The Duo serves up a wide-ranging repertory of traditional Southern roots music, featuring bluesy old time songs, plus Appalachian and Irish dance tunes, spiced with Cajun and country swing.

Artist in Residence, all day:
Designer UNDIs present Architecture of the Table.  Swing by the community booth to see quick preservation and decoration methods for your dinner table.  Also pick up free tips for extending the shelf-life of your purchases from this last farmers market!

Meet Your Vegetables, 9 am (while supplies last)
Watch and learn how to make Kale Pesto!  Visit UMN Public Health Nutrition grad students for a unique twist on this leafy green & take a recipe home with you!

Art Market, all day:
Plantworn, Anna Metcalfe, Barn Swallow Garden, and Stirsby!

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2012

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 6th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 5 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  tommy & the lieberman (of rio nido, a prairie home companion, & sweet land)

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - Halloween Party at Keegan's Pub

Location: Keegan’s Pub, 16 University Avenue NE

Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, so Keegan’s is going to have it's big party on Saturday, October 27.

Everyone in costume will receive a 2 for 1 drink special on their first round.  Live music at 10 pm featuring Joel Schaan, Scottie Devlin and Shane Akers, all veterans of Test Site 67 and other leading Twin Cities groups. 

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - Chamber Music Workshop with The City of Tomorrow at MacPhail

Time:  2:00pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 2nd Street South

Chamber Music Workshop with The City of Tomorrow

$5 general admission, Free to MacPhail students

The only wind quintet to win a gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in ten years, The City of Tomorrow advocates for the quality and expansion of wind quintet repertoire and performance.

Saturday
Oct272012

October 27, 2012, Saturday - 'Halloween Origami Party' Family Workshop at MCBA

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

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

Halloween Origami Party
with Aki Shibata

For families w/ children grade K and up

Celebrate Halloween at MCBA's origami party! Make paper pumpkins, bats, spiders, monster heads and more! Choose from a variety of papers and colors. Folding patterns will be provided to help you create your very own creepy creatures!

$30 ($27 members) per adult/child pair; $15 ($14) each additional participant.

Friday
Oct262012

October 26, 2012, Friday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2012

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 6th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 5 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

Friday
Oct262012

October 26, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  mike mangione

Friday
Oct262012

October 26, 2012, Friday - Midwest Photo Safari: "Minneapolis Nights" Mill Ruins Park and the Stone Arch Bridge

Time:
This safari begins 30 minutes before local sunset (your tour confirmation will have an exact time). We meet at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the river. The Safari runs about 90 minutes on Thursday and Friday Nights.

Location:
This tour begins at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the Minneapolis riverfront.  We start by photographing  this interesting park,  then walk across the famous Stone Arch bridge to photograph the Minneapolis night skyline. We will learn the principles of low light settings on your digital SLR's or the various "scene" mode settings of your digital point and shoot camera.

More Information and Registration.

Friday
Oct262012

October 26, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm $10 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Davina & the Vagabonds with Trailer Trash

Thursday
Oct252012

October 25, 2012, Thursday - Vikings vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Time:    7:20 PM CDT at the Dome

TV: NFL NETWORK
Radio: KFAN (FM 100.3)
Sirius: 93

Additional information is available at vikings.com.