DINING
Nourish the Mind
It’s really too bad we can’t support our public libraries by reading, but I guess when it comes down to it more people appreciate a good meal over a good book. Do your good deed tonight and come sample the local flavors at the Twin Cities Restaurant Week Kick-Off Event, benefiting friends of the libraries. Rub elbows with your favorite local chefs and media personalities. Support your libraries while sampling from select Twin Cities Originals restaurants, chilling out in the Amstel Light Lounge, or sipping the featured beverages. Featured Twin Cities Original restaurants at the Kick-off will include: the Dakota, The Herkimer, Ike’s Food & Cocktails, Jensen’s Supper Club, Lake Elmo Inn, Spill the Wine, Tejas, and TreVina Italian Steak House.
All proceeds from this event and a portion of each Restaurant Week meal will support Minneapolis and St. Paul Friends of the Libraries.
4:30 – 7 p.m., Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, 612-630-6000, $20 in advance, $25 at door.
MUSIC
Delta Roots Reach up the Mississippi
Tonight, Grammy Award-winning artist Keb’ Mo’ will be playing at the Guthrie Theater. If you’re a Delta blues lover, this is a must see. Keb’Mo’ serves up some traditional Delta blues — Muddy Waters style — along with a mix of pop, folk rock, and jazz spanning multiple eras and genres. First, Mo’ will take the stage with a full band to perform an acoustic set of his Grammy Award-winning music. Following a brief intermission he will return with the band to perform a plugged-in, electric set of songs. This guy was actually selected to play Robert Johnson in Can’t You Hear the Wind Howl, a docu-drama about the blues legend’s life. How can you go wrong?
7:30 p.m., Guthrie Theater, 818 S 2nd St., Minneapolis, 612-377-2224, $42.
READINGS
You Might Love Him Now
Jonathan Lethem, author of You Don’t Love Me Yet, will be reading from his comic pop novel at the U of M today. “Pop culture has always played a huge role in Jonathan Lethem’s invented — and wildly inventive — world. He’s sort of the house DJ for a stable of like-minded contemporary writers, offering deft literary mash-ups of science fiction, hard-boiled detective stories, magical realism, and comic-book mythology. Lethem’s first novel since his 2003 Fortress of Solitude is a bit of a departure, at least from a geographical standpoint; set in Los Angeles rather than the author’s usual Brooklyn stomping grounds, You Don’t Love Me Yet is a comic novel steeped in the world of alternative rock, hipster drones, and the culture of complaint. While early reviews have called it slight, at least by Lethem standards, we’re betting it’s still a whole lot more readable than most of the other stuff clogging the new-arrivals section at Barnes and Noble.”
7 p.m., University of Minnesota Bookstores, Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, 612-625-6564, Free.
Read another Rake review on Jonathan Lethem.
SPORTS
Plaaaaaaaaaaaay Ball!
Yes, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for — or at least some of us. The baseball season is finally in swing, and tonight you can kick it off watching the Minnesota Twins play the Baltimore Orioles, right here on our home turf. Come cheer our boys on and celebrate the home season opener.
6:05 p.m., Metrodome, 34 Kirby Puckett Pl., Minneapolis, 612-375-1366, $7-$44.
Read Britt Robson’s On the Ball.
ART AND TECHNOLOGY
Cutting Edge Digital Culture
Mobile phone messages mixed with ambient urban soundscape, email relationship maps, architectural software experiments — come see what our local techie artists have been up to this year. Emerging Digerati showcases cutting edge digital culture at the University of Minnesota. Come see how the featured artists are using new digital tools and techniques to do old things in new ways, and new things in ways few have imagined.
5:30 to 8 p.m., Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 301 E River Pky, Minneapolis, 612-625-9494, Free.
ON THE NET
Wile away the Long Hours at Work
Come on, Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee just kicks ass!
POS – another bunch of locals.
An unflattering portrayal of the kids from St. Paul College on spring break.
Goodbye Craig Ferrence, Martin Williams Art Director.
Slightly exploitive, but local.
What would you do in Minnesota?
(Thanks to Rich Goldsmith for the video line-up.)
Leave a Reply