February 2012
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Found Time: How To Spend The 24 Hours Of Leap Day... →
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An extra day. How will you use it? Start by reading our hour-by-hour guide. Here’s a sample:
Feb. 29, 2012, Hour By Hour:
Midnight. Too excited to sleep, you can click on the fascinating site of the Long Now Foundation, timekeepers of the 10,000 Year Clock. Computer wizard Danny Hillis first dreamed up the idea of a massive timepiece that “ticks once a year. The century hand ...
On this, the day of the most unholy sort of winter weather imaginable, we thought we’d share City Pages’ Ray Cummings’ list of songs for “the bleak, midwinter blues.” Because, as he writes, “In the winter, though? Shit gets real.” No doubt. Be warned, these songs might not actually make your blues better so much as elevate them to a new shade of refined...
leap year parties
A day that’s not really a day? We’ll take it and run with it here in the TC. Secrets selected three pretty awesome leap year party picks for your entertainment pleasure. One at Cause featuring The Golden Bubbles, one at Honey that even benefits The Wildcat Sanctuary, and one at which First Avenue will become a “psychobilly revival tent.” Check them out here and enjoy.
In case a lunchtime Restaurant Week getaway just isn’t in the work cards for you, Stephanie March has a skyway tip: the ramen at Kikugawa. I almost don’t want to share this one because I go here for the tempura udon with an extra dash of that spicy seasoning and there’s only one man behind the counter handling the hungry line, but good ramen is so hard to find....
Shops editor Ali Kaplan’s newest obsession is the Iowa-based, but Minnesota-strong Locally Grown label. Prominent in coops around the state, find the cool duds near you here.
This month’s Salon Saloon, the live-action art show, is The Radio Show where Andy Sturdevant will be talking with Daniel Henry of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, Sasha Aslanian of Minnesota Public Radio, Joe Stitzel and Chuck Tomlinson of “Cosmic Slop,” and KFAI’s Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber from “Crap from the Past,” celebrating its twentieth anniversary....
The Tad has spoken and the disconcerting unrealness of the Walker’s new show Lifelike is a hit:
“The delight comes first in being tricked, followed by the satisfaction of learning how the trick is done. (Important note: read the plaques on the wall and listen to the audio accompaniment, or you won’t be quite so satisfied.)”
Runs through May 27.
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It’s an annual clearance sale and a leap year sale combined this week at St. Paul’s Up Six, which means great deals on vintage clothing and furniture and an extra 10 percent off on Feb 29.
It’s here! Restaurant Week! And this year, Stephanie March will be surprising people with free lunch. There are plenty of new participants like Pat’s...
Have your napkin ready for stray drool when you read what’s on tonight’s menu at Minneapolis Community Education’s cooking class, Soul Food Revisited. They’ll (and you’ll, if you’re smart) be whipping up sweet potato cornbread with honey, butter-seared chicken and waffles, blackberry peach cobbler and more. The class is $30, will be held and Southwest High...
Mondays, right? You know how it is, you never receive your piece of cake and somebody touches your stapler. Well forget about all that at Famous Dave’s with good food and free swing dancing lessons starting at 8 pm. And where every other city just gets a Famous Dave’s, we get a Famous Dave’s Blues Club, which means Stockcar Named Desire will be providing the music. 3001...
Restaurant Week
In case you’re still hemming and hawing about where to go and what to eat during Restaurant Week, Stephanie March takes the pressure off. She’s compiled a list of her favorite dishes and recommendations and, as a sweetener, she’ll even be surprising some lucky diners during lunch and spot them their delicious meals. Doesn’t Masa’s Mexican hot chocolate bread pudding...
This just in from Secrets: Andrew Zimmern for City Council!
“Oh, why not! This interview with Zimmern quotes Mr. Bizarre Foods as wanting to “give back” after his food career and AZ tosses out the idea of a local political position, maybe even a city council. It’s not any more outlandish than a former SNL star in Congress or even some of the current council members in the metro, really....
THE TOILETZ
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AT AMAZING THAILAND ARE HEATED AND THEY WASH YOUR BUTT.
AS FAR AS I KNOW, THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE IN MINNEAPOLIS WHERE THIS HAPPENS.
Midwest is truly where it is at. If you do not believe this author’s opinion, simply stop by The Future Presence Gallery tonight at 6 pm and check out all the artists who found their way here from some place called New York City. “I’m New Here” will showcase our wealth of imported talents and end with a performance by local group Votel. Secrets has all the details.
So February’s issue was dedicated to children: where to eat with them, what to do with them, and things they enjoy eating (hint: candy). In honor of all things tiny, we found two Tumblrs you’re gonna want to follow.
Children with Swag. It’s children. With swag. Get jealous.
Ugly Renaissance Babies. Sort of the opposite.
American Idiot
It’s no American Savant, that’s for sure. Tad reviewed the Green Day musical now playing at the Orpheum Theatre and he kind of liked it, even with the expected qualifiers about the sex-drug angst. In fact, he found it kinda tame.
“…the show has more in common with The Wizard of Oz than it does with such teen-angst classics as Hair or Rent. After all, the central character,...
This year’s James Beard Nominees have been announced and we have quite a few dogs in that race (dog racing is bad).
Best New Restaurant: The Bachelor Farmer
Outstanding Bar Program: La Belle Vie
Outstanding Chef: Tim McKee, La Belle Vie
Outstanding Pastry Chef: Michelle Gayer, Salty Tart Bakery
Outstanding Restaurant: Restaurant Alma
Outstanding Restaurateur: D’Amico Partners
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A dinner all in the name of wine, red wine—genius. Spill the Wine chef Craig Johnson invites you to don your fancy pants and join him for the Red, Rojo, and Rouge Wine Dinner. The three-course meal features smoked duck and sweet potato hash plus red wines from Spain, France, and the West Coast. Reserve a spot for the 6:30 pm dinner.
Hoist the timbers and shiver the sails. The Science Museum is inviting you for a night of fun and drinks to kick off the Real Pirates exhibit. Trivia mafia will be there but your “pistols, cutlasses or other weapons,” will not be. You can get tickets for Buccaneer’s Ball as well as the exhibit for a chance to check out the tale of the Whydah, a slave ship captured at sea and...
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Ali loves these Minnesota-stylin’ shoes from the woman behind Pierrepont Hicks. Part of a line of masculine chic shoes, they’re available at mrsphicks. Each pair is made to order in partnership with the family-run, Maine company Rancourt & Co.
Stephanie will be hosting a seafood face-off between Sea Change’s Jamie Malone and...
Stephanie March reports there’s a new food truck rolling around the streets. Welcome to the food truck scene, R.A. MacSammy’s. Serving up mac n’ cheese in all its many forms plus a sampling of sandwiches like the pulled pork Cuban, MacSammy’s has been hanging around Burnsville and Rice Park so far. But be sure to follow them on Twitter to find out where.
Rez Life
Minneapolis Central Library welcomes Ojibwe author and University of Southern California creative writing professor David Treuer back to Minnesota for a 7 pm talk about his new non-fiction book Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life.
Part memoir, part history, the book offers a complicated narrative of contemporary life on Native American reservations in Minnesota and...
A shout to Minneapolis designer Kevin Kramp is in order for his upcoming event at New York Fashion Week. The king of knits will be showing some of his women’s pieces as part of WHITE MILANO’s show of international, emerging designers. Feb 20-22 9 am-6 pm. Wearable? Eh. Cool? Sure.
Art in a neat book package available now, actually Saturday. Midway Contemporary Art is hosting Location’s book launch of the next two volumes in a series of a books compiled by local artists. Volumes Five and Six feature artists like Eric Carlson, Crystal Quinn, and John Opera. Launch and sale: Feb 18, 7-9 pm at Midway.
Prince Performing... Maybe
Rumors are running wild. After Prince was spotted dining at the Dakota on Valentine’s Day with his former band’s drummer in advance of the band’s show at First Avenue this weekend, Secrets and others are really really hoping this means Prince will stop by The Revolution’s Sunday show at First Avenue. Pretty please.
We’ve been without Rock & Republic for too long, or at least this is Kohl’s thesis. On the shelves now, Rock & Republic’s new line for the store stopped off first at New York’s Fashion Week, upping the ante for its debut. The duds will be just as bejeweled and rock star-worthy but at more affordable prices.
Calling it “ridiculously affordable” and “full of post-punkers and shoegazers,” Secrets just can’t pass up tonight’s show at the Varsity Theater. From the Varsity’s best new bands of 2010, The Goondas will be playing with a best new band from 2011, Fire in the Northern Firs.
According to Secrets, these guys can, “rock the doom and gloom just as...
“I love LA. I do. I really enjoy my time when I’m here. I feel lucky. But to...”
– Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on Twitter today. (via stuffaboutminneapolis)
Stephanie March is in love…with mascarpone. Specifically, Broders’ mascarpone. And she can’t get enough; from cheesy macaroni, to baked polenta, to chocolate cake. Congratulations, you two!
Two Minnesota Blues Hall of Famers come to the 400 Bar tonight for “blues idiom with a sense of humor.” John Koerner and Tony Glover will be performing the folk/blues sound they’ve been working on since the 60s. Their award-winning album; Blues, Rags and Hollers received warm praise for capturing the sound of the South where others had failed. 8 pm, $5 cover.
