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Weekend on Lake Street 3/26-3/28
March 26, 2010
Theater
This is your very last chance to see Blithe Spirit at Jungle Theater! The show about a seance gone wrong ends its run on Sunday.
At Bryant Lake Bowl, Detour’s monthlong run closes with performances on Friday and Saturday. Later those same nights, it’s Villification Squares, where “the Vilification Tennis cast returns with its crazy popular game show theme! Enjoy a show that is all about your favorite game shows with a Vilification Tennis twist.” Then on Sunday, it’s The Rockstar Storytellers: Chick Lit, followed by Proletariat Bronze Variety Showcase Show, an evening of spoken word and special surprises.
Arts
Friday night features a gallery opening at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. South African Prints from the David Krut Print Workshop will debut from 6:30 – 9:00 PM. It will be on view through April 24.
After seeing some art, how about making some of your own? At Midtown Global Market on Saturday afternoon, Free Arts Minnesota invites families to create colorful murals during a special event focused on the theme of “Healthy Families.” One mural will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges to be spotlighted in a bus mural all month long, and the talented winning family will also receive a prize package.
Music
If it’s live music on Lake Street, it must be Sauce. Friday night, it’s the The Melismatics, with Virtual CH. Saturday, it’s Gospel Gossip, with Wussy, Zoo Animal, and Maudlin. Sunday, Hildur Vicoria plays, with Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps and Total Babe. All shows have 9:30 PM doors and are 21+; Friday’s and Saturday’s cost $5.
For live music of a rather flavor, head over to Old Arizona on Friday and Saturday nights. They’re hosting DV8D Septet, “an a cappella group specializing in an eclectic mix of pop, jazz, doo wop, and other genres of vocal music you know and love.”
The Triumphant Return of Kaplan Brothers
March 26, 2010
We just learned of some great news: Kaplan Brothers at 1414 East Lake will be reopening on Monday the 29th! They’ve been regrouping since December, when a nearby water pipe burst and flooded the store, damaging the building and a lot of the merchandise. It was an especially bad time for that to happen to them, since the weather was just really cold and bringing in people looking for hardy winter clothes. Thankfully, their commitment to remain on Lake Street was strong, and they’ve now gotten everything cleaned up and ready to go. Please drop in when they reopen and welcome them back!
Weekend on Lake Street 3/12-3/14
March 12, 2010
Fork the Fire
First, a reminder about dining out for a great cause this Sunday. Go to restaurants participating in Fork the Fire to help raise money to support Heidi’s and Blackbird, the two restaurants destroyed in the fire at 50th & Bryant. Participating Lake Street places include Chino Latino, Il Gatto, Herkimer, Moto-i, The Craftsman, Burger Jones. Check Fork the Fire’s website for all the details.
Theater
This weekend brings with it a very active theater scene in the Lyn-Lake area. At Intermedia Arts, there are two shows remaining for NE 2nd Avenue, a compilation of characters that make Miami their home. “The work conveys, with poignancy and humor, the profoundly rich and textured mix of Miami, in which distinct Cuban, Haitian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Jewish, LGBT and African American influences emerge yet, interestingly enough, often in ways that reveal evidence of, often denied, cross-pollination.” Check out the great review it got from John Townsend in the Star Tribune. It’s on Friday and Saturday night.
Blithe Spirit continues its run at Jungle Theater. The play, about a seance gone very wrong, has three weekends left to go. It’s received raves from both MinnPost and the Star Tribune.
And this weekend at Bryant Lake Bowl, Detour, an adaptation of Edgar G. Ulmer’s classic 1945 film noir piece, is on Friday night, as is Last Laugh, an exciting evening of stand up comedy presented by La Vie Theatre. Women Stand Up! A Comedy Cabaret is on Saturday night, and Macbeth: The Video Game Remix shows both Saturday and Sunday nights.
Music
Pangea World Theater hosts an acoustic show of traditional Irish music on Sunday night. Paddy O’Brien and Chulrua play old instrumental dance music of Ireland: jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, and slides. Chulrua translates fromthe Irish as “red back.” It was the name and distingushing feature of the favorite woulfound of ancient Irish hero Fionn MacCumhail.
At Sauce Spirits & Sound, Dearling Physique plays on Friday night, with Bella Koshka and Eric Lindley. Saturday night, it’s a CD release for Ernest Rhodes. One Be Lo, Wide Eyes, Gahed Indie, and DJ’s Last Word & oWrecks will also be there. And on Sunday, it’s Hardcore Crayons, with Tender Meat and Omnitrigger.
For the Kids
Over east, the East Lake Library hosts American Girl Stories on Saturday at 11:00 AM. For kids in kindergarten and up. Get to know your favorite American Girls. Kit, Kaya, Julie and their friends will come to life as we read about a different girl each month and discover history through their eyes with games and activities. This month is about Nellie, Samantha’s friend.
In Midtown, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s Saturday puppet show is Are You Thirsty?. Come explore a myriad of questions contained in a cup of water—one of the most precious and necessary shared resources of our planet. 10 and noon, with a make-n-take puppet workshop in between.
And over on West Lake, Bryant Lake Bowl hosts Creative Laughter on Saturday at noon. “A show for kids K-6 that creates an improv comedy experience with music, story, and movement. Come join John Haynes…formerly Mike of Martha and Mike’s Clubhouse for a show that will inspire you to creatively laugh.”
Odds and Ends
Old Arizona hosts a beer and cheese tasting on Friday night. Admission includes a tasting of no less than six varieties of beer, an assortment of imported and domestic cheeses and hot pinxtos (small plates . . . a little pinch of something). Full glasses of beer & wine may be purchased in the Café & Wine Bar.
And there are some good times this weekend at some of our local churches as well. St. Albert the Great continues their Friday fish dinners, with baked and fried tilapia, potatoes, meatless spaghetti, cole slaw, rolls, desserts and beverages. There’s bingo too! The dinners continue for three more Fridays.
And at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 15th Ave. & 28th St., they’re having a 325th Birthday Bash for J.S. Bach on Saturday. It’s a fundraising dinner that will benefit. benefit the church’s sustainability strategy. Corned beef brisket and cabbage, smoked, dry-rubbed beef brisket, coleslaw, potatoes, root vegetables, salads and desserts. Tickets: $20 ($13 from every sale will benefit the long-term strategy of our mission.) Call 651-459-7277 with inquiries and for reservations.
Kalico Elephant to Midtown Global
March 10, 2010
Minnesota Monthly’s Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has a great scoop today about a new Thai restaurant coming to the Midtown Global Market:
The restaurant will be called the Kalico Elephant by Naviya, and they plan to relocate in the former Jade restaurant space on the east side of the Midtown Global Market…They’ll be serving lunch, dinner, and hope to add both sushi and whole grain fusion pastas.
Great news for the Global Market and all of us who go there! A second sit-down restaurant will give people more dining options, and it can’t hurt that it’s a restaurant that many people have been missing and and are eager to see come back.
Weekend on Lake Street 3/5-3/7
March 04, 2010
Dancing!
Patrick’s Cabaret hosts a new entry in their Kinetic Kitchen dance series on Friday and Saturday night. It’s presented by Sarah LaRose-Holland. Featuring: Non Edwards Dance Works, Jeffrey Peterson, Kenna Sarge with Voice of Culture, and Cathy Wright.
Theater!
Jungle Theater is hitting the middle of its run of Blithe Spirit, about a seance gone very wrong. “Madam Arcati successfully conjures up the ghost of Charles’ annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, who decides not to honor the vow “until death do us part.†Instead, Elvira settles in to haunt the house—and her spouse!—in this sparkling comedy that celebrates the glamour of the 1940s and the timeless wit of Noël Coward.”
Bryant Lake Bowl’s early Friday show is Bottled Chicken Justice, a minimalist sketch show. “Welcome to a universe where clever, surreal, goofy and sometimes shocking humor is wrung out of the lifeless body of the rubber chicken, weighed on the scales of justice and bottled for your consumption.” Later that night, it’s The Underpants Show – A Tribute to THE POWER BALLAD! “Air guitar never looked so good.”
On Saturday, BLB has the start of the 4 weekend run of Detour, adapted from Edgar G. Ulmer’s classic 1945 film noir. And Sunday it’s Macbeth: The Video Game Remix, “Shakspeare’s classic tale of treachery and bloody destiny, warped into a world of group raids, power ups and multiplayer side-quests.”
Live Music!
Sauce keeps things hopping with These Modern Socks, The Sextons, and The Small Cities on Friday night, and F**k Knights, Reckless Ones, and DJ Skeleton Hand on Saturday night. Sunday is Mod DJ Night. $5 cover Friday and Saturday, free on Sunday, 21+.
And along with 4 pieces of theater, Bryant Lake Bowl has some music of its own. On Saturday night, The Debut is bringing their usual pop-rock charm and catchy songs, and along for the ride are local punk/R&B talents the Running Scared.
Books!
Uncle Hugo’s/Uncle Edgar’s will be hosting some book signing events on Saturday. Jeffrey Siger will be signing his 2 Greek mystery novels, Assassins of Athens and Murder in Kykonos. Erin Hart will be signing False Mermaid, third in her Irish series.
Kids!
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s weekly Saturday puppet show is Punch & Judy, “a twist of the traditional ‘Punch and Judy’ slapstick comedy celebrating old English folk tales.” Fifth of November Puppeteers performs. And don’t forget “Make-n-Take†workshop based on the puppet show at 11.
Fork the Fire
March 03, 2010
On March 14th, many restaurants across the Twin Cities are joining forces to support Heidi’s and Blackbird, the two restaurants that burned down in the big 50th & Bryant fire. Diners who eat out at these restaurants will be helping the cause themselves. Participating Lake Street places include Chino Latino, Il Gatto, Herkimer, Moto-i, The Craftsman, and Burger Jones. For the list of all restaurants and further details, check out Fork the Fire’s website, and the write-up about the event by Rick Nelson in the Star Tribune.
Yelp Drinks Week!
March 02, 2010
March 1st – 7th is Yelp Drinks Week, a “city-wide all day and all week long Happy Hour.” On Lake Street, Bryant Lake Bowl and Barbette are participating. The deals you can find there this week:
Bryant Lake Bowl — $3 domestic taps, $4 select taps, $4 house wines, $4 rail cocktails
Barbette — $3 PBR, $4 house wines, $4 domestic taps
Take advantage of those great prices while they’re still available!
