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Sam Keenan; Molly Dean 331 Club	Wed., December 3, 9:30pm	Northeast	Music
Following a late-November date in Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis's Sam Keenan is returning home to play the 331 Club Wednesday night. Since releasing All the Dark Colored Markers Went Dry (Draw Fire) this spring, Keenan has played a diverse selection of shows in support of the album, including this... More >>

Sample Night Live History Theatre	Every week Wednesday from Wed., December 3 until Wed., December 3, 7:00pm more dates/times	St. Paul (Downtown)	Theater
If you tried to take in as many theater productions as you will see in one evening at Sample Night Live, you would probably have to give up bathing and sleep. Rest assured, that’s not necessary, thanks to events like this. Each month, a dozen performers, actors, dancers, and other local... More >>

Eduardo Blidner: Argentine Drag Queens Icebox Quality Framing And Gallery	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., January 7	Northeast	Art Galleries
Argentine photographer Eduardo Blidner is no stranger to Minneapolis's Icebox Gallery. In 2000 the gallery hosted Blidner's first solo show, which launched his series "Tango Argentino" around the world. Last year Icebox was the first gallery in the world to host Blidner's globetrotting... More >>

Black Nativity: Hear Again the Christmas Story Penumbra Theatre	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 28 until Sat., December 27, 7:30pm more dates/times	St. Paul (Downtown)	Theater
The holidays hit some of us like a ton of bricks because, like all anniversaries, they are signposts on life's road and often reminders of what we have lost or what has changed. Penumbra's Black Nativity portrays a family feeling the sting of losing a loved one at Christmastime, and it does so... More >>

Christmas at the Ramsey House Alexander Ramsey House	Sun., November 23, 12:00pm-3:00pm more dates/times	St. Paul (Downtown)	History/Tours/Landmarks
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CSI: The Experience Science Museum Of Minnesota	Daily from Wed., October 15 until Sun., January 4	St. Paul (Downtown)	Museums
Is getting up-close and personal with a dead body and finding how it got that way your kink? You're in luck. The traveling exhibit, "CSI: The Experience," opens today at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In this criminally creative display, visitors dive into several crime scenes and use modern... More >>

Eddie Brill Acme Comedy Co.	Daily from Wed., December 3 until Sat., December 6, 8:00pm more dates/times	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Comedy
Eddie Brill is a busy, busy man. "I'm a maniac," he says via cell phone from the parking lot of a Tampa hotel. "I don't stop. I have like, eight jobs: three full-time jobs and five part-time jobs." In addition to being a touring standup comic, Brill warms up the audience for The Late Show with... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., September 13 until Sun., January 4	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., September 14 until Sun., January 4	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
It might not be well known, but Minnesota is actually a hotbed for architecture by 20th- and 21st-century masters. Whether it's Frank Gehry's bendy-metal Weisman Art Museum, César Pelli's Wells Fargo Center and Minneapolis Central Library, or Frank Lloyd Wright's Lindholm service station... More >>

Hindsight is Always 20/20 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum	Daily from Sat., August 23 until Sun., January 4	University	Museums
As the Faces lamented in "Oh La La": I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger. Truer words are rarely spoken. In "Hindsight Is Always 20/20," New York-based artist and composer R. Luke Dubois explores this irony with a visual pun. In his 43 prints and light boxes, Dubois creates a... More >>

Happy Hour at Herkimer's Herkimer Pub & Brewery	Daily from Wed., December 3 until Tue., December 9	Uptown/Eat Street	Barhopping
Like Town Hall or Green Mill, Herkimer brews its own beer. I’m not going to lie: I’m not a big fan of it. Most varieties taste like lighter beer, and there’s always a weird corn aftertaste. Try it, you might like it, but that said, you might want to order a mixed drink from the... More >>

Holiday Show and Sale Textile Center/weavers Guild Of Minnesota	Daily from Sat., November 1 until Tue., December 30	University	Art Galleries
If you are like millions of other Americans this holiday season, you probably think you're too freaking poor to keep your home warm and buy awesome gifts. Not so fast. This year give the gift of warmth. Help your loved ones stay warm and keep the heat turned low by picking up an mittens or... More >>

III Kings Sound System Nomad World Pub	Every week Wednesday, 8:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
Anyone can throw on a red-green-and-gold ensemble, guzzle Red Stripe after Red Stripe and natter on about how they had a real deep experience getting zooted to a midnight showing of The Harder They Come, but to actually make your way as a Selector, well, that's another thing entirely. For over... More >>

INDIA: Public Places, Private Spaces Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sun., October 26 until Sun., January 18	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
When we think of art from India, most of us probably conjure images of Bollywood films or Hindu deities with four arms. This massive show of contemporary Indian photography and video art at MIA promises to be eye-opening, playing with some Indian traditions and stereotypes and exploding others.... More >>

Made In Minnesota: The 6th Annual Ornament Show and Sale Clay Squared To Infinity	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Tue., December 23	Northeast	Art Galleries
At Clay Squared to Infinity's sixth annual Made in Minnesota ornament show and sale is a must-attend event for any young folks looking to start their own holiday traditions. Skip the generic colored glass ball ornaments that ugly up Christmas trees in everybody's house and snazz up your... More >>

MJ Heubach: A Collection of New Work Nicademus	Daily from Sat., November 15 until Sat., December 6	Midway/Frogtown	Art Galleries
Local graphic designer, painter, illustrator, photographer, and general artist extraordinaire MJ Heubach is like a cinematographer or director of photography in film biz: His work is seen and enjoyed everywhere, but his name is far from household. Heubach has designed for Dunn Bros. Coffee... More >>

Open House: If These Walls Could Talk Minnesota History Center Library	Daily from Thu., October 23 until Mon., January 31	St. Paul (Downtown)	History/Tours/Landmarks
>"Open House: If These Walls Could Talk," is the recreation of a house that still exists in the Railroad Island neighborhood of St. Paul. The Minnesota History Museum is always bursting with hands-on exhibits, and "Open House" is no exception. Upon entering the house, every object in the... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962-78 Minneapolis Institute Of Arts	Daily from Sat., October 4 until Sun., March 15	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Museums
Forty or 50 years on, it's hard to imagine now the manic energy of the art world in the 1960s, or the way that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular, blew the doors off of artistic sensibilities at the time. Their libertine experimentalism bridged abstract expressionism and pop... More >>

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis Walker Art Center	Daily from Sat., October 18 until Sun., January 11	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Art Museums
Late Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo is sort of like the pinball-ish game pachinko: While hugely popular in Japan and select other places on the map, he just never took off in America. Sure, some American art scholars can talk about his impact on postwar art movements. But despite the 18 years... More >>

Danny Saathoff: The Mechanical Alchemist Gallery 360	Daily from Sat., November 8 until Sun., January 11	Edina	Art Galleries
In the parlance of the art world, which seems to put a premium on stuffiness, Danny Saathoff's new show, "The Mechanical Alchemist," is a collection of "interactive assemblages." But don't let the terms fool you; the art is very anti-stuffy. You can think of the pieces as artistic Bop-Its.... More >>

The Hidden World of Bears: Photography by Lynn Rogers Bell Museum Of Natural History	Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sun., January 4	University	Art Museums
Grizzly Adams has nothing on biologist Lynn Rogers. Rogers has been studying bears for 40 years, getting close to them, and apparently earning the animals' trust. At the Wildlife Research Center in Ely, Rogers has tracked more than 100 bears with radio collars, some for longer than 20 years. He... More >>

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Children's Theatre Company	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday from Tue., September 16 until Thu., January 1, 7:00pm more dates/times	Uptown/Eat Street	Theater
It's no easy thing being a child, with pressure and uncertainty lurking beneath the surface of even the most placid day, not to mention the humdrum routines us grownups burden them with in preparation for their own adulthood. It's no wonder the most resonant children's stories are essentially... More >>

'tis a gift... the 18th Annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale Northern Clay Center	Daily from Sun., November 16 until Tue., December 30	Seward/Longfellow/Minnehaha	Art Galleries
If your list includes pottery serious pottery fans, hit up the Northern Clay Center's Tis a gift... the 18th Annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale. The NCC will hawk both fun stocking-stuffers and display pieces that will punch up any clay enthusiast' collection with pots and figurines from more... More >>

Toys On Roids Soo Visual Arts Center	Daily from Fri., November 7 until Wed., December 24	Uptown/Eat Street	Art Galleries
Despite the title of this show, it is not a series of José Canseco Starting Lineup figurines on display. Although that would be kind of cool, too. The "roids" in Sean Tubridy's "Toys on Roids" do not refer to steroids, but to Polaroid photos. And the "toys" refers to, well, that's pretty... More >>

Transmission Clubhouse Jager	Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm	Minneapolis (Downtown)	Music
The hundred-year-old space at 923 Washington Avenue North cleans up real nice. Once an intimidating dive bar frequented by the flashing lights of cop cars, the place was recently rechristened Club Jäger and given a makeover to put America's Next Top Model to shame. The overhaul includes a... More >>