October 15, 2011, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Harvest Festival

PRODUCE PLANNER for the WINTER:
Stock up now! Keep storage veggies, like carrots, onions, beets, squash, pumpkins, potatoes, garlic, parsnips, celeriac and apples dry and cool and they’ll keep for months. Hang herbs and carrot greens to dry or dehydrate them to use all year long. Freeze kale, Swiss chard and collards. Or, get a winter CSA!

WHAT’S NEW:
- Bulk Packs of 20# Wild Alaskan Salmon are now available at Wild Run Salmon for $259 ($12.95/lb.). Pre-order available, contact Matt Oxford at wildrunsalmon@yahoo.com.
- Jeanne Beatrice LLC is having a end-of-season sale on their Market Baskets: 40% off their entire stock! Think holiday gifts!

Mill City Cooks, 10:00am:
Market Chefs Nick and Heather team up for one last cooking demo to prepare what everyone wants this time of year: delicious and hearty food, including Roasted Beet Chevre Crostini! Get recipes from this demo and every Mill City Cooks demos this season in our Recipe Archive.

Mini Farm, all day:
Visit your furry friends at Gale Woods Farm in the Three Rivers Park District.

Live Music, 11:00am – 1:00am:
Sustainable agriculture supporters and toe-tapping inspirations, Light of the Moon Band!

Book Signing, all day:
Authors Shelly Holl and BJ Carpenter take readers on a journey through the seasons and around the state with their culinary travelogue celebrating local ingredients, The Minnesota Table.

Sponsors: UCare

Art Market, all day:
Featuring Barnswallow Garden, ceramics by Matthew Krousey, Aprilerre, and Woodsport.

October 15, 2011, Saturday - Childish Films at Central Library

Time: 10:30am - Noon

Location:  Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet

HALLOWEEN TOONS FOR TOTS

The annual Halloween show featuring lots of skeletons, robbers, black cats, and bats.

• The Skeleton Dance, Walt Disney, 1929. Skeletons, bats, and cats dance in a moonlit graveyard. 6 min.
• The Old Mill, Walt Disney, 1937. A stormy night in an abandoned old mill inhabited by birds, bats, mice, and other wild creatures. An Oscar-award winning short with dramatic thunder and lightning (and a sunny ending). 9 min.
• Skeleton Frolic, Columbia Pictures, 1937. A colorful revision of The Skeleton Dance, made a decade later by one of Disney's most famous early animators, Ub Iwerks. 7 min.
• The Three Robbers, Weston Woods, 1972. Tomi Ungerer's dark story of three robbers who like to scare people, thwarted by a spunky orphan girl. 6 min.
• What’s Under My Bed?, Weston Woods, 1990. Two kids come up with rational explanations when their Grandpa recounts his childhood bedtime fears. 8 minutes.

The extras: Come in costume! Boo-gie down! Make your own Halloween craft to take home.

Preschool-grade 6. A program of children's cinema and arts, featuring unique films, hands-on arts activities, live entertainment and educational introductions for children's film fans. For more information, visit: www.supporthclib.org.
 
A program of the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Support provided by Whole Foods Market, Lerner Publishing Group, Weston Wood Studios, Minnesota Parent and Jagged Edge.

October 15, 2011, Saturday - The Big Gay Race 5K

Time:  9:00am - Noon

Location: Start/End at Wilde Roast, St. Anthony Main, 65 Main Street SE

Official Website

NOTE ! COURSE CHANGE!!!

Our new course is as flat and fast as it gets! The race will be an out and back course: the start and finish will still be in front of Wilde Roast, will run down Main Street, over the Stone Arch bridge, north on West River Road, shortly after going under the Hennepin Ave. Bridge the course will turn around and return on the same route. Miles 1, 2, and 3 will be marked with signs.

Come out for a 5k run/walk to support marriage equality during National Coming Out Week and LGBT History Month.  All proceeds will go to Minnesotans United For All Families, the organization created to oppose the proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Minnesota. It's worth coming out for!

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October 15, 2011, Saturday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2011

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

October 15, 2011, Saturday - Live Music at Crooked Pint Ale House

Time: 10:00pm, $8 

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: The Morning After Girls

October 15, 2011, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  $8 Cover

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street 

Tonight:  Aimee Fischer

October 14, 2011, Friday - Root Vegetables Class at Local D'Lish

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

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

Make the most of fall and winter veggies: beets, turnips, sweet potatoes, parsnips… We will whip, roast and bake up satisfying dishes made from these earthy delights.

Reservations

October 14, 2011, Friday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2011

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

October 14, 2011, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint Ale House

Time: 10:00pm, $5 Cover 

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Boogie Wonderland

October 14, 2011, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  $8 Cover

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

Tonight:  Mike Mangione

October 13, 2011, Thursday - 5th Annual Mother Words Reading at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall) 1011 Washington Avenue South

Authors Jill Christman and Sonya Huber will join local author and Loft teaching artist, Kate Hopper, for the 5th Annual Mother Words Reading. Kate launched this reading series in 2007 as a way to highlight some of the wonderful, literary writing out there about motherhood and to counteract the way the public dismisses motherhood literature. 

Join us for a reading, laughter, and refreshments and mingle with other mothers who write.

Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. It will be released in paperback October, 2011. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children.

Kate Hopper received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Costa Rica, a Gesell summer residency at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, and a 2008 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including Brevity, Literary Mama, Mamazine, and the New York Times online. She is finishing work on Small Continents, a memoir about learning to live with uncertainty in the wake of her daughter’s premature birth. Her first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers is forthcoming from Viva Editions in Spring 2012. She teaches online and at The Loft Literary Center, leads an annual writing retreat for mothers, and reviews motherhood literature on her blog, Mother Words: Mothers Who Write.

Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (2010), finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction, and Opa Nobody (2008), shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. She has also written a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (2010). Her work has been published in literary journals and magazines including The Sonora Review, Fourth Genre, Passages North, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Washington Post Magazine, in other journals and in many anthologies. She teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Ashland University.

This event will be recorded and is free and open to the public.

October 13, 2011, Thursday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2011

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Deep Sea Wine Dinner at Spill the Wine

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Avenue South

Featuring Conway Family Deep Sea Winery from Central Coast, California.
Food prepared by Chef Craig Johnson.

Deep Sea Chardonnay
Deep Sea Red (Signature Rhone Style Blend)
Deep Sea Pinot Noir
Seep Sea 'Sea Flower' Dry Rose

$35/Person   Reservations

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Authentic East Hennepin Experience

Time: 5:00pm – 5:50pm

Location: Main Street SE and East Hennepin Avenue MAP

East Hennepin Avenue, originally known as Bay Street, has always been a ferociously interesting dividing line between northeast and southeast Minneapolis. Join us for 45 minutes to learn a very brief history of St. Anthony Falls, glimpse the interior of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, and hear gripping tales of the neighborhood’s first families. Along the way you will view diverse architecture, assorted building rehabilitations​, and hidden neighborhood art.

Afterwards, head on over to Nicollet Island for the Third Ward Neighborhoodfest!

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - The Soap Factory Presents: The Haunted Basement 2011

Location: 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!  

Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.

Reserve tickets online.

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Third Ward Neighborhoodfest at Nicollet Island Pavillion

Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Pavilion

Come to Nicollet Island and check out the festivities celebrating many of the elements that make up the City’s Third Ward.

Neighborhood vendors, shops, restaurants, local celebrities and City departments will be there to exhibit. The great entertainment (including the band Big Strong Men) and free food make this a festival not to be missed. Come explore Nicollet Island – one of the jewels of the Minneapolis park system, too.

The ninth annual Neighborhoodfest is sponsored by your local neighborhood associations, business associations and the office of Third Ward Council Member Diane Hofstede. The site is wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact the office of Council Member Diane Hofstede at 612-673-2203 or diane./hofstede@minneapolismn.gov.

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Puget Sound Piano Trio at MacPhail

Time:  7:00pm

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

Suggested Donation of $10. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Gary Sipes Piano Scholarship.

Each member of the new trio has significant solo playing credentials. Requiro won the esteemed Walter W. Naumburg International Violoncello Competition in New York City in 2008; Hulbert won the Gina Bachauer competition in 1980, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002; and Sampen has appeared in numerous performances across the country with the contemporary ensemble Brave New Works and is a faculty member at Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina.

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Cooking for the Busy Professional Class at Local D'Lish

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

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

You wake up early. Go to work. You get home late. And probably work some more. When and what will you eat!? You can’t have Chinese takeout every night, so here we will go over five quick and easy meals that are also healthy.

Reservations

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - Oktoberfest Historic Pub Crawl with Preservation Alliance of Minnesota

Time:  Registration begins at 5:30pm,  Pub Crawl begins at 6:00pm

Location:  Red Stag Supper Club,  509 1st Avenue Northeast

Thirsty? Join the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota on October 12 as they pour into some of Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis’ best historic bars. The crawl will be hitting Red Stag Supper Club, The Bulldog NE and finally, Nye’s.

This walking tour gives you the chance to get a taste of Minneapolis in a unique way by visiting three historic watering holes. Inside each location, you’ll have time for a drink as your guide recounts the history of the building and its surrounding neighborhood.

Participants receive drink specials at each location.  Meals and beverages are not included in the ticket price. On the bright side, they'll have trivia and prizes.

Tickets: $5 Members / $10 Non-Members

October 12, 2011, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

A Sip of Science:  A Climate for Change: Agriculture and Water Quality in Minnesota 

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 that offers the opportunity to talk with researchers about their current work, its implications and its fascinations.

In recent decades, our growing realization of how we pollute our waterways has led to regulation of the most obvious pollution sources. Cities have updated their wastewater treatment systems and industry can no longer dump their waste products into waterways. But what about non-point sources of pollution that trickle into rivers, streams, and lakes from multiple different sources? What are the cumulative impacts of that pollution on our waterways?

Historically, Minnesota has relied on voluntary incentives to reduce non-point water pollution. Norman Senjem, recently retired from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, says that voluntary measures are no longer enough. In our October Sip of Science, Norman discusses how non-point pollution is severely impacting Minnesota waterways and what steps can be made to address this growing problem by creating new regulation and incentives to hold polluters accountable as well as broadening the context for developing solutions to agricultural pollution.