Remember that episode of Boy Meets World where Shawn joins a cult? What was THAT all about? Now you can ask that question to the stars themselves, when Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong, and Will Friedle bring their live Boy Meets World retrospective podcast to town. Each week, the gang watches…
Savita Harjani celebrates the launch of her literary debut and memoir Postcards from Within—Random Ramblings of an Ordinary Human with a reading and social hour at the Weisman’s Dolly Fitterman Riverview Gallery. Born in Bombay, Harjani moved to the United States when she was 20, and has lived in Minneapolis…
The next chapter in the hiss-tory of mixing tapes includes many Twin Cities record stores, vintage stores, and home stereos. WORDS BY TAYLOR CARIK German rockers Scorpions released Love At First Sting in March of 1984, Madonna’s True Blue came out June of 1986, Janet Jackson went into seclusion at…
Laurie Kilmartin is an open book. Over the course of her 30-plus years in comedy, we’ve heard her discuss everything from the birth of her son (and raising him as a single mom), coping with the death of her parents, and the unequal treatment of women in the world of…
Australia’s Lime Cordiale swing through for a visit on the heels of their new single “Imposter Syndrome.” Brothers Oli and Louie Leimbach also collaborated with actor Idris Elba on last year’s Cordi Elba. With Halfloves. WED 7/19, $7, $25, 21+…
Black Hart of St. Paul hosts a reading and discussion with drag artist and theopoet Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus. Their new book,The(y)ology “is a manifesto for artists, teachers, theologians, clergy, and activists looking for ways to resist rigid paradigms of gender, sexuality, self, and the sacred.” With artists/panelists Miranda Strong, Levi…
Topical singer-songwriter and activist Holly Near brings her voice for change to the Cedar Cultural Center. Over her five-decade career in music, television, and film, Near has remained an ambassador for peace. In 2019, she started the ‘Because of a Song’ project, “an online historic archive that documents some of…
Virginia poet Courtney LeBlanc leads a conversation and reading from her new collection Her Whole Bright Life. The book examines “the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet’s father” while navigating the pandemic and an ever-changing…
Guests of all levels of experience are invited this installment of Wabasha Brewing’s Paint and Sip series. Registration gets you painting supplies, canvas, a 64-ounce amber growler, wood serving tray, and slice of wood. The class is led by trained local artists who will lead you through a laid back…
Gearing up for Smack Shack’s annual Crayfest on August 5th, Indeed Brewing is getting cray cray with a qualifying eating contest! The rules of engagement are threefold: Contestants have three minutes to go through a pound of crayfish and of course there’s no eating the shells. The winner gets two…