January 15th:
Xcel Energy Open House
Meetings
12:00 - 2:00 PM & 5:00 - 7:00 PM, 1516 E. Lake St.
(Plaza Verde, 3rd floor)
Xcel hosts open house meetings to provide you with
information about the proposed Hiawatha Project and to give you an opportunity
to share your views.
January 15th & 16th:
Dragmantiy: Drag-A-Holic, at Bryant
Lake Bowl
10:00 PM, 810 W. Lake St.
"We will explore the
intimacies, vulnerabilities, and strengths initiated by persistent longing.
Hedonism, Narcissism, and Obsession will exhibit our presentational ideologies
in a quest to explore and experience physical, emotional, and intellectual
'highs' along with the audience. Bring your most taboo vice to share!"
January 16th & 17th:
Spirit in
the House, at Patrick's
Cabaret8:00 PM, 3010 Minnehaha Ave.
Featuring: Leslie Ball
with Music of the Spheres, Dean J. Seal with Backward Ecclesiastes, Theater for
the Thirsty presents ’Something Priceless for Cheap’, Steven Solberg with the
film "Standing On The Bones of Our Ancestors" with Dance by Ransomed Messengers,
and an Original Monologue by Amy Salloway.
10:00 AM and noon, 1500 E. Lake St.
This traditional
shadow puppet performance presents classic sea stories such as Sindbad the
Sailor and Music Charms the Pirates along with songs including Irish Rover and
The Roman Tree. Part of HOBT's Saturday morning puppet shows for
kids.
January
17th:
Author Reading & Signing, at Magers & Quinn
Booksellers
7:00 PM, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S.
Scott Sigler reads and signs his novel Contagious. "From the
acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of
humanity’s secret battle against a horrific enemy."
January
18th: Twin City Storyfest: Joining Voices under the Winter
Moon
4:30 PM, 2730 E. 31st St. (Holy Trinity Lutheran Church)
A
storytelling concert for all ages hosted by Jenifer
Strauss. Featuring John Buzza, Nancy Donoval, Frank
Sentwali, Ross Sutter, Vicki Svanoe. Free admission
(donations gratefully accepted)
January 30th: Chinese
New Year Celebration, at Midtown Global
Market
4:00 - 8:00 PM, 920 E. Lake St.
To help ring in the year of the Ox,
activities at the Market will include traditional fortune telling from Chinese
elders, a cooking demonstration, a traditional lion dance at 7:00 PM, and much
more.
Beginning January 30th:
Snowman, at Open Eye Figure
Theatre
506 E. 24th St.
"A contemporary fable about cold
weather. An inexplicable snow falls in a small town and spring hasn’t come
for years. With the endless snow comes a problem of hygenic proportions: a
town of frozen adults. The mayor has the frozen carted away to an ice forest,
and those who remain in the village are numbed into
acceptance."
Beginning January 30th: Hitchcock Blonde,
at Jungle
Theater
2951 Lyndale Ave. S.
"What was the dark secret that
caused the great Alfred Hitchcock to obsess over beautiful blondes in jeopardy?
A spine-tingling mystery unfolds at a villa in the Greek isles, where a British
professor and his young assistant shift through the clues. Meanwhile in 1950's
Hollywood, the Master prepares to film his infamous shower
scene."
February 4th: Public Meetings on Proposal for
Public Bike Sharing in Minneapolis
7:00 PM, 3001 Hennepin Ave. S.
(Calhoun Square atrium)
The City of Minneapolis and the City of Lakes Nordic
Ski Foundation have put forward a proposal for public bicycle sharing in
Minneapolis. RSVP to Andrea Petersen at andrea.petersen@ci.minneapolis.mn.us. 