Lake Street News Brief
www.lakestreetcouncil.org
October 14, 2009
Lake
Street Council's mission is to build
a cohesive strategy to ensure the ongoing vitality
of the Lake Street Corridor business community.
Annual wine tasting on November 12! Buy tickets
now
The Latest on Lake:
- Last week, the Star Tribune hosted a marketing
workshop for Lake Street businesses. We now have their Marketing in
a Challenging Economy PowerPoint presentation available
on our website. They also had a second presentation about pitching
stories to the newsroom that we hope to make available soon; we'll let
you know.
- Congratulations to The Craftsman
Restaurant, which made it into the pages
of the Washington Post on Sunday! The Post's
restaurant critic was especially taken by Craftsman's charcuterie dish.
- Read about Glaciers Cafe in the
newest edition of the Longfellow Nokomis
Messenger. The Messenger tells the story of how Glaciers came to
move into the Resource Center building and how they adapted their menu
to fit the neighborhood. The story starts on page 8.
- Lyn-Lake: The new Uptown? That's the question asked
by Finance and Commerce, which traces how far the area has come in
30 years and looks at its thriving bar & restaurant scene.
- A local blogs regularly about their weekly trips to the Midtown
Farmers' Market, including this past Saturday's snowy visit. Read
all about it here. The Market is open until the end of October.
- The Twin Cities Daily Planet reviews The Important of Being
Earnest, presented through October 25 at Bryant
Lake Bowl. Their verdict: "if the idea of remixing Earnest to
make it 'really, really, extremely gay' sounds to you even the least
bit amusing, you'll enjoy this production."
Lake Street Calendar:
October
14th: National Community Planning Month Celebration
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, 350 South 5th St. (City Hall Rotunda)
Share the past, present and future of planning with your neighbor.
October 15th: Zuhrah Shrine
Open House
4:30 - 10:00 PM, 2540 Park Ave.
"You’re invited to the Open House at Zuhrah Shrine Event Center and
Harrington Mansion. Free admission! Free food! Free Music! Free tours!
Free entertainment! Free parking and some free cocktails!"
October 15th: Uptown Boutique Crawl
6:00 - 9:00 PM, 5 Uptown locations
Five of uptown's hottest boutiques have joined together to create an
evening of fall fashion! Customers will receive a 15% discount at all
participating boutiques as well as complimentary cocktails. Other
features include trunk shows, designer meet-and-greets, and swag bags
for anyone who visits all five boutiques (while supplies last).
Participating boutiques are Atmosfere, Covered, Drama, Ivy, and
Vstate.
October 16th & 17th: Calvary Church Rummage Sale
16th 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM , 17th 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 39th & Chicago
Household, clothing, toys, books, furniture, seasonal, electronics,
sports equipment, shoes, purses, accessories, gardening tools.
Breakfast and lunch are served. The sale supports programs in South
Minneapolis for adults and children.
October 16th - 18th: Lovesick Sea Play & Ode to Walt
Whitman, at In
the Heart of the Beast
Theatre
16th & 17th 7:30 PM , 18th 2:00 PM, 1500 E. Lake St.
A spectacular double feature of nationally recognized local
puppeteers. Janaki Ranpura performs Lovesick Sea Play, an
innovative story of love in the world of 18th century Atlantic piracy.
Bart Buch presents Ode to Walt Whitman, a multi-media puppetry
performance that uncovers an unspoken dialogue between Whitman’s Leaves
of Grass poems and Federico Garcia Lorca’s Ode to Walt Whitman.
October 17th: Midtown
Farmers' Market
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 22nd & Lake
All
products are sold to you direct from MN and WI farmers,
producers, and artists. The market offers a bounty of fruits,
vegetables, flowers, plants, cheese, meat, bread, and other delicious
local foods, as well as handmade soaps, greeting cards, jewelry, and
much more. The Market accepts Visa, Mastercard, EBT, FMNP, and SFMNP.
October 17th: 2nd Annual Cheese & Apple Festival, at
Midtown
Global Market
1:00 - 4:00 PM, 920 E. Lake St.
The theme will center around locally grown products with up to twenty
different local apple varieties, up to a dozen cheese varieties,
cooking demonstrations and kids' activities.
October 17th: "A Room For Learning" Author Discussion, at Magers
& Quinn
7:00 PM, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S.
In this stirring account of a teacher and his twelve students tucked
away in the mountains of Vermont, educator Tal Birdsey fervently
documents the founding year of his small junior high school with wit
and humility. Part memoir, part meditation on the power of art and
poetry, and part criticism of standardized education, A Room for
Learning evokes a spirit of change, allowing adolescents a hand in
their education.
October 18th: Sunday Brunch,
at Midtown
Global Market
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 920 E. Lake St.
Each Sunday, a chef from a Midtown Global Market restaurant will
prepare and sell brunch in the Market's Central Plaza. This week's
brunch comes from Manny Torta's, featuring a tortilla egg in
green or red salsa with ham or sausage, papas con chorizo, pan, coffee
& juice.
October 18th: Fall Festival & Roast Beef Dinner, at St. Albert the Great
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 2836 33rd Ave. S.
On the tables you'll find home made coleslaw salad, beets, rolls and
butter. The dessert table will be filled with pies of every kind. Bingo
is available in the gym of the school building from Noon to 4:00. There
is a major raffle, smaller raffles and handmade items, including
ceramics that you might want to wrap up for Christmas gifts. All are
welcome. Call 612-724-3643 with any questions.
Through October 18th:
Palace of the End, presented
by Frank
Theatre
2637 27th Ave. S. (Ivy Building for the Arts)
Palace of the End is composed of three monologues, all based on factual
people and events, whose characters and words are imagined by the
playwright. It recently received the 2009 Amnesty International Freedom
of Expression award at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a prize
that recognizes productions of excellent artistic merit that build
understanding and engagement of human rights.
October 20th: South Minneapolis Housing Resource Fair
5:00 - 7:30 PM, 3400 Park Ave. S. (United Methodist Church)
Visit one-on-one with lenders, real estate agents, financial and
housing educators. Home buye
October 22nd: Patrick's
Zombie Cabaret Benefit, at Fine Line Music Cafe
8:30 PM - 1:00 AM, 318 First Ave. N.
The event, a benefit for the Cabaret, features Venus Demars of
transgender punk-glam band All the Pretty Horses, indie-rock group My
Valkyrie, funk-house DJ Spur, powerhouse dance company Kinetic
Evolutions, hip-hop/wacking/house dancers Arturo Miles & Nicki
Cullman, and dancers Erin Sheppard and Inimitable Feets. Other
attractions include a costume contest, professional make-up artist,
drag performance, silent auction, cash bar and more. Tickets are
$15.00, available at the door, Patrick's Cabaret or online at
www.patrickscabaret.org/support/zombie.
October 22nd - 24th: Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata,
at Intermedia
Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S.
>From October 22-24, 2009, Intermedia Arts will host Singing the
Legacy
of Sekou Sundiata: The America Project Twin Cities, a series of
community events including Brown Bag Dialogues, Citizenship Dinners, a
Film Screening, Potluck Dinner and Community Sing, all designed to
inspire and ignite our passionate ideals around citizenry, civic work,
and active engagement in civic life.
October
23rd: Hyphe-NATIONS Performances/Art Installation &
Community Dialogue, at Pangea
World Theater
7:00 PM, 711 W. Lake St. Suite 101
Hyphe-NATIONS:
Immigration Matters is a site specific artistic and community based art
project dealing with immigration migration and displacement in our
diverse Twin Cities communities, nationally and globally. This project
looks at how the Latino community has been targeted and marginalized.
Free food and Childcare.
Beginning October 23rd: Elijah's Wake, at Open Eye
Figure Theatre
506 E. 24th St.
First created in 2003, Michael Sommers revisits this groundbreaking
work to be staged in the Open Eye Theatre. Score by Anthony Gatto. “…a
piece of art the stimulates through visual action, this is an
extraordinary work.” -- Star Tribune
Through October 25th: Mary's Wedding, at Jungle
Theater
2951 Lyndale Ave. S.
Starring Alayne Hopkins and Sam Bardwell. The year is 1914, and a young
bride-to-be dreams one last night of love and war. Even with an ocean
between them, Mary and Charlie inhabit each other's dreams. But as the
dark clouds of World War 1 gather overhead, the strength of their bond
is about to be tested. This moving and magical play is a love letter to
the power of memory, hope and innocence...
October 31st: Tonight We Abide: The 2nd Annual Big Lebowski
Party, at Bryant Lake Bowl
8:00 PM, 810 W. Lake St.
"We’re celebrating Halloween the best way we know how... Our 2nd Annual
party paying tribute to the Worlds best bowling movie, The Big
Lebowski. So join us for a masquerade-bowling tournament, free movie
screenings, DJ Christian Fritz spinning tunes from the Coen Brothers
film catalog, karaoke, a costume contest, and loads of prizes. Come
dressed as your favorite character from the movie and drink some
Dude-a-reenos as we pay tribute to the Dude, Walter, Donny, and of
course Jesus. No cover."