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Lake Street for the holidays
December 23, 2009
We’ll have minimal activity here until 2010, so to close things out for the year, here are some photos we took that show Lake Street looking festive for Christmastime. You can find these photos and more over at our Flickr stream. Thanks for reading, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Your Weekend Entertainment, December 18-20
December 17, 2009
‘Twas the weekend before Christmas, and that means a lot of programming wrapping up for the year. That includes La Natividad from In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, which ends with shows at 6:30 PM Thursday through Sunday. Only Thursday night tickets are still available, but there may still be some volunteer opportunities as ways to get involved and see the show!
Also on its last weekend up is Jungle Theater’s The Seafarer. It’s gotten great reviews from MSP Magazine, Daily Planet, Star Tribune, and others, so see it while you still can! Buy tickets
Some Christmas-themed shows are wrapping up at Bryant Lake Bowl too. Letters to Santa…Postage Due! has its last show Saturday at 7:00 PM, and A Christmas Carol: The Golden Girls Remix ends Sunday with shows at 6:00 and 8:30 PM. Buy tickets
Christmastime also means Santa Claus! He’ll be at the Midtown Global Market on Friday and Saturday for free photo opportunities. That starts at 5:00 PM on Friday and noon on Saturday.
And non-holiday related but no less interesting for that, Magers & Quinn hosts Mitch Omer, the owner of Minneapolis’s Hell’s Kitchen, on Saturday. He’ll be discussing his cookbook Damn Good Food. “Omer reveals the recipes that have made his restaurant a pleasure seeker’s destination, including inventions like his tart, ethereal Lemon-Ricotta Hotcakes; dark, wild Bison Sausage Bread; and sweet, creamy Mahnomin Porridge. These dishes have the hungry and eager queued up out the doors of Hell’s Kitchen, often for hours, but now you can make them at home.”
Your Weekend Entertainment, December 11-13
December 10, 2009
There’s a very busy Lake Street arts scene this weekend. Let’s start with In the Heart of the Beast. Their yearly production of La Natividad actually starts tonight (Thursday), but is also on Friday and Sunday nights. “Much more than a straightforward enactment of the Christmas story, La Natividad unites evocative theater with an open-armed community celebration of inclusion and generosity. It has become a tradition for many in the Twin Cities who wish to push beyond the commercialism that abounds during this season and experience the essence of the holiday.” Buy tickets
To the east, Patrick’s Cabaret hosts Kinetic Kitchen on Friday & Saturday night. Featuring Cade Holmseth premiering “Just One More”, Jennifer Glaws’ Jagged Moves, Sarah LaRose-Holland’s Kinetic Evolutions dance company, and youth group The Phipps Dance Company.
Over in Lyn-Lake, it’s the penultimate weekend for Jungle Theater’s play The Seafarer. “A collection of Irish misfits lay their cards – and their souls – on the table in this tale of a poker game played on Christmas Eve. A wonderful exploration of passion, provocation, and the potential for redemption, The Seafarer showcases one of today’s greatest storytellers, and an all-star cast of local favorites.” Buy tickets
Up the street at Intermedia Arts, they’re hosting Dance Film Project, their annual festival “for dancemakers and filmmakers to collaborate and create original short works for the camera. The project aims to explore choreography through a cinematic language.” Click here for a full schedule of events. Intermedia Arts also continues its Dimensions of Indigenous exhibit, which just got a nice write-up at the TC Daily Planet.
And Bryant Lake Bowl has a very merry weekend in store. Friday night it’s Inappropriate Laughter III: Merry Sketchmas and Happy Ha-Ha-Ha-lidays at 7 PM and The Santaland Diaries at 9:30. Saturday it’s Creative Laughter Club House at noon (a show for kids K-6), and then Letters to Santa…Postage Due! at 7 PM and another round of The Santaland Diaries at 9:30. Then on Sunday, it’s one more Letters to Santa at 6 PM followed by A Christmas Carol: The Golden Girls Remix at 8:30.
And that’s just the theater spaces! How about live music? At Sauce Spirits & Soundbar, it’s local indie-rock group Pictures of Then on Friday night, and a CD release party for Al Church & State on Saturday night.
In a Scandinavian frame of mind? Come in to Ingebretsen’s on Saturday 11 – 1 for a Santa Lucia celebration. “December 13, is a celebration of light in Sweden, and all of Scandinavia; countries that are very dark in the winter. Join Ingebretsen’s to share the tradition of this special Swedish holiday with holiday music and pepparkakor served by Lucia and her attendants.”
And finally, Powderhorn residents and others may be in Getting to Know Project 8. This will be “a community event to discuss the concerns of youth in the neighborhood, to eat a free meal, and to enjoy free youth entertainment. Project 8 recognizes that there are an infinite number of things the people in our community are good at. Whether it be cooking or teaching math or giving free law advice, we want to show the youth of the Twin Cities that the support is here for them to succeed. This is a family event so bring your kids!”
Your Weekend Entertainment, December 4-6
December 03, 2009
The big, big event on Lake Street this weekend will no doubt be the No Coast Craft-o-Rama, which will be at the Midtown Global Market for the third year running. The No Coast Craft-o-Rama will provide shoppers with that warm fuzzy feeling as they experience the beauty of buying handmade goods. The sale offers a diverse atmosphere that is definitely a welcome alternative to the humdrum of the shopping malls. The craft sale will be on Friday 3 – 8 and Saturday 9 – 5, and promises to be an absolutely packed event with lots of great deals and products to be had, many from local craftmakers.
Elsewhere, Patrick’s Cabaret holds the Somewhat 90’s Variety Show this weekend, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. An evening of hip-hop, comedy, singing, breakin, house dance, waacking, freestyle, and modern dance. It promises to be a good time.
Jungle Theater is now in the middle of its run of Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, which has been getting rave reviews. To pick just one example, the Star Tribune says,“A spanking cast spins out this yarn in a frightfully good production directed by Joel Sass…The acting here is the best I’ve seen in quite some time not only at the Jungle but anywhere. Sass’s staging has a cohesion, pace and rhythm that is spot on….” You can see more reviews at the Jungle’s website, where you can also buy tickets!
For those with children in tow, In the Heart of the Beast has you covered with their Saturday puppet shows. This Saturday, at 10 am and noon, it’s The Fisher and the Fisher / El pescador y el pescador, which is a bilingual English/Spanish show. Don’t forget the Make-n-Take puppet workshop at 11 am.
Also for kids, Santa Claus is paying his first visit to the Midtown Global Market on Saturday, from 12 – 4. This will be at the same time as No Coast is on so be ready for a very bustling and festive atmosphere!
And finally, in an event that is more for the grown-ups, renowned local food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is paying a visit to Magers & Quinn Booksellers Friday night at 7:30 pm. She’ll be there to discuss her book Drink This: Wine Made Simple. “If you’ve been baffled by a wine list, stood perplexed before endless racks of bottles at the liquor store, or ordered an overpriced bottle out of fear of the scathing judgment of a restaurant sommelier, Dara is here to help.”
