BOOKS & AUTHORS
Chat It Up: Young Adult Literature
With the Minnesota Book Awards right around the corner, you’ll have several opportunities this week to meet some of the finalists. Tonight, our very own Tom Bartel will be hosting a Chat It Up event featuring Young Adult Literature author Patrick Jones. Jones’s book Chasing Tail Lights explores the impact of poverty, drugs, and abuse on an 18-year-old girl.
7 p.m., Maple Grove Library, 8351 Elm Creek Blvd., Maple Grove; 952-847-5550.
WINE & DINE
Empowering Women In Africa
Enjoy a five-course meal featuring six handcrafted wines by Giraffrican Mix, and help raise funds to build Regina Pacis University for the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi, in Kenya, to operate with an option for women. The school’s first priority will be to train nurses, because there’s a great need for them in Kenya.
6:30-9:30 p.m., Ursula’s Wine Bar and Cafe, 2125 4th St., White Bear Lake; 651-429-9600; $70.
MUSIC
Qwiksand
"If Shaft was living in
southern California and he invited Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix over
for dinner," reads their website bio,
"Orange County quartet QWIKSAND would make a groovy side-dish." What
the California surf funk band fails to mention is the wonderful scent
of salt and sun evoked by their music — so much needed in the
land-locked Midwest as the winter lays its icy claws to rest. A jam
band at heart, QWIKSAND serves up fun, melodic funk, interlaced with
rap sessions reminiscent of the Spin Doctors. Though they’re often compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
QWIKSAND has actually developed a much smoother, perhaps even poppier,
sound. Currently on tour promoting their new album, QWIKSAND delivers
its Liquid Dream to the Fine Line. Joining them will be dEv JAna, The Limns, and The Rebelution.
8 p.m. (QWIKSAND goes on at 10:30 p.m.), Fine Line Music Café, 318 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612-338-8100; $3, or go here for a free ticket.
SPORTS
Squash Those Hornets
And of course, you can also go see the Minnesota Timberwolves play the New Orleans Hornets. I know we’re all pro-New Orleans these days, and with good reason, but let’s put that aside for the night. Let’s show those Hornets we have just as much to lose. (And let’s see if we can win another darn game, guys.) The season is quickly coming to an end, so don’t delay.
7 p.m., Target Center, 600 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612-673-0900; tickets starts at $10.
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