by admin
This weekend, we here at l’étoile encourage you to spend a little time outdoors in the city. Despite its obvious urban qualities, Minneapolis is one of the most nature-infused cities in the country – and us Minnesotans sure love our great outdoors. We’re surrounded by the Mississippi River, artful outdoors spaces like the Sculpture Garden, rooftop patios, and awe-inducing architectural wonders like the Weisman, the Guthrie and the Walker. And what other city can claim the title “City of Lakes”? The second-annual dusk-till-dawn Northern Spark festival on Friday and Open Streets on Sunday provide the perfect opportunity to explore the city outdoors. So get out there this weekend, and be one with nature. -Jahna Peloquin, l’étoile Editor-in-Chief
THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH
Gather: First Anniversary
@ Gather by D’Amico
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis
5–9 pm / FREE
The Walker Art Center finally discovered a dining concept that hits the egalitarian, local and sustainable notes that so tickle our Minnesota palates with the opening of Gather – by local food powerhouse D’Amico – which replaced the accomplished if somewhat overly reserved 20.21 at this time last year. While the dining room décor remained relatively the same, a roster of guest chefs were invited to take over the kitchen each month for a rotating who’s-who of twin cities food luminaries. The predictably exciting results have brought a dynamic edge to the restaurant and made it one of 2011’s best openings. To celebrate their first anniversary, the Walker is throwing Gather a party, and you’re invited. Guests will get a chance to sample some of current chef Josh Brown’s small plate creations and check out one of the most dramatic dining rooms in the city. -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the Walker Art Center site
THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH
Vita.mn Poolside Fashion Show
@ Calhoun Beach Club
2925 Dean Parkway
Minneapolis
7-11 pm (show at 8 pm) / 21+ / $25 general admission, $50 VIP
The sixth annual Poolside Fashion Show thrown by local weekly Vita.mn will start off your summer right with a runway fashion show on the rooftop pool area of the Calhoun Beach Club. More than 40 summery designs of casual wear, evening wear and swimwear will walk the runway accompanied by the bossa nova stylings of local band Buffalo Moon and music from DJ Jonathan Ackerman. Clothing from local boutiques Cliché, Blacklist Vintage, Covered, martinpatrick3, and Nani Nalu, and retailers from the Mall of America including Lola, Desigual, Cotton On and Bettie Page will be styled by l’étoile’s own Jahna Peloquin, with models from Vision and hair and makeup design by Jungle Red Salon. -Meg Junkermeier
Click HERE for the Vita.mn site
Photo: Mary O'Regan
THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH
Icehouse Grand Opening
@ Icehouse
2528 Nicollet Avenue S
Minneapolis
Thursday night welcomes the newest addition to Eat Street with the grand opening of Icehouse, which is sure to provide a kick to the neighborhood’s most exciting corner. Serving as a sandwich and counter deli by day, it turns into a full service restaurant and bar by night with a craft cocktail list created by Mr. Johnny Michaels. Its woodsy interior speaks to the Minnesota sensibilities, but in a sleek and sexy way. Icehouse is also the Twin Cities’ newest venue for live music, and it has a stellar lineup of great events and weekly residencies planned. Mondays brings the return of Fat Kid Wednesdays, the jazz group with with a rotating cast of some of the best musicians in town. Tuesday nights is the Lady Heat Hot Soul Party, with DJs (including yours truly as well as Christy Hunt and Sara Jean Hanson) spinning tunes from ’60s soul to disco to new wave to punk and garage. With other nights mixing things up with rock bands and lounge music, IceHouse is sure to become the new neighborhood hot spot. Opening night festivities include performances by Adam Levy’s Liminal Phase and all-star cover band Hookers $ Blow. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Icehouse site
THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH
Modern Radio Night featuring Magic Castles & Robust Worlds
@ Kitty Cat Klub
313 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis
9 pm / 21+ / FREE
Ah, a night of demented psychedelia at the KCK, presented by local label/tastemakers Modern Radio. Magic Castles, rightly on the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s label, are in the same wheelhouse as groups like Black Angels in a genre I call “darkrock”: droney, trippy, farfisa-drenched stuff with cavernous, wistful vocals. You know the stuff. You love the stuff. It’s unbeatable. Robust Worlds is the solo project of Chris Rose from Vampire Hands – there’s nothing out there to listen to, but I’m reliably informed he plays a kind of futurist folk-rock, which I bet ten bucks is less accessible and more abstract than his work in V.H. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Modern Radio Records site
THURSDAY JUNE 7TH-SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH (CONTINUES THROUGH JUNE 17TH)
Ballet of the Dolls present “Memphis Blues”
@ Ritz Theater
345 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis
7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday-Sunday / $27
At one point, girls just wanted to have fun. But of course, those girls eventually grow up, and then they may want to do other things, like perhaps create serious and traditional blues records utilizing the talents of an astounding array of legendary blues musicians. That’s just what Cyndi Lauper has done with her most recent album Memphis Blues. Far from her pop roots, the album expertly mixes Cyndi’s distinctive voice and phrasing with a slow and sexy traditional blues sound. Ballet of the Dolls’ esteemed choreographer Myron Williams was given special permission by Ms. Lauper to craft an original ballet around the album, and the results will be presented for the first time starting this Thursday. The Ritz will be made over into the sassiest Memphis Blues bar this side of the Mississippi, so make sure you get your ticket. -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the Ballet of the Dolls site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
Summer Music Festival: Haley Bonar + Brute Heart + Reina del Cid & the Cidizens
@ Northrop Plaza
84 Church Street SE
Minneapolis
7-10 pm / All Ages / FREE
Who said the University of Minnesota was only a place to study? In the heart of the East Bank of campus lies Northrop Plaza, the perfect venue for outdoor concerts. Going on its 58th year, this open-air music series has become a staple of summer. Friday night’s lineup is an all-female cast: whether it is the sweet vocals of Haley Bonar, the mysterious styling of Brute Heart or the catchy melodies of Reina del Cid and the Cidizens that brings you to the plaza, this will not be a show to miss. -Alexandra Katz
Brute Heart
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
Ramsey House After Dark: Victorian Secrets
@ Alexander Ramsey House
265 S. Exchange Street
St. Paul
6:30 pm & 8 pm / 18+ / $9
What really happened within the private lives of Minnesota’s former elite family? Uncover secrets from centuries ago with the Minnesota Historical Society’s 90-minute, adults-only tour through one of the nation’s best-preserved Victorian homes. Guides will cover topics ranging from addiction and sexuality, to mental illness, birth control and underwear, delving into discussions that would make a lady blush. Tour-goers will also get the chance to pore over rare writings, family letters and journals, which tell a story that has never been told. Scandalous! -Stefani Arden
Click HERE for the Minnesota Historical Society site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH-SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH
“Persepolis”
@ Trylon Microcinema
3258 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis
7 pm & 9 pm Friday & Saturday, 5 pm & 7 pm Sunday / $8
Iranian author Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography is the second installment in “Bif! Bam! Pow! Comic Book Movies!”, the Trylon’s series of films inspired by comic books. A deeply engrossing, dense, and moving chronicle of Satrapi’s experiences, Persepolis moves through the politically vibrant period culminating in the Islamic Revolution, followed by the Iran-Iraq War, and the increasingly stifling modes of oppression in the country until her self-imposed exile in 1994. Satrapi adapts and directs her story with French artist Vincent Paronnaud in the same black-and-white visual style of the book, which feels strongly drawn from shadow theater and gives the picture an indelible character. Persepolis refers to the capital of the ancient Persian Empire, and in Satrapi’s journey through time, she experiences detrimentally colliding political ideologies, setting a feeling of a nation’s identity struggling to hold onto itself, as individuals are suffocated by governing forces. In our media and mental cataloguing, Iran threatens to be little more than the biggest peg of the old Axis of Evil, bearing the character of a bad-guy professional wrestler. Persepolis’ highly first-person account of a young woman who remains true to herself plugs us into a fascinating and complex geopolitical experience, reminding us how ghosts of the Cold War created so much of what we’ve neatly compartmentalized since the early 1990s, our “end of history.” God and the spirit of Karl Marx (which many thought had expired with the fall of the Berlin Wall) come to Satrapi in a dream, encouraging her to live. Persepolis invokes the God of Revolution, too often appropriated by despots, and keeps hope alive in an individual’s journey through herself. -Niles Schwartz
Click HERE for the Take-Up Productions site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
“Works for Words” with Chris Koza & Rogue Valley
@ Fitzgerald Theater
10 E Exchange Street
St. Paul
7:30 pm / All Ages / $22.50
Last year, Chris Koza joined “Works for Words” as a musical guest. Now he’s returning as the main attraction. Get the chance to explore lyrics, both well-known and not-so-well-known with Koza and guests Sims, Gabriel Douglas and Caroline Smith along with a full choir and orchestra on the Fitzgerald stage. The show examines songs with both great and unimpressive lyrics and examines our reactions to each, comparing and contrasting the honest and powerful emotional responses they imbue. Koza and company will perform their own songs and cover others’ as they ask and, hopefully, answer these questions.
Click HERE for the Fitzgerald Theater site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
M.O.T.O w/ Nice Purse + Teddy & The Turks + the Dementionals
@ Turf Club
1601 University Avenue
St. Paul
9 pm doors / 21+ / $ TBA
Get ready for an extremely punky damn bill on Friday at the Turf. Headliners M.O.T.O. (Masters Of The Obvious) have been around since the early ’80s, playing a fantastic and highly tuneful brand of proto-garage (seriously, check out “It Tastes Just Like A Milkshake,” which I’m pretty sure isn’t about actual milkshakes). Nice Purse play a kind of frenetic, echo-laden Spectorbilly with charmingly Ono-ish vocals (and I mean that in the best of all possible ways – not screamo Ono, the melodic stuff). Teddy and the Turks actually play Turkish music with Turkish names – fast and loud, mind – which makes them the only “Turks” in the history of rock to do so. Meanwhile, the Dementionals is listed as “ex-Sinks” which suggest they contain members of that excellent and extremely old-school punk band. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Turf Club site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
“Rebel, Rebel: Rock for Pussy VIII”
@ First Avenue
701 1st Avenue N
Minneapolis
8 pm doors, 9 pm show / 18+ / $8 advance, $10 door
If at no other time, the annual Rock for Pussy benefit concert-meets-Bowie tribute always provides a great excuse to get out the face paint, glitter and platform heels. This year’s ninth edition will celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s landmark album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars with a jaw-dropping roster of local music scene luminaries. Guest singers including Venus DeMars, Adam Levy, Aby Wolf, David Campbell and many more will front the house band and perform sets of popular Bowie tunes from all eras of his career, plus a full run through of Ziggy Stardust. Special guest DJ Jake Rudh will be manning the booth spinning the tunes and even more Bowie hits. As usual, all proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the kitties at Feline Rescue. Meow! -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the First Avenue site
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
“Sign ‘O’ the Times” 25th Anniversary Prince Party
@ aloft Hotel
900 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of seminal Prince album Sign “O” the Times in style this Friday with an all-Prince dance party at the posh aloft Hotel Minneapolis. It’s a party so grandiose they had to expand to two rooms for all the festivities. Socialize and watch the classic Sign “O” the Times film as you sip on a housequake cocktail at the WXYZ bar. Head back in time and experience all things Prince as you stroll into the Paisley Park-themed party room and get in the mood with drinks, snacks and candlelit ambience as you groove to Prince and other “Minneapolis Sound” music mixed by DJ Lenka Paris. The event is free, but donations are being accepted for the Elevate Hope Foundation, which helps abused and abandoned children through music therapy and exposure to the arts. -Stefani Arden
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Sketch Scott Seekins
@ Sidewalk in front of Lunalux
1618 Harmon Place
Minneapolis
4-9 pm / FREE
With “Sketch Scott Seekins,” the artist becomes the subject – not that he’s not used to it. The Twin Cities’ most omnipresent yet elusive figurehead is giving his friends and foes the chance to sketch his visage – boardwalk sketch artist style – with the charming Loring Corners serving as a suitable backdrop. Though technically occurring before Northern Spark hits, it’s a way way to kick off the evening’s festivities. -Jahna Peloquin
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Drawing Sale: Aaron Anderson + Crystal Quinn
@ 504 E 24th Street #3A
Minneapolis
Noon–7 p.m. / FREE
Art pals Aaron Anderson and Crystal Quinn have been art collaborators and friends for seven years, as part of the Hardland/Heartland art collaborative – best known for a bombastic, acid-tribal fashion finale at Voltage 2007. The two have long been l’étoile favorites for their inventive and colorful mixing of mediums, from painting to photography, fashion design and storytelling. Anderson is a master photo manipulator on his own merit, while Quinn is a sewer/painting/drawer who has been focusing her energy of-late on her handmade shoe line, Ina Grau. For the sale, the longtime friends will be selling their collaborative paper works, old and new, that have documented their creative ventures over the years – a perfect collector’s moment for fans and friends alike. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Hardland/Heartland site
SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH–SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH
Northern Spark
@ various locations
Minneapolis
Dusk until dawn (approx. 9 am–6 am) / FREE
This Saturday, be sure to get a nap in and pump up your bike tires in preparation for the massive dusk-to-dawn art extravaganza Northern Spark. Modeled after the French’s “Nuit Blanche,” Northern Spark is an all-night arts festival that transforms the city into a mobile de facto art gallery. Those who attended last year’s inaugural fest can attest to the epic excitement of exploring the city after hours to be overloaded with installations, inventive projects, gallery exhibitions, performance pieces, music, films and interventions from local writers, musicians and artists. The fest features over 200 artists, 120 projects, 52 partners and 10 food trucks – hey, city scavengers get hungry too. A perfect intersection of art and science, technology and engineering, design and urban planning, nature and culture, the fest explodes into one-night collection of wonderment, creativity and energy. A full evening of ephemeral activities and collaborative entertainment, Northern Spark features five hot zones including the Stone Arch Bridge, Downtown Minneapolis, the Walker, MIA and MCAD, and the U of M’s Weisman Art Museum and Katherine E. Nash Gallery. Whether you’re driving, biking or walking, be sure to plan ahead and scout your routes by picking up a copy of the festival program guide or downloading the new interactive mobile iPhone/Android app designed by the tech whizes at Carmichael Lynch and Pixel Farm Digital. Highlights include yarn street artist HOTTEA at MIA, “Captured Dreams” (a dream-centered collab between Paper Darts and the Loft Literary Center), the Mobile Experiential Cinema and a ton of all-night programs at the Walker’s Open Field. Believe us, there’s a kind of spiritual awakening that happens when you stand inside the Walker Art Center after midnight. It unleashes a fervor closely resembling art anarchy. Sunday morning, you’ll walk away transformed, transfixed and – above all – inspired. Art never sleeps. -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Northern Spark site
Image courtesy Walker Art Center
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Northern Spark: Busk Until Dawn presents “Tragicómico”
@ Icehouse
2540 Nicollet Avenue S
Minneapolis
10 pm and 12:45 am / All Ages / FREE
Jaime Carrera is a performance artist to be reckoned with, and the uncompromising photographer, performance artist and choreographer is back once again with “Tragicómico.” Carrera is known for his subversive abstract imagery, brave rawness, and strange dark humor. His work amuses and perplexes, questions and confounds. Any chance to see him perform is a treat, if anything so that you and your friends can ask one another after the show, what the hell just happened in there? Part of the ongoing installation Whittier Artists in Storefronts as well as Northern Spark, this performance – part of “Busk Until Dawn,” a European-styled fête featuring local acoustic, spoken word, and avant-garde street performances, will take place at the newly opened Icehouse, which is sure to become a Minneapolis institution in its own right. -Beth Hammarlund
Click HERE for the “Busk Until Dawn” page on the Northern Spark site
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Northern Spark: “Landscape of the Mind”
@ Katherine E. Nash Gallery
405 21st Ave. S.
Minneapolis
9 pm–6 am / FREE
As part of the Northern Spark festivities, The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota presents “Landscape of the Mind,” an exhibition exploring the tension between interior and exterior landscapes and how our minds navigate both. Touching on issues cultural, historical, physical and visceral, the works in a variety of media represent each artist’s attempt to reconcile the relationship between what we feel and experience and the actual world that surrounds us all. The exhibit includes a site-specific artwork created by Berlin-based artist Ulrike Mohr during her residency at the University of Minnesota earlier this year as well as more than a dozen companion pieces by her workshop students. Screenings of artist Laura Aguilar’s video biography Life, the Body, Her Perspective will occur continuously from 9 pm to midnight. Curators Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky are well known for identifying and nurturing high quality experimental arts, so this is likely to be one of the artistic highlights of Northern Spark. -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the “Landscape of the Mind” page on the Northern Spark site
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Day of the Familia
@ Familia HQ
825 E. Hennepin Avenue
@ Familia Skateshop
2833 Hennepin Avenue S
@ Barrio
925 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis
Noon-4 pm free skate, 7-10 pm art opening, 10 pm afterparty / FREE
Familia is more than a name for the local skateshop – it’s a coda, a motto, a way of life. This weekend, they host “Day of the Familia,” a full day of festivities that includes the grand opening of their new skate park at Familia HQ that promises special guests and, with tongue in cheek, to usher in the death of skateboarding as we know it. It’s followed by an art show at Familia’s Uptown shop featuring original artwork and arted-up skateboards from the past as well as a new capsule collection of boards and tees designed by Todd Bratrud exclusively for Familia. The party keeps going over at Barrio in downtown Minneapolis with DJ sets from Last Word. Bonus: Minneapolis ex-pat and former Familia GM Tucker Gerrick comes to town this weekend to help kick things off, so consider yourself warned. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Familia Skateshop site
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Minneapalooza
@ Loring Forum alleyway & warehouse
Harmon Place & Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis
2 pm-2 am / 21+ / $10
Forty bands, four stages, one day – leave it to that hallowed, cobblestone alleyway and warehouse space behind the former Nick and Eddie digs to host an outdoor show with enough gall to call itself “Minneapalooza.” Bands include a bevy for former Nick and Eddie regulars: Hastings 3000, Sex Rays, Fort Wilson Riot, and Sexcat, plus live art, craft fair, and food and drink vendors. Though it has no real claim to the boast of being a Minneapolis version of Lolla, it at least offers the chance to hang out, see some bands, and relive memories of a favorite Minneapolis haunt. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
Fort Wilson Riot
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
Man Forever w/ Moonstone Continuum + Weakwick + Seated Heat
@ Turf Club
1601 University Avenue
St. Paul
9 pm doors / 21+ / $ TBA
Man Forever, the solo project of Oneida’s John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) has a noble goal: recast Lou Reed’s obscurantist masterpiece Metal Machine Music as a throbbing, insistent minimalist drum orchestra playing rhythms that create accidental counterpoints against each other. Not a million miles off from Steve Reich’s Drumming, really, so if you’re into that (and we are, believe us), you’re in luck. Local openers include the anarchic prog-via-R&B rockers Moonstone Continuum, the frantically buzzy, experimental Weakwick, the demented acid-jazz of Seated Heat, and DJ Mark McGee. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Facebook invite
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Flying Dorito Bros + UMAMI + The Fatty Acids + Sat Nite Duets + 6&7
@ Cause Spirits and Soundbar
3001 Lyndale Avenue S
Minneapolis
9 pm / 21+ / $5
Saturday night at Lyn-Lake brings a great bill of diverse dance rock to the Cause Spirits and SoundBar. The headliner and very special guests for the evening are the Flying Dorito Bros, a Gram Parsons cover band featuring members of Night Moves that are reuniting for one night only. With the recent death of original Burrito Brothers bassist Chris Ethridge, this show serves as a tribute to the late great. Also playing is dance psych pop group UMAMI, who is gaining a reputation of really getting the party started with their sexy, groovy psych rock. Also playing are Milwaukee electronic indie pop group the Fatty Acids, as well as lo-fi indie popsters Sat. Night Duets and 6&7. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Cause Spirits & Soundbar site
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Low w/ Zoo Animal
@ Minneapolis Pioneers & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery
2945 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
5:30 pm / $16-$20
Minnesota heroes Low return for their first local show since their opening slot on the Death Cab for Cutie tour. Think about it: it’s Low – meaning hushed, spooky, meditative music – in a graveyard. Low. In a graveyard. That should really be all we need to say. The juxtaposition of Low’s songs – many about death, several about the afterlife, all the exact kind of stuff that lends itself to that kind of atmosphere – with the gorgeously Ye Olde cemetery is damn near perfect. Zoo Animal is led by Holly Newsom, herself possessed by a kind of earthy, honest spirituality that sounds alternately like gentle meditations and lessons from a revival meeting. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Friends of the Minneapolis Pioneers & Soldiers Memorial Cemetery site
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
Handy Andy Benefit f. the Bombay Sweets + Father You See Queen + DJ Soft Abuse
@ Harriet Brewing
3036 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis
@ Memory Lanes
2520 26th Avenue S
Minneapolis
11 am-10 pm / 21+ / minimum $5 donation
Holding a benefit for a man who almost entirely cut his fingers off while doing some homebrewing is very noble, and that is exactly what the people of Harriet Brewing think. Thanks to them Handy Andy will finally be able to pay his bills. With an all day event happening and the donations going directly to Handy Andy all you need are the 4 b’s beer, bikes, bowling and bands. There will be a bike ride, beer brewing competition, bowling tournament and different bands playing to close out the night. Catch DJ Soft Abuse, The Bombay Sweets, and Father You See Queen on stage at the brewery starting at 6PM. -Alexandra Katz
Click HERE for the Harriet Brewing site
SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH
20% Theatre Company presents Queer Prom
@ Hell’s Kitchen
80 S 9th Street
Minneapolis
7 pm-2 am/ 18+ / $10+ suggested donation
Here’s a prom like never before: the Twin Cities GLBT community combines with the world of burlesque for a night that is sure to be glittery, cheeky and wild. Wear what you want, bring who you want – it is a no rules party. Unlike most proms this one will offer a cash bar, free food until it’s gone, and the delicious Hell’s Kitchen snack window, plus a silent auction featuring local art, theater tickets, and massage and restaurant gift certificates. DJ Blowtorch will be spinning the best dance party mix with prom favorites from every decade, and there will be performances from burlesqe performers Queenie Von Curves and Switch the Boi Wonder, and 20% Theatre’s Anthony Neuman and Nicole Wilder. Not to stray from typical prom traditions there will be a prom court chosen and free pictures. After all who would want to forget this unique night? -Alexandra Katz
Click HERE for a link to the 20% Theatre Company site
SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH
Open Streets 2K12
@ Lyndale Avenue South between 22nd Street & 42nd Street
Minneapolis
10 am–4 pm / FREE
The 2nd annual Open Streets gives Minneapolis residents will have an opportunity to explore their neighborhood without the presence of motorized street traffic. Open Streets is an initiative of the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition and aims to bring together families and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play and shop in their communities in a safe, vehicle-free environment. Open Streets promotes sustainable transportation, public health, local business and public space – so bring your friends, kids, parents, and pets and take to the streets! -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the Open Streets 2K12 site
Editor in Chief: Jahna Peloquin / Contributors: Anthony Enright, Juleana Enright, Jon Hunt, Rob Callahan, Beth Hammarlund, Niles Schwartz, Stefani Arden, Meg Junkermeier, Danielle Morris, Chelsea Streich, Alexandra Katz, Jahna Peloquin
