Food and restaurants
Food and restaurants
Refugee winter clothing drive at downtown bars this weekend
by Erica Mauter • Several downtown establishments — The Lounge, ENVY, AQUA, drink, and Spin — are participating in a winter clothing drive for refugees, sponsored by the International Institute of Minnesota.
Arts Orbit Weekly: 11/20/08
This week’s picks
Thursday, November 20
Does Joe Dowling have the Guthrie logo tattooed on his arm? I haven’t checked, but I suspect not. Jeremey Catterton, artistic director of Lamb Lays With Lion, now literally wears his heart on his sleeve—specifically, on his inner forearm. The LLWL troupe will be at the Hexagon tonight performing The Little Skeleton That Could Not, a work of “info-tainment” about alcoholism, AIDS, and anorexia. Stick around afterwards for music by Fort Wilson Riot, Plastic Chord, and Speed’s The Name.
Friday, November 21
Last Christmas you gave your godparents a terra cotta garlic cooker…how are you ever going to top that?! Try a work of original art from a student at MCAD; the school’s annual art sale opens tonight. MORE »
DINING | Eat, drink and be local: The Caux Culinary Challenge
If you have $125 left in your 401k, I can think of at least three good reasons why you should splurge on a ticket to the Caux Culinary Challenge, a gastronomic extravaganza next Tuesday evening (November 18) from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Minneapolis Club, 729 2nd Ave. S., Minneapolis. MORE »
Yeah. Can I get a large baked potato pizza, an order of wings, and some independent hip-hop?
by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • 11/15/08 •
Pizza Lucé to deliver Heiruspecs teaser discs.
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Cyn's picks: Giant book sale, floating sushi, music galore
by Cyn Collins, TC Daily Planet • 11/14/08 • Go to Casket Arts this weekend to find the best book sale in town, vastly huge and wondrously eclectic. Thousands and thousands of books (I’m really not kidding), hardcovers $1 and softcover $0.50—no matter how rare, or new, or spectacular.
Arts Orbit Weekly: 11/13/08
This week’s picks
Thursday, November 13
“Anthony Bourdain has met his match,” writes our own Jeremy Iggers about Steve Lerach, who is at the University of Minnesota Bookstore today discussing his book Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants. Jeremy calls the book “a feast for foodies, a fast and funny ride through Twin Cities restaurant kitchens in the heyday of meat and potatoes.”
Friday, November 14
Puppeteer Laura Heit will be performing in matchbox theaters (really! literally!) and presenting a series of short films featuring puppetry—a collection curated by Jim Henson’s daughter Heather—at In the Heart of the Beast. MORE »
DINING | The hottest little pho house on Eat Street
Is there a street in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City that has more Vietnamese noodle soup houses per block than Nicollet Ave. between 25th and 29th Streets?
I doubt it. MORE »
Patrons raise $100,000 in attempt to save debt-ridden Pi Bar, slated to close this week
Unless a miracle happens, there’s going to be a Pi-shaped hole in the heart of Minneapolis. Pi Restaurant and Bar, the meeting place for queer women, the GBLT community, and alternative people of all stripes, is the latest casualty of the faltering economy and is set to close its doors on November 15. Pi patrons have responded to the news with an overwhelming campaign of generosity to Pi’s owner, Tara Yule, but the situation is still grim. MORE »
