Lake Street News Brief
www.lakestreetcouncil.org 
January 6, 2009
 
Lake Street Council's mission is to build
a cohesive strategy to ensure the ongoing vitality
of the Lake Street Corridor business community.
 

New Year, New Website - VisitLakeStreet.com Launches

Lake Street Council is pleased to ring in the new year by officially launching our new website for residents and tourists -- www.visitlakestreet.com. It has a comprehensive business directory of where to shop, eat, and play on Lake Street, as well as information on local history, how to get to and around Lake Street, an Events calendar, the ability to search for a specific business or keyword, and more.
 
The most important part of the website is the business directory. We want to work with you to include the information about your business that you want visitors to know. Please get in touch if you have specific wording or pictures you would like us to use on your business page. And if anything changes, let us know! It will be the quickest way for us to get that new information out on the site. And as always, we welcome all feedback and thoughts you might have. Take a look around and let us know what you think!


The Latest on Lake:
Lake Street Calendar:

Through January 9th: Art & Healing: Body Burden, at and Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave.
Featuring gallery exhibitions, performances, brown bag dialogues and youth workshops that take a frank and creative look at the connections between our bodies, our environment and our modern way of life.

January 10th: Are You Thirsty?, at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre
10:00 AM and noon, 1500 E. Lake St.
Come explore a myriad of questions contained in a cup of water--one of the most precious and necessary shared resources of our planet. Part of HOBT's Saturday morning puppet shows for kids.

January 12th: Community Forum on Proposed Xcel Energy Substations
6:30 - 8:30 PM, 1516 E. Lake St. (Plaza Verde, 3rd floor)
Hosted by the Phillips Community Energy Cooperative. They invite all "to attend and be open to think about this project not from a pro or con perspective, but rather as an opportunity to be proactive about energy use in the neighborhood."

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 16th & 17th: Spirit in the House, at Patrick's Cabaret
8:00 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.

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 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: 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."