Venturing Out It’s not intentional, you just gotta get out sooner or later. Going outside in subzero temperatures sounds crazy, bordering on insane. But when it’s cold for 4-5 months out of the year you don’t have much of a choice. By the end of January your bartender is your best friend and your roommate [...]
Winter Temperature Gauge: Hot: 50°F Warm: 30°F Most days: 20°F Minnesotans are totally obsessed with weather. It doesn’t matter what time of the year it is. For every point you can make about how beautiful the weather is, someone else will tell you what devastation it will cause. For instance, a mild winter with little [...]
There are exactly one zillion places to eat in Minneapolis proper. Hennepin Avenue is home to many of those restaurants. For starters, the Uptown Bar and Cafe (3018 Hennepin Ave, 612-823-4719). This is the place to be on Saturday and Sunday morning, preferably with the person you picked up the night before. They specialize in [...]
Music, music, music, there are so many music venues in Minneapolis, that there are not enough venues for all the musicians that flock here. When you meet someone here, there’s a good chance they play in a band, have played in a band, or are thinking about starting a band. Note: most bars/clubs with music [...]
City of Lakes International Hostel 2400 Stevens Avenue S, 612-871-3210 Dorm style, 6-9 beds per room $16.00 with student ID or passport, $18.00 otherwise. They also have Private Rooms for up to two people: $36.00 Sunday through Thursday and $38.00 Friday and Saturday. This friendly hostel is located in an historic mansion one mile from [...]
Last Halloween I saw a theater show that completely enraptured me, like nothing I had ever seen before. It was Redmoon Theater’s Halloween Lantern Parade and Spectacle, and hundreds of people were gathered around the steps of the Field Museum to see their free performance. Skeletons danced and beat on drums while telling a story [...]
There are certain things in Chicago that are very hidden. Some things that one would never realize without getting out there and trying to experience new and different things. I happened to be lucky enough to experience a very powerful essence of Chicago’s rich history a few years ago. I was lucky enough to actually [...]
Spring is here! Officially, Spring arrived back in March-although in Chicago that doesn’t mean jack. But now that the temperatures are hovering around the mid-70s, it can be safe to assume that winter is finally over, and people from the city are flocking to the glorious shores of Lake Michigan to hang out and have [...]
Guide to the Best Chicago Bars First of all, a good website and THE premier paper for music shows and what’s going on in Chicago is the Chicago Reader. For a map of the Chicago Train System, click here. Music Venues ROCK Lounge Ax (2438 N. Lincoln Ave., 773-525-6620) (El Stop-Fullerton Brown, Purple, Red) A [...]
Chicagoans seem to easily take their wonderful city for granted. For example, take Buckingham Fountain, which is located in Grant Park—no pun intended (OK, it was a poor and intentional joke). Something that struck my interest recently was the announcement that Buckingham Fountain will be choreographed with music this year. Curious, I just had to [...]
