FOOD
Leave the Bikini Behind and Stuff Yourself Brazilian-style
Eat light all day, so you can stuff yourself at the grand opening of Fogo de Chão, a traditional Brazilian churrasquería. Their fixed-priced menu offers fifteen cuts of meat, sliced tableside by a server dressed as a Brazilian gaucho. Yes, it’s a bit pricey, and yes, it’s a ridiculous amount of meat; but don’t you just have to try it?
Fogo de Chão, 645 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, 612-338-1344.
MUSIC AND WORKSHOP
The Real Electronic Music
If you didn’t tear electronic equipment up as a child — just to see what was inside — maybe it’s time to start now. Tonight is the onset of the Minneapolis Bent Festival. Circuit benders from around the globe will perform concerts with their bent instruments, teach workshops for both children and adults, and flaunt their skills. Stop by tonight for art installations and concerts. And be sure to attend some of the workshops this weekend. Learn from some of the best circuit benders in the world.
7:30 p.m. (through Saturday), Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, 612-871-4444; $10/day, $24/festival pass.
THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
Improbable Theatre
“Britain’s Improbable Theatre abandons the relative safety of such lavish puppetry spectacles as Shockheaded Peter and The Hanging Man (performed here in 2000 and 2003, respectively) and instead harks back to its roots in scrappy, improvisational object theater. Animo, therefore, is not so much a play as it is a series of spontaneous performances. With no script — not even predetermined characters — Improbable will invent its show anew, every night; found objects collected from nooks and crannies around the Twin Cities will serve as puppets. Local performers are pitching in, too: The Animo cast includes Minneapolis master puppeteer Michael Sommers,
Jeune Lune co-founder
Barbra Berlovitz, Bedlam Theater’s Julian McFaul, burgeoning puppeteer Lindsay McCaw, and percussionist extraordinaire Aaron Barnell.”
8 p.m. (through Saturday), McGuire Theater, Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, 612-375-7600; $12 ($10 members).
Street Opera
Looking for a more traditional theater offering — something somewhat more dramatic? Go so see Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. When German composer Kurt Weill met American playwright Elmer Rice in the mid-1930s, he was compelled to transform Rice’s depression-era depiction of New York slum tenements into an opera. After much resistance, he finally did so in this impassioned tale of disillusionment.
7:30 p.m. (through Saturday, 1:30 Sunday), Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota, 2106 S 4th St., Minneapolis, 612-626-1892; $18 ($10 students).
FILM
International Film Festival
“Despite every possible setback, The Minneapolis/ St. Paul International Film Festival soldiers on, though with fewer films (which is, perhaps, a blessing).” Now in its 25th year, the International Film Festival features 80 films from 40 countries, 21 of which are US premieres. See the opening night screening of Bamako, from Mali, West Africa, and stay for the Opening Night Gala with producer Danny Glover. Enjoy free beer or wine with your ticket stub, appetizers, an African drum and dance performance, and beer and wine specials all night long at the Riverview Café and Wine Bar.
7 p.m., Riverview Theater, 3800 42nd Ave South, Minneapolis, 612-729-7369 (Film Fest 612-331-3134); $15, $25 for movie and party.
SHOPPING
Thursday Shopping Pick: “Greed Gone Wild”
“Greed Gone Wild” is the name of the weekend’s best top-secret junk sale. This semiannual event is, in essence, the emptying of some very impressive closets. A fashionable group of Twin Cities shop owners, antique dealers, gallerists, and stylists (including one of the Twin Cities top stylists, Gwen Leeds) gather their castoffs for this junk sale, selling housewares, clothing, shoes, jewelry, furniture, and even art. This is the very event at which Rake Assistant Editor Chritsy Desmith once found a vintage Diane von Furstenberg wrap-around dress priced at a mere thirty dollars.
8 a.m. – 8 p.m., (Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.), Patina Props, 2014 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis; 612-729-6006.
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