Lake Street News Brief
www.lakestreetcouncil.org
October 7, 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:
- The new Lyndale Tap House opened to some high
praise last week, with Star Tribune critic Rick Nelson calling it
"Value prices, big smiles, tons of beer choices and a knockout roast
beef sandwich." Metromix's
Chris Kallal agreed, saying "If you're looking for a new bar, a new
hangout, the Taphouse is the place. If you're looking for a great
sandwich and good beer selection, ditto."
- Bryant Lake Bowl got a good review too, for the
theatrical production In The Weeds. Daily Planet writer Jay
Gabler says it's "a perfect BLB show: spunky,
independent-spirited, and, despite its
cynical surface, fundamentally warm-hearted. Plus, you get a souvenir
pen custom-printed with the play's name and the words this pen tips 20%." In The
Weeds runs through October 24th.
- MinnPost.com reviewed
the success of Highpoint Center for Printmaking's big move
to their new 10,000 square foot Lake Street location, on the eve of
their grand opening gala, which happened last weekend.
- In Midtown Global Market news, Lori Writer shares her
delight at discovering moon cakes at Pham's Deli, the Star
Tribune profiles
Holy Land's Majdi Wadi, who just opened a hummus factory
on Central Ave., and the new Wee Wednesdays program was
featured on KARE11's Showcase Minnesota, with the video now available on
their site.
- The Civilian Police Review Authority currently has 4 vacancies.
It was created in 1990 to provide fair and impartial investigation of
citizen allegations of misconduct on the part of officers of the
Minneapolis Police Department and make conclusions based on findings of
fact. If interested, download the application from the City's website,
as either a Word
or PDF
file.
- And congratulations to American Rug Laundry, one of our
oldest businesses, which currently has banners up celebrating 114 years
in business.
Lake Street Calendar:
Lake Street Council Sponsored Events:
October 9th: Star Tribune Marketing
Workshop
10:00 - 11:00 AM, 425 Portland Ave.
Hear about
the best way to make use of various forms of advertising, and hear from
American Rug Laundry's Sam Navab on how they have found
success with their advertising strategies. Check the
website for more details, including how to get free parking. No
cost to attend! RSVP to joe.haselman@startribune.com
or 612-741-4532.
November 12th: Lake Street Council's Annual Wine
Tasting & Silent Auction Fundraiser
5:30 - 8:00 PM, 3003 27th Ave. S. (El Nuevo Rodeo)
Bid on great auction items while enjoying music and sampling delicious
cheese, wine, beer and coffee!
More Events:
October
8th & 9th: Holy
Trinity Church Annual Fall Symposium
7:00 - 9:00 PM on the 8th, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM on the 9th, 2730 E.
31st St.
The event, with the theme, “Living a Certain Life in Uncertain Times,”
will be led by Barbara Hoese, principal and president of The Inventure
Group, a Twin Cities-based consulting firm which is committed to
helping people bring purpose to work. Participants may register for
Thursday evening only ($10) or for both days ($20). For more
information or to sign up for the symposium, call the church office
(612-729-8358), or visit the congregation’s website: www.htlcmpls.org
October 9th: Tea Tasting and Pepparkakor Cookies, at Ingebretsen's
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 1601 E. Lake St.
Have a cup of Söderblanding Tea. The name means “Blend of south
Stockholm,” and refers to the neighborhood where the blend was created.
The tea is a combination of Chinese and Sri Lankan tealeaves and is
flavored with fruits and flowers. Delicious hot or iced, it’s a perfect
cup for company or for when you just want to treat yourself nicely. Of
course, one can’t have tea with out a cookie, so sample our pepparkakor
cookies. The tang you taste is ginger – just the flavor for when the
days grow chilly!
October 9th: Prostitution: Beyond the Myths Documentary,
produced by Volunteers of America
7:00 PM, TPT-MN
Featuring representatives from Mpls/Henn county criminal justice system
on the many aspects of street prostitution, including sexual abuse in
the childhood of the victims. Also, first person stories of three
women who were in our program (Women's Recovery Center, North Oaks) and
graduated 6 years ago, along with how life has changed for them.
October 9th: Inaugural Gallery Opening, at Sauce Spirits
& Soundbar
7:00 - 9:00 PM, 3005 Lyndale Ave. S.
Featuring the art of Tony Rydell and Ted Farrar. Music to follow the
opening, headlined by the Rockford Mules.
October 10th: 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 10th: 2nd Annual Taste of Phillips, at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 2742 15th Ave. S.
Art exhibits by St. Paul's and Phillips artists, including youth
photographs, teen documentaries, paintings, stained glass, and more.
Plus Scandinavian pastries, cafe con leche, and lunch at one of over 50
neighborhood ethnic restaurants.
October 10th: Live Music: The Wreck, with guess Scott
Moses Murray, at Old Arizona
8:00 PM, 2821 Nicollet Ave.
The Wreck is an eclectic cover band, ranging from Blues, R&B, and
straight up Rock and Roll, both older and newer. Very focused on Fun.
$5 cover.
October 11th: 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 Pham's Deli, serving Vietnamese pho and
traditional beef noodle soup.
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: 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 - 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: 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 varieites,
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.
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 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."