Weekend What’s What: 7/19-7/22

by staff

THURSDAY, JULY 19TH

l’étoile magazine presents “Project Runway” Season 10 Premiere Party

@ moto-i
Second Level
2940 Lyndale Avenue S
Minneapolis

7 pm reception, 8 pm screening / All Ages / FREE

Join l’étoile Magazine and moto-i for the premiere of Project Runway. This season features one of our very own: local designer Raul Osorio. Cheer for Raul while sipping stylish drink specials (including $3.50 house wines and $4 Good Luck Cocktails from 8-10 pm) and noshing upon moto-i’s delish bar menu. For the premiere, Raul himself is set to make an appearance. Project Runway alumni Christopher Straub (Season 6), Danielle Everine (Season 9) and Katy Gerdes (Season 3) are confirmed to attend as guests of honor. For the premiere, l’étoile fave DJ Bach will be spinning tunes before and after the screening. -Jahna Peloquin

Click HERE for the Facebook inviteand HERE to read Beth Hammarlund’s recent column on Osorio.

THURSDAY, JULY 19TH

“U.N.P.A.C.” & “Deeper Wonders Than the Waves”

@ MAEP Gallery
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Ave. S
Minneapolis

Opening reception 7–9 pm, runs through September 30th / Free

The MIA’s Minneapolis Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) Gallery offers another dual show showcasing artists that challenge viewers to see things differently with experiences outside our typical sensory habits. “U.N.P.A.C.” (which stands for Uniform Non-coding Parallax Autostereogrammic Cyclopti-cryptograms – of course) presents artist Luke Aleckson’s explorations of dual images that when experienced together create optical illusions that transcend the sum of their parts. Through complex abstract wood sculptures viewed in pairs, the artist’s stereogram installations resolve into alternate “inserted” images. Artist Justin Quinn toys with the notion of writing, information and encoded meaning in “Deeper Wonders Than the Waves.” By replicating pages from classic literature with words replaced by thousands of letter E’s and then bending and morphing them into unrecognizable shapes, he implicitly questions the meaning of even the more profound examples of written communication. Both these artists invite their audience to look well beyond the surface of their works, which should make for an intriguing experience. -Anthony Enright

Click HERE for the MIA’s MAEP Gallery site

THURSDAY, JULY 19TH

Summer Sippers Series, Vol. 1

@ XYandZ Gallery
3258 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis

7–10 pm / 21+ / $35 ($25 NSBG members)

We know you’re serious about your cocktails, but it’s not like you gleefully man your home bar chipping off a custom made ice block while muddling rainier cherries and artisanal vodka into delectable craft drinks, right? Um, not us either. However, we know some peeps who do exactly that, and they’re members of the Twin Cities’ hottest guild (sorry stonemasons!), the NorthStar Bartender’s Guild. For the first volume of NSBG’s Summer Sippers series, the group invites Jesse Held, City Pages 2012 winner for Best Bartender and NSBG president, to school you with an informative vodka vs. gin compare and contrast. Jesse will be creating some amazing Absolut Vodka and Bombay Sapphire cocktails (which you can sample) and there will be a convenient “cocktail lab” on premises so you can immediately apply what you learn. Don’t worry about snacking before hand; there will be light appetizers to nibble on as you imbibe. These intimate and exciting NSBG events typically sell out, so make sure to snap up a ticket while you can! -Anthony Enright

Click HERE for the North Star Bartenders Guild site

THURSDAY, JULY 19TH

Gentle Lovers presents: Troisième

@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis

10 pm / 21+ / FREE

It’s a night of smooth sexy jams at Clubhouse Jäger on Thursday night. Gentle Lover, the DJ duo of Grant Cutler and Allegra Ox, bring the sexy back in their Club Jäger monthly. They spin all the greatest retro hip swiveling jams of the ’90s as well as current sex jams and throbbing dance beats. With great drink specials including $2.50 High Life, PBR and Coors Light tall boys and $5 Jamesons, as well as the sexy Jäger patio, it sure to be one satisfyingly hot night. BONUS: The night will double as a super smooth after party for tonight’s Project Runway premiere. -Danielle Morris

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

FRIDAY JULY 20TH–SUNDAY JULY 22ND

“Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”

@ Walker Cinema
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis

7:30 pm Friday, 3 pm & 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday / $9 ($7 Walker members)

Performance art is often outrageous, but it is seldom as intimate, visceral and dangerous as the justly celebrated work of Marina Abramović. For 40 years, her boundary expanding body of work has pushed at the outer edges of the human experience, sometimes literally risking her own life in the process. While many artists aim to shock, few are willing to test their own physical and emotional limits as nakedly as Abramović. If you have not had the opportunity to experience her work in person, the Walker Art Center is offering the next best thing, a screening of the recent documentary film Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, which uses the artist’s 2010 MoMA retrospective as a centerpiece for a broad exploration of her artistic history, motivations and influence. It is one thing to read descriptions and view stills of her more infamous performance pieces and quite another to see them enacted and re-enacted with their painfully intimacy intact. Fair warning: Abramović work has been known to produce spontaneous and sometimes inexplicable outpourings of emotion in viewers, so be aware that you could leave the theatre both emotionally spent and intellectually challenged. -Anthony Enright

Click HERE for the Walker Art Center site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

“Paper View: The 21st Cooperative Exhibition”

@ Highpoint Center For Printmaking
912 West Lake St.
Uptown Minneapolis

Opening reception 6:30 pm, runs through August 31st / FREE

Highpoint’s annual Cooperative Exhibition shows off the wide range of talent that the Highpoint Co-op cultivates, and is a chance for appreciators to gather and celebrate this Minneapolis institution. In addition to providing amazing services for artists and creatives, Highpoint has also become a mecca of creativity brimming with burgeoning and established talent. Thirty-two of the center’s co-op artists will be contributing works to exhibition of over 50 prints. Extra Bonus Awesomeness: Co-op members will receive 20% off all art on the night of the show only. -Beth Hammarlund

Click HERE for the Highpoint Center for Printmaking site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

“Underneath It All”

@ Textile Center
3000 University Avenue SE
Minneapolis

Opening reception 7 pm, runs through August 25th / FREE

Anyone who associates the Textile Center with knitting groups is sorely mistaken. Though the arts of crocheting and knitting are certainly celebrated (and frankly, so are knitting groups), the Textile Center has also established itself as a unique venue that honors avant garde artists and explores the historical significance of textiles. Their newest exhibit, “Underneath It All,” is a celebration and exploration of undergarments, with eleven national artists contributing pieces that transform simple underwear into works of art. The promotional image, “Metal Bra” by Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch, alone is enough to immediately pique our interest. These creative interpretations of traditional garments are sure to challenge our perception of the female form. -Beth Hammarlund

Click HERE for the Textile Center site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH-SUNDAY, JULY 22ND

Highland Fest & Summer Beer Dabbler

@ Cleveland Avenue & Ford Parkway
St. Paul

Festival: 2-10:30 pm Friday, 10 am-10:30 pm Saturday, 11 am–8 pm Sunday / All Ages / FREE
Beer Dabbler: 1-5 pm Saturday / 21+ / $30

Celebrating it’s 29th anniversary this year, St. Paul’s Highland Fest will be pulling out all the stops at their annual summer celebration. The highlight of the weekend will most definitely be the Summer Beer Dabbler, including over 65 breweries to sample along with 200-plus beers, a Home Brew Contest, Lord Dabbler’s Cup (going to the best brewery as voted on by festival-goers), an education tent, and food served by local gourmet food trucks. Live music highlights include R&B singer Chastity Brown on Friday, americana folk band Romantica on Saturday and the Iggy Pop-channeling Japhies on Saturday. Finish the night off with some stellar fireworks happening both Friday and Saturday nights. -Chelsea Streich

Click HERE for the Highland Fest site and HERE for the Beer Dabbler site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Saint Motel w/ Races + Wiping Out Thousands

@ 7th Street Entry
701 First Avenue N
Minneapolis

8 pm doors / 18+ / $8 advance, $10 doors

L.A.’s Saint Motel play a super-catchy, occasionally tongue-in-cheek brand of skittering second-wave-of-new-wave. It’s great stuff – less overly serious than yer usual indie rock (The National, I love you, but I’m looking at you), but with a great sense of light/dark and dynamics. Their debut LP Voyeur is chock full of great songs, including the heavy “You Do It Well” and the rather stirring “1997.” Local connection: frontman AJ Jackson originally hails from Minneapolis, and his parents met at the Entry. Fellow Californians Races play a heavier, darker, slightly more epic brand of rock, but still with a hint of humor in amongst their singalong choruses, whilst local duo Wiping Out Thousands play a fuzzed-out, minimalistic brand of dark electro-pop. -Jon Hunt

Click HERE for the First Avenue site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Lydia Loveless w/ The Union Suits + The Huckleberries

@ Triple Rock Social Club
629 Cedar Avenue
Minneapolis

9 pm / 18+ / $8

Lydia Loveless is phenomenal – a country-tinged singer/songwriter that subverts a lot of the cliches of the genre, especially regarding what kind of music women “should” play. Her songs remind more of, say, a Jay Farrar, full of grit and honesty, with a clear working knowledge of outlaw country and how not to sound precious or dilettantish or like every other damn country singer before her. She’s flanked by a couple of great country-tinged local bands including the the gritty, twangy, trashy Union Suits and the ragged, authentically-outlaw-sounding Huckleberries, who sport some great vocalists that evoke a touch of Waylon himself. -Jon Hunt

Click HERE for the Triple Rock Social Club site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Lizzo and the Larva Ink + UMAMI + Enola Gay + Friends By Fire + Connie Hawkins

@ Kitty Cat Klub
315 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis

8 pm / 21+ / $5

Lizzo and the Larva Ink is a collaboration between up-and-coming MC and vocalist Melissa Vivanne Jefferson (aka Lizzo) and producer Johnny Lewis, who infuse gospel, soul, electro, hip-hop and a heady dance beat. UMAMI play a weirdly tribal sort of electro dance music, not a billion miles from MGMT, I reckon, but with a hell of a lot more genuine weirdness and fucked-up-ness. They’re quickly gaining a reputation of really getting the party started with their sexy, groovy psych rock. Also playing is Enola Gay, which rose from the ashes Chelsea Boys, sounding like they got a hip-hop makeover. Sexed up, dancey club beats with the added vocals of Sypder Baybie Raw Dawg make for a sound that is hotter than a Minnesota summer. -Staff

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Black Blondie + Ashley Gold + The Broken Lines + Hannah von der Hoff

@ Cause Spirits & Soundbar
3001 Lyndale Avenue S
Minneapolis

9 pm / 21+ / $6

Get ready for a night of impossible-to-define, mostly female-led music. Black Blondie play stuff that sounds influenced by electropop, gospel and a touch of afrobeat/reggae but sounds, somehow, like none of that, led by Tasha Barron’s soulful, WInehousian vocals. Ashley Gold’s stuff is not far off from Santigold at times when it’s at its most indie, closer to mid-’80s nightclub soul when it’s not. The Broken Lines play delicate, hushed stuff, mostly toy piano and burlesquey organ with sweet, sometimes playful vocals. And Hannah von deer Hoff, normally co-fronting Sexcat, spins a far lower-key, bluesier web when she’s by herself. Interesting stuff. -Jon Hunt

Click HERE for the Cause Spirits & Soundbar site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Teenage Moods + Guantanamo Baywatch + Ice Rod + The Sex Rays

@ Turf Club
1601 University Avenue
St. Paul

9 pm / 21+ / $7

Friday night at the Turf Club is some is an eclectic bill. The four band lineup is genre spanning and features some of the TC’s best and weirdest, as well as one out of towner. Up first are Joe Hastings-fronted The Sex Rays – surf rock dressed in black leather. Ice Rod, artist and super talent Michael Gaughan’s alter ego, is a freestyle rapper like none other. He maybe best know these days for his live Chat Roulette performances, but this night is just straight up Ice Rod rap jams and freestyles. Portland’s Guantanamo Baywatch play a “slimy surf thrash punk” – think The Ventures meets The Cramps with a sleazy sexed up live show. Sweet! Headlining the night is Teenage Moods, who play a fuzzed up garage rock, with catchy melodies and crunchy guitars. -Danielle Morris

Click HERE for the Turf Club site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Wants Vs. Needs

@ The Record Room
First Avenue
701 1st Avenue N
Minneapolis

10 pm / 21+ / $5

All right, sure, there’s a slew of dance parties around town ever weekend, but the monthly Wants Vs. Needs is nothing to scoff at – especially now that they’re celebrating year number three. The ultra-talented crew of Wants vs. Needs DJs Espada, Anton, Booka B and So Gold guarantee a no-frills night of hip-hop, disco, and R&B that should appeal to vinyl heads and those simply looking to get their groove on alike. This month’s edition is sure to be bittersweet, as it will be Anton’s final night with the crew before dipping to NYC. -Staff

Click HERE for the First Avenue site

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH

Basemint

enter behind Crooked Pint
@ 501 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis

10 pm–2:30 am / 20+ / $5

Join local grassroots promoters Hydrive and Basil Lee along with local DJ vet Jonathan Ackerman as they present a new dance night merging the exclusive vibe of a basement part with the accessibility of a downtown venue. The party features all-nighter tunes from Plain Ole Bill (Get Cryphy), Jonathan Ackerman (Hotel, The Moon Goons, House Party 97 & Extra Large), and DJ SplitScreen, plus basement-style chill zones, hot ‘n’ heavy drink specials and non-stop dance-ability. Enter behind the Crooked Pint for party action. -Juleana Enright

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Artists in Storefronts Opening Reception

@ Black Forest Inn Banquet Hall
1 E 26th Street
Minneapolis

7–10 pm / FREE

A prime example of the phrase “blank walls, blank minds,” the artists involved with the Artists in Storefronts are banning together to spruce up the neglected lots and empty spaces of south MPLS’ Whittier neighborhood and make passersby do a double-take. Encompassing a seven-block stretch of Nicollet Avenue’s Eat Street, the ten eye-catching projects range from posters on windows to colorful, full-on murals like the “moss mural” outside Rainbow Chinese. Artists include Candy Chang, Carrie Thompson, GM Wurtzel, Venus De Mars, Jason Wade and the notorious Scott Seekins. Tonight, don’t miss the opening reception kicking off a slew of awesome storefront exhibits, bike and walking tours, pop-up galleries, murals, performances and other events (occurring through Sept) celebrating the public street art project. -Juleana Enright

Click HERE for the Artists in Storefronts site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

XYandZ Gallery Closing Party + Broken Crow Exhibit Closing Party

@ XYandZ Gallery
3258 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis

Noon-8 pm / FREE

We’re unbelievably sad one of our fave galleries, XYandZ is officially closing their doors, but to lessen the blow, the gallery is hosting an all-day open house fun extravaganza and a last chance to view the exhibit everyone’s been raving about – Broken Crow’s “We Did What We Could.” Stop by today to participate in fun activities like sidewalk chalk art, art-tastic duct tape bracelet making with Susannah Dodge and face painting and pay your respects to a gallery that will definitely be missed. Peep the gorgeously vivid paintings from street art kings, Broken Crow as you snack on treats from Gingerhop and Solomon Bakery. Plus, sip down tasty Joia soda lemonades, bloody marys and mimosas earlier in the day and beer, wine and craft cocktails later in the evening – courtesy of the Northstar Bartenders Guild, and help XYandZ go out with a bang. -Juleana Enright

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

“(re) locate: A Place To Call Home”

@ The Third Place Gallery
3730 Chicago Ave S. Studio B
Minneapolis

Opening reception 7-9 pm, runs through August 16th / FREE

For many of us who have always called Minnesota home it is hard to imagine what the journey is like to get here. Photographers Selma Fernandez and Wing Young Huie explore the ever-changing demographic landscape of Minnesota’s immigrant community. Fernandez and Huie bring the stories to life through interactions and using the subject’s own words. As an opening night tradition at The Third Place Gallery there will be appearances by the artists and a dialogue between Fernandez and Huie reguarding their artistic experiences with the project. -Alexandra Katz

Click HERE for the Third Place Gallery site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Bearded Lady Motorcycle Freak Show

@ 331 Club
331 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis

Music starts at Noon, rally runs all night / FREE

Polish your chrome and dust off your leather (or, alternately, duct tape your muffler and squeeze into your hotpants) for the Bearded Lady Motorcycle Freakshow. Motorcycle modders and rockers alike come together this weekend in and around the 331 to show off their bikes, judge yours, and listen to live rock music until the bar kicks them out. Possibly longer. The lineup of bands playing on both indoor and outdoor stages is too long to list here, but it includes L’Assassins, The Devil’s Caravan, Le Cirque Rouge, The Brass Kings and Moustache Jim & Strait Razors. If you’re feeling competitive, you can even bring your own bike down to be entered into the motorcycle show. Winners from each category are promised fame, glory and indigestion-inducing prizes for their trouble. -Rob Callahan

Click HERE for the Bearded Lady Motorcycle Freak Show site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

“Matter: Metal & Minerals(m3)”

@ Cult Status Gallery
2913 Harriet Avenue S
Minneapolis

7 pm-midnight / FREE

“Matter is all encompassing: Metal is malleable. Minerals are beautiful.” What better theme for an exibit of the power of nature? Using different mediums, this show by visiting gallery, Superior, MN’s Limbo, aims to examine the forms and varying perspectives of these three chemically occurring forces. The music for the evening will be played by the appropriately named Venus DeMars, with art by Jonah Cannon, Eris Vafias, Lesely Lipke, DeMars, Erin Sayer, Justin Sinks, Kristin Martin, Jeffrey Woolverton and Patricia Mahnke. Come dressed in your best metallic or mineral inspired attire. -Alexandra Katz

Click HERE for the Cult Status Gallery site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Nadine DuBois & The Showboat Follies

@ Harriet Island
Harriet Island Road & Wabasha Street N
St. Paul

Bar and decks open at 10 pm, shows begin at 11 pm / $15

A night on Minnesota Centennial Showboat is the perfect way to enjoy the beautiful Minnesota summer, and this week brings an opportunity to see some great live entertainment all at the same time. Lili’s Burlesque founder Nadine DuBois and her lovely Showboat Follies ladies will be performing their all-new burlesque show along with a chorus of dancers, live music, and plenty of comedy. Make the haul to St. Paul and prepare to be entertained by some of the best in the biz. -Chelsea Streich

Click HERE for the Padelford Riverboats site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

CLAPS Tape Release w/ Safewords + Rollerblade + Collin Gorman Weiland

@ Hexagon Bar
2600 27th Avenue S
Minneapolis

9:30 pm / 21+ / FREE

First off, how cool is it that people are releasing cassettes these days? We love when old formats are resurrected and kept alive, and the DIY quality of tapes is something we miss terribly. They’re the
perfect format for the chilly, brit-synth-influenced CLAPS – you can just about imagine playing this stuff in your Ford Festiva or something in the mid-80s. Openers Safewords are far more guitar-oriented, playing a rough ‘n’ ready, post-punky rock that sounds a hell of a lot like early Joy Division. Don’t know much about Rollerblade or Collin Gorman Weiland, but there are also “projections” – which is never a bad idea – and DJs Steve Rosborough and Ollie Moltaji spinning between sets. -Jon Hunt

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Vita.mn’s “List of Lists” Best Of Issue presents Jeremy Messersmith w/ Night Moves + Greycoats

@ First Avenue
701 First Avenue N
Minneapolis

6 pm doors / 18+ / $10 advance, $12 at door

It’s tough to even talk about Jeremy – you all know him, you all love him (at least, you should). His brand of folky, delicate music reminds me a lot of mid-’60s chamber pop bands like the Left Banke and The Zombies, and I’m not even sure he’s heard that stuff. Part of me thinks he just stumbled on the same stuff accidentally, and that’s pretty remarkable. And he’s a peerless songwriter who deserves every accolade he’s gotten. Night Moves play a weird and fascinating blend of mid-’70s soul with touches of LA canyon rock stirred into the pot, while we reviewed Greycoats’ immaculate pop sound a couple of weeks ago in We Will Rock You – it’s great stuff, and overall a fantastic night of magnificent songwriting. -Jon Hunt

Click HERE for the First Avenue site

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Bass United Recording’s 1 Year Anniversary & Patio Party

@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis

4 pm-2 am / 21+ / no cover before 9, $3 after

In epic celebration of Bass United Recording’s one year anni, Jäger welcomes you to get down and drrty on their killer patio for ten hours of electronic, house and party jam hits. Featuring a talented line-up of local DJs and producers, tonight’s bash includes sets from Bass United founder and Jäger alum, Dirty McKenzie, SL8R, Dan Kramer aka Powermountain of electro group Estate, the nationally-known and multi-platinum selling DJ/producer, Gigamesh and Honey’s “House Proud” party floor master, Bryan Gerrard. Plus, check live performances from the DEVO-meets-Kraftwerk-sounding Trapezoids and warm synth beats from local electro RnB-ers Nyteowl. Enjoy $2.50 PBR Tall Boys, 5 buck Jamesons and great deals on Jäger’s delicious bar menu. Arrive before 9 p.m. and skip the cover! -Juleana Enright

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Hands High

@ Honey
205 E Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis

10 pm / 21+ / $5

Put yo hands up in the air… again! Hands High keeps the summer kicking with another fist raisin’, booty shakin’, groove-worthy dance installation at Northeast’s staple danceteria, Honey. Get down and dirty with DJs Plain Ole Bill and Fundo as they spins the hottest hip-hop and R&B grooves all night through. -Staff

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SATURDAY, JULY 21ST

Bach at Eden

@ Eden Courtyard
Chambers Le Meridien
901 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis

9 pm / All Ages / FREE

DJ Bach’s Devotio Moderna night started a couple of years ago with a great concept – a laidback, sophisticated night at Eden with sleek R&B tunes and a themed absinthe drink. This weekend, he returns for a one-off evening of sophisticated, sexy tunes spanning classic and new R&B. The crowd is also sure to be sophisticated and sexy – a far cry from the city’s plethorous 18-plus, rave-tastic dance nights. -Jahna Peloquin

Click HERE for the Facebook invite

SUNDAY, JULY 22ND

Gastro Non Grata: “Legume Liberation”

@ Turf Club
1601 University Avenue S
St. Paul

6-10 pm / 21+ / $10 advance $13 door

Everyone’s favorite unholy marriage of rock and gastronomy is back with a new twist. While Gastro Non Grata is famously carnivorous (they’ve got a Dead Meat Door Prize yo!), with this week’s “Legume Liberation,” they invite all the Veggie lovers among us to rise up with a chorus of La Liberté and chow down on the fiery creations of On’s Thai Kitchen. Libations will be courtesy of local favorites Harriet Brewing, who will provide samples of their uber tasty brews throughout the evening. As you satisfy your hunger, you can rock out to local bands The Pinsch, Cadette and headliner Pink Mink. If you think your special salsa or guac recipe has what it takes, enter it into the Wet Dragons Salsa/Guac Off for a chance to win cool prizes. And if somehow all that’s not enough value for your $10 admission, Gastro promises that their typical Dead Meat Door Prize will be replaced by a similar (but presumably flesh free) vegetarian friendly door prize. For those who are about to rock; Bon Appétit! -Anthony Enright

Click HERE for the Gastro Non Grata blog

SUNDAY, JULY 22ND

Trivia Mafia presents Laborial Day

@ Various locations in Northeast
Beginning & ending @ 331 Club
331 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis

5-8 pm pub crawl, 5-11 pm trivia & coronation / 21+ / FREE

What exactly is Laborial Day? Technically, it is an ancient pagan celebration landing exactly halfway between Labor Day and Memorial Day. Or you could refer to it as a reason to get all of your friends together to test your trivia knowledge while checking out the best bars in Northeast. The trivia pub crawl begins at 331 Club, but make sure to head back there afterwards because the much anticipated Laborial Day King and Queen will be crowned and Trivia Mafia will throw down their raucous trivia night – with prizes! -Chelsea Streich

Click HERE for the Laborial Day site

Editor in Chief: Jahna Peloquin / Header design by Caroline Royce, photo by Robb Long / Contributors: Juleana Enright, Anthony Enright, Jon Hunt, Rob Callahan, Niles Schwartz, Danielle Morris, Meg Junkermeier, Chelsea Streich, Alexandra Katz, Stefani Arden, Beth Hammarlund, Jahna Peloquin