Don your flower crowns! Or better yet, make one at the American Swedish Institute’s Midsommer event. The festival celebrates the season with Swedish traditions, including flower crown-making, musical singalongs, and capering around the maypole, or midsommarstång. Musical guests include DJ Jake Rudh, lynx lynx, Hanneke Cassel, and Mike Block. Younger…
The Residents of Color Collective (aka ROCC) has been creating equity, spreading love, and sparking joy in West St. Paul for all comers, and now they’re hosting a joyous Juneteenth at the city’s crown jewel, the Dodge Nature Center. There, you can shop BIPOC businesses, make community connections, and enjoy…
Celebrate and share in honoring the past and celebrating the future with food from Chef Lachelle, a commemorative ceremony, story circles, and more. SAT 6/17, 2 PM, Free, All Ages…
Tonight the Trylon hosts five short films from award-winning filmmaker Atlas O. Phoenix. The retrospective covers over twenty years of their career, with the films Little Men, cord, This One, Do I Qualify For Love?, and Ordinary. FRI 6/16, 7 PM, $10, All Ages…
The Twins are atop the lowly AL Central Division and should have just handed the Detroit Tigers a loss when producer and songwriting superstar T-Pain hits the stage at Target Field. Fans will be treated to songs from his recent covers album, On Top Of The Covers, which includes tunes from…
The LynLake arcade is turning seven! Come equipped with your quarters and an appetite for free birthday cake! FRI 6/16, 6 PM, Free, 21+…
Billed as the “first annual,” this Eagles Club event echoes the Riot Act Reading Series at the Turf Club years ago. Featured writers include Francine Conley, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, John Jodzio, David Oppegaard and Robin Schindeldecker. Books? Bars? Let’s go! And here’s to many more. . FRI, 6/16, 7 PM, Free…
The summer block party blockbuster continues, and Pryes’ June event is a worthy choice—now in its sixth year, the two-day party includes more music than ever with headliners Lissue and Tauk Moore and guests Matthew Logan Vasque, The Bright Light Social Hour, Trent Romens Band, Funky Dawgz, Evanoff, Mark Mallman,…
Metalsmith Betty Jager has always done it her own way. WORDS BY KATIE DOHMAN Betty Jager grew up in Tacoma, Washington, with her mom, a teacher, and her dad, a construction worker, and three siblings (all older), framed by the ocean, mountains, and woods. They didn’t have a lot of…
More than 60 years ago, a group of teenagers met in St. Albans and formed one of the most influential British rock groups in history: The Zombies. Four years after their 1964 chart-topping hit ‘She’s Not There’ made them a household name during the British Invasion, they released the seminal…