September 15, 2012, Saturday - One Minneapolis One Read: The New Eden at Central Library

Time: 1:00pm–4:00pm

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

One Minneapolis One Read: The New Eden

Minneapolis artist Scott Seekins will present the cultural and religious aspects of the 1862 Dakota War and the different perceptions and expectations of the settlers and the Native Americans. Samples of his art that illustrate these aspects of the conflict will be on display.

This program is presented in collaboration with the City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Public Schools in support of the annual "One Minneapolis, One Read" event.

September 15, 2012, Saturday - Childish Films at Central Library

Time: 10:30am – Noon

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Childish Films

September 15: Good Times, Music and Friends: Family bluegrass band, The Roe Family Singers, are back to open a new season of Childish Films and an eclectic program filled with good old-time music and friends.

Preschool-grade 6. A series of children's cinema and arts. Film screenings include preshow arts activities and educational introductions. For more information and a complete listing of program themes and films, visit www.supporthclib.org.

A program of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Sponsors: Lerner Publishing Group, Whole Foods Market, CRASH+SUES and Minnesota Parent.

September 15, 2012, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Sweet Corn!

Produce Planner:
radishes, spinach, spring salad mixes, arugula, garlic, head lettuce, wild greens, rhubarb, carrots, beets, sorrel, fresh herbs, kale, Swiss chard, collards, peppers, sweet onions, red potatoes, brussel sprouts, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, broccoli, green beans, edamame, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplant, summer squash, cabbage, raspberries, grapes, sweet corn, pears, musk melon, apples, and more!

Mill City Cooks, 10 am:
Today Chef Heather Hartman is joined by guest Robin Asbell, chef, culinary instructor, and author of “Big Vegan” and other great cookbooks.  They will be demonstrating a delicious summer salad: Pan-Toasted Corn and Black Bean Salad with Basil!

Live Music, 11 am to 1 pm:
Orange Mighty Trio. Listen to the ever fascinating sounds of this delightful acoustic bluegrass band.

Book Signing, all day:
Atina Diffley will be signing copies of her new book “Turn Here Sweet Corn” in the center of the Market today!

Meet Your Vegetables, 9 am (while supplies last):
Orange-Ginger Glazed Carrots! Visit UMN Public Health Nutrition grad students for a tasty twist on this vitamin packed root vegetable & take a recipe home with you!

Community Booth, all day:
Community Design Center. This Saint Paul-based organization’s mission is to build vibrant and healthy communities through food, conservation and youth development.

Sponsors, all day: Thank you Mrs. Meyers!

Art Market, all day: Featuring Plantworn, Cracked Clay, Spring Finn, and Old World Cabinet.

September 15, 2012, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 10:30pm  $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Trailer Trash

Comfortable playing traditional country music, but they can swing, rock and groove in a wide variety of styles from the American hit parade.

September 15, 2012, 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

The Riverwalk Tour explores the Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis.  You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling a variety of food at historical landmarks, as well as visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls while crossing 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.  Taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods.

Reservations.  
 
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September 15, 2012, Saturday - Holy Cow! Press Publication Reading with Roseann Lloyd at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

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

Holy Cow! Press Publication Reading with Roseann Lloyd

Roseann Lloyd's new poetry collection, The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars, takes us on a sister’s unflinching exploration into grief for a brother lost on a solo hike in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in northern Minnesota. His clothes are found but not his body. How does one mourn without a body? This absence calls up memories of his life and mixed emotions; it evokes other disappearances—children missing in Iraq, climbers lost on Everest, a college student drowned.

“This is a book about that place inside us all where bafflement meets mystery: a strange place, sometimes frightening and sometimes filled with stars and pines, clear flowing water and the deep joy of companionship." —Jim Moore

"Roseann Lloyd is doing what poets have always been charged to do - take chances. The form is bending under the fine hand of a craftsman who loves her work." —Nikki Giovanni

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

September 15, 2012, Saturday - Historic Main Street Walking Tour thru the Mill City Museum

Time:  1:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Historic Main Street Walking Tour

Stroll through Minneapolis’ oldest neighborhood with a Mill City Museum guide, and learn about the rich past and exciting future of historic Main Street. The tour will highlight the life in the village of St. Anthony, changes along Main Street throughout the years, and such landmarks as the 1855 Upton Block, 1858 Martin and Morrison Building, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, the Pillsbury A Mill and the Chalybeate Mineral Springs. This tour will begin and end at Pracna Restaurant, 117 Main Street S.E. Tours include admission to Mill City Museum.

Fee: $14 adults, $12 senior citizens, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

September 14, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: kavanessence

September 14, 2012, Friday - Evelyn Klein Book Lauch: Seasons of Desire at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

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

Evelyn Klein Book Lauch: Seasons of Desire  
 
Join us to hear Evelyn Klein read from her newest book Seasons of Desire. In this book, Evelyn Klein brings to the foreground the positive effects of continuing to develop a person’s potential whether it follows an athletic, occupational, professional, spiritual, or artistic road. It focuses on the fact that it is never too late to follow one’s dreams, to realize one’s potential, giving true meaning to the expression life-long learning and the realization of new goals. The book’s poetry and prose reflect on, project, and celebrate stages of life, detailing people that touch the author’s life, places, holidays, and events. Klein’s artwork of cover and  drawings, that introduce each sections of the of the book, add another perspective, because words are not always enough.

Poet Sharon Chmielarz said, “time is the featured star in Seasons of Desire, time, ‘a river in the great design…’ time may ‘give new direction.’ In her latest book Klein’s ‘New Year’s Prayer’ may well become a tradition at many tables.”

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

September 13, 2012, Thursday - Open House at Blast Blow Dry Bar

Time:  5:00pm-7:00pm

Location: Blast Blow Dry Bar, 940 Washington Avenue South

We are thrilled to join your community! Please gather in celebration at our new Aloft Minneapolis location for cocktails and appetizers.

There will be blowout looks to view and drawings for amazing blast products.

September 13, 2012, Thursday - Five Years: The Minnesota Book Artist Award Exhibit

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:  Central Library, Cargill Gallery, 300 Nicollet Mall

The Minnesota Book Artist Award is a part of the greater Minnesota Book Awards coordinated by the friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and co-sponsored by Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The honor recognizes a Minnesota book artist or long-standing collaborative group for artistic excellence and significant contributions to Minnesota’s book arts community. The book arts are dynamic and noteworthy within the larger landscape of contemporary art.

At Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the definition of “book” is broad and includes a variety of methods and means for expressing narrative over time. Though often requiring traditional bookbinding, printing or paper-making to come to fruition, contemporary artists’ books may include these practices and others in surprising and innovative ways.
This exhibition celebrates the fifth anniversary of the award and highlights the extraordinary and diverse work of its winners: Jody Williams (2008), Paulette Myers-Rich (2009), Wilber H. “Chip” Schilling (2010), Regula Russelle (2011), and Cave Paper’s Bridget O’Malley and Amanda Degener (2012).

Exhibit runs September 7 through October 15.

Co-sponsored by: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Hennepin County Library, The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library and Friends of the Hennepin County Library.

September 13, 2012, Thursday - eBooks: Basics at Central Library

Time: 4:00pm–6:00pm

Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

eBooks: Basics
Registration required; limit 12. Learn the basics about eBooks and eReaders, as well as how to find, check out and download eBooks from the Library

September 12, 2012, Wednesday - Plan-It Hennepin: The Plan Review at Central Library

Time: 5:00pm–6:30pm

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

The Plan-It Hennepin conversation has developed into a draft plan guided by support and input from the broad community! Please join us for an open house advance preview and the chance to comment further on the future of Hennepin Avenue.

Hosted by Hennepin Theatre Trust and its Plan-It partners Walker Art Center, Artspace and the City of Minneapolis.

No RSVP required.  Complimentary coffe, cookies and conversation.

September 12, 2012, Wednesday - Napa Wine Dinner at Spill the Wine

Seating Time: 6:30pm

Location:  Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Avenue South

$45/person (tax included)

Napa Wine Dinner

Featuring highly rated Napa Valley wineries.  Food prepared by Chef Craig Johnson, wine presentation by Jim Clark with Wine Merchants.

Something new.. we will be doing giveaways at this wine dinner. Gift card, wine package, hard to say, you have to be there to see it!

Dinner Menu

greeting of j vineyards sparkling rose and amuse bouche pairing

first course
butternut squash gazpacho, oyster a la plancha
pine ridge chenin blanc viognier, napa valley
 
second course
braised pork jowl, brussel sprout succotash, fry bread
chamisal pinot noir, edna valley    

third course
end of season berry croustade, cantaloupe sorbet
pineridge forefront cabernet sauvignon, napa valley

Reservations.

September 12, 2012, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

A SIP OF SCIENCE - The Surprising Life of Native Mussels
 
Freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered animal groups in North America, but the role of these mollusks in freshwater ecosystems, including our own Mississippi River, is vital to the survival of other animals and to the stability of the food chain. Freshwater mussels improve water quality in rivers and streams, allowing greater light penetration for algae and other organisms to grow, and they act as excellent indicators of environmental changes. Mussels have mutually beneficial relationships with many species of fish, providing them with nutrients that benefit other animals and humans who eat the fish.
 
Join mussel researcher Mark Hove in a discussion of these aquatic creatures, including the curious strategies native mussels employ to successfully reproduce, how mussels help not only rivers but people, the anthropogenic impacts on mussels, and mussel conservation.
 
About our speaker:
Mark Hove learned about mussels while getting his MS in Fisheries Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his recent research has focused on freshwater mussel conservation and habitat, as well as approaches to identifying juvenile freshwater mussels recovered from infested fishes. He currently works as a malacologist at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College.
 
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.
 
Dr. Jessica Kozarek, Research Associate, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

September 12, 2012, Wednesday - Joseph Campana & Paul Otremba Publication Reading at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

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

Joseph Campana & Paul Otremba Publication Reading 
  
Join us for an evening of award winning poetry by two amazing scholars.

Joseph Campana is a poet, critic, and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham UP, 2012), and two collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and Natural Selections (2012), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and many other venues. He has received the Isabel MacCaffrey Essay Prize, the MLA’s Crompton-Noll Award for LGB studies, and grants from the NEA and the HAA. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Rice University.  http://josephcampana.rice.edu/

Paul Otremba is the author of the poetry collection The Currency (Four Way Books 2009). Born and raised in Minnesota, Paul studied English and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota before receiving his MFA from the University of Maryland and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Paul is published widely in print and online, including The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Literary Imagination, Forklift, Witness, and was anthologized in American Poet’s of the 21st Century: The New Poetics.  In honor of his poetry, he has received scholarships and a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, a Krakow Poetry Seminar Fellowship, and a prize from the Academy of American Poets. Paul serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Southern Methodist University.  http://paulotremba.com/

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

September 11, 2012, Tuesday - One Minneapolis One Read: The Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857 at Central Library

Time: 7:00pm–8:00pm

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

One Minneapolis One Read: The Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857

Author Mary Bakeman will discuss the 1857 Spirit Lake Massacre. Inkpaduta's 1857 attack on Spirit Lake, Iowa, and southwest Minnesota is often cited as a cause of the 1862 Dakota War.

Presented in collaboration with the City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Public Schools in support of the annual "One Minneapolis, One Read" event.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library.

September 11, 2012, 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.

September 11, 2012, Tuesday - Night to Unite at Elliot Park Rec Center

Time: 4:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Elliot Park Recreation Center, 1000 E 14th Street

Night to Unite

Picnic, games, entertainment, health fair and more!  Free neighborhood fun for all ages.

September 9, 2012, Sunday - Vikings vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

Time:   12:00 PM CDT at the Dome

TV: CBS WCCO - 4
Radio: KFAN (FM 100.3)

Additional information is available at vikings.com.