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Weekly Roundup: March 6-12

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Check out this week’s upcoming events in Greater Longfellow and Love Greater Longfellow!

Upcoming & Ongoing Events

THANK YOU Greater Longfellow! This amazing neighborhood has already helped us reach $2,646! So we are almost 20% towards our goal of $15,000. Love doesn’t have an expiration date. Even though we’ve reached the end of our designated February fundraising drive, we hope you’ll still consider donating to LCC throughout the year whenever giving works best for you. We love working for Greater Longfellow all year, just as much as you love living here. We’ll continue to provide monthly fundraising updates as we work toward our goal.  
THANK YOU to the tremendously kind 56 residents who have donated! And THANK YOU to the generous neighborhood businesses & organizations, who’ve contributed to our fundraising efforts including: Mother Earth Gardens, Longfellow/Seward Healthy Seniors, Belle’s Toolbox, and Schooner Tavern! 
Also, THANK YOU to everyone who has helped share our work by liking/sharing posts on social media.  It’s a huge help. Thanks for being a wonderful neighbor!  If you’d also like to contribute, you can easily donate online here: https://squareup.com/market/longfellow-community-council/ OR checks can be made out to Longfellow Community Council and sent to 2727 26th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406

For the past 30 years we’ve been allocated funding from the City’s Neighborhood Revitalization Plan (NRP). However, as the City of Minneapolis updates its priorities and budget, funding for our grassroots neighborhood work is shrinking. Because of this, we need to increase our fundraising efforts to continue, sustain, and grow our community work.



FRIDAY Fish Dinner • Fridays February 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3 • 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm • St. Albert the Great, 2836 33rd Ave S
St. Albert the Great’s popular and famous fish dinners offer rewarding opportunities to unwind at the end of the work week and feast on great home-made meals.  Dinners include fried or baked tilapia, potatoes mashed with cheese and spices or hashed-brown wedges, coleslaw, spaghetti with meatless marinara sauce, homemade desserts, and beverages. All food is made fresh by parish staff and volunteers and feeds many hundreds of individuals from the parish and the greater community each Friday.

Fish Dinners also include BINGO in the gym from 5:30 to 7:30 pm plus several kinds of raffles. We also serve up plentiful conversation and a joyful, welcoming atmosphere.  In 2006 & 2013 City Pages named St. Albert the Great’s fish dinners the best fish fry in the Twin Cities, and this celebrated event has been highlighted by KARE 11 ( also see their 2008 article), WCCO, Minneapolis StarTribune, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Even bloggers sing our praises!  This year, we’re featured in the book Food Lover’s Guide to the Twin Cities. Overflow parking is available one block north at Anne Sullivan School parking lot. Our shuttle bus runs back & forth from the lot to the door… so hop on!

Enter via the front door of the church and enjoy the musical entertainment provided for you (if you have to wait for seating.)  Each night features 3 different performers. Bring your coffee up and enjoy after you eat too! Line up of performers will be announced soon! 



Seniors Joyfully Dancing around the world @ Tapestry Folkdance Center, 3748 Minnehaha Ave
A weekly class beginning January 3, 2020 • Fridays 9:30-11am • Join us at Tapestry for a social dance class dedicated to 55+
No experience required • Instructions provided • No partner needed • All abilities warmly invited • $3 | Scholarships available • Drop-ins welcome • Snacks provided 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Creating a Resilient Yard With Buzz
Blue Thumb’s 2020 Lawns to Legumes workshops teach sustainable practices and pollinator conservation techniques to create resilient yards.
Participants can choose from three options — Resilient Yards, Turf Alternatives, and Healthy Soils — to learn sustainable practices ranging from installing a raingarden to replacing a conventional lawn to protecting the living earth that makes up healthy soil. In addition, participants will learn about Lawns to Legumes, a new state program offering grants and other support to help Minnesotans protect the endangered rusty patched bumblebee and other at-risk pollinators by putting in native pocket plantings, beneficial trees and shrubs and pollinator lawns and meadows. Blue Thumb coordinates part of the Lawns to Legumes program in partnership with the MN Board of Water and Soil Resources. “Pollinator conservation can be as simple as allowing clover to bloom within your lawn or installing a few native perennials. Small actions like these can have great impacts when adopted by communities that have the proper information and guidance,” says James Wolfin, an expert on bee-friendly lawns and a manager of the Lawns to Legumes program for Blue Thumb.

Workshops cost $15 per household unless otherwise noted and will be offered throughout the spring starting in March. Participants will learn practical information about installing projects, as well as Lawns to Legumes and other cost-share programs and resources that can help get a project in the ground. More information and scheduled workshops are available by visiting  https://bluethumb.org/events/ or calling ​651-699-2426​.

Resilient Yards Workshop (3 hours) A framework for understanding and creating resilience, covering site planning, raingardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings, pollinator habitat, and more. Includes one-on-one design assistance for individual yards from Blue Thumb landscape designers, Hennepin County Master Gardeners, Master Water Stewards.
Turf Alternatives Workshop (2 hours) Alternatives to conventional grass turf that require less watering and fewer chemical inputs, with step-by-step instructions for establishing them. Includes information about pollinator-friendly (bee) lawns. Group will discuss common challenges and solutions.
Healthy Soils Workshop (2 hours) Laying the groundwork for healthy soil. Healthy soil helps plants thrive, filters and cleans water, prevents erosion and is teeming with life. Participants learn why healthy soil is the foundation of a resilient yard and how to take action to strengthen and protect their soil.

Locations for these workshops are offered throughout the metropolitan area. As of now, we have several workshops scheduled  with more to come. Updates and additional dates will be updated here: https://bluethumb.org/events/



Chard Your Yard Garden Registration Opens March 15
Have you seen those signs near your neighbors gardens and wondered what Chard Your Yard is all about? Since 2013, Transition Longfellow has partnered with the Longfellow Community Council to offer a fun and exciting event to increase vegetable gardening in our neighborhoods, CHARD YOUR YARD. Transition Longfellow is a community led group of neighbors focused on building sustainable communities in order to address climate change.

Chard Your Yard volunteers have built and installed about 160 raised bed vegetable gardens in the greater Longfellow neighborhoods. We plan to build, deliver, and fill dirt in 24 raised bed vegetable gardens for neighbors in zip code 55406. The garden beds are $70 which includes: a 3’x5’x12” wooden frame installed and delivered to your house, a site visit by a master gardener to find the perfect spot for your bed, a fill of nutrient rich dirt, and a Chard Your Yard sign. Through the generous support of Longfellow Community Council, ​we can offer a limited number of beds for low-income and senior citizen gardeners ($35) and double-high beds for gardeners with disabilities ($70). These beds are only available for people in Longfellow, Cooper, Howe and Hiawatha neighborhoods.

This event is completely volunteer based and we need your help! This is a great event to meet neighbors and learn more about Transition Longfellow. ​We will be building and installing the beds Wednesday, April 29th between 5pm-9pm and filling them Saturday, May 2nd from 8am-4pm (attendance for entire shifts not required). Registration to receive a bed opens March 15th and will close in April or when all beds are purchased. Please visit ​www.transitionlongfellow.org/chard-your-yard​ for further information and to sign up to receive a bed or volunteer. 


Belle’s ToolBox, 3400 42nd Avenue S • www.belles-toolbox.org
Regular Hours:
Tuesday-Friday 10am-Noon
Tuesday-Thursday 2pm-4pm
Every Third Saturday 10am-Noon
When you do stop in, check out our cardboard map of GREATer Longfellow! Our ELL kids from Sanford helped to design and construct, using parts from the recycling tub – it’s way cool!
Continue to stay warm… we at Belle’s think it helps lots to share hugs♡ Contact Lucy about renting the space: belles.toolbox@gmail.com


This week’s movies at the Trylon Cinema and Riverview Theater!

Friday, Mar 6

Kent Burnside + The Shackletons with The Flood Brothers @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S • Doors 7:30pm • Music 8pm • 21+ • $10 Advance • $15 Day of Show
Join us as Roots Rock & Deep Blues Festival 10 presents a rockin’ night with Kent Burnside (heir and torchbearer of his late grandfather RL’s unique Mississippi Hill Country blues catalog), The Shackeltons, and The Flood Brothers. This show will include the special unveiling of our lineup and plans for this year’s festival.


Actual Wolf and Andy Cook with guest Faith Boblett @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S • Doors 7:30pm • Music 8pm • 21+ • $8 Advance • $10 Day of Show
Actual Wolf: Americana by one man with a guitar, a lot on his mind, and nothing to lose.
Andy Cook: Indie rock that hints at bands like the Walkmen and Kurt Vile
Faith Boblett (solo): Faith’s music falls somewhere in the realm of pop, Americana, rock, and alt country


Harry Belafonte in 1959 @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm 
Harry Belafonte stole every scene in this pair of films that took on racism as the defining element of American social conflict.
THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL: Shot in stark black-and-white Cinemascope, this film follows a lone Pennsylvania miner (Belafonte) as he wanders through a post-apocalyptic landscape. When he discovers another survivor, a white woman (Stevens), they become friends—until another survivor, a white man (Ferrer), arrives.
FRI 7:00 SAT 9:00 SUN 3:00
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW: In this acclaimed film noir, three men plot a bank robbery. But the volatile bigotry of Slater (Ryan) may lead to their ruin. 
FRI 9:00 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:00


Combat Chess United presents Human Combat Chess @ Christ Church Lutheran, 3244 34th Ave S #1 • 8pm
Live from the Historic Christ Church Lutheran here in Minneapolis, we bring you the first Regular Season game we’ve ever invited the public into! It’s a rematch from the semifinals last year: Maja Jonsdottir’s Roses and the Corsairs led by the one and only Jenn SIsko! An automatic post season spot is on the line, so you know both of these teams are going to lay it all out on the line!
For tickets and showtimes, check out our brand new website: https://www.combatchessunited.com/new-products/corsairs-vs-roses

Saturday, Mar 7

Machinery Hill at The Riverview @ Riverview Cafe, 3753 42nd Ave S • 7:30pm 
Stop by the Riverview Cafe for some music and witty (or not) commentary from Machinery Hill.


Boneshaker Science Book Club: “The Sixth Extinction” @ Boneshaker Books, 2002 23rd Ave S • 11am 
The March Science Book Club selection is “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Copies of the book will be in stock soon at Boneshaker at 20% off list price. The book is also readily available from the Hennepin County Library (but there’s a medium waitlist so request it soon!) and as an audiobook.
“Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.”

The Boneshaker Science Book Club is free and open to the public. We meet the first Saturday of the month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., unless we don’t, so please check the calendar in case a fast one has been pulled (Note: I’ll be traveling the first Saturday in February, hence this being the following weekend). The books we read will be science-related, but hopefully accessible to those without an academic background in science. We seek to select titles that are in line with Boneshaker’s mission of social justice.

Note from host: I’ll bring coffee to share!


Harrison’s Jukebox: A Tribute to George Harrison @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S • Doors 7:30pm • Music 8pm • 21+ • $10 Advance • $15 Day of Show
The Hook presents the 10th annual Harrison’s Jukebox: A Tribute to George Harrison featuring KYX, with special guests Curtiss A & The New Evil Thingies. Join in as we pay tribute to the influential lead guitarist of The Beatles.
KYX includes members of acts such as Badfinger and Crow. Prominent Twin Cities rocker Curtiss A is well known for the John Lennon tribute show he has headlined for the last 40 years.


On This Day in History @ Schooner Tavern, 2901 27th Ave S • 8:30pm
On Wednesday March 7, 1962, the Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio. On Saturday March 7th, 2020, Jiggs Lee Invasion commemorates the event at The Schooner Tavern playing some of the best tunes from the 60’s and 70’s British Invasion.


Record Release Concert at Moon Palace @ Music at Moon Palace, 3032 Minnehaha Ave •  6:30pm Doors • 7:30pm Show • Tickets $10 Adv • $12 Door • 21+


 

Sunday, Mar 8

Pop Culture Trivia w/ Kevin & Uncle Dude! @ Memory Lanes, 2520 26th Ave S • 10pm 
WCCO TV Viewer’s Choice Top 3 Bar Trivia Night! Free to play with great prizes including a $50 gift card for 1st place on down to the fabled “Dinner & a Show” for 4th place! Round 2 is the “Perfect Shot” round, your chance.


Midwest Trans Prisoner Pen Pal Project Meeting @ Boneshaker Books, 2002 23rd Ave S • 4pm
The Midwest Trans Prisoner Penpal Project meets regularly on the second and fourth Sunday of the month for letter writing & mail processing. Folks can also get familiarized with their database & get connected with a penpal.

About the Midwest Trans Prisoner Penpal Project:  We strive to work against the isolation and deprivation that the prison system uses to keep those on the inside from connecting to those on the outside.We reach out to trans, queer, and gender-variant prisoners specifically because they are targeted by the police and prosecution, and incarcerated at disproportionate rates. The prison system further isolates and segregates trans people disconnecting them from human contact and from the outside world. We believe that sharing life stories and friendships through the practice of letter writing is one way of knowing the prison experience and connecting to people, and, thus, rejecting prison’s systematic use of isolation, silencing, and dehumanization. We do this work as a step towards a world without prisons.

More info can be found here: https://mwtppp.wordpress.com/ 


Love Your Trail : Trash the Trash @ West River Parkway • 1pm
Join me for the first Love Your Trail : Trash the Trash cleanup hike! I’ll be focusing on the West River Road Parkway between Lake Street East and 42nd Street East. This is a multi-use, paved trail that follows the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul. It’s mostly flat and considered an “easy” level. Picking up trash along the trail keeps the junk from making it down the bluff and into the river. 
Where We Start: Meet at the intersection of West River Road and 42nd Street
Where We End: At the Lake Street / Marshall Avenue bridge near the river and Dunn Bros Coffee (post cleanup beverages anyone?)
What to Bring:
• Work gloves
• USED plastic bags (think bread, large chip or snack, or shopping bags) 
• A water bottle
• Appropriate clothing for the weather
• Your generous spirit

I’ll also have some extra supplies on hand some cool prizes for helping!


Lila Ammons KBEM Roots Concert Series @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge • Doors 6:30pm • Music 7pm • 21+ • $20 Suggested Donation
The KBEM Roots Concert Series is presented by Phil Nusbaum, host of The Bluegrass Review on Jazz88.
This installment of the KBEM Roots Concert Series, welcomes classically trained blues and boogie-woogie Chicago native, Lila Ammons. Coming from an illustrious family of musicians, Ammons range of interest runs from Mozart to Monk and back.

Each show has a 7pm front set by Sherry Minnick & Phil Nusbaum in the 20-minute range. Then an intermission and the featured performer plays till 9 or so.


International Women’s Day: Cycling Longer Distances @ The Fix Studio & Cafe, 3725 Minnehaha Ave • 2pm
Join the MN Randonneurs in celebrating International Women’s Day with a group discussion focused on inspiring cyclists to take on longer distances. Topics will range from road safety advocacy, to cycling with your kids, to self-compassion and care post-injury. Guest speakers include local endurance cyclists Risa Hustad, Luci Russell, Sveta Vold and Kate Ankofski. Bring your questions and your experiences and let’s learn together. All are welcome.


Cinema Book Club: Face of Another @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 4pm
For the next Cinema Book Club we’ll be visiting the strange sci-fi horror of Kobo Abe, and his masterpiece of post-war Japanese literature, The Face of Another, along with Hiroshi Teshigahara’s mind-bending film (screening at the Trylon Cinema down the street!) A laboratory accident has left scientist Okuyama without a face and, by extension, unable to connect with others. But he works to craft a mask so real it alters his personality, a blank slate upon which he can project anything, even that which was trapped in the darkest recesses of his mind. Please join us for a spirited discussion of this amazing book and equally fascinating film. 

WHEN: BOOK CLUB SUNDAY, MARCH 8 at 4:00PM (FILM SCREENS March 1-3 at the Trylon Cinema, tickets here: https://www.trylon.org/film/the-face-of-another/2020-03-01/)


Pitfall (1962) on 35mm! @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm
Teshigahara’s debut feature is a wandering portrait of a miner (Igawa) and his young son, who happen upon a deserted town. There he is followed by a mysterious man wearing a white suit and white gloves. The surreal Pitfall questions whether truth matters, in this life or the next.


Mocha Girls Read Book Club: We’re Going to Need More Wine @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave S • 4pm
Join the Mocha Girls Read Book Club for a discussion of We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union in the theater at Moon Palace. Get your copy at Moon Palace Books for 20% off! Food and beverages are available at Geek Love Cafe – including scratch-made sourdough pizza, hearty salads, baked goods, coffee, tea and espresso drinks, beer and wine. Check out the menu at http://www.geeklovecafe.com

Monday, Mar 9

Food as Medicine: Your Food and Mood Connection @ Seward Community Co-op, 2823 E Franklin Ave • 6pm • $25/$20 co-op owners
You are what you eat. Learn about foods that impact your anxiety, depression, stress, and inflammation as well as principles for healthier eating using a lecture format. In this class, you will describe how food affects your mental health, understand how to eat foods to balance your mood, identify your own food rules, and gain understanding about how stress and inflammation affect your body.
Monica Peterson, LICSW


Pitfall (1962) on 35mm! @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm
Teshigahara’s debut feature is a wandering portrait of a miner (Igawa) and his young son, who happen upon a deserted town. There he is followed by a mysterious man wearing a white suit and white gloves. The surreal Pitfall questions whether truth matters, in this life or the next.


Renew Your Connection with Nature @ Riverview Cafe, 3753 42nd Avenue S • 5:30pm
No other natural feature defines our Longfellow neighborhood more than the Mississippi River. Home to many plant and animal species this natural space provides a refuge to those of us ready to explore. Springtime is coming!  And, that is an inviting time of year to get outside and renew your connection with the natural world. Join Andrew Marotz from the Mississippi Park Connection and find out how you can protect, learn about, and explore this magnificent natural environment. Learn about great ways to help with local projects and activities right here in our neighborhood. 

Transition author, Carolyn Baker, refers to this as “delighting in nature,” and writes that this work is critical for good health and peace of mind. Finding time to reconnect, meditate in, and experience the joy of the natural world is key to happiness and peace during these times of transition. It’s all just footsteps away. Enjoy discussion, meet neighbors and savor what the Riverview Cafe has to offer.

Tuesday, Mar 10 

Books & Bars MPLS: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 7pm Discussion • FREE and open to the public
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land.

Wednesday, Mar 11

American Indian Family Night @ Anishinabe Academy, 3100 E 28th St • 5pm
Event will highlight: Academic programming specific to American Indian students, the five proposed District model changes, gathering input for the agreement MPS has with American Indian community/MUID (MOA), Continued conversation about school climate with South High School administration.
MPS information tables: Indian Education, Engagement and External Relations, Ombudsperson, Student Placement, Family Resource Center, Special Education, Recruitment-Human Resources and more! 
This event is in partnership with American Indian Parent Advisory Committee and Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors.

5:00pm:  Games for youth/ MPS information tables
5:30pm:  Conversations about MPS academic initiatives for American Indian students
6:30pm:  Meal & Continued Conversations
7:30pm: Closing


Women’s Field Q&A Night @ The Hub Bike Co-op, 3016 Minnehaha Ave S • 7pm
Interested in racing mountain bikes this summer? Join the MN Mountain Bike Series for our Women’s Field Q&A night! A representative from the series and panel of experienced mountain bike racers will cover topics such as…
– What to expect on race day
– Our favorite race venues 
– What kind of equipment you need 
– Which category you should race in 
– Any other questions you bring! 
This event is for anyone who would race in the women’s fields including trans and non-binary riders. View the Minnesota Mountain Bike Series Statement of Inclusivity here:  https://www.mnmtbseries.com/page/show/4949-series-racing-rules

Can’t make it? No problem! We’ll live stream the event right here so you can tune in remotely or re-watch at your own convenience. Remote viewers are encouraged to comment their questions directly on the stream. Thank you to for providing us with an event space and refreshments! 


Where In The Hell Is The Lavender House? Longmont Potion Castle @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm • TIckets: $12 
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhe57kwbHe4 • Co-Presented by: KFAI – Fresh Air Community Radio – 90.3 FM HD
An unpaid camera operator is left to finish the film a bumbling pair of filmmakers attempt to make about the greatest anonymous phone-work artist of all time – Longmont Potion Castle. Featuring interviews with Rainn Wilson, Andrew Bujalski, Pissed Jeans, Municipal Waste, NBS Electronics, Twist and Shout, Pig Destroyer, Weyes Blood, Cattle Decapitation, Pinback, and a variety of hard-core fans, ‘Where In The Hell Is The Lavender House: The Longmont Potion Castle Story,’ peeks behind the curtain of America’s Underground Prank Call King, and documents a film doomed to fail from the beginning.   dir. David Hall, Thomas Rotenberg, 2018, 95 min, Canada, USA, UK and Norway, BD


Queer Book Club: To My Trans Sisters @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave S • 7pm
Join the TC 30+ Queer Book Club for a discussion of To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Cragg. Get your copy at Moon Palace Books for 20% off! Food and beverages are available at Geek Love Cafe during events – including scratch-made sourdough pizza, hearty salads, baked goods, coffee, tea and espresso drinks, beer and wine. Check out the menu at http://www.geeklovecafe.com


Longfellow Garden Club presents: Peonies @ Epworth United Methodist Church, 3207 37th Ave S. • 7pm
The reliable peony has long been a favorite in northern gardens.  A professional grower offers guidance on how to plant, nurture, divide, and hybridize this early summer bloomer.  All are welcome. tinyurl.com/LGCminnesota 

Thursday, Mar 12

Free Movie: ‘Songwriter’ with Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge 3010 Minnehaha Ave •  Doors 7pm • Concert Videos 7:15pm • Feature Film 8pm • 18+ • Free Admission
Come enjoy a free movie movie screening in our seated theater! We’ll have drink specials, popcorn, and our bar will be open all night.
On the Road, Making Music and Raising Hell! ‘Songwriter’ (1984) synopsis:
Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as a pair of hard-living Texans in this funny, original and very real look at the country music business. Doc Jenkins (Nelson) may be one of C&W’s most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He’s split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck (Kristofferson), a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc’s singer-wife, Honey Carder (Melinda Dillon), has thrown him out of the house. And now he’s gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky (Richard C. Sarafian), who’s out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs. It’s Willie and Kris, on the road again, making music and raising hell!
Starring: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren
– Nominated for an Oscar® for Best Music, Original Song Score
– The film is loosely based on Willie Nelson’s own life and struggles with the music industry
– Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson wrote over a dozen original songs for the movie, all performed live on film by them and co-stars Melinda Dillon and Lesley Ann Warren
“3 1/2 out of 4 stars – Nelson is a gifted, understated actor.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times
‘Songwriter’ trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4fTgpOlhg
‘Songwriter’ clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDc4OqnXbQ


Thursday Trivia: Friends @ Urban Forage Winery and Cider House, 3016 E Lake St • 7pm
Friends trivia returns!  This time without makeup.


Disney Classics Trivia @ The Howe Daily Kitchen & Bar, 3675 Minnehaha Ave S • 8pm 
Are you a true Disney fan!? Come to trivia to find out! 
$1 Off Summit & Schell’s Taps +2 bonus points if you come in swag! Free to play. First come, first serve. Prizes to top 3 teams!


Karaoke Night! @ The Howe Daily Kitchen & Bar, 3675 Minnehaha Ave S • 9:30pm
Come in for karaoke every Thursday and now Saturday nights starting Jan. 11th! Starting at 9:30pm! Karaoke ends at 1:30am! ** Karaoke will begin after trivia on Thursday themed trivia nights.


No Small Matter Screening | Minneapolis @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 5:30pm
No Small Matter is the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years, and reveals how our failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country. 
Visit http://www.nosmallmatter.com or https://youtu.be/Shm-KRh4LFg  to watch the trailer and learn more!

Weekly Roundup: February 28-March 5

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Check out this week’s upcoming events in Greater Longfellow and Love Greater Longfellow!

Upcoming & Ongoing Events

THANK YOU Greater Longfellow! This amazing neighborhood has already helped us reach $2,428! So we are almost 20% towards our goal of $15,000. We’ve received donations from 52 amazing residents so far! Every little bit helps, and we’re so excited to put these funds back into the community with projects & programs. If you’d also like to contribute, you can easily donate online here: https://squareup.com/market/longfellow-community-council/ OR checks can be made out to Longfellow Community Council and sent to 2727 26th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406

For the past 30 years we’ve been allocated funding from the City’s Neighborhood Revitalization Plan (NRP). However, as the City of Minneapolis updates its priorities and budget, funding for our grassroots neighborhood work is shrinking. Because of this, we need to increase our fundraising efforts to continue, sustain, and grow our community work.


Epworth’s Spring Pasty Sale:An Epworth tradition for more than 30 years, each Epworth pasty is a meal you can hold in your hand. Still only $6 each, meat and veggie options are available. You must pre-order by March 4 at 651-645-9855. Handheld pies made fresh on March 7 and ready for pick up after 3:00 pm at Epworth UMC, 3207 37thAve S. Large orders, please pick-up after 4 pm. You can also order online at https://epworthmpls.org/pastysale/. 


Cabin Fever Wednesday @ Epworth Church, 3207 37th Ave S • 9:30-11:30am
Epworth provides free space for kids to play with other kids! 
• Fun toys for developing motor skills
• Crafts to promote critical thinking and creativity
• Snacks and sustenance for health 
• Story time
• Coffee and conversation for adults. 
Children are welcome with their caring adult!
 

FRIDAY Fish Dinner • Fridays February 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3 • 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm • St. Albert the Great, 2836 33rd Ave S
St. Albert the Great’s popular and famous fish dinners offer rewarding opportunities to unwind at the end of the work week and feast on great home-made meals.  Dinners include fried or baked tilapia, potatoes mashed with cheese and spices or hashed-brown wedges, coleslaw, spaghetti with meatless marinara sauce, homemade desserts, and beverages. All food is made fresh by parish staff and volunteers and feeds many hundreds of individuals from the parish and the greater community each Friday.

Fish Dinners also include BINGO in the gym from 5:30 to 7:30 pm plus several kinds of raffles. We also serve up plentiful conversation and a joyful, welcoming atmosphere.  In 2006 & 2013 City Pages named St. Albert the Great’s fish dinners the best fish fry in the Twin Cities, and this celebrated event has been highlighted by KARE 11 ( also see their 2008 article), WCCO, Minneapolis StarTribune, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Even bloggers sing our praises!  This year, we’re featured in the book Food Lover’s Guide to the Twin Cities.

Overflow parking is available one block north at Anne Sullivan School parking lot. Our shuttle bus runs back & forth from the lot to the door… so hop on!

Enter via the front door of the church and enjoy the musical entertainment provided for you (if you have to wait for seating.)  Each night features 3 different performers. Bring your coffee up and enjoy after you eat too! Line up of performers will be announced soon! 


Seniors Joyfully Dancing around the world @ Tapestry Folkdance Center, 3748 Minnehaha Ave
A weekly class beginning January 3, 2020 • Fridays 9:30-11am • Join us at Tapestry for a social dance class dedicated to 55+
No experience required • Instructions provided • No partner needed • All abilities warmly invited • $3 | Scholarships available • Drop-ins welcome • Snacks provided 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Creating a Resilient Yard With Buzz
Blue Thumb’s 2020 Lawns to Legumes workshops teach sustainable practices and pollinator conservation techniques to create resilient yards.
Participants can choose from three options — Resilient Yards, Turf Alternatives, and Healthy Soils — to learn sustainable practices ranging from installing a raingarden to replacing a conventional lawn to protecting the living earth that makes up healthy soil. In addition, participants will learn about Lawns to Legumes, a new state program offering grants and other support to help Minnesotans protect the endangered rusty patched bumblebee and other at-risk pollinators by putting in native pocket plantings, beneficial trees and shrubs and pollinator lawns and meadows. Blue Thumb coordinates part of the Lawns to Legumes program in partnership with the MN Board of Water and Soil Resources. “Pollinator conservation can be as simple as allowing clover to bloom within your lawn or installing a few native perennials. Small actions like these can have great impacts when adopted by communities that have the proper information and guidance,” says James Wolfin, an expert on bee-friendly lawns and a manager of the Lawns to Legumes program for Blue Thumb.

Workshops cost $15 per household unless otherwise noted and will be offered throughout the spring starting in March. Participants will learn practical information about installing projects, as well as Lawns to Legumes and other cost-share programs and resources that can help get a project in the ground. More information and scheduled workshops are available by visiting  https://bluethumb.org/events/ or calling ​651-699-2426​.

Resilient Yards Workshop (3 hours) A framework for understanding and creating resilience, covering site planning, raingardens, turf alternatives, trees, other plantings, pollinator habitat, and more. Includes one-on-one design assistance for individual yards from Blue Thumb landscape designers, Hennepin County Master Gardeners, Master Water Stewards.
Turf Alternatives Workshop (2 hours) Alternatives to conventional grass turf that require less watering and fewer chemical inputs, with step-by-step instructions for establishing them. Includes information about pollinator-friendly (bee) lawns. Group will discuss common challenges and solutions.
Healthy Soils Workshop (2 hours) Laying the groundwork for healthy soil. Healthy soil helps plants thrive, filters and cleans water, prevents erosion and is teeming with life. Participants learn why healthy soil is the foundation of a resilient yard and how to take action to strengthen and protect their soil.

Locations for these workshops are offered throughout the metropolitan area. As of now, we have several workshops scheduled  with more to come. Updates and additional dates will be updated here: https://bluethumb.org/events/



Chard Your Yard Garden Registration Opens March 15
Have you seen those signs near your neighbors gardens and wondered what Chard Your Yard is all about? Since 2013, Transition Longfellow has partnered with the Longfellow Community Council to offer a fun and exciting event to increase vegetable gardening in our neighborhoods, CHARD YOUR YARD. Transition Longfellow is a community led group of neighbors focused on building sustainable communities in order to address climate change.

Chard Your Yard volunteers have built and installed about 160 raised bed vegetable gardens in the greater Longfellow neighborhoods. We plan to build, deliver, and fill dirt in 24 raised bed vegetable gardens for neighbors in zip code 55406. The garden beds are $70 which includes: a 3’x5’x12” wooden frame installed and delivered to your house, a site visit by a master gardener to find the perfect spot for your bed, a fill of nutrient rich dirt, and a Chard Your Yard sign. Through the generous support of Longfellow Community Council, ​we can offer a limited number of beds for low-income and senior citizen gardeners ($35) and double-high beds for gardeners with disabilities ($70). These beds are only available for people in Longfellow, Cooper, Howe and Hiawatha neighborhoods.

This event is completely volunteer based and we need your help! This is a great event to meet neighbors and learn more about Transition Longfellow. ​We will be building and installing the beds Wednesday, April 29th between 5pm-9pm and filling them Saturday, May 2nd from 8am-4pm (attendance for entire shifts not required). Registration to receive a bed opens March 15th and will close in April or when all beds are purchased. Please visit ​www.transitionlongfellow.org/chard-your-yard​ for further information and to sign up to receive a bed or volunteer. 


Belle’s ToolBox, 3400 42nd Avenue S • www.belles-toolbox.org
January gone… and, according to the groundhog, spring is coming soon! But for now let’s have some winter fun!
Regular Hours:
Tuesday-Friday 10am-Noon
Tuesday-Thursday 2pm-4pm
Every Third Saturday 10am-Noon
When you do stop in, check out our cardboard map of GREATer Longfellow! Our ELL kids from Sanford helped to design and construct, using parts from the recycling tub – it’s way cool!
Continue to stay warm… we at Belle’s think it helps lots to share hugs♡ Contact Lucy about renting the space: belles.toolbox@gmail.com


This week’s movies at the Trylon Cinema and Riverview Theater!

Friday, Feb 28

Magnetic Ghost – “Pixels” LP release show @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 9pm Doors • 9:30pm Music • $7 • 21+
LP Release show for Magnetic Ghost – “Pixels” (limited to 260 copies on LP via Round Bale Recordings / Magnetic Ghost) already being hailed as “an intricately constructed, gorgeously textured weave of shoegaze, drone, ambient, and psychedelic pop” by advance listeners.  

Set Times:
Marisol 9:30pm
Michael Gallope 10:00pm
The Cult of Lip 10:40pm
Magnetic Ghost 11:15pm
Also, Geek Love Cafe has the best pizza in Minneapolis, it’s really not even close.  Great sounds, great food, great drink.  


Ring in the Leap Year @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave • 7pm
Can you believe this is the first time these two seminal Twin Cities Celtic rock bands are on the same bill?! This is going to be a rockin’ night, with two awesome Irish rock bands! What better way to celebrate Leap Year?


Conversation w/ Sam Pink, Samuel Robertson, Big Bruiser Dope Boy @ Moon Palace Books, 7pm
Join us as we celebrate the release of Sam Pink’s Early Stuff with a reading from Pink and Big Bruiser Dope Boy, as well as a conversation about working creatives in the independent art and writing scene with artist Samuel Robertson. 

Sam Pink’s books include Person, The No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, Rontel, Witch Piss, The Garbage Times/White Ibis, and The Ice Cream Man. His writing has been published widely in print and on the Internet and translated into other languages. He currently lives in Michigan and sells paintings from instagram.com/sam_pink_art.   

Samuel Robertson lives and works in Minneapolis, remodeling houses and painting portraits, and other miscellaneous commissions, including art for books and music. Influenced by the battle between the human spirit and the hive mind as we combat loneliness and purposelessness, his current undertaking is illustrating the King James’ Old Testament in a way he even finds hard to explain. Robertson is inspired by consumer culture and our appetites for comfort, power, love, and enlightenment. He believes the remaining nuggets of compassion, humor, and mystery left behind after our near-total brainwashing and self-destruction is a testament to the human spirit. You can follow along on his website http://www.MisterRobertson.com or on his Instagram page @SamRobertsonArt    

Big Bruiser Dope Boy wrote the full-length poetry collection Foghorn Leghorn, which was pulled off Amazon, and now exists as the updated Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems. He is the founder and editor of the literary website http://gaydeathtrance.net. He has recently relocated to rural Wisconsin


Erin’s HSB at Schooner Tavern, 2901 27th Ave S • 8:30pm

Saturday, Feb 29

LEAP DAY at Solsta Records: theyself / Jae Havoc @ 4022 E 46th St • 7:30pm • $10 Advance • $15 Day Of • All ages
Join us for special performances from Theyself and Jae Havoc. This event will be recorded and broadcast via YouTube at a later date. PLEASE NOTE – There are no physical tickets for this event.  Please bring your order confirmation e-mail with you on the night of the event. https://solstarecords.com/products/live-from-the-record-room-leap-day-2020


Alexander Craig and The Alleged Blues Band @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave • Doors 7pm • Music 7:30pm • 21+ • $10 Advance • $15 Day of Show • TICKETS: https://alexander-craig-tshirt.eventbrite.com
Alexander Craig (Crankshaft) returns to the Mission Room to celebrate his new project and the release of brand-new t-shirts.  New supergroup The Alleged Blues Band opens with a rocking’ set of British Invasion blues.


Yoga w/Dallas at Powderhorn Park Community Ctr. • 9:30am
This accessible class is designed to help students discover their personal practice in a supportive space. Rather than expecting students to conform to arbitrary shapes, my goal is to create opportunities for students to feel more relaxed and confident in their bodies, regardless of experience or physical mobility. Expect a class with dynamic sequencing, some mindfulness practice, and messaging that celebrates who you already are. All are welcome.


Ledfoot Larry | LEAP YEAR Party! @ Schooner Tavern, 2901 27th Ave S • 8:30pm 


Weston Wold’s Single Release show @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave • 6:30pm • $12 Advance • $15 Door
Come out on leap day and be one of the first to hear Weston Wold’s new single! Tickets will sell fast, so buy them before they sell out! 
Weston Wold is a singer/songwriter from Minneapolis Minnesota. In early 2019 he released his debut EP titled ‘White Noise’, described as a “mix between Charlie Puth and Panic at the Disco.” Weston’s music can be found on all streaming services.

Sunday, Mar 1

The Face of Another (1966) on 35mm! @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm
This existential science-fiction triumph sees Okuyama (Nakadai) horribly disfigured in a laboratory explosion. His life upended, he learns of a procedure that will replace his face with that of a stranger—leading him to question his identity and fall prey to his darkest inclinations


Book Launch Celebration @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 6:30pm
Marlin M. Jenkins was born and raised in Detroit and is the author of the chapbook Capable Monsters (Bull City Press, 2020). He studied Creative Writing and Black Studies at Saginaw Valley State University, and studied poetry in University of Michigan’s MFA program. His poetry has been given homes by Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, and Iowa Review. His fiction has been given homes by The Rumpus, Passages North, and the anthology Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. He has worked as a teaching artist with Inside Out Literary Arts, teaching poetry to middle schoolers in Detroit Public Schools, and was an editor for HEArt Online’s Let Me Love Me section, which was dedicated to poets of color writing about body image and self-love. Before moving to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, he was an occasional bookseller, a Lecturer at University of Michigan in the English Department Writing Program, and the fiction instructor at the Neutral Zone–a teen center in Ann Arbor. 

Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, and editor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge, won the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph, and is forthcoming from SIU Press in 2020. Molly’s recent poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, FIELD, The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review online, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. Molly teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System, winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Persea, 2020), and a chapbook, Queen of the Moon (dancing girl press, 2017). She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy and has been named to the NewCity “Lit 50” list of people who influence literature in Chicago.

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is the author of Paper Pavilion (2007), recipient of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award; Interrogation Room (White Pine Press 2018), finalist for the Copper Nickel/Milkweed Jake Adam York Prize; and the chapbooks Notes from a Missing Person (Essay Press 2015) and Necro Citizens (hochroth Verlag, German/English edition, 2019). She is an associate professor of creative writing at St. Olaf College and poetry editor of AGNI.

Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York, and her collection of prose poems, Letdown, was selected for the Marie Alexander Series and released in March of 2020 with White Pine Press. Her chapbook, American Parable, won the 2017 Autumn House Press/Coal Hill Review prize. Her first full-length collection, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market, won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places including the 2018 and 2010 Best American Poetry, Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angles Review, Massachusetts Review, and Willow Springs. Se lives with her husband, son, and two rescue doges in Minneapolis where she teaches at Normandale College.


Pop Culture Trivia w/ Kevin & Uncle Dude! @ Memory Lanes, 2520 26th Ave S • 10pm 
WCCO TV Viewer’s Choice Top 3 Bar Trivia Night! Free to play with great prizes including a $50 gift card for 1st place on down to the fabled “Dinner & a Show” for 4th place! Round 2 is the “Perfect Shot” round, your chance at a FREE SHOT! 



 

Monday, Mar 2

Non-Binary Book Club: Freshwater @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 7pm 
Join the Non-Binary Book Club for a discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Get your copy at Moon Palace for 20% off! Non-binary book club is a space to explore gender queer, gender fluid, and nonbinary gender identities. We will center nonbinary experiences (for example, using they/them pronouns as standard practice in our space), but the group is open to folks of all identities. 
Moon Palace offers SINGLE STALL GENDER NEUTRAL restrooms. Book club will meet upstairs in the used book section. Food and beverages are available at Geek Love Cafe – including scratch-made sourdough pizza, hearty salads, baked goods, coffee, tea and espresso drinks, beer and wine. Check out the menu at http://www.geeklovecafe.com


The Face of Another (1966) on 35mm! @ Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St • 7pm
This existential science-fiction triumph sees Okuyama (Nakadai) horribly disfigured in a laboratory explosion. His life upended, he learns of a procedure that will replace his face with that of a stranger—leading him to question his identity and fall prey to his darkest inclinations.


Tuesday, Mar 3 

Earthseed Reads: Beloved @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 6pm
Join Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus of Free Black Dirt for a fun discussion of a different fabulous afro-futuristic book each month. With special guests, entertainment, and of course food and beverages from Geek Love Cafe. Check out the menu at http://www.geeklovecafe.com Beloved by Toni Morrison is available for 20% off when you buy it at Moon Palace Books.

Wednesday, Mar 4

Masters of Poetry: Seamus Heaney @ Boneshaker Books, 2002 23rd Ave S • 6pm
To celebrate the coming of spring and St. Patrick’s Day, this March we’re focusing on the titan of Irish poetry himself, Seamus Heaney. Heaney wrote more than 20 volumes of poetry (as well as criticism and prose) and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. As poet W.S. Di Piero said, “Whatever the occasion—childhood, farm life, politics and culture in Northern Ireland, other poets past and present—Heaney strikes time and again at the taproot of language, examining its genetic structures, trying to discover how it has served, in all its changes, as a culture bearer, a world to contain imaginations, at once a rhetorical weapon and nutriment of spirit.”
After a brief lecture on Heaney, we’ll read and discuss some of his work, with an eye toward craft takeaways and signature stylistic elements. Then we’ll write & workshop/regroup. As always, there is a suggested cost ($30) but pay what you can.

Thursday, Mar 5

Kernow in the Twin Cities: Trewawny Shout 2020 @ Merlins Rest Pub, 3601 E Lake St • noon 
Calling all Cousin Jacks and Cousin Jennies! (and non-Cornish friends, too!)
Join us to celebrate the patron saint of Cornwall at Merlin’s Rest, a British Isles-style pub. The flag of Cornwall will be flying, and pasties are always on the menu. This will be our seventh annual St. Piran’s gathering — let’s keep growing the event!
At 3:00pm, we’ll wrap up our celebration by joining in the “Trelawny Shout” with revelers in pubs all over Cornwall and the world, singing the Cornish anthem “Trelawny.” Other than that, there isn’t a program, so feel free to drop in as your schedule allows.

If you are one of those unfortunate people who has to work on St. Piran’s Day, but you’d like to celebrate after work, let us know and we’ll wait for you at Merlin’s. We’ve taken the whole day off!  Won’t you join us this year? Bring stories and photos to share, if you’ve got ’em!
(No cost to attend. Order food and drink on your own from Merlin’s delicious menu.)


One Shot Comics: I Was Their American Dream @ Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave • 7pm
Join us in March for a discussion of Malaka Gharib’s quirky and poignant graphic novel memoir I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM. As usual, books are available at Moon Palace for 20% off. Thank you for supporting comics and your local, independent bookstore! 
ABOUT THE BOOK (from the publisher):
I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents’ ideals, learning to code-switch between her family’s Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. 

Malaka Gharib’s triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka’s story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. 

MALAKA GHARIB is an artist, journalist, and writer based in Washington, D.C. She is the founder of The Runcible Spoon, a food zine, and the co-founder of the D.C. Art Book Fair. She lives in a row house with her husband Darren and her 9-year-old rice cooker.


Genital Panic (feat. Tina Schlieske), Scrunchies, Saint Small @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave • 7pm Doors • Music 7:30 • 21+ • $12 Advance • $15 Day of Show
Genital Panic is a feminist punk phenomenon forged in the furious fire of menopause, Donald Trump, and rampant global misogyny.
Prolific musician Tina Schlieske (Tina and the B-Sides). found herself, at 50 years old, ever more invisible in the music industry, enduring the miseries of menopause, and increasingly enraged by the sexist, racist, xenophobic, Trumpian politics of the day.
And then one day she saw the work of 20th century Austrian visual and performance artist Valie Export. Export’s 1969 performance piece “Action Pants: Genital Panic” was the crucible for Schlieske’s rage, and inspired her to use her musical talents to channel her frustrations into art that was also a political statement and protest. It was time to make a punk band. Genital Panic was born. The Austin-based, all-woman band is made up of Tina on vocals, Mishka Westell on bass, Sally Crewe on guitar, Rachel Fuhrer on drums, and Henna Chou on keyboards.

Saint Small – 7:30pm
Scrunchies – 8:30pm
Genital Panic – 9:30pm


Busey, Holler House, The Smokes, Wage Future @ The Hook and Ladder Theater & Lounge, 3010 Minnehaha Ave • Doors 7pm • Music 7:30pm • 21+ • $7 Cover at Door
BUSEY
Minneapolis Power Slop https://busey.bandcamp.com 
Too heavy for a garage band yet different than your run-of-the-mill metal or alternative, they have a unique mix that is all their own. Busey’s sound draws a lot from a shared love for such great bands such as The Melvins, Black Sabbath, Queens Of The Stone Age and Mudhoney. As lead singer/guitarist Dan Berndt puts it ” A lot of late 80’s early 90’s stuff. The classics.”

THE SMOKES
https://thesmokes1.bandcamp.com/music
The Smokes are a two piece garage-rock band based out of Minneapolis MN. They play with abandon and observe a bold indifference to decency.

HOLLER HOUSE
Post-Post Hardcore from Minneapolis https://hollerhouse.bandcamp.com/ 
Part art-project and part late-night therapy session/workout. Holler House’s cryptic dissonance and hypnotic power has the sort of intensity that rattles windows and shakes smirks onto faces with their grimy, relentless chords. They have a 10” record out on https://www.jetsam-flotsam.com/, and they play around the Midwest.

WAGE FUTURE
https://www.facebook.com/wagefuture/
A new post punk band out of Minneapolis, MN. Like the Ghostbusters, but not really. If Fugazi, Big Business and apparently Clutch had a baby. Ex: So Fox, The Deaths, and Wisconsin Nightlife


Karaoke Night! @ The Howe Daily Kitchen & Bar, 3675 Minnehaha Ave S • 9:30pm
Come in for karaoke every Thursday and now Saturday nights starting Jan. 11th! Starting at 9:30pm! Karaoke ends at 1:30am! ** Karaoke will begin after trivia on Thursday themed trivia nights.


Viva la Frida @ Articulture, 2613 E Franklin Ave • 3 weeks • Thursdays, Mar 5 – 19, 7:30 – 9:30 pm • Adult art class
This class will find inspiration from the creative legacy of Frida Kahlo. Her self-portraits, paintings, drawings, and life story continue to intrigue artists throughout the world. We will study the symbolism she used to depict her many obstacles, pains, passions, and resilience. Turning to her journal for inspiration, students will create artist books, explore symbolism through self-portraits, and design retablos that celebrate what connects us. 
Note: Materials fee of $8 is payable on the first day of class.
Tuition: $60 ($51 members)

Instructor: Greta Hammelman bit.ly/VivaLaFridaW20


Thursday Trivia: Tropical World Geography @ Urban Forage Winery and Cider House, 3016 E Lake St • 7pm
Tropical World Geography.  3 picture rounds. Think about that for a minute.  Photos of warm and beautiful places for an hour and a half.  Even if you don’t win, it’s like a little vacation without getting on a plane.  We’ll even turn up the thermostat for a few hours.