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6 SoMinn State of Mind

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Well, here we are. Bikini season.

Somewhere, out there on one of our 10,000 lakes, a woman with a flawlessly toned tummy is sunning herself and thinking back on all of the months of diet and exercise that brought her to this victorious moment. I am not that woman. Sure, I had every intention of squeezing into one of those itsy-bitsy, teenyweeny Gold and Purple Pride bikinis. I was going to turn that flab into fab, dammit! I was going to bask unabashedly bare-assed in the glow of the sun and the admiration of my peers…. Sadly, my diet suffered a fatal roundhouse kick to the will-power, courtesy of the SoMinn Food Scene…. It started out innocent enough last summer. Barney’s Rootbeer Stand, a Waseca summer staple, was open for the season. Who was I to turn down a rootbeer float? Or two? Or seven? In September, I found myself at the Defeat of Jesse James Days in Northfield. Nights in a beer tent make for rough mornings, so I crawled over to The Tavern and recovered with eggs, cheesy hash browns, malted waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, spicy sausage patties, and a warm, gooey caramel roll. Sweet revitalization, thy name is Tavern Special. In October, I was looking for a birthday present to send to a friend. I happened to stop in Faribault one day, and a little shop called The Sweet Spot caught my eye. Did you know that The Sweet Spot is home to some of the most delicious fudge the world has ever known? It’s bad form, of course, to send fudge to someone without sampling it yourself to make sure it’s acceptable…. (Fearing an impending sugar coma, I knew the safe thing to do was bop into The Cheese Cave for lunch. Some may say that it’s impossible to eat your body weight in cheese in just one meal. Those people have not been to The Cheese Cave. Amablu Gorgonzola Blue, I love you….) Then there was a dinner date at Söntès in Rochester. We started with tapas- flaky, golden empanadas, sinful Au Bon Canard foie gras, and a creamy

Oysters Brandage- and since tapas are meant to be shared, there was still room in my stomach for a helping of tender, juicy, delicious Braised Lamb Ragout with Polenta. I was about to make a resolution to resume the quest for a bikini body, but then the waiter arrived with my Brioche Bread Pudding French Toast. It’s hard to discuss healthy eating when you’re spooning up butterscotch sauce. By December, I was determined to pick myself up, dust myself off, and get back on the hard-body bandwagon. December is a stupid month to make that kind of decision. What are you supposed to do when a co-worker gifts you truffles from Costa’s in Owatonna? (Eat the entire ½ pound in one sitting, obviously.) January was no better. Cold weather made me want something warm- a simple, low-calorie cup of coffee would hit the spot nicely. Imagine my delight when I stumbled into River Rock Coffee, a St. Peter stand-by, and discovered I could pick between their No-Guilt Caramel or Sinless Chocolate Lattes! Hell, with all of the calories I was saving by ordering one of these tasty sips, I figured I could go ahead and indulge in a small slice of Spiced Apple Sweetbread. If only it had stopped there…I came back the next day with a book, and I left with a bill for two lattes, a piece of Bittersweet Callebaut Chocolate Tart, two Brandied Pear & Candied Ginger Scones, a bowl of Split Pea Soup with a hunk of crunchy/ soft/chewy fresh-baked bread, and a loaf of sourdough to take home. Or eat in my car on the drive home. Who can even remember? February- I took it as a personal challenge to sample all 14 varieties of burgers and 22 tap beers at Patrick’s on 3rd before I finished my St. Peter kick. The Chuck Norris Burger stole my heart (or clogged it) with its 2 pounds of burger, plentiful bacon, and overflow of melty cheese. It might have been just another burger, had it not been for the GRILLED CHEESE in the middle. I remember taking a break from eating out around March….right about the time the Spring Break buzz started. I went to Lonsdale Country Market to purchase some fresh, locally made bratwurst for dinner. Are you aware that Lonsdale Country Market offers bratwurst in a variety of flavors ranging from jalapeno

to jelly bean? Yeahyou read that right. On a completely unrelated note, I’m hosting several grill-outs this summer. You bring the brat buns; my freezer has the rest covered. In April, I decided that summer was never actually coming to Minnesota, so it was totally fine to give up bikini notions and go back to eating out…though, this decision may have conveniently happened while I was on a stopover in Red Wing and became seduced by the smoky scents wafting away from The Smokin’ Oak Rotisserie & Grill. When it comes to wood-fire fare, these guys don’t mess around. Do yourself a favor- go there, get the Rotisserie Sample Platter (chicken, ribs, pulled pork, brisket, and ‘bull bites’), and ask for extra White BBQ Horseradish Sauce. By May, I was in a muumuu, but making progress! So what if it happened to be just on my Pinterest work-out board…it was the first step in the right direction I had taken since last May. When I came across a pin about local ‘food networks’- small scale farmers providing local ingredients to area food businesses- I did the responsible thing and investigated the SE MN Food Network, which is how I ended up drooling over Pumphouse Creamery Ice Cream. The SE MN Food Network provides the key ingredient for Pumphouse’s Strawberry Ice Cream, and though the shop is located in Minneapolis, select flavors of Pumphouse Ice Cream can be found in Northfield at the Just Food Co-op. So here I sit in June, sweating in my air-conditioned office as I struggle to spoon out a wedge from my half a grapefruit and readjust the pinching waistband of my stretch pants. Southern Minnesota is a dangerous place for a diet.

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y older daughter brought her boyfriend home from college a couple weeks ago. We had to have the long conversation/negotiation about where said young man was going to sleep. She had made the assumption that he would, of course, be staying in her room. Being a concerned father, and wanting to be a good host, I suggested that he might be more comfortable in a room of his own.

In Duluth, perhaps. My wife pointed out that her parents made me sleep outside of her room whenever we would visit them in Arizona, right up until the day we got married (truth be told, I’m surprised my father-in-law doesn’t still enforce this rule twentyodd years later). Our younger daughter, 16 years old, piped in that she saw no problem with the two sharing a bed. My wife shot her a curious and accusing look. She then pointed out that the young lady has a problem with any displays of affection, and raises a fuss every time my wife and I so much as flirt with each other. “Yeah,” said my daughter. “But you guys are old and gross.” Yep. She went there. I’ll just let those words hang in the air for a moment. Old and gross. Let’s forget for just a minute, that I am the youngest 44 year old man in history; that I love loud music, comic book movies and tattoos. Let’s forget for a moment that my sixteen year

old daughter lectures me on a daily basis, usually having something to do with driving and the use of my turn signal. And let’s forget for just a second that I’m easily one of the youngest parents among her group of friends. Let’s leave all that aside. Assuming she’s right, I just have to ask this question – when did this happen, and why the heck am I just finding out about this now? Let’s take on the “Gross” accusation first, because that’s the easiest to dispute. Yes, I’m “a little on the heavy side”, and there is no question I could use a haircut more often than not. But I’m not gross. I shower. I brush my teeth. I wear relatively clean clothes. I chew with my mouth closed. There is nothing about me that screams “Eww!” I should add, this goes double for my wife. You aren’t gross either, honey. The “Old” accusation is much, much harder to overcome. There’s more gray hair every day, especially in my beard. The hair on my head that isn’t gray likes to jump off my scalp and float ever-solightly onto my keyboard. My knees make some truly awful sounds when I stand up (OK, I admit, that’s gross). I have a hard time getting through a movie that doesn’t start before 8:00 pm. My love for that loud music has left a consant ringing in my ears, which sometimes makes it appear like I’m not paying attention to the person talking to me. (Please, it isn’t that. It’s just that I have to make of more of an effort to hear you, so the words you’re saying need to be a little more worthwhile.) I sit in my chair at night watching the news on TV and I catch myself grumbling (in my own defense, however, I’d like to point out that I’m grumbling ABOUT the Tea Party, and not WITH them). In hindsight, I have to say the warning signs have been there for a while. I just didn’t want to see them. The last few years in my jobs as a bartender and with the Minnesota Twins ticket office, I’ve worked with a lot of 20-somethings, and a few people still in college. You hang around the Mille-

nial generation enough, you’ll quickly realize that the cultural references you have made for some, er, 25-30 years, aren’t quite as fresh as they used to be. It seems quoting the Breakfast Club, or Sixteen Candles, or really any movie starring Andrew McCarthy isn’t ubiquitously understood anymore. If I make a reference to Manuel Noriega or Tip O’Neil, I’ve come to expect a blank look or two. And, as it turns out, not everybody knows who sang Come On Eileen (if you immediately said to yourself “Dexy’s Midnight Runners”, I’m guessing you also have at one time or another been a big fan of Pat Benatar). Occassionally, someone won’t even know what a Wookie is. It’s enough to make a man cry in his New Coke. I can’t possibly be getting old. I’m Generation X, for cryin’ out loud! We’re the slacker generation. Crashing on the couch and channel surfing was supposed to be the fountain of youth. How can you get old when you’re watching a ScoobyDoo marathon on the cartoon network and eating a two pound bag of cheetos? Well, OK, that wasn’t me. I quit smoking that stuff a long, long time ago. But when I would (occassionally), I’d listen to music with lyrics that said things like “And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.” Ain’t that the truth, Roger? And so it is. It may be that I have outlived my youtful outlook. I cannot say with a straight face that I have gotten old. But perhaps its time to admit that I’m not a kid anymore. My knees and my back will tell surely you that. I guess its finally time to accept the words of one my dearly departed heroes: “Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans.” Maybe. But at least, as a grown-up, I get to decide where the boyfriend sleeps. When Rich Larson isn’t pushing his walker aimlessly down the streets of Southern Minnesota, he is the editor of SouthernMinn SCENE. You can reach him at editor@ southernminnscene.com.

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“I just have a philosophical commitment to community gardening. I think it’s really important. Victory gardens are a really cool part of our history, and I would just like to see more interest in community gardens. And there does seem to be an increasing interest across the country.” – Bess Tsaouse By RICH LARSON editor@southernminnscene.com

ne of the great statements about Minnesotans is that we don’t enjoy summer, we attack it. We get cooped up for so long in the winter that when it finally does warm up, we come out running and screaming like Macauley Culkin in Home Alone. And we all do it in different ways. Some of us spend every free moment we can spare at a cabin, some of us get on our fat tire bikes and head off into the woods, some of us wander into our back yards and plant a garden. So, what do you do if you’re one of those green thumbed people who love to put your hands into the dirt and raise a beautiful tomato plant from some seeds in an envelope, but you don’t have a back yard? Or your yard isn’t

suited for a garden? Or you just plain don’t have enough space for everything you want to grow? If you live in Mankato, you head over to the west side of town. Nestled behind the Crossview Covenant Church, there are 44 plots that make up the River Meadows Community Garden. For folks with the will to garden, but not the way, a place like River Meadows is the perfect solution. A modest annual fee of $30 will get you your very own 10’ x 15’ parcel of Earth to dig, plant, nurture and enjoy. Plus you get to do it surrounded by like-minded people like Lynn Solo and Bess Tsaouse who, along with Solo’s 2nd grade granddaughter Samantha, were kind enough to take a newbie know-nothingabout-gardening writer by the hand and explain the simple joys of tilling soil and raising squash. “I just have a philosophical commitment to

The River Meadows Community Garden in Mankato. Photo courtesy of Bess Tsaouse

community gardening,” said Tsaouse, who organizes and coordinates the plots at River Meadows. “I think it’s really important. Victory gardens are a really cool part of our history, and I would just like to see more interest in community gardens. And there does seem to be an increasing interest across

the country.” She’s right. With the increased societal awareness of organic farming, health consciousness, and just plain knowing where your food is coming from, a lot of Americans have found their way back to our pioneering, er, roots. More and more we hear about

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From 7 the potential downside of genetically modified seeds and processed food “products”. And frankly, the more you read, the less appetizing it sounds. What would you rather have – a “processed tomato product” or a vine ripened, big, juicy, red beefsteak tomato? It’s pretty simple. Today it just makes a lot of sense to raise a little bit of your own food. But, there are practical reasons for community gardening as well. “One of the reasons I garden here is my backyard is very shady, and you can’t grow tomatoes in the shade,” Solo told me. “Tomatoes need lots of light,” chimed Samantha with a precocious smile. This is not to say Community Gardening is a new idea. Indeed, according to the University of Missouri’s Agriculture Extension website, commu-

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nity gardens have been a part of American culture since the late nineteenth century. Evidently they were used “as a way to provide land and technical assistance to unemployed workers in large cities and to teach civics and good work habits to youth.” The U.S. Government encouraged the development of community gardens during World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Victory Garden Campaign that Tsaouse mentioned encouraged the home front to grow their own food in order to reduce stress on the pre-occupied American industrial complex. Eleanor Roosevelt planted a garden on the White House lawn. It was said the gardens could not only increase much needed food production, but could also provide recreation and improve morale while the boys were off fighting the Nazi’s.

A Community Garden in its Full Glory. Photo courtesy of Bess Tsaouse

After the threat of Adolf Hitler was gone, the gardening programs became less popular, only to be revived again by the turbulent economics of the 1970’s. High unemployment and double digit inflation is evidently excellent motivation to go out and grow yourself some zucchini, which can begin to explain the resurgence in interest over the last four of five years. But, let’s be honest, very few people tend a garden out of necessity anymore. They do it because it’s food for the soul, it’s an excellent excuse to spend time outside, and the rewards are obvious. And why not do it with other people who enjoy it too? “It’s neat, the people who come out” said Solo. “I was out here the other day, and there was a man sitting in the pathways, doing some planting. He had all of his little plants in little cups; they were all his babies. And he was watering them – he put water in this can that had holes in the bottom so it just sprinkled them, and it was just perfect. I know those were his babies that he had raised from seed.” “We have a couple of families who are gardening here,” she continued, “and they do it together. The kids get to learn something. They get outside, they get some

exercise, they get to run around a little bit. We have one family that has four little girls, the youngest is probably four. All four of those little girls are allowed to grow something that they choose. They plant it, and water it and weed it.” It makes sense that a community garden would foster the next generation. “One of our goals is to increase kid participation,” added Tsaouse. “We want to help them understand that there food doesn’t just come from Cub. Hopefully they’ll gain an appreciation for plants and the Earth and what it does for us. It’s about learning that we should be in sync with nature.” Getting in sync can sometimes seem easier said than done. When Solo set out to start a community garden a few years ago she had funding from the Minnesota Statewide Health Improvement program, compatriots like Tsaouse, and an overabundance of enthusiasm. What she didn’t have was land. “Our first job was to find a big green space that would allow us to have a garden,” she said. “It was a huge challenge. I started feeling very covetous because I’d see these big green church

lawns and school lawns. We found out we were competing with soccer fields.” Eventually, with a little help from the Mankato city manager, they connected with Crossview Covenant, but the bureaucracy didn’t stop there. As it turns out there’s much more to starting a community garden than just digging in the ground. “We had to decide where are we going to get the fence, where are we going to get the compost, where are we going to get this, where are we going to get that,” said Tsaouse. “We had to talk to an attorney endlessly. Because it was money coming from the state, we had to rewrite our contract and our plan multiple, multiple times.” Finally, they crossed the “t’s” and dotted the “i’s”. Four years later, they are a well-organized group. “There’s a contract all the gardeners have to read, agree to and sign,” said Tsaouse. “The rules are essentially to keep things fair and make sure we’re all good neighbors to each other.” As is the case with all communities, there have been growing pains. Solo and Tsaouse estimate that, while the garden’s original twenty plots filled out rather quickly, they’ve had close to 50% turnover

since the beginning. And with the expansion of the garden, has come the occasional-yet-inevitable abandoned garden plot. “Sometimes we’ll have an abandoned plot, for whatever reason,” Tsaouse said. “People have time constraints, unforeseen circumstances. Things happen in life. But usually some of us will take over the work of weeding it and nurturing it, and seeing what grows. We have a nice little lady named Marian, who just loves to garden. She lives in an apartment, and she just loves to be outside. And she comes out and works in her garden, and if she sees another plot that needs weeding, she’ll work that one, too.” Those abandoned plots can have a nice little benefit to the community as well. “Some of our food, we take over to Echo (the Echo Food Shelf of Mankato)”, said Solo. The food that comes from a garden that belongs to nobody gets donated to those who really need it. “We don’t have a dedicated Echo plot, but we can pretty much count on an abandoned plot or two,” said Tsaouse. “And we’ll donate that food to Echo.” There’s even scientific benefit that can come from a community gar-

River Meadows encourages the participation of families and kids.

den. “A project that we’re doing is about honey bees,” Solo tells me. “They’re population is suffering, but we need them to pollinate our vegetables. So, Bess got involved with this thing called the Great Sunflower Project. She got some special sunflower seeds that attract bees. So, we’ll plant them, and when they bloom, our job is to just watch them for ten to fifteen minutes every day and count how many bees come to them, and then report on their website (www.greatsunflower. org).” “We’re hoping that more of our gardeners will

join in, and I’m hoping that will form more community,” added Tsaouse. It’s a community that already seems to be shaping up nicely. Tsaouse explained that while gardening is not a halfhearted endeavor, it does tend to have some deep personal benefits. “There are many challenges, and it is a lot of work involved. It’s not like you see in a gardening magazine or Martha Stewart. I tell people ‘your nails are going to be dirty, and it’s going to be hot and the bugs are going to bite.’ We learn new things every year – what worked and what didn’t work. We had a lot of turnover after our first year, so we do lose people. But I think now we’re getting a committed group. “I’m optimistic that we’ll be doing this for a long time. You have to be optimistic. Otherwise you can’t garden.” Rich Larson is the editor of Southern Minnesota SCENE. You can reach him at editor@southernminnscene. com.

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By J.EDWIN BISHOP editor@southernminnscene.com

Why do I shop at the co-op? It could be the food, although I can get food lots of places. It could be the discount, I do work there, but I’ve purchased my food from them long before they employed me. It could be the environment, because in an already small and homey town, somehow the co-op feels even smaller and homier. It could be the amount of local product, the organic product, grass-fed beef or maybe just the mushroom selection, but all of that can be accomplished through CSA’s or the farmer’s markets or even buying directly from local farmers. I don’t need the co-op for any of that, so the why do I shop there? Jonathan Safran Foer wrote a book released in 2009 titled Eating Animals. It’s a piece of non-fiction that essentially explores the cultural meaning of food and the social norms and practices of food consumption. Essentially he is a vegetarian/sometimes vegan who has recently had a child, and debates whether or not he can force his own dietary habits on his son. This general question leads him to explore what has been dubbed “factory farming” in America and the general practices that lie there-in. He

never, in my opinion, comes to any definitive conclusion in regards to his son’s dietary constraints. What he does do is shed light on “factory farming” practices and their impact on the animals in those farms, the environment and their end destination, our stomachs. “Factory farming” essentially grew out of the agricultural revolution and took root in the early 20th century, starting with chicken farms but soon spreading to pig and cattle farms. The discovery of vitamins, antibiotics and vaccines as well as the capability to ship product at a much larger scale and further than before caused some farmers to increase production by shrinking animal living space and caging a far larger number than their farms had ever processed before. The living conditions of these animals worsened year by year as the practice developed, with far too little regulation by the government watching over them. Then came what I thought was the most interesting part of Safran Foer’s tale. He discovered, despite being a vegetarian/ sometime vegan himself, some of the most interesting people he met along his journey were small, local farmers. They treated their livestock ethically, let them roam the pastures leisurely and slaughtered them humanely. I know, slaughtered and humanely don’t quite sound like they should be in the same sentence together, but Safran Foer found that these small farms were doing exactly that. They cared about their livestock, they believed in practicing not only the ethi-

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cal, but what they saw as the correct way of raising livestock. They thought that just because an animal was eventually going to end up on a platter at Sunday dinner didn’t mean they couldn’t have a good life leading up to that. In the end, the author comes to a conclusion he didn’t really set out looking for. The realization that it’s ok for you to eat meat, just as it is ok for him to be a vegetarian/ sometimes vegan. But if you are going to eat meat, he asks that you be responsible about it. That you look into where your meat is coming from, that it is not the product of a “factory farm”, that you take the time to investigate what it is you’re eating before you sit down and eat. That novel concept changed my way of thinking. I’m not going to claim I’m responsible 100% of the time. I’m not going to tell you I haven’t eaten at Culvers in the past year. I’m not even going to try and tell you I haven’t bought a 6-pack of microwaveable White Castle burgers recently. I’m only human, and therefore have some inherent weaknesses. But I will tell you that 9 times out of 10, 99 out of 100, I think about what I’m putting into my body. Safran Foer, in the back material of Eating Animals, lists a number of resources for investigating the food you consume. He provides a list of local farmers across the nation practicing the ethical treatment of their livestock. He implores you to spend some time thinking about what you buy on the shelves, what you feed your children, what

you support with your dollar. Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t always have the time for that (remember, I did buy that frozen 6-pack of White Castle burgers recently). That’s where Just Food Co-op, or any other of the local co-ops in Southern Minnesota , comes in. They do the heavy lifting for me. Through product policy and a commitment to the local community, they’re already doing the research for me. They’re buying from local farmers who do practice ethical and humane treatment of livestock. They’re working with farmers who don’t use pesticides or GMO’s on their product. They’re dealing with certified organic farmers, and they’re letting me know where and how those products are getting on the shelves in front of me. And if I have a question, they know the answer. They are a group of people committed to health, conscience and the betterment of the world we live in. They believe that what we eat should be healthy, that it shouldn’t be genetically modified. That it should be natural. They believe what we feed our children, our friends, our neighbors should be good, whole food. Also, most importantly, they believe food should be good. So the questions shouldn’t really be why do I shop at the co-op? The question really is why wouldn’t I shop at the co-op? J. Edwin Bishop is the Front End Manager at Just Food Co-Op in Northfield. You can reach him by emailing editor@southernminnscene.com

Community Supported Agriculture model finding success in Southern Minnesota By JERRY SMITH editor@southernminnscene.com

ouanne Kaupa likes to know who is growing her family’s food. That’s why the Owatonna dietitian and owner of Eat Well Nutrition Therapy, LLC is willing to drive to a community supported agriculture farm (CSA) some 25 miles away each week during the spring and summer to get her vegetables and fruits. She isn’t alone. This year, there are 100 CSAs in the state, which

is up from 42 in 2009. In 2004, there were only eight, according to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, which publishes an annual directory called Minnesota Grown. “They have exploded,” said Paul Hugunin, who supervises the department’s local foods directory. “We have seen dramatic growth sustained over a decade. It’s an appealing model and something consumers want. It’s a way to have the closest relationship with a farm.”

knowing they’ve paid up front,” he said. Kaupa is a member of Big Woods Farm in Nerstrand. She is back after the CSA closer to home no longer is in business. She is looking forward to the second time at Big Woods Farm being as good as the first. “Big Woods has such a great variety of fruits and vegetables throughout the summer,” said Kaupa, who has been a member of a CSA (including Big Woods) since 2007. “There are weeks when I haven’t finished the vegetables I received and we have to make room for more. But generally, we try to eat The CSA share what we pick.” from Big Woods One of Farm oftentimes Kaupa’s fondest includes flowers. food memories (Submitted photo) is associated with Big Woods. She took her son and two friends to the CSA after soccer practice one night to pick green beans. The boys couldn’t wait to eat the beans they had picked and started right in on them in the fields and then in the car. “Here are three 13-yearold boys eating the beans not only when they were picking them, but on the

Not only do members like Kaupa receive numerous benefits — like taking home almost more freshly grown organic fruit and vegetables than her family can eat in a week — the community supported agriculture model also offers practical benefits for the farms, too, Hugunin said. He said that having the members already in place adds a little predictability to an inherently unpredictable endeavor. The benefit is in “knowing how many customers you have, and

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There is a growing number of people choosing to become members of community sponsored agriculture (CSA) farms all across Southern Minnesota and Minnesota. Local Harvest helps newcomers become familiar with the model.

Community Supported Agriculture For over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Interested consumers purchase a share (aka a “membership” or a “subscription”) and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season. This arrangement creates several rewards for both the farmer and the consumer. In brief...

Advantages for farmers:

• Get to spend time marketing the food early in the year, before their 16 hour days in the field begin • Receive payment early in the season, which helps with the farm’s cash flow • Have an opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food they grow

From 11 car ride home. It was priceless,” she said. “My kids and husband have openly acknowledged that organic vegetables are more flavorful than those packaged in the store. How can it not be so flavorful after being picked that day and served right away? There is nothing better than gardengrown vegetables. That’s my candy.”

Pioneers Big Woods Farm is owned and run by David and Laurie Hougen-Eitzman, a farm originally settled by Laurie’s great-great grandparents. They bought the farm from Laurie’s uncle and grow vegetables on about 10 acres, while 50 acres of tillable land is being used for organic alfalfa, corn, soybeans and small grains. The farm sits adjacent to Big Woods State Park near Nerstrand. David and Laurie got their introduction to the CSA model of farming about 22 years ago while living in California. The CSA model was just taking off, Laurie said. “We really liked the idea of bringing consumers into the model rather than being separate,” she said. “Many people want to know where their food comes from and we really wanted to farm using organic methods. The two seemed to go together well.” Beginning their 21st year as a CSA, David and Laurie now offer about 75 shares (about 115 families), with about half in Rice County and the other

half in the Twin Cities. And while the Nerstrand farmers know the risks involved, they believe the CSA model is the way to go. “Farming is so risky,” Laurie said. “In Minnesota, it is a bit more challenging because of the weather. Hoop houses have definitely helped, though. Connecting with the members and getting to meet the people is an added bonus.” The Nerstrand farmers pride themselves on providing fresh vegetables to their members. In fact, they harvest most of their fruits and vegetables the same day they are delivered. It’s a practice not lost Karla Pankow on Kaupa, who of Bossy Acres unloads has a full share a box of “bossy’s sweet at Big Woods pea shoots” at NorthFarm. field’s Just Food Co-op. “The The delivery was the first vegetables are “of hopefully many” to really fresh,” the co-op, said Pankow. Kaupa said. (Jerry Smith/ “Nothing tastes Southern Minn SCENE) better than fresh vegetables and fruit and Big Woods Farm believes in providing their members with all things fresh.” melons and cut flowers and have a community supported agriculture (CSA) program in rural Northfield after being accepted into Organic Field School’s Incubator Program One of the newest CSA (not for profit program out of farms in southern Minnesota The Wedge Co-op), which runs is Bossy Acres just outside of out of the well-known Gardens Northfield. Now in its second of Eagan property. growing season, Bossy Acres Karla Pankow and Elizabeth specializes in vegetables, herbs, Millard opened their CSA in

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Advantages for consumers: • Eat ultra-fresh food, with all the flavor and vitamin benefits • Get exposed to new vegetables and new ways of cooking • Usually get to visit the farm at least once a season • Find that kids typically favor food from “their” farm — even veggies they’ve never been known to eat • Develop a relationship with the farmer who grows their food and learn more about how food is grown

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2011. The two took workshops on growing, transportation, farm planning and marketing, to name just a few. With that understanding, the partners set out not only to be a successful CSA, but also to become a resource for the community in which they grow. With those tenets in mind, Bossy Acres focuses on sustainable farming practices, strong land stewardship and community-based programs. Millard said that Bossy Acres was successful in 2012, with 47 memLaurie bers. That number Hougen-Eitzman has jumped to 70 waters plants in one this year, and she of the greenhouses believes that has at Big Woods Farm in come with experiNerstrand. ence and creating (Photo courtesy of Big a vision early on of Woods Farm) what they wanted to do. Knowing Bossy Acres would be a part of the incubator program helped as well. “It’s huge for us to be in the incubator program,” she said. “It has helped us get a good start on the season. We’re coming in even stronger.” In 2012, Bossy Acres vegetables could be found at a number of Twin Cities restaurants, farmer’s markets and

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Elizabeth Millard (left) and Karla Pankow plant seeds in trays that will be grown in Bossy Acre’s section of the Organic Field School’s Incubator Program greenhouse, which runs out of the Gardens of Eagan property. (Jerry Smith/ Southern Minn SCENE)

Elizabeth Millard waters the hundreds of vegetables growing in the Bossy Acres section of the hoop house in April. (Jerry Smith/ Southern Minn SCENE)

food co-ops. This year, Northfielders will be able to find Bossy Acres products at the Just Food Co-op. Pankow delivered the farm’s first product – “bossy’s sweet pea shoots” – to the co-op in April. Just Food Co-op Produce Manager Matt Malecha said they were pleased to have Bossy Acres products in the store. “We are happy to be offering Bossy Acres products,” he said. “Bossy has just relocated to the new Gardens of Eagan farm, six miles north of Northfield. They will be a welcome addition for our local, organically grown greens, year round.”

While Bossy Acres is the newest and Big Woods Farm is one of the oldest, there are numerous CSAs in southern Minnesota. The Sustainable Farming Association is working on a directory of CSA farms. Laurie HougenEitzman said that will help people know where to go in a specific area. “None of us are getting rich, but people are working hard to make it a sustainable model,” Laurie said. “We definitely want people to support this model.” You can reach Jerry Smith at editor@southernminnscene.com.

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e here in southern Minnesota are surrounded by farming. We are no strangers to the fruit-of-theland economy. We relish in the abundance of fresh sweet corn from road side stands, we grumble excessively at the tractor going 20 on the highway, and we all adore a walk-thru of the 4-H buildings during fair season. Vegetable produce and livestock may be the breadwinners of Minnesota agriculture, but there’s a rising star on the horizon here in SoMinn- wine. There are a handful of cold hardy vines that can stubbornly tolerate our frigid winters and still manage to catch Bacchus’s eye. With the introduction of the University of Minnesota’s Frontenac grape, winemakers in Minnesota struck a veritable cornucopia of success. Described by some as the ‘workhorse’ of Minnesota wine production, the Frontenac lends itself to red of all varieties, rosès and ports. A mutation of the vine added more fuel to the Frontenac fire in the form of the Frontenac gris: an amber colored grape that brings notes of bright citrus while still maintaining some of the sweet fruitiness of it’s older sibling. Other Minnesota favorites include the La Crescent- the golden bedrock of whitesand the Marquette- a rich jewel in complex reds. With unique wine comes a unique culture. The vineyards of SoMinn are not content to simply produce a bottle and ship it off for sale- oh no. If you’re looking for superb sips and an excellent outing, check out one of these wonderful wineries…

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The Gourmand: Morgan Creek Vineyards, New Ulm Located a short drive outside of New Ulm, Morgan Creek offers an array of award-winning wines and a mouth-watering brick oven menu guaranteed to satisfy. During the summer months, Morgan Creek kicks off each weekend with ‘Wine Down’ Fridays-a relaxed evening filled with good music (usually jazz) and great refreshments. Producing 38,000 bottles of wine each year just wasn’t enough for the folks at Morgan Creek. In 2011, Morgan Creek partnered with Chef Paul Lynch (Fire Lake Grill House, Minneapolis) on a Farm to Table dinner project that centered around a custom built Imu pit and rotisserie oven on the vineyard property. For those lucky enough to attend one of the annual Farm to Table events (or secure the pit for a private event), make sure you’re hungry- Chef Lynch (with the assistance of New Ulm’s own Lacey Luth, Lola’s Larkspur) christened the pit with a Hawaiian-style whole pig…who knows what they’ll decide to do next! If you’re looking for locally produced wines and gourmet food with a great view, Morgan Creek can’t be beat.

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Flower Valley Vineyard: www.flowervalleyvineyard.com 29212 Orchard Rd Red Wing, MN 55066 (651) 388-1770

Recommendations: Appetizer: Swiss Raclette “Wood fired oven toasted French baguette stuffed with traditional Gruyere cheese and garnished with fresh rosemary” Entrée: Chicken Artichoke Pizzette “Garlic chicken and artichoke, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese, fresh basil and olive oil” Dessert: St. Peter’s River Rock Café Chocolate Earl Grey Cookies “Delicate chocolate cookies made with Valrhona chocolate and a hint of Earl Grey tea.” Wine: Zeitgeist “Award winning Zeitgeist made from La Crescent, in the traditional Germanic style, has intense apricot and muscat aromas and an appealing late harvest elegance reminiscent of a spatlese Riesling (semi-sweet white).”

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The New Comer: Flower Valley Vineyard, Red Wing Nestled in the bluffs of the Mississippi Valley, you’ll find a quiet little piece of land that seems more suited for an Italian countryside. Congratulations, you’ve found Flower Valley

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From 15 Vineyard- a remarkable winery producing some of the most intriguing wines this writer has ever had the pleasure of sipping. In 2005, this family owned farm enjoyed it’s first harvest- a process that took only 45 minutes by hand. The harvest now takes four weeks (still all by hand with the help of community volunteers), with yields close to 40,000 pounds of grapes annually. Flower Valley tends to upwards of at least seven different types of vines- including another mutation of the Frontenac dubbed the Frontenac Blanc (one of four vineyards to have produced this grape, which they generously gifted to the University of Minnesota). The tasting area opened last September, and if you’re a wine-lover you’ll do yourself a favor and stop in on a Saturday afternoon, or plan ahead and treat yourself and your friends to a private session hosted by the lovely Mary.

Recommendations: 2012 Blend (‘Joyce’s Blend’) A first impression of oak is subtly cut by a fresh, grassy note- almost reminiscent of the scent of sun-warmed wood. The hint of vanilla that touches the tongue with the first sip is short-lived, followed promptly by a refreshing pineapple that rounds into something smooth, yet bright. Frontenac Gris, 2012 This Riesling style white is a curious delight of succulent fresh strawberry and savory smoke. The exciting strawberry scent would rival that of a fresh picked berry, and the smoky undertones that follow on the finish make this wine the perfect companion for a bit of prosciutto. Marquette, 2011 A luscious Pinot Noir style red, the Marquette 2011 is tannin-rich and oak soaked to perfection. A cold slate and sharp pepper backbite are polished with black currant and berry and bound together with a sliver of smoke. Mary joked that this is a ‘three sip’ wine. On the first sip, your tongue will say ‘What did you do to me?’, the second sip: ‘I kind of like this…’, and the third: ‘Oh….I really like this’.

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The Entertainer: Indian Island Winery, Janesville Tired of the typical bar band and beer weekend? Then head on over to Indian Island Winery for a fresh take on the band, beverage and bar food. It seems that each month, Indian Island also puts on a special event, ranging from a Summer Solstice Celebration (June 22), a Murder Mystery (June 29 & Sept. 21) and an AfterThanksgiving Basket Sale/Food Demo (Nov. 30). Live music is a staple at Indian Island, with musicians performing each Friday and Saturday evening during the summer. Indian Island is the perfect spot to kick back with a burger (Bison or Elk?) and work your way through a wine tasting (where $5.00 earns you 7 wines and a takehome glass). If you’re in the mood to indulge, I highly encourage you to splurging on a slice of cheesecake and a bottle or two of Indian Island’s dessert wines.

Indian Island Ice “Indian Island Ice is a “true” ice wine harvested in mid December with an air temperature of 5 degrees above zero. After 36 hours of pressing the frozen grapes, we ended with juice at a high sugar level of 40 brix. It was fermented to about 12% alcohol and remains with about 19% residual sugar. It is a dessert Ice wine made with the Frontenac Gris grape. It has aromas of peach and apricot and goes great with cheesecake, hard cheeses, and many other foods.”

Morgan Creek Winery pit dinner Chef Lynch.

Wita-Pa (Seasonal) “Sweet red dessert table wine. Cinnamon and spice flavors fill this wine with holiday spirit. Recommended to serve lightly warmed. Great with turkey, pumpkin pie, and chocolate.” You can reach Lauren Zimmerman at editor@ southernminnscene.com.

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Saucy. Hot. Fresh. Delicious. Hungry yet?

izza, though Italian in origin, is the most American of foods. It’s a dish meant to be shared. Need help moving furniture? Thank your buddies with pizza. Grabbing lunch for the office? Nobody complains about pizza. And while that greasy $5 sausage pizza hocked by a balding man in a toga can be the ultimate cure for late-night munchies, there are times when the palate craves something a little more than grease and Crazy Bread. We’re talking pizza with a little pizzazz: wood-fired pizza. Wood-fired pizza is an age-old tradition quickly resurfacing as the latest food craze. The secret is in the oven. Usually made of brick, the stone surface can reach temperatures over 800 degrees, but the air inside the oven remains around 550 degrees. That means the crust of the pizza crisps up quickly, while the toppings melt together but don’t burn. This combination makes for a slightly smokey, thin and crispy pizza that takes only 90 seconds to become perfect. In SoMinn, you can’t beat these pizza joints that serve their pies with the best local, fresh ingredients.

Pi Wood-Fired Pizza in Rochester

In an unassuming strip mall in the Med City lies a SoMinn pizza favorite. Unlike the other delicious establishments on this list, Pi Wood-Fired is open all year round. Customer favorites are American classics like the Buffalo Chicken, but you can also tour world cuisine with the Greek (kalamata olves, feta cheese) and the Chicken Curry (curry sauce, cilantro). Can’t pick just one? Build your own ‘za with killer toppings like applewood smoked bacon and gouda cheese. Where: 3932 Marketplace Dr NW, Rochester, MN 55901 When: 7 days a week, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Hot tip: Order online and get your pie ahead of the dinner rush at live4pi.com.

A chef throws pizza dough at Pi Wood-Fire Pizza in Rochester (photo courtesy of Pi Wood-Fired Pizza).

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The Red Barn in Northfield

Owners Pat and Tammy Winter bought their little farm in Rice County several years ago. What was supposed to be a relaxing hobby farm, though, turned in to a bustling business. At first the Winters began inviting friends over for outdoor dinners on Wednesday nights serving up the dishes derived from their 3-acre garden. “We really like to emphasize the seasonality of the land,” Pat Winter said in an interview. But what started as a few friends over for din-

ner quickly grew to 200 people. Suddenly the Winters couldn’t operate like a backyard party anymore. Now, after building a brand new pizza oven and bringing their establishment up to code, the Red Barn will be open this summer for dining under the stars. Where: 10063 110th Street S, Northfield When: Wednesday nights and the third Sunday of every month May-September Hot tip: Love the scenic locale? Red Barn can host weddings!

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Berne Wood Fired Pizza Tucked away in the midst of the prairie is the little town of Berne. Best known for the annual “Swissfest” celebration, Berne has more to offer these days than Fahnenschwingen (Flag Throwing) and Steinstossen (Stone Throwing). Last summer, the folks at Zwingli United Church of Christ built a brick pizza oven to spread the good word of wood-fired pizza across the land. Drop by on a Wednesday night to rub elbows with the locals and bite into an ooey-gooey hand-made pizza slice.

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Anthony’s Wood-Fired Pizza in Rochester Jumping on the bandwagon of the food truck trend is Anthony’s Wood-Fired Pizza. The

Lawler brothers, Joseph and Anthony run the joint--with 29-year-old Joseph handling customer service and Anthony, 21, spinning the pies. They’ve been in business for about a year and their signature food truck trailer has been spotted all over Minnesota. This past winter, Anthony’s Wood-Fired was a huge success at many Polar Bear Plunges, including the Minneapolis plunge on Lake Calhoun. “Anthony stays warm and toasty working in front of the oven, but the rest of us have to put on our wool socks and long underwear,” Joseph Lawler, an Army veteran, said with a laugh. This summer, taste their decadently crunchy thin crust pizzas at local SoMinn festivals like the Pine Island Cheese Fest, Oronoco Gold Rush Days or the Lake City Water Ski Days. Where: Home-base is Rochester, but Anthony’s goes all over the state When: June 7-9 in Pine Island, June 28-30 in Lake City, August 16-18 in Oronoco and more local fairs and festivals to come Hot tip: Like Anthony’s Wood-Fired Pizza on Facebook for their full summer schedule and appearances You can reach Cristeta Boarini at editor@southernminnscene.com.

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f each day has its own flavor, then this cool, sunny Friday was a cherry day. Kerrie Hughes confirmed that much from inside her yellow trailer as she served Hawaiian-style shaved ice to dozens of eager students at TEAM Academy Charter School’s recent picnic in Waseca. Cherry appeared to be the popular choice as students and parents lined up outside the trailer’s serving window and ordered their flavor of the specialty item. Hughes, an accountant from Waterville, along with friend Donna Anderson of Savage, are part of southern Minnesota’s mobile food industry, running a shaved ice and concessions business out of a custom trailer. The name of their company is “Gypsy Ice,” and summer time is their season. “We’ll do events pretty much every weekend during the summer,” Hughes said. A quick Google search for “food trucks in Minnesota” will yield hundreds of results about the popular vehicles in Minneapolis, St. Paul and the outlying metro area, but it’s not as easy to find hits on the mobile food industry in southern Minnesota. “I think that trends, particularly trends in food, tend to start in cities and then expand to the surrounding areas,” said Natalie Coleman, co-owner of Dandelion Kitchen, a food truck that sells in front of the IDS Plaza in Minneapolis each day. “Because food trucks are still relatively new to the Twin

Cities, it’s not surprising that it’s not yet well known in other parts of the state.” Southern Minnesota’s scene isn’t as bustling as the Twin Cities’, but food trucks – or as I’ve found out, trailers – do exist in this part of the state. Here are three, along with their stories.

“This is a lot of fun,” Hughes says from her yellow truck, back on that sunny Friday. “Being an accountant by day and gypsy by weekend, it gives you an opportunity to get out of the comfort zone. I would say that (co-owner) Donna (Anderson) and I both … really have a heart for kids, and this gives us an opportunity to really see and do things with kids, but in a really controlled manner.” Gypsy Ice was started by Hughes and Anderson three years ago “really on a whim,” Hughes said. While the healthcare company they worked for was going through a layoff, the two talked about starting the business while sitting around a conference table at lunch one day. They joked that they needed to be able to just “get in, get out, take their money and run” – like gypsies, Hughes said. And the idea to sell shaved ice stemmed from Hughes’ childhood in a little town

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ZaZa’s Pub and Pizzeria’s Food Truck could be considered one of the night owls of food trailers. Started last June as a new way to generate revenue, the food trailer parks on the corner of Walnut Street and East Third Street in downtown Winona from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, catching the late-night bar scene after the 1 a.m. closing time. “The college students really enjoy it,” general manager Corey Dufault said. And the food trailer offers the kind of food – philly cheese steaks, gyros, pulled pork sandwiches, cheese curds, wings, pizza – that make for appetizing choices

late at night. There’s even a deep-fried pizza dough taco, called a “Zaco.” ZaZa’s food trailer can be out year-round – unless it’s “super frigid in the winter,” Dufault said – and serves anywhere from 40-50 people after bar rush, Dufault said. ZaZa’s also does corporate lunches as well as fairs and festivals, including Rock on the River and Country on the River in Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Winona Steamboat Days this summer. “It’s different,” Dufault said of the experience. “You’re changing locations a lot of the times. You have different crowds you’re dealing with. … It’s a lot of drunk people, trying to get food in their bellies.”

Maria Estrada’s restaurant venture didn’t work out, but the experience wasn’t lost on her.

Estrada chased her goal of opening a nation. Maria’s Taco Hut didn’t make the restaurant by starting small, opening a food show, but the nomination brought some trailer in 2003, before Maria’s Mexican Grill publicity. opened in Northfield in 2006. The restau Around the same time, Estrada was dirant closed 13 months later. agnosed with breast cancer. The diagnosis, Despite her short stint, Estrada’s experiwhich happened to fall on her daughter’s ence in the business helped her delve into birthday, prompted her to think about catering along with her Northfield-based dialing down the business. Ultimately, mobile food business, Maria’s Taco Hut Estrada and her family decided to hire extra Catering and while she battled Concessions. through cancer. The business “I was catered to thinking about two schools dropping it, in Northfield but then I this year, can figured, if I do cater graduathat, I’m going tions and also to just be at is a vendor at home doing fairs and fesnothing,” Estrativals during da said. “... It the summer. was a therapy. Estrada’s I’m glad I deseen the cided to keep mobile food on working, industry because it did trends that help me a lot. include food It was hard, it fusion (Chiwasn’t easy, nese/Mexican but it’s time food, for that I get to example) and spend with my daughter and an increased Maria Estrada of Maria’s Taco Hut. my husband that number of chefs (she really matters.” This summer, learned techMaria’s Taco Hut is slated to appear at niques under chefs at St. Olaf College’s Café Bon Appetit), and the catering allows the Riverwalk Market Fair in Northfield on her to branch out from the Mexican food – Saturdays starting on June 15, according to burritos, taco salads, quesadillas – that she the business’ Facebook page, as well as at normally sells during busy fairs and festivals. Northfield’s Defeat of Jesse James Days and “That’s what I like about it, is that I get the Waseca County Free Fair – two festivals to create new things that kids will like,” she the business has sold at before. said. “We go to Waseca, and (customers In 2011, the food trailer was nominated are) like, ‘I know what I want, I want this, to try to earn a spot on The Food Network’s because I’ve been waiting a whole year to reality televihave one of your burritos…’” Estrada sion show, said. “Very reward“The ing.” Great You can reach Food Miles Trump at Truck editor@southernRace,” minnscene.com competing among other vendors from across the

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ou’ve seen Guy Fieri roam the country in his convertible, bringing you hundreds of Diner’s Drive-Ins and Dives. You’ve seen Rachel Ray get along for $40 a Day. Over on the Travel Channel there’s Adam Richman downing six-pound burritos and 3,000-calorie omletes. But you may not remember that a few years ago, the Food Network came to Faribault. For the Caves, of course. Jeff Jirik, co-founder of the former Faribault Dairy Company, hosted Pat and Gina Neely, they of Memphis barbecue fame, into his one-of-a-kind caves that produce the world’s only sandstone-cave aged blue cheese in the world. “We found a place that makes some of the best blue cheese you could ask for,” Pat Neely says in the episode. “Faribault Dairy is part of Minnesota’s tradition.” And all this worldclass cheesemaking -- from blue to gorgonzola to gouda -- is taking place right across the bridge on Ravine Street, which just so happens to lie on the same line of lattitude as Roquefort, France.

The history

It was 1854 when Ernst and Gottfried Fleckenstein decided it wasn’t enough to just have an awesome name. aSo, they carved out the first cave in the St. Peter Sandstone along the edge of the Straight River, just across from the train depot that ushered residents to and from Faribault. For nearly 70 years, the caves were the home of a brewery, evidence of which still clings to the porous walls. “The caves have memory,” Jirik said in a 2010 video produced by Heavy Table Productions. “Our caves have memory of brewer’s yeast. We can show evidence of it on some of

Randy Ochs. They re-opened the cave, reinvigorated the Amablu name and started producing, curing and aging blue cheese in Faribault again. They soon added mainstays such as AmaBlu Gorgonzola and St. Pete’s Select premium blue cheese. In their first year of operation, 2002, the Caves were named an American Culinary Foundation Rising Star and won the World Cheese Awards’ Gold Award. In 2010, with Amablue becoming the fastest-growing retail blue cheese line in the country, the operations were purchased by Swiss Valley Farms, a co-op of more than 1,000 dairy farmers started in 1958 and based out of Davenport, Iowa. Jirik

Inside the Caves of Faribault. (Image from faribaultdairy.com)

the cave walls.” But then prohibition arrived and the caves were shut down in 1919, shuttered for 17 years until a rogue cheese maker with an equally memorable name, Felix Frederikson, bought the caves and produced the United States’ first blue cheese. Thanks to limits on imports from Europe, his business thrived during World War II. He named his first-in-America blue cheese “Amablu,” “ama” for love” and “blu” for, well, blue. By 1991, Frederikson’s Treasure Cave, Inc. company was struggling financially and the decision was made to move the facility out of state. For the second time in a century, the caves were closed down. But a decade later along came Jirik and his partners, Joe Sherman and

was named Vice President of Blue Cheese Operations. The Caves of Faribault now make nine varieties of cheese, including St. Mary’s grass-fed Gouda, Fini Sharp cheddar, Jeff’s Select Gouda and cheese curds. “We are curious cheesemakers,” Jirik told Heavy Table. “We’ve made about five or six styles of cheese here all in a quest to learn more about making cheese. I was worried that our young cheesemakers that we were developing would become one-dimensaional. Blue is a fairly fast make. It’s a fairly straight-forwad make. Learning the complexities of cheddar teaches you a lot about the difference between wet acid and dry acid in a vat.” The latest award-winner is Jeff’s

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and the mixture is placed into cheese hoops for five days where it is pierced to let oxygen in and facility the spreading of mold (sounds gross, tastes delicious). The Amablu is aged 75 days, the St. Petes’s gets 110 and the Amablu Gorgonzola takes 130 days. “I’m amazed at the complexity, and yet the simplicity, of a great, natural cheese,” Jirik said.

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Faribault Dairy co-founder Jeff Jirik still works as a cheesemaker. (Image from faribaultdairy.com)

From 24 Select Gouda, which was created by combining the work of Jeff Wideman of Maple Leaf Cheese Cooperative with the aging process of the Caves of Faribault. Jeff’s Select is currently a finalist for Outstanding Cheese at the 2013 sofi Awards, the top honors in the specialty food industry. Winners will be announced in July at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City. “Specialty food makers bring craft, care and joy to the foods they create,” said Specialty Food Association President Ann Daw in a press release. “To be honored with a sofi Award nomination means the product truly stands out above the rest.”

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clean, unobstructed taste of the Caves of Faribault cheese, don’t underestimate the presenec of the caves. It would be an understatement to call the caves the key to the entire operation. “Cheese is like people, it wants steady conditions,” said Jirik, who grew up on a dairy farm about 15 miles outside Faribault. “St. Peter standstone is a remarkable natural resource.” And we have a few slow-moving glaciars to thank for that. Back in the last Ice Age, glaciars carried beach sand inland to Minnesota, then left it behind to solidify into what we call today St. Peter sandstone. The sand is so pure -- 99.9 percent quartzite -- that water can move vertically or horizontally so the ceilings never drip, and it’s slightly acidic. The caves maintain 99.9 percent humidity and are 52.5 degrees farenheit year-round.

“The atmosphere within our caves is ideal for the curing and aging of blue cheese,” Jirik said. After several years of expansion, the caves now encompass 29,000 square feet of tunnels, rooms and chambers, most reaching 22 feet in heigh and some resting as deep as 200 feet below the surface. Some are named after local towns - Kenyon, Northfield -- and other’s only the insiders would know -- Louie’s Tunnel, the Davey Thomas Bypass, Trucker’s Lounge. With the facilities in place, the making of the blue cheese commences. More than 300,000 gallons of Grade-A milk are shipped in, much of it from Minnesota and Wisconsin dairies. Then an enzyme called rennet is added that firms up the milk, bringing it to a yogurt consistency. Cubes of curds and whey are added

While the Caves were restarted operations in 2001, it wasn’t until 2009 at the Cheese Cave: A Gourmet Destination opened as its retail outlet on Central Avenue. “It was our way of boosting the local ecomony and trying to get people into the downtown,” Jirik said. “It was a roaring success.” The Cheese Cave opened as a specialty food store, selling the cheeses made just a few blocks away across the Straight River, as well as more than 30 other artisan cheeses from across the world. A light lunch menu features sandwiches, salads and pizzas, all made using their artisan cheeses. Shelves of crackers, cookies, spreads, jams, dressings, oils, vinegars and spices line the entry way, while the back features a large fire place and an extensive wine menu. The Cheese Cave also plays host to wine and cheese tasting, the local Unsettled Ale homebrewing club and the Big Cheese Society. It’s offerings can be purchased online and shipped anywhere in the country. You can reach Brendan Burnett-Kurie at editor@southernminnscene.com.

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Arts&Theater Week of 6/14 Acrylic Portrait Exhibit by Cindy Breck: 14-27 Jun, North Mankato Taylor Library, 1001 Bellgrade Ave., North Mankato. Acrylic Portrait Exhibit of 22 interpretational paintings of famous people by Cindy Breck. At the North Mankato Taylor Library, 1001 Belgrade Ave. For more information contact (507) 345-5120 or www.northmankato.com/taylorlibrary/. LeDuc Historic Estate Tour: Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00 AM, LeDuc Historic Estate, 1629 Vermillion Street, Hastings, $3 $6. Join us as we celebrate the 55th anniversary of Carroll Simmons’ gift to the state! Tours start at 10am, 11:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm, and 4pm. Its unaltered Gothic Revival architecture, and especially the design source, establish its national significance. William LeDuc, an attorney, entrepreneur and distinguished Civil War officer, served as U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture under President Rutherford B. Hayes. Mary LeDuc selected designs from Cottage Residences, a seminal volume first published in 1842 by noted architectural writer and landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing, whose work dominated New York’s Hudson River Valley. Following Downing’s stylistic guidelines, the LeDuc’s produced a stunningly landscaped architectural gem in a young river town on the Minnesota prairie. The house survives virtually unaltered from its appearance when it was completed in 1865-66. In 1970 the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2003-2005 the Minnesota Historical Society and Dakota County Historical Society made significant investments in the property. The Minnesota legislature funded a $1 million restoration that was managed by MHS. At the same

time, DCHS developed programming, exhibits and an object theater. DCHS’s work was supported by grants from America’s Scenic Byways program, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Minnesota Historical Society, and with the help of local donors including Sharon and Terry Avent. Children 5 & Under Free.. www.dakotahistory.org/ leduc/home.asp. 651-437-7055 “The Seven Year Itch” on stage: 14-15, 21-22 Jun, 7:30 PM, 16-Jun, 2 PM, Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave., Faribault, $15. With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman(played by Paul Somers) decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond(played by Betsy Cole) from the apartment above catches his eye. He is tempted but does he succumb? There is lots of hilarity along the way as we find out the answer. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org. “A Grand Night for Singing” theater production: 14-15 Jun, 7:30 PM, Ted Paul theatre of Earley Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato, $15-$22. ‘A Grand Night for Singing’ Rodgers and Hammerstein Theater Production, 7:30 PM, at Ted Paul Theatre, MN State University, Mankato. Adults $22, seniors over 65 and youth under 16 $19, and MSU students $15. For more information please contact (507) 389-6661 or www.mnsu.edu/theatre/. Eileen Hines: Pleasant Patterns: 14-30 Jun- 10 July, Emy Frentz Arts Guild, 523 S. 2nd St., Mankato. Join us at Emy Frentz Arts Guild for the Art Exhibit of Eileen Hines! In the fall of 2006, Greater Mankato’s Chamber of Commerce organized a trip to Fort Collins, Colorado, for more than 75 community and business

leaders. The goal of the visit was to learn strategies from Fort Collins, which had already undergone a successful redevelopment of its downtown core. While in Colorado, Shannon Robinson, TRCA Executive Director, met Tony Frentz, owner of Frentz Construction. Tony’s mother had been an artist in Mankato before she passed away in 1990, and he had been looking for a creative way to honor her memory. Inspired by a collaborative artist center they toured in Fort Collins, Tony began brainstorming with Shannon about TRCA’s needs for a facility and shared his ideas for developing some type of artist center in downtown Mankato.. twinriversarts.org/. Cultural Perspectives: Color Our World: 14-30 Jun-20 Jul, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Avenue, Burnsville, Free. The mission of the annual Cultural Perspectives series is to celebrate diversity within our community. The exhibit is brought to you by the International Festival of Burnsville and the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. burnsvillepac.com/event-calendar/ view/471/70.html. Sheila Becker Exhibit: 14-29 Jun, Arts & Heritage Center of Montgomery, 206 B. 1st St., Montgomery. Arts & Heritage Center of Montgomery, 206 B. First St. Sheila Becker exhibits on display. Gallery Hours: Thurs. & Fri. 2-5 p.m. and Sat. 9 a.m.-12 noon. (507) 364-8107. www.artsandheritagecenter. org/. www.artsandheritagecenter.org/. 2nd Annual Wheelworks Exhibition: 14-28 Jun, The 410 Project, 523 S. Front St., Mankato. 2nd Annual Wheelworks Exhibition Opening Reception: June 8 7-9 p.m. Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 2-6 p.m. Sunday 1-4 p.m. www. the410project.com. The Next Step Painting Exhibition: 14-16 Jun, Arts Center of

St. Peter, 315 South Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, . The Next Step Painting Exhibition by Charlie Putnam and LeAnn Gehring-Ryan at the Arts Center of Saint Peter, 315 S. Minnesota Ave. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 11 AM-6 PM and Sat. & Sun. 1-5 PM For more information contact (507) 931-3630 or www.artscentersp.org.. www. artscentersp.org. Exhibit By Donna Webb: 14-29 Jun, Blue Earth Historical Society, Heritage Center 415 Cherry St., Mankato, Free-$5. Exhibit by Donna Webb at Blue Earth County Historical Society Heritage Center, 415 Cherry St., Mankato. Hours: Tues., Wed., Fri. & Sat. 10 AM-4 PM; Thurs. 10 AM-8 PM For more information contact (507) 345-5566, www.bechshistory.com, or bechs@hickorytech.net. Bend of the River Photography Club Exhibit: 14-30 Jun, St. Peter Food Co-op and Deli, 228 W. Mulberry St., St. Peter. Art Exhibit by The Bend of the River Photography Club, at the St. Peter Food Co-op and Deli, 228 W. Mulberry St. Hours: 7 days a week 7 AM-9 PM For more information contact (507) 934-4880 or www.botrphotographyclub.org. CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour: 14-30 Jun-31 Jul, Mankato’s City Center, Mankato. The new CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour is an exciting exhibit of outdoor sculptures displayed year-round in the City Centers of Mankato and North Mankato. Visitors can vote for the People’s Choice Award, ballots are available through Oct. 25 at kiosks on the route. For more information contact noelle@cityartmankato. com. Art In East Park: 15-Jun, 10 AM, East Park, 590 East Ave, Zumbrota, Free. Join us for this annual celebration of art, music & food! Featuring over 40 artists, youth art, live music and great food! *clay * glass * paint * jewelry * fabric *

Footloose at the Paradise What better way to kick the doldrums of small town life than to go see a show about the doldrums of small town life? The critically acclaimed Merlin Players are staging Footloose, The Musical at the Paradise Center for the Arts on July 26-28. Yep, it’s based on that movie we all loved when we were 15 years old. Big city kid moves to podunk small town, and through his rebellious charm & guile transforms the place from black & white Kansas to full Technicolor Oz. Or at least fights the city council so they can have a school dance and sing Kenny Loggins songs. Eric Parrish directs Craig Berg as Reverend Shaw Moore, Gabby Frenstad as his defiant teenage daughter, and Spencer Versteeg as the rakish anti-hero Ren McCormack. July 26-28, August 1-4, contact the Paradise Center for the Arts in Faribault for ticket information. – – Rich Larson, editor@southernminnscene.com

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photography * woodworking * and many more! Free Concerts: 10-12:30 Patchouli will perform and 1:00-3:30 2 O’Clock Jump perform. This one day event is held in conjunction with Zumbrota’s Covered Bridge Festival. Brought to you by the Zumbrota Area Arts Council. Located in East Park, One block East of Main Street (Hwy 58) between 6th & 7th Streets.. zaac.org/art-in-east-park. Art Fair and Business Expo: 15Jun, 10 AM, Farmington Dew Days, Oak Street, Farmington, Free. More than 150 local artists and business owners from a three-state area will be on site at Dew Days to sell handmade crafts, photography, glassware, antiques, and amazing finds.. www.farmingtondewdays.com/ index.php/artfair. Art Splash: 15-Jun, 10 AM, North Mankato Taylor Library, 1001 Bellgrade Ave., North Mankato, . Art Splash, a local art fair that helps raise money for the North Mankato Library and the Blue Earth Nicollet County Humane Society. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Held outdoors by the North Mankato Taylor Library, 1001 Bellgrade Ave. On Facebook: ArtSplash-Art-Fair-inNorth-Mankato, (507) 327-8350 or (507) 345-5120. www.northmankato.com/taylorlibrary. HeeJun Shin: 15-Jun, 2:00 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota, Free. Opening Reception Paintings. Come as you are and enjoy light refreshments with fellow art lovers. Concurrent with the Annual Covered Bridge Festival in Zumbrota.. www.crossingsatcarnegie.com/page0003_Concerts_and_Events_Schedule. html. (507) 732-7616 Gallery Exhibit at the Crossings: 15-Jun, 2 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota, Free. Though one works in watercolor and the other in oil, two artists whose work is on display at Crossings through the month of June share a common goal to capture light and color rather than photo-realistic renderings of landscapes and objects. A reception for the artists’ ‘Light in the Moment’ show HeeJune Shin of Rochester and Wendy Westlake of Zumbrota.. www. crossingsatcarnegie.com. (507) 732-7616 Drawing Exhibits: 15-30 Jun, 12:00 AM, Carnegie Arts Center, 120 S. Broad, Mankato, . Drawing Exhibit by John Finkler in the Rotunda; Eight Artists exhibit from the St. Peter Drawing Group in the Fireplace Gallery; and Mixed Media and Sculptural Drawings Exhibit by Jill Stoffregen in the Cook Gallery. Opening Reception, June 15, 7-9 PM Gallery hours: Thurs. 1-7 PM, Fri. 1-4 PM and Sat. 11 AM-5 PM. For more information

please contact (507) 625-2730 or www.thecarnegiemankato. com.. www.thecarnegiemankato.com. Masquerade National Dance Competition: 16-30 Jun, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Avenue, Burnsville, Free. Dancers from around the country compete for national titles and monetary awards.. burnsvillepac.com/ event-calendar/view/497/70. html. ‘Wanda Gag 120 years’ Exhibit: 16-29 Jun-16 Aug, 10:00 AM, Brown County Historical Society, 2 North Broadway, New Ulm, $5 . ‘Wanda Gag 120 Years’ exhibit, includes art from private collections, the City of New Ulm, the Brown County Historical Society, and Wanda Gag House Assoc. Hours: Mon.Fri. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Brown County Historical Society, 2 N. Broadway, New Ulm. (507) 359-2632 or wandagaghouse@gmail.com. browncountyhistorymn.org/. www.browncountyhistorymn. org/. June Artist Exhibit: Through the end of June, 12:00 AM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont, . June Artist Exhibit, drawings, watercolor and acrylic paintings, and 3D prints by Michael Eischen, at Red Rock Center for the Arts, 222 E. Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont. Hours: Tues.& Thurs. 10 AM-6 PM and second Sat. of the month 8 AM-3 PM For more information contact (507) 2359262, redrockcenter@frontiernet.net, or www.redrockcenter. org/.. www.redrockcenter.org/. 507-235-9262 Clay Center Open Studio: 20-Jun, 5:00 PM, Arts Center of St. Peter, 315 South Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, Donations. Clay Center Open Studio (Community Night), 5-9 PM. All ages, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. No registration required/$5 recommended donation accepted. For more information contact (507) 931-3630, info@artscentersp. org, or www.artscentersp.org.. www.artscentersp.org. Third Thursday Gallery Walk: 20-Jun, 5:00 PM, Mankato’s City Center, , Mankato, . Third Thursday Gallery Walk in Mankato’s City Center. Local galleries open from 5-8 p.m. Participating galleries: Blue Earth County Historical Society, Fillin’ Station, Carnegie Art Center, The 410 Project, Landkamer Building, Raydiance Salon, The Coffee Hag, and Twin Rivers Council for the Arts. Sponsored by the City Center Partnership, www.citycentermankato. com/partnership.php.. www. citycentermankato.com/partnership.php.

“Jesus Christ Superstar”: 20-22, 27-29 Jun, 7:30 PM, Jun 23, 2 PM, Little Theatre of Owatonna, 560A Dunnell Drive, Owatonna, . Little Theatre of Owatonna presents the musical ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ written by Andrew Lloyd Weber, lyrics by Tim Rice and directed by Jeffrey Jackson. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. June 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, with a 2 p.m. matinee on June 23, at the Little Theatre of Owatonna, 560A Dunnell Drive in the West Hills Complex. For more information visit the LTO website at www.littletheatreowatonna.org.. www.littletheatreofowatonna.org/.

Week of 6/21 Artist’s Reception and Gallery Exhibit: 21-Jun, 5:00 PM, Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave., Faribault, Free. Artist’s reception for several exhibits at the Paradise, including: Carlander Family Gallery: Chris Holmquist-Ceramic and Digital Combine for Success & Mary Singer- Water, Land and Sky. Lois Vranesh Boardroom Gallery: Donna Carver- ECLECTIC RECOLLECTIONS. Exhibit runs through Aug.6. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org. “Twelfth Night”: 21-23, 27-29 Jun, 7:00 PM, Northfield Arts Guild, Central Park, Northfield, $10-$15. A much loved and hilarious offering from the Bard, Twelfth Night tells the tale of Viola, a young woman washed up on shore who disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian. Thought by all to be Sebastian, Viola must ward of the affections of the fair Olivia even while falling head over heels in love with the Duke Orsino. Deception, disguise and intrigue all meet in this delightful comedy that will have the audience in stitches. $15 for adults, $10 for students, seniors. www.northfieldartsguild. org/index.php?content=plays #twelfth. Menopause, The Musical: 21-Jun, 8 PM, 22-23 Jun, 2 PM, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, $30-$50. This hilarious musical parody staged to classic tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles. See what millions of women worldwide have been laughing about for over 10 years! Set in a department store, four women with seemingly nothing in common but a black lace bra on sale, come to find they have more to share than ever imagined. The allfemale cast makes fun of their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. A sisterhood is created between these diverse women as they realize that menopause is no longer The Silent Passage,

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Mason Jennings / Crossings at Carnegie / Zumbrota / 7.26 but a stage in every woman’s life that is perfectly normal! ‘Most women know intuitively that every other woman is experiencing hot flashes or night sweats,’ says author Jeanie C. Linders. ‘There is always a close friend or two who can sympathize or identify, but when they are sitting in a theatre with hundreds of other women, all laughing and shouting ‘That’s me! That’s me on stage!’ They know what they are experiencing is normal. They aren’t alone or crazy. It becomes a sisterhood.’. www.mysticlake.com/ menopausethemusical2013. Quiltistry: 22-Jun, 10:00 AM, City of New Ulm, , New Ulm, Free-$20. Quiltistry, celebrating the artistic expressions of quilts past and present, exhibit tour of approx. 250 quilts hung at various historic homes, retail shops, and parks in New Ulm. Visitors can walk the tour or take a horse drawn carriage ride, 10 AM-5 PM, free. Maps available at the display locations and the New Ulm Chamber of Commerce, 1 N. Minnesota St. For more information contact (507) 276-2304, gkoch@ newulmtel.net, or http:// quiltistrynewulm.eventbrite. com/.. www.quiltistrynewulm. eventbrite.com. Three Rivers Wine and Art Crawl: 23-Jun, 12:00 PM, Fal-

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coner Vineyards, 3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing, . Please join us for the Three Rivers Wine & Art Crawl.. www.falconervineyards.com. Annual Membership Show Group Exhibition: 22-30 Jun-28 Jul, 12:00 AM, Arts Center of St. Peter, 315 South Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, . Annual Membership Show group exhibition. (Opening Reception, June 22, 2-4 PM) at the Arts Center of Saint Peter, 315 S. Minnesota Ave. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 11 AM-6 PM and Sat. & Sun. 1-5 PM (507) 931-3630 or www.artscentersp.org.. www. artscentersp.org. “I Ought To Be in Pictures”: 25-29 Jun, 7:30 PM, Andreas Theatre of Earley Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato, $10-$16. I Ought To Be in Pictures 7:30 p.m. at the Andreas Theatre of Earley Center for Performing Arts, MN State University, Mankato, (507) 389-6661 or www.mnsu.edu/theatre/. Tickets $16.00 Regular, $14.00 Senior, youth or groups (must be purchased through box office), $10.00 Current MSU students. Sponsored by MSU TRIO Programs. Herb, a Hollywood scriptwriter currently ‘at liberty’ is surprised when his forgotten past reappears in the form of Libby, a teenage daughter who’s

trekked from Brooklyn with dreams of movie stardom. With Steffy, his sometime paramour at his side, Herb decides to take another stab at fatherhood and hopefully this time, get it right.. www.mnsu.edu/theatre/.

Week of 6/28 “Murder at the Schleissithoff Wedding”: 28-30 Jun, 6:00 PM, Holiday Inn, 2101 S. Broadway St., New Ulm, $39 . New Ulm Actors Community Theater presents ‘Murder at the Schleissithoff Wedding’ a murder mystery dinner theater. Dinner at 6 PM, reservations required, $39 each. At the Holiday Inn, 2101 S. Broadway St., New Ulm. (507) 359-9990, www. newulmact.com, or execdir@ newulmact.com.. www.newulmact.com. “Homer Price”: 28-30 Jun, 7:00 PM, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Avenue, Lakeville, $8 - $10. Based on the classic children’s novel, this production will transport families back to the ‘50s with Super Duper and the Cockroach Man, Johnny and his ‘Cool Gang,’ and of course Aunt Ag and the unstoppable doughnut machine!. test.lakevillemn. gov/index.php?option=com_ jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=4231&Itemid=1364&year= 2013&month=06&day=28&title

=homer-price&uid=b341d5a9eb 755fc0d112deaa7c31b408. Paintings by Amanda Wirig: 28-30 Jun-14 Jul, 12:00 AM, The 410 Project, 523 S. Front St., Mankato, . Paintings by Amanda Wirig, at The 410 Project, 523 South Front St., Mankato. Opening reception 7-9 p.m. June 28. Gallery Hours: Wednesday -Saturday 2-6 p.m., Sunday 1-4 p.m.. www. the410project.com. Best of Broadway & Film: 29-Jun, 7:30 PM, 30-Jun, 2 PM, Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave., Faribault, $10$19. Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 30 at 2 p.m. Southern Minnesota Musicians sing show tunes in this annual show. $19 nonmembers, $10 students. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org.

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Lunch with the Arts: 9-Jul, 12:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont, . Lunch with the Arts 12-1 p.m. at the Red Rock Center, 222 E. Blue Ave., Fairmont. (507) 235-9262 or www.redrockcenter.org.. www. redrockcenter.org. 507-2359262 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: 11-13, 19-21 Jul, 7:00 PM, Sheldon

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Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $14.50-$22.50. 7 p.m. performances, except 2 p.m. on July 21. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based the Bible’s Book of Genesis and presented by Phoenix Theatre. $22.50 adults, $14.50 students. www.sheldontheatre.org. 651388-8700 Monty Python’s Spamalot: 11-13, 17-20 Jul, 7:30 PM, Ted Paul theatre of Earley Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato, $15-$22. Monty Python’s Spamalot 7:30 p.m. at the Ted Paul Theatre of Earley Center for Performing Arts, MN State University, Mankato, (507) 389-6661 or www.mnsu.edu/ theatre/. Tickets $22.00 Regular, $19.00 Senior, youth or groups (must be purchased through box office), $15.00 Current MSU students. Sponsored by Orthopaedic & Fracture Clinic, PA, Eide Bailly LLP and Farrish Johnson Law Office, Chtd. A musical lovingly ripped from the motion picture ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail,’ from the original screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.. www.mnsu. edu/theatre/.

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Kaivama in St. Peter Wait, what? You’re not sure Finnish folk music is your cup of tea? Yeah, but you weren’t sure British guys playing folkie bluegrass music was your thing before you heard Mumford & Sons, were you? Kaivama is the Finnish-American duo of fiddler Sara Pajunen and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Rundman who bring a young, vigorous energy to an ancient scandinavian style. Hibbing native Pajunen is a virtuoso, and would be worth the price of admission were she playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Rundman, no slouch himself, lays a perfect canvas upon which Pajunen paints. Together, they’ve thrilled audiences from the Upper Peninsula to Berkeley. Seriously, just because there isn’t a drum kit or an electric guitar on stage doesn’t mean these cats don’t shred. And, to top it off, you’re grandma will love them, too. Go check them out at the Arts Center of St. Peter, Saturday, June 15th, 7 pm. $15. Teija Niku of the Polka Chicks (just trust me) opens. – – Rich Larson, editor@southernminnscene.com

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Meet Charlie Parr With Wine & Pizza How’s this sound – Sitting on a magnificent stone veranda, sipping red wine produced on the grounds, eating a wood fired margherita pizza all while watching a local music legend perform? Yes, Baby Boomer, this night was created with you in mind. Falconer Vineyards, just outside of Red Wing the legendary Charlie Parr as part of its Music in the Vines series. Parr, the somewhat grizzled Minnesota bluesman is the subject of a new film, aptly titled Meeting Charlie Parr. He’ll have just returned froma screening of the film in London, so there might have a story or two for you, as well. Music in the Vines: Charlie Parr, Saturday, July 6th, 7 pm. $15. Visit www.falconervineyards.com for details. – – Rich Larson, editor@southernminnscene.com

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Crossings Theatre Camp Presents ‘Into the Woods’: 13-Jul, 2:30 PM, Zumbrota State Theatre, 88 E 4th St., Zumbrota, . The Stephen Sondheim musical that combines all our favorite fairy tales with some not so happy endings. But isn’t that what life is all about?. www. zaac.org. 507-732-5210

Songs of Hope: 14-Jul, 2:00 PM, Zumbrota State Theatre, 88 E 4th St., Zumbrota, Donation. Children from around the world, from ages 9 to young adults, are participating in Songs of Hope, a six-week performing arts summer camp in St. Paul. They will make Songs of Hope’s third appearance in Zumbrota on Sun., July 14, at 2 p.m. at the State Theatre. The concert is free; a freewill offering box will be at the theatre entrance. Zumbrota Area Arts Council and

Ashes for April / Cannon River Winery / Cannon Falls / 7.13 Crossings are sponsoring the performance. The performers will entertain with songs and dance from their native countries, plus some special numbers providing fun summer entertainment. The entertaining concert program often includes a few modern hits as well as traditional songs from around the world.. www.crossingsatcarnegie.com. 507-732-5210 Artist Opening Reception: 18-Jul, 5:00 PM, BECHS Heritage Center, 415 Cherry St., Mankato, . Artist Opening Reception 5-7 p.m. at the BECHS Heritage Center. Join us as we welcome our new artist of the quarter, Graig Croe. 507-3455566. www.bechshistory.com.

Week of 7/19 Adolescent Accomplishments Works: 19 Jul-4 Aug, 12:00 AM, The 410 Project, 523 S. Front St., Mankato, . Adolescent Accomplishments Works created by Mankato’s Junior Artists (under 18 years old) at The 410 Project, 523 South Front St., Mankato. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. July 19. Gallery Hours: Wednesday -Saturday 2-6 p.m., Sunday 1-4 p.m.. www. the410project.com.

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3, 4, 7:30 PM, 28-Jul, 2 PM, Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave., Faribault, $15 . This high energy musical is based on the 1984 film of the same name. Ren is forced to move from Chicago to Bomont, a small town in the middle of nowhere, because his father has left his mother and him. He loves to dance but there is no dancing in Bomont. Ren finds love and helps others rediscover the joys in their lives.. www. paradisecenterforthearts.org.

Week of 8/9 Carv-Fest Woodcarver Festival: 8-10 Aug, 12:00 AM, Rice County Fairgrounds, 1814 2nd Ave Northwest, Faribault, . Watch master wood carvers at work, take classes from them and purchase their work.. www. carv-fest.com. ArtTalks!: 12-Aug, 5:30 PM, Emy Frentz Arts Guild, 523 S. 2nd St., Mankato, . ArtTalks! 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Emy Frentz Arts Guild - 523 South 2nd Street, Mankato. For more info email info@twinriversarts. org or call 507-387-1008. http://twinriversarts.org/. www. twinriversarts.org/. Lunch with the Arts: 13-Aug, 12:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont, . Lunch with the Arts

12-1 p.m. at the Red Rock Center. our.web-scheduler.net/ index.php?CID=275&sid=38539 404&ID=91048&t=1376409600 &v=event&. 507-235-9262 “Sister’s Summer School Catechism”: 15-16Aug, 1:30 PM, Sheldon Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $17.50$27.50. It’s summer and Sister is NOT happy. It seems the diocese has decided to offer a summer school catechism course for those students who weren’t paying attention all year. Instead of three relaxing weeks at the motherhouse, Sister is stuck with her students this summer! And summer is already rough enough for Sister - try wearing 50 pounds of gabardine in 90-degree heat! Sister will discuss such questions as, ‘Did Jesus have to go to summer school? or ‘What is an appropriate summer vacation for a practicing Catholic?’ And she’s sure to talk about the best way to make use of what’s left of your summer vacation. Beat the heat with Sister this summer, and if you know what’s good for you, don’t be late!. www.sheldontheatre.org. 651-388-8700

Music Weekly Concert in German Park: Mondays, 7:00 PM, German Park, 200 N. German St., New Ulm. Concert in German Park, 7 - 8:30 p.m. in German Park New Ulm. In case of inclement weather, concerts will be held at the Community Center (600 N German) or the Civic Cent (1212 N. Franklin St.) Please listen to KNUJ . 507-359-8347 www. newulm.com/. www.newulm. com/. Summer Noontime Organ Recital: Wednesdays, 11, 18, 25 Jun, 12:10 PM, Grace Lutheran Church, 320 E. Main St., Mankato. Summer Noontime Organ Recitals by the Sioux Trails Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, 12:10 PM June 11-Chad Winterfeldt June 18Ames Anderson June 25-Wyatt Smith For more information please contact 507-934-3060 or www.agosiouxtrails.org.. www. agosiouxtrails.org. 11@7 Concert Series: Thursdays, 7:00 PM, Central Park, Owatonna, Free. Concerts are 7-8 pm, except where noted June 6 - Owatonna Community Band; June 13- Mark Cameron Band (Blues & Rock); June 20 - Lights of Litomysl at 6

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Week of 6/14 2013 Annual Covered Bridge Music and Arts Festival: 14Jun, Zumbrota, Free. Sidewalk sales, bicycle race, car hop, family movie night, street dance, 5K fun run, softball and volleyball tournaments, kids games and activities, food and a grand parade all planned.. www. ci.zumbrota.mn.us. Solstice Mankato Outdoor Music Festival: 15-16 Jun, 1:00-10 PM, Riverfront Park, 310 W. Rock St., Mankato, $5 $15. Solstice Mankato Outdoor Music Festival, Sat. 1 - 10 p.m., Sun. 1 - 5 p.m. Riverfront Park, Mankato. Solstice is one of Mankato’s major summer charity events. Resale tickets available June 1 thru 14 at Park

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The Thunder of Drums: 1-Jul, 6:30 PM, Blakeslee Stadium, Minnesota State University, Mankato, $10-$24. The world’s finest drum corps will present a show of soaring musical and visual artistry. Presented by the Mankato Downtown Kiwanis Club with net proceeds supporting Camp Patterson and other youth programs. Tickets@ thunderofdrums.com $12.00 General Admission Advance, $14.00 General Admission At Gate, $22.00 Reserved Advance, $24.00 Reserved At Gate, $6.00 Children General Admission 12 & Under, $10.00 General Admission Group of 25 or more. http://www. thunderofdrums.org/. Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg: 3-Jul, 4:30 PM, City of New Ulm. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in New Ulm with three hours of music primarily sourced from the Civil War era. www.ci.new-ulm.mn.us/ index.asp?SEC=D709C0D8860B-4FE0-93CB5875B002BB9E&DE =14DC27D9-8646-4DFD-9586F37520131624&Type=B_EV. July 4th Concert: 4-Jul, 11:00 AM, Turner Hall Park, 102 S. State, New Ulm, Free. Enjoy a free July 4th holiday concert in Turner Hall Park. www. newulmturnerhall.org/.

Week of 8/2 Vintage Band Festival: 2-Aug, 12:00 AM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Come and hear bands from across the state at The Contended Cow-A Northfield (MN); a pub with a British accent!. 1001solutionsllc.com/category/contentedcow/#.UaY8JEBwqSq. 1.507.663.1351

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Lane Liquors, Cub Foods, Busters. Ticket Price: $5 Kids 8-14, Kids 7 and under free, $15 Saturday, $10 Sunday. www. mankatosolstice.com. Finnish-American Folk Duo Kaivama Concert: 15-Jun, 7:00 PM, Arts Center of St. Peter, 315 South Minnesota Avenue, St. Peter, $15 . The band is founded on Pajunen and Rundman’s common ancestry and performs original compositions and inventive, energetic arrangements of traditional folk tunes from the Nordic countries. www.Kaivama.com.

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5:30 PM, Riverfront Park, Mankato, Free. Join us for an evening of live local music in the beautiful Vetter Stone Amphitheater at Riverfront Park in Mankato. The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. and is absolutely free! (507) 389-3000 www. mankatosymphony.com. Mankato Area Community Band Concert: 25-Jun, 7:30 PM, Leas Schwicket Arts Pavillion, Sibley Park, Mankato, Free. Mankato Area Community Band Concerts, Leas Schwicket Arts Pavillion, Sibley Park, Mankato. 7:30 PM, free, bring a blanket or lawn chair, music for all ages. For more information please contact (507) 387-5990. www.facebook.com/MankatoAr eaCommunityBand?ref=stream.

garden, washers tournament, home brew competition and more. The Blue Collar BBQ and Arts Festival is the highlight of the summer. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org.

Fairmont City Band Concert: 25-Jun, 8:00 PM, Sylvania Park, 209 Lake Ave., Fairmont, Free. Fairmont City Band Concerts at the Sylvania Park Band Shell, Fairmont. For more information please contact (507) 235-3179 or btenney@fairmont.k12. mn.us.

Hyme Sing: 11-Aug, 7:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont, . Hyme Sing 7-8:30 p.m. at the Red Rock Center. Come and sing your favorite non-denominational hymns. Free will donation. Open to the public.. www.redrockcenter.org. 507235-9262 Old Time Sounds: 11-Aug, 1:00 PM, Harkin Store, 66250 County Road 21, New Ulm, Free - $5. Old Time Sounds, 1-4 p.m. at the Harkin Store in New Ulm. The store is operated by the Nicollet County Historical Society. For more information contact the store at (507) 354-8666 or the Nicollet County Historical Society at (507) 9342160. www.nchsmn.org/. www. nchsmn.org/. Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival: 10-Aug, 10:00 AM, Downtown Faribault, Minnesota, 200 block Central Avenue, Faribault, Free. Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival largest block party in Faribault. This free event attracted over 5,000 attendees in 2011 from across the region. With 12 hours of live music, BBQ contest, kids area, art fair, food vendors, beer

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Flavors of Farmington: 14-16 Jun, 6:00 PM, Dew Days, Oak Street, Farmington, Free. The food booths will be under the tent at the beer gardens in historic downtown Farmington on Oak Street.. farmingtondewdays.com. Brent Brown Performs: 15-Jun, 6:30 PM, Chankaska Creek Ranch And Winery, 1179 E. Pearl Street, Kasota. (507) 9310089 or www.chankaskawines. com. International BBQ Championship: 15-16 Jun, 10:00 AM, Treasure Island Resort and Casino Minnesota, 5734 Sturgeon Lake Road, Welch, Free-$5. Come enjoy a weekend packed with live music from The Jerry Schmitt Band and II Amendment, delicious food and cold beverages outside on the Pow-Wow grounds next to Treasure Island Resort & Casino. On Saturday, starting at 5pm, you will have a chance to participate in a FREE chili tasting and cast your vote to help crown the 2013 People’s Choice Champion!. www.treasureislandcasino.com/entertainmentmn/concerts-shows-mn/ treasure-island-internationalbbq-championship/. Warren Streets: 17-Jun, 6:30 PM, Chankaska Creek Ranch And Winery, 1179 E. Pearl Street, Kasota. Torb & Marty bring a fine mix of acoustic/electric originals & covers. www.facebook.com/ events/502857326416590/. 507-931-0089

Week of 6/21 The Average Janes: 22-Jun, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls. The Average Janes are back by popular demand. They sing a wide variety of music from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today. cannonriverwinery.com/. Jazz Nite: 22-Jun, 6:30 PM, Morgan Creek Vineyards, 23707 478th Ave., New Ulm. Enjoy the live Jazz music of the Jim McGuire Jazz Trio. Enjoy European style hospitality with Morgan Creek Vineyards wood fired oven baked artisan flatbreads, classic Neopolitan gourmet pizzette; and Swiss raclette, with Minnesota hand crafted fine wine available by the bottle or by the glass. www. morgancreekvineyards.com. Daniel Switch: 22-Jun, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls. Daniel Switch is a delightful and engaging acoustic artist who plays a large variety of well-known covers. cannonriverwinery. com/. Three Rivers Wine and Art Crawl: 22-Jun, 12:00 PM, Falconer Vineyards, 3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing. Please join us for the Three Rivers Wine & Art Crawl. www.falconervineyards.com. Sasha Mercedes: 23-Jun, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls. cannonriverwinery.com/.

Week of 6/28 Music in the Vines: 28-Jun, 7:00 PM, Falconer Vineyards,

3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing, Free. Live music by Patchouli. www.falconervineyards.com/ musicandevents.html. Cedar Paddle Band: 29-Jun, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, free. Cedar Paddle Band plays a great variety of Folk, Old Country, Caribbean and Key West Folk. cannonriverwinery.com/. Jagged Ease: 30-Jun, 2:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Jagged Ease is a five piece acoustic group that plays original music ranging from a lounge feel to a blues driven sound. cannonriverwinery.com/.

Week of 7/5 Charlie Parr At Music In The Vines: 6-Jul, 7:00 PM, Falconer Vineyards, 3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing, $15. www.falconervineyards.com. Locklin Road: 6-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley. cannonriverwinery. com/. Lunch with the Arts: 9-Jul, Noon, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont. Lunch with the Arts 12-1 p.m. at the Red Rock Center, 222 E. Blue Ave., Fairmont. (507) 2359262. www.redrockcenter.org.

Week of 7/12 Joe & Vicky Price: 12-Jul, 7:00 PM, Falconer Vineyards, 3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing, Free. Part of Music on the Vines. www.falconervineyards.com. Tony Williams: 13-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley. cannonriverwinery.com/. Ashes to April: 13-Jul, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley. cannonriverwinery.com/. Chuckwagon Supper and Extravaganza: 13-14 Jul, 5:00 PM, Village of Yesteryear, Austin Road, Owatonna, Free. The festival kicks off with a Chuckwagon Supper from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Attendees will enjoy an evening of cowboy fare and entertainment. Tickets are required and space is limited. Tickets are $ 12 per person with children 6 and under free with a paying adult. Tickets can be purchased at the Village office, Kottke Jewelers and Cash Wise. Entertainment will be Cowboy Musician, Lonesome Ron. For more information, contact the Steele County Historical Society at (507) 451-1420 www. steelecohistoricalsociety.org/ village.php. treVeld: 14-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/.

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Jul, 11:00 AM, Morgan Creek Vineyards, 23707 478th Ave., New Ulm. German Winefest at Morgan Creek Vineyards’. Music around the burning bowl, gourmet wine appetizers from the wood fired oven, and wine by the bottle or glass in a lovely vineyard setting. Tours $4/ person 1 4 p.m. on the hour. Tasting all day - wrist bands $5/ person. www.morgancreekvineyards.com/. www.morgancreekvineyards.com. Andra and Andrew Suchy: 20-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley. cannonriverwinery.com/. Willie B Blues Band: 20-Jul, 2:00 PM, Falconer Vineyards, 3572 Old Tyler Road, Red Wing, Free. Part of the Music in the Vines event.. www.falconervineyards.com. Robert Meany: 20-Jul, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley. cannonriverwinery.com/. Andrew Walesch: 21-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley.. cannonriverwinery.com/.

Week of 7/26 Brooke Ellis: 27-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. Cannon River Winery is a family-owned, award winning winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. We invite you to visit our tasting room in historic Cannon Falls, or picnic at our beautiful vineyard in Sogn Valley.. cannonriverwinery.com/. Kolacky Days: 26-28 Jul, 12:00 AM, Montgomery, Montgomery. Kolacky Days in Montgomery, events and activities for the whole family all weekend. For a complete list of events and activities go to www.montgomerymn.org/kdayindex.html .. www.montgomerymn.org/ kdayindex.html. Relativity: 27-Jul, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/. My Sweet Patootie: 28-Jul, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/. Murder Mystery: 29-Jun, 7:00 PM, Indian Island Winery, 18018 631st Ave, Janesville, $35. Join Sister Rose, Father O’Holleran, and Elliot Ness’ gang of informants for an evening of interactive entertainment. Tickets are $35/person and include wine tasting, appetizers, and free wine glass to take home!. www.indianislandwinery.com/id7.html. (507) 234-6222

Week of 8/2 Dennison Days: 2-3Aug, 12:00 AM, Dennison, Minnesota, Dennison Blvd south, Dennison, Free. Featuring a flea market, truck and tractor pull and live entertainment in downtown Dennison. www.dennisondays. org. River City Days: 2-4 Aug, 12:00 AM, Red Wing, , Red Wing, Free. Featuring arts and crafts, Taste of Red Wing and live music at the city’s riverfront. www.rivercitydays.org. Owatonna Elks Annual Car Show: 3-Aug, 9:00 AM, Elks Lodge, 126 East Vine St.,

Owatonna, Free. The Owatonna Elks annual car show will held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2. Admission is a free will donation. Awards to the top 30 cars and three motorcycles. For more information contact Cathy Kniefel 507-455-0798 or Charlie Jarvi 507-456-1520. Image provided by drbeasleys.com. www.exploreminnesota.com/ events/11343/elks-annual-carshow/details.aspx. BZ Girls: 3-Aug, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/. Robert Meany: 3-Aug, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/. Tony Williams: 4-Aug, 1:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/.

Week of 8/9 Ashes to Ashes: 10-Aug, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/. Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival: 10-Aug, 10:00 AM, Downtown Faribault, Minnesota, 200 block Central Avenue, Faribault, Free. Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival largest block party in Faribault. 12 hours of live music, BBQ contest, kids area, art fair, food vendors, beer garden, washers tournament, home brew competition and more. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org. Ashes to Ashes: 10-Aug, 5:00 PM, Cannon River Winery, 421 Mill St. W., Cannon Falls, Free. cannonriverwinery.com/.

Outdoors Week of 6/14 Dew Days Car Cruise: 14-Jun, 7:00 PM, Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington, Free. The annual Dew Days Car Cruise will take off from Dakota County Fairgrounds and is sponsored by Family Fresh Market and Our Family Foods. www.farmingtondewdays.com/index.php/ carcruise. Family Rock Climbing: 15-Jun, 12:00 AM, River Bend Nature Center, 1000 Rustad Road, Faribault. This is the perfect opportunity for you and your family to try outdoor rock climbing in a safe and fun environment. Staff will provide basic climbing instruction and belay you as you reach for the top! The climbs are typically about 40 feet in length and on a top-rope setup. Our climbing programs take place at Barn Bluff Park in Red Wing, MN. Call for directions. Meet us there in the parking lot and we will get you on the rock! Climbing shoes, harness, and helmet provided. Socks required. Open to ages 7 & up. Pre-registration required. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.. www.rbnc.org. Fun Show & Silent Auction for Western Wishes: 14-16 Jun, 5:00 PM, KaBoy Up Arena, 24016 County Road 112, New Ulm, Free. Fun Show & Silent Auction for Western Wishes at KaBoy Up Arena, 24016 County Road 12, New Ulm. The 2nd Wind Renegades is hosting a Fun Show and Silent Auction to raise money for Western Wishes. Everyone is welcome to come watch and it is free of charge. Call 320-493-7493 for more information. www. gomarshall.net/events/listingdisplayprint.aspx?lid=158. Street dance benefit: 14-Jun, 8:30 PM, Just One More Bar hosts Lost Highway in Owatonna. Proceeds for the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program. Interlaken Heritage Days: 14-Jun, 12:00 PM, Sylvania Park, 209 Lake Ave., Fairmont. For more information contact Interlaken Heritage Days, PO

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Dinosaurs!: 14 Jun-15 Aug, 12:00 AM, Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley. Going back in time 65 million years, Dinosaurs! roar is louder than ever with 20 larger-thanlife animatronic dinosaurs, featuring the ever popular Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and many more. www.mnzoo.org/events/ Events_summer2013.asp. 952431-9200 Toddler Time: 15-Jun, 9:30 AM, Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $18 - $22. Join a Zoo naturalist who will read a story, lead an animal encounter, a movement activity and an art project focusing on a specific topic. www.mnzoo. org/education/education_kidsFamilies_toddlerTime.asp. 952-431-9200 Heritage Hustle 5K: 16-Jun, 8:00 AM, Rice County Fairgrounds, 1814 2nd Ave Northwest, Faribault. Registration starts at 7:30 am. Race begins at the Rice County Fairgrounds at 8 a.m. www.faribaultheritagedays.com. Minnesota River Paddle: 20Jun, 5:30 PM, Seven Mile Creek Park, 1700 Sunrise Dr., St. Peter, Free. Depart from Seven Mile Creek Park and canoe to St. Peter. The trip will also be held Jul 11 and August 1; each trip will feature a different river

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Week of 6/21 21st Annual Minnesota State Pork Master Golf Outing: 22Jul, 12:00 AM, Fairmont. 21st Annual Minnesota State Pork Masters Golf Outing. Proceeds from the golf outing go toward Ag-Scholarships and Ag Awareness in Martin County. www. fairmont.org/. Relay for Life Nicollet County: 21-Jun, 6:00 PM, Gorman Park-St. Peter Community Center, 601 S Washington Ave., St. Peter. 12-hour walk, silent auction, music, cancer education, food and fun for all ages. http://main.acsevents. org/site/TR/RelayForLife/ RFLCY13MW?pg=entry&fr_ id=51732. main.acsevents. org/site/TR/RelayForLife/ RFLCY13MW?pg=entry&fr_ id=51732. Turtles in the Arboretum: 22-Jun, 10:00 AM, Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Free. Join MN DNR Nongame Wildlife Specialist and turtle whisperer, Laurinda Brown, to learn about

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Week of 6/28 Henderson Sauerkraut Days: 28-30 Jun, 12:00 AM, Henderson, 200 N. 3rd St., Henderson, Free. Henderson Sauerkraut Days. Activities include a Car Cruise, Tractor Ride, Kiddie Parade, Car Show, Softball Tourney, Miss Henderson Coronation, Mini Rods, Live Music Outdoors, Cabbage Toss, Wold Champion Kraut Eating Contest. Great Festival Food, and Free FRANK’s KRAUT! www.hendersonmn.com/chamber/index.php. Bend of the River Cookout: 29-Jun, 9:30 AM, Land of Memories Park, Mankato, $10. Mankato Ford Presents 4th Annual Bend of the River Cookout to support Greater Mankato area parks. KCBS Sanctioned BBQ Competition along with Amateur BBQ’ers. Bean Bag Tournament, Frisbee Golf Tournament, Poker Run, Music. www.mankatocookout.com. Penguin Encounters: 29-Jun,

10:15 AM, Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $90. During this interactive, educational program you will learn about each of our penguin’s unique qualities and have an opportunity to touch a penguin (based on animal’s choice to participate). www.mnzoo.org/ education/education_kidsFamilies_penguinEncounters.asp. 952-431-9200 Learn to canoe with Scott Kudelka: 30-Jun, 2:00 PM, Swan Lake, St. Peter, Free. Learn to canoe with Scott Kudelka, area naturalist for the Department of Natural Resources, at Swan Lake. This program is totally free. All the equipment (canoes, paddles, and life jackets) and an experienced guide are provided. Contact Ben Leonard at ben@ nchsmn.org for registration and other information. www. nchsmn.org/. Vintage Band Festival: 2-Aug, 12:00 AM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Come and hear bands from across the state at The Contended Cow-A Northfield (MN); a pub with a British accent. 1001solutionsllc. com/category/contentedcow/#. UaY8JEBwqSq. 1.507.663.1351 Jaycees Street Dance: 3-Jul, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. Music from SEEDS and Amish Playboyz. www.torgeslive.com/. Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration: 3-Jul, 9:00 AM, Blooming Prairie. www.bloomingprairie.com/index.asp?Type=B_ BASIC&SEC={0BF415B1-F4CF446D-8283-73204D76324B}. Cannon Valley Fair: 2-6 Jul, Cannon Valley Fair, 800 N. 9th St., Cannon Falls. Complete information on the fair can be found in the fair handbook, which is now available at various locations throughout the area, or at the fair website, www.cannonvalleyfair.org.

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Old-fashioned 4th of July Celebration: 4-Jul, 10:00 AM, City of St. Peter. http://www. stpeterchamber.com/. www. stpeterchamber.com. Red, Hot Boom-Mankato 4th of July Fireworks: 4-Jul, 10:00 PM, Riverfront Park, 310 W. Rock St., Mankato. www. verizonwirelesscentermn.com/ RiverfrontPark/. Spectacular Fireworks: 4-Jul, 10:00 PM, Ward Park, Fairmont. www.fairmont.org/.

Week of 7/5 Bavarian Blast: 19-21 Jul, 11:00 AM, Brown County Fairgrounds, 1201 N State St., New Ulm. Bavarian Blast held at the Brown County Fairgrounds, south end in New Ulm. It features music, food, drink, games for kids, crafts and cultural displays and performances. http:// www.bavarianblast.com. Universe in the Park: 6-Jul, 8:30 PM, Big Woods State Park, County Road 40, Nerstrand, Free. Join the astronomers from the University of Minnesota as they share their telescopes and their knowledge of the night sky. Followed by a car caravan to a viewing location 1 mile east of the park. Take I-35 to State Highway 19 east into Northfield. Go south on State Highway 3, east on State Highway 246, then turn right onto County Road 40. www.dnr.state.mn.us. Minnesota River Paddle: 11-Jul, 5:30 PM, Seven Mile Creek Park, 1700 Sunrise Dr., St. Peter, Free. Depart from Seven Mile Creek Park and canoe to St. Peter. The trip will also be held August 1; each trip will feature a different river expert. The event is totally free. All the equipment (canoes, paddles, and life jackets...and an experienced guide are provided. Please contact Ben Leonard at ben@nchsmn.org for registration and other information. www.nchsmn.org/.

Week of 7/12 Tacy’s Birthday Party: 13-Jul, 12:00 PM, Maud Hart Lovelace Home, 332 and 333 Center St., Mankato, Free - $5. Tacy’s Birthday Party 12-3 p.m. 332 and 333 Center Street, Mankato. Celebrate the birthday of Frances ‘Bick’ Kenney, Forever Friend of author Maud Hart Lovelace at her childhood home in Mankato. Free to Betsy-Tacy members. All others - $5.00 per adult and $2.00 for children 6-16. Under 5, free. http://www. betsy-tacysociety.org/. Penguin Encounters: 13-Jul, 10:15 AM, Minnesota Zoo, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $90. www.mnzoo.org/ education/education_kidsFamilies_penguinEncounters.asp. 952-431-9200 Learn to canoe with Scott Kudelka: 14-Jul, 2:00 PM, Swan Lake, St. Peter, Free. Learn to canoe with Scott Kudelka, Area naturalist for the Department of Natural Resources, at Swan Lake. This program is totally free. All the equipment (canoes, paddles, and life jackets) and an experienced guide are provided. Contact Ben Leonard at ben@ nchsmn.org for registration and other information. www. nchsmn.org/. New Ulm Municipal Band Concert: 17-Jul, 7:00 PM, German Park, 200 N. German St., New Ulm. New Ulm Municipal Band Concert 7 8 p.m. at German Park in New Ulm.. www. newulm.com/.

Week of 7/19 Relay for Life: 20-Jul, 3:00 PM, Martin County Fairgrounds, 1300 N. Bixby Rd, Fairmont, Free. 21st Annual Relay for Life at the Martin County Fairgrounds, 1300 N. Bixby Rd, Fairmont. 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Silent Auction, 5- 7 p.m. Pork Patty Feed, 7:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony, 8:30 p.m. Locks for Love, Midnight Closing Ceremony. 507-235-5547 www. fairmont.org/. www.fairmont.org/.

Rice County Fair Tractor Pull: 20-Jul, 6:30 PM, Rice County Fairgrounds, 1814 2nd Ave Northwest, Faribault, . Region 3 tractor pull as part of the Rice County Fair.. www.ricecountyfair.net.

Week of 7/26 Wabasha Riverboat Days: 26-27 Jul, 8:00 AM, Wabasha, , Wabasha, . 2013 Wabasha Riverboat Days 5K/10K. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Eighteen divisions, trophies/ medals for top finishers.. www.exploreminnesota.com/ events/1908/35th-annual-riverboat-days/details.aspx. Minnesota River Paddle: 1-Aug, 5:30 PM, Seven Mile Creek Park, 1700 Sunrise Dr., St. Peter, Free. Depart from Seven Mile Creek Park and canoe to St. Peter. The event is totally free. All the equipment (canoes, paddles, and life jackets and an experienced guide are provided. Please contact Ben Leonard at ben@nchsmn.org for registration and other information.. www.nchsmn.org/.

Week of 8/2 NUMC Foundation’s 11th Annual Golf Tournament: 12-Aug, 11:00 AM, New Ulm Country Club, 1 Golf Drive, New Ulm, $90-$100. Registration: 11 a.m., Shotgun Start: 12 p.m. Dinner to follow. Entry Deadline: Friday, August 2. $100 (NUCC non-member), $90 (NUCC member). www.allinahealth. org/ahs/newulm.nsf/page/ foundation. Giant Celebration: 3-4 Aug, American Legion Park, Le Sueur. Giant Celebration is held outdoors in the center of town at American Legion Park in Le Sueur. All three days there are food and drink booths and events for people - Ages 2 to 92. For more details visit us on Facebook. www.parkrapidsamericanlegion.com. Dakota County Fair: 5-8 Aug,

7:30 AM, Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington. Kids Day - Tuesday, Aug. 6. Military Day - Wednesday, Aug. 7. As a Thank You for serving our country - FREE admission and FREE parking for all military personnel and their family with a military ID. Senior Day - Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - FREE Admission and FREE Parking for Seniors age 60+.. www.dakotacountyfair.org . Brown County Free Fair: 7-15 Aug, 12:00 AM, Brown County Fairgrounds, 1201 N State St., New Ulm, Free. http://www. browncountyfreefair.com/.

Week of 8/9 Blue Collar BBQ & Arts Festival: 10-Aug, 10:00 AM, 200 block Central Avenue, Faribault, Free. 12 hours of live music, BBQ contest, kids area, art fair, food vendors, beer garden, washers tournament, home brew competition and more. www.paradisecenterforthearts. org. Steele County Free Fair: 15Aug, 12:00 PM, Steele County Fairgrounds, 1525 S Cedar Ave, Owatonna, Free.

Week of 8/16 Cleveland’s Classic Car & Motorcycle Roll In: 16-Aug, 5:00 PM, Cleveland, Main Street, Cleveland, Free. Cleveland’s Classic Car / Motorcycle Roll In starting at 5 p.m. on main street in Cleveland with karaoke by Sohmer. Call 507-931-6380 for more information. www. clevelandmn.govoffice2.com/.

Nightlife Nightly Trivial Trivia: Sundays, 9:00 PM, Shenanigan’s, 14605 South Robert Trail, Rosemount. www. loosegravel.biz/. Texas Hold’em: Mondays, 6:00 PM, Pub 500, 500 S Front St, Mankato, Free. Play for weekly prizes as well as your chance

to win a trip to Las Vegas to play in a Free Poker Network Tournament. www.pub500. com/happenings/poker. (507) 625-6500 Bingo: Tuesdays, 7:00 PM, Celt’s Pub, 14506 South Robert Trail, Rosemount. 15 games, with 75% payback on all games and 100% payback on games 5, 10 and 15 up to $300. celtspub.com/events/. Bargo: Tuesdays, 9:00 PM, Valley Tap House, 14889 Florence Trail, Apple Valley. It’s Bingo, only better! thevalleytaphouse. com/specials.html. Karaoke with Jake Palmer Party Sounds: Tuesdays, Savoy bar and Grill, 526 South Front Street, Mankato. 9 p.m. 507327-8311. Karaoke with Danny Muzik: Tuesdays, Torge’s Live, 1701 NW 4th St., Austin. Open Mic Night at Viking Lounge: Tuesdays, 8 p.m., Viking Lounge, 1630 South Broadway, Rochester, 507-2881844. Texas Holdem Tuesdays: Tuesdays, 9:00 PM, Bogart’s Place, 14917 Garrett Avenue, Apple Valley, Free. Join us at Bogarts every Tuesday for a game of Texas Hold’em games start at 7:00pm and 9:00pm with cash payouts. doubledittyspianobar. com/. Trivial Trivia: Tuesdays, 9:30 PM, High Five Burnsville, 14103 Irving Ave S, Burnsville, Free. Join us at Hi5Bar for a little Trivial Trivia! Its free to play this pop culture trivia game, and there will be prizes every Tuesday!. hi5bar.com/triviatuesdays/. Bargo!: Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, 7:00 PM, The Bar Hastings, 2101 Vermillion Street, Hastings. Sex Toy Bargo: Wednesdays, Wicked Moose Bar and Grill, 1201 Eastgate Drive S.E., Rochester. Sex Toy Bargo is the Wicked Moose version of Bingo. 507-208-4088. info@wicked-

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St. W, Faribault, Free. www. spikesrocks.com/eventcalendar/. Loose Gravel Trivia: Thursdays, 10:00 PM, T.G.I. Fridays - Burnsville, 14400 Buck Hill Road, Burnsville. loosegravel. biz/. Good For Gary Accoustic: Thursdays, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville, Free. Four piece acoustic version of the Fun Top 40 Dance Hits with a more casual vibe. mckrackenspub. com/events/. Dave Lambert: Fridays, 6:30 PM, Wings Tavern & Grille, 1805 S. Elm Ave., Owatonna. Come enjoy this special style of Roots and Delta Blues music.. www.facebook.com/WingsTavernAndGrille. Live Comedy at Goonie’s Comedy Club: Goonie’s Comedy Club, 7 Second St. SW, Rochester. Performances at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. For performers, showtimes and

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From 35 advanced reservations, call or check website. 507-288-8130. Loose Moose Karaoke: Friday and Saturday nights, Loose Moose Saloon & Conference Center, 119 S. Front St., Mankato. 8:30 p.m. 507-345-1446. Double Ditty’s Dueling Piano Party: Friday and Saturday nights, 8:30 PM, Bogarts Place, 14917 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley, $5. www.doubledittyspianobar.com. All Request Dance Party: Saturdays, 9:30 PM, Babe’s Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville. www.babesmusicbar. com/Events.asp. Moonlight bowling: Second Saturday of the month, 8 p.m., The 300 Club, 504 N. Main St., Le Sueur. 507-665-6015.

Week of 6/14 Pert Near Sandstone: 14-Jun, 7:30 PM, Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, $28. From saloons to theaters, hollering into a single microphone and laying thick rhythm on driving fiddle melodies, their sweat-inducing, foot-stomping live performances keep crowds begging for more all night long.. www.mnzoo.org/musicinthezoo/. Cherry Dirt: 14-Jun, 7:30 PM, Canadian Honker, 1203 2nd Street SW, Rochester, Free. Cherry Dirt is an acoustic duo, playing old and new American music with a ukulele twist!. restaurant.canadianhonker.com/ live-music/. 507-282-6572 Free Fallin’: 14-Jun, 8:00 PM, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Free. Free Fallin is the Nations Favorite Travelin’ Tribute to Tom Petty. www.mysticlake.com/ entertainmentcalendar/2013-06. Hastings Sings: 14-Jun, 8:00 PM, The Busted Nut, 118 2nd

Street East, Hastings. thebustednut.com/Calendar.html. Diamonds & Dreams: 14-Jun, 8:00 PM, Jimmy’s Pub, 406 Main St., Red Wing, Free. Live music. www.st-james-hotel. com/stjames/jimmys.html. American Roadhouse: 14-Jun, 8:00 PM, Farmington Dew Days, Oak Street, Farmington, Free. www.farmingtondewdays.com. Big City Live: 14-Jun, 9:00 PM, High Five Burnsville, 14103 Irving Ave S, Burnsville. Big City is a top 40, pop, cover, dance band based out of the Minneapolis/St.Paul area. hi5bar. com/events/. Shawn Whitaker and Face of Oblivion: 14-Jun, 9:00 PM, What’s Up Lounge, 701 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato, $10. Shawn Whitaker: Plays all instruments for Insidious Decrepancy and at times Viral Load. www.whatsuplounge. com/events/shawn-whitaker/. Mother Banjo: 14-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield. Mother Banjo is a one-woman band featuring Ellen Stanley on banjo and vocals. The S.O.B’s: 14-Jun, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville. www. mckrackenspub.com/events/. Gel: 14-Jun, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville. www. mckrackenspub.com/events/. Roadhouse 6: 14-Jun, 9:30 PM, Babe’s Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville. Roadhouse 6 is made up of seasoned area musicians that decided to get together and perform the best new country and some classic rock favorites. www.babesmusicbar.com/ Events.asp. Junk FM Concert: 14-Jun, 10:00 PM, Grampa Al’s, 28 3rd St. NW, Faribault. www. grampaals.com. Mark Grimm: 15-Jun, 5:00 PM,

The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Jivin’ Ivan And The Kings Of Swing: 15-Jun, 7:30 PM, Signature Bar & Grill, 201 Central Ave. N, Faribault, Free. www. jivinivanandthekingsofswing. com/. Eric Hutchinson: 15-Jun, 7:30 PM, Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley. Eric Hutchinson is an American singer-songwriter. www.mnzoo.org/musicinthezoo/. Matthew Griswold: 15-Jun, 7:30 PM, Canadian Honker, 1203 2nd Street SW, Rochester, Free. 507-282-6572 Lee Weber & Tim Babel performance: 15-Jun, 7:30 PM, The Grand Kabaret, 210 N. Minnesota St., New Ulm. (507) 3599222, info@thegrandnewulm. com, or www.thegrandnewulm. com.. Blueprint: 15-Jun, 8:00 PM, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Free. www.mysticlake.com/ entertainmentcalendar/2013-06. The Dweebs: 15-Jun, 8:00 PM, Farmington Dew Days, Oak Street, Farmington, Free. Expect The Dweebs to deliver something for every musical taste, every age, and every type of fan. www.farmingtondewdays.com. Arena Live Music: 15-Jun, 8:30 PM, Reggie’s Brewhouse, 220 North Cedar Ave, Owatonna. Live music with Arena. www.reverbnation.com/venue/1089979. Candlebox: 15-Jun, 9:00 PM, High Five Burnsville, 14103 Irving Ave S, Burnsville, $15. hi5bar.com/events/. Optimum Trajectory: 15-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Chris Brooks: 15-Jun, 9:00 PM, Spike’s, 1525 Division St. W, Faribault. Chris Brooks & The Silver City Boys are a premier

Minneapolis-based country band. http://www.chrisbrooksband.com/the-band. The S.O.B’s: 15-Jun, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville. www. mckrackenspub.com/events/. Chris Brooks: 15-Jun, 9:30 PM, Spike’s, 1525 Division St. W, Faribault, Free. www.spikesrocks.com/event-calendar/. An Evening of Comedy and Magic: 15-Jun, 7:00 PM, Sheldon Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $11.50$17.50. www.sheldontheatre. org. 651-388-8700 Father’s Day Quiz Night: 16Jun, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Rob Meany: 16-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield. Rob Meany is an award-winning singer/ songwriter and composer. Big Band Series: 17-Jun, 7:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont. A free will donation will be taken. (507) 235-9262 redrockcenter. org/. Northern Roots Session: 17Jun, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Acoustic Jam: 18-Jun, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Aaron Lewis: 19-Jun, 7:00 PM, Vetter Stone Ampitheater, 310 West Rock Street, Mankato, $28.50 and up. www.aaronlewismusic.com/events. Will Hale Performance: 20Jun, 6:30 PM, German Park, 200 N. German St., New Ulm. Children’s musical performer, Will Hale, will perform a fun filled concert with audience participation, 6:30 p.m., at German Park in New Ulm. For more information contact (507) 359-8336. www.willhale.com/. Good For Gary Accoustic:

20-Jun, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville, Free. www.mckrackenspub.com/events/. Barb Piper: 20-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield.

Week of 6/21 The Bodeans: 21-Jun, 7:30 PM, Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley. www.mnzoo.org/musicinthezoo/. Booker and Mark: 21-Jun, 7:30 PM, Canadian Honker, 1203 2nd Street SW, Rochester, Free. 507-282-6572 Garnet Rogers: 21-Jun, 8:00 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota, $18. www.crossingsatcarnegie.com/ page0003.Lou%20and%20 Peter%20Berryman.html. (507) 732-7616 Brian Kinney: 21-Jun, 8:00 PM, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Free. Brian Kinnney Band features legendary Twin City musicians coming together from Bonnie Raitt, Prince, Fairchild, and Rupert’s Orchestra. www.mysticlake.com/entertainmentcalendar/2013-06. North of Nowhere: 21-Jun, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Chris Herriges: 21-Jun, 8:00 PM, Jimmy’s Pub, St. James Hotel, 405 Main St., Red Wing, Free. Live music. www. st-james-hotel.com/stjames/ jimmys.html. Rich Priener: 21-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield. Third Gear: 21-Jun, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. Extreme Party Music from Northern Wisconsin www.thirdgearparty.com/ schedule. The S.O.B’s: 21-Jun, 9:00 PM,

McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville. www. mckrackenspub.com/events/. Amber Preston: 21-22 Jun, 7:30, 10 PM, Goonie’s Comedy Club, 7 Second Street SW, Rochester, $14 . Named one of ‘5 Comedians to Watch’ in New York Magazine, her charisma leaves audiences powerless not to fall head over heels. www. gooniescomedy.com/shows. shtml. 8 Foot 4: 21-Jun, 9:30 PM, Babe’s Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville. www. babesmusicbar.com/Events.asp. Hicktown Mafia: 21-Jun, 9:30 PM, Spike’s, 1525 Division St. W, Faribault, Free. www.spikesrocks.com/event-calendar/. Nick Fox: 22-Jun, 9:00 AM, The Busted Nut, 118 2nd Street East, Hastings. thebustednut. com/Calendar.html. Kelsey Terhorst: 22-Jun, 5:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. The Oak Ridge Boys: 22-Jun, 7:30 PM, Mayo Civic Center, 30 Civic Center Drive, Rochester, $27 and up. www.oakridgeboys. com/tour. Carolina Chocolate Drops: 22-Jun, 7:30 PM, Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley. www. mnzoo.org/musicinthezoo/. Miles Johnston: 22-Jun, 7:30 PM, Canadian Honker, 1203 2nd Street SW, Rochester, Free. www.restaurant.canadianhonker.com/live-music/. 507-2826572 Big Toe and The Jam: 22-Jun, 8:00 PM, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, 2400 Mystic Lake Blvd, Prior Lake, Free. www.mysticlake.com/entertainmentcalendar/2013-06. Bonnie & The Clydes: 22-Jun, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free.

ONE, Tribute to Metallica: 22-Jun, 9:00 PM, High Five Burnsville, 14103 Irving Ave S, Burnsville. hi5bar.com/ events/. Why Not?: 22-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield. Common Ground in Concert: 22-Jun, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. The S.O.B’s: 22-Jun, 9:00 PM, McKracken’s Pub, 3120 West Highway 13, Burnsville. www.mckrackenspub.com/ events/. Bill Cosby: 22-Jun, 5:00, 8:30 PM, Treasure Island Resort and Casino Minnesota, 5734 Sturgeon Lake Road, Welch, $39 and up. www.ticketmaster.com/ Bill-Cosby-tickets/artist/702564. Shemekia Copeland: 23-Jun, 7:30 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $25 and up. Her father, the late Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland, recognized his daughter’s talent early on. www. shemekiacopeland.com/tourschedule. (952) 431-9213 Quiz Night: 23-Jun, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Northern Roots Session: 24Jun, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Acoustic Jam: 25-Jun, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. The Eastside Collective: 26Jun, 9:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Carey Langer: 27-Jun, 9:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Marty Anderson & The

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Jivin’ Ivan And The Kings Of Swing: 13-Jul, 7:30 PM, Signature Bar & Grill, 201 Central Ave. N, Faribault, Free. www. jivinivanandthekingsofswing. com/. Sevendust: 13-Jul, 8:00 PM, Wicked Moose Bar & Grill, 1201 Eastgate Dr. SE, Rochester, $20-$50. www.facebook.com/ pages/Sevendust/25493613 958?id=25493613958&sk=a pp_123966167614127. Marty Anderson & The Goods: 13-Jul, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Joe Carey: 13-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. Bissen Johnson & Kroc: 13-Jul, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. www. torgeslive.com/. Good for Gary with Ageless: 13-Jul, 9:30 PM, Babes Restaurant and Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville, free. www.babesmusicbar.com/ Home.asp. Hyme Sing: 14-Jul, 7:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont, Free. Hyme Sing 7-8:30 p.m. at the Red Rock Center, 222 E. Blue Ave., Fairmont. (507) 235-9262 or www.redrockcenter.org Big Band Series: 15-Jul, 7:00 PM, Red Rock Center, 222 East Blue Earth Ave., Fairmont. www. redrockcenter.org. 507-2359262 Northern Roots Session: 15Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented

Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Willie Nelson: 16-Jul, 7:30 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $45-$129. willienelson.com/ tour/. (952) 431-9213 Acoustic Jam: 16-Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Barb Piper: 18-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www. barbpipermusic.com.

Week of 7/19 The Color Morale: 19-Jul, 7:00 PM, The Garage, 75 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville, $12-$20. www.facebook.com/thecolormorale/app_123966167614127. Barbara Jean And Chastity Brown: 19-Jul, 8:00 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota, $20. www. crossingsatcarnegie.com. (507) 732-7616 Pho band: 19-Jul, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Mid Summer Festival with Cow Stock and live music by Pho. Bret Michaels: 19-Jul, 9:00 PM, Lakefront Park, 1500 Kop Parkway, Prior Lake, $20 and up. www.bretmichaels.com/ schedule/schedule.html. 952447-9820 Craig & Maren Wasner: 19-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. http://www.myspace.com/ marenwasner.. tavernofnorthfield.com/. Drama Queen: 19-Jul, 9:30 PM, Babes Restaurant and Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville, Free. www.babesmusicbar.com/Home.asp. Bonnie & The Clydes: 20-Jul, 8:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Relativity: 20-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www. tavernofnorthfield.com/. Optimum Trajectory: 20-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. RockFist: 20-Jul, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. www.torgeslive. com/. Montgomery Gentry: 20-Jul,

9:45 PM, Lakefront Park, 1500 Kop Parkway, Prior Lake, $44 and up. 952-447-9820 Trombone Shorty: 21-Jul, 7:00 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, Free-$90. www. tromboneshorty.com/events/ default.aspx. (952) 431-9213 Mavis Staples: 21-Jul, 7:30 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $25-$150. www.mavisstaples.com/tour.php. (952) 431-9213 Chris Isaak: 22-Jul, 7:00 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley. www.chrisisaak.com/events. (952) 431-9213 Northern Roots Session: 22Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Acoustic Jam: 23-Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Merle Haggard: 24-Jul, 7:00 PM, Vetter Stone Ampitheater, 310 West Rock Street, Mankato. www.merlehaggard.com/tourdates/. New Ulm Municipal Band Concert: 24-Jul, 7:00 PM, German Park, 200 N. German St., New Ulm. www.newulm.com/. Sena Earnhardt: 24-Jul, 8:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. www.senaehrhardt.com/tour/. Ian Thomas Alexy: 25-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www.tavernofnorthfield.com/.

Week of 7/26 Dave Koz: 26-Jul, 7:30 PM, Weesner Family Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Blvd, Apple Valley, $35-$80. www.davekoz.com/ tour/. (952) 431-9213 Mason Jennings: 26-Jul, 8:00 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota, $28. www.crossingsatcarnegie.com. (507) 732-7616 Shawn, Steve & Russ Trio: 26Jul, 8:00 PM, Jimmy’s Pub, St. James Hotel, 405 Main St., Red Wing, Free. Live music. www. st-james-hotel.com/stjames/ jimmys.html. Mason Jennings in concert: 26Jul, 8:00 PM, Zumbrota State Theatre, 88 E 4th St., Zumbrota, $25-$28. Pop-folk with intimate lyrcs and a distinctive voice. www.zaac.org. 507-732-5210 Hairball (Time TBA): 26-Jul, 9:00 PM, Faribault County Fairgrounds, 235 Midway Rd, Blue Earth, $10-$30. www. hairballonline.com/shows.html. 507-526-5802 Martin Devaney & Jake Hyer: 26-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www.tavernofnorthfield.com/. Concentual: 26-Jul, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. www.torgeslive.

com/. Jaded Evolution: 26-Jul, 9:30 PM, Babes Restaurant and Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville, Free. www.babesmusicbar.com/Home.asp. Northfield High School Alumni and bands: 27-Jul, 7:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Why Not?: 27-Jul, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www. tavernofnorthfield.com/. Drink Dance Repeat: 27-Jul, 9:00 PM, Torge’s Live Sports Pub & Grille, 1701 4th Street Northwest, Austin. www. torgeslive.com/. Hairball: 27-Jul, 9:30 PM, Elko Speedway, 26350 France Ave, Elko, $10-$30. www.hairballonline.com/shows.html. John McCutcheon: 28-Jul, 8:00 PM, Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, Zumbrota. www. folkmusic.com/shows/upcoming. (507) 732-7616 Northern Roots Session: 29Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Acoustic Jam: 30-Jul, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Kellie Pickler: 30-Jul, 8:00 PM, Freeborn County Fairgrounds, 1031 Bridge Ave, Albert Lea, $25 and up. www.kelliepickler. com/. 507-373-6965 The Dunwells: 1-Aug, 6:30 PM, Peace Plaza Stage, 16 1/4 St NE, Rochester, $16 and up. The Dunwells are a British folk rock band formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 2009. www. thedunwells.com/tour/. John Hiatt and the Combo: 1-Aug, 7:30 PM, Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, 13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, $30-$80. www.johnhiatt.com/johnHiattTourPage.html. Bonnie & The Clydes: 1-Aug, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. www.tavernofnorthfield. com/.

Week of 8/2 Leogun (Time TBA): 2-Aug, 7:30 PM, Vetter Stone Ampitheater, 310 West Rock Street, Mankato, $8-$20. www.leogunband.com/#tourdatebox. Shawn Phillips: 2-Aug, 8:00 PM, Zumbrota State Theatre, 88 E 4th St., Zumbrota, $21-$24. 70s singer and guitarist. www. zaac.org. 507-732-5210 The Sixth Street Trio: 2-Aug, 8:00 PM, Jimmy’s Pub, St. James Hotel, 405 Main St., Red Wing, Free. Live music. www. st-james-hotel.com/stjames/ jimmys.html. Kenny Rogers: 2-Aug, 8:30 PM, Freeborn County Fairgrounds, 1031 Bridge Ave, Albert Lea, $50-$75. www.kennyrogers. com/index.htm?id=15753. 507373-6965 Ben Aaron: 2-Aug, 9:00 PM,

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Week of 8/9 New Moon Trio: 9-Aug, 5:00 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Joe Fessler: 9-Aug, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. Kickstart: 9-Aug, 9:30 PM, Babes Restaurant and Music Bar, 20685 Holyoke Ave. S., Lakeville, Free. Rob Meany: 10-Aug, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. Acoustic Jam: 13-Aug, 7:30 PM, The Contented Cow, 302B Division Street South, Northfield, Free. Joe Carey: 15-Aug, 9:00 PM, The Tavern Lounge, 212 Division St., Northfield, Free. Hairball (Time TBA): 15-Aug, 9:00 PM, Steele County Fairgrounds, 1525 S Cedar Ave, Owatonna, $10-$30. www. hairballonline.com/shows.html.

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Story Time with Hubbard Girls: Fridays hrough Aug. 30, 10:30 AM, Historic R.D. Hubbard House, 606 S. Broad St., Mankato, Free. Now through Friday, August 30, Katherine and Mary Esther will entertain children with story time, crafts, games and more. Join Katherine and Mary Esther Hubbard every Friday at 10:30 a.m. on the Hubbard House lawn for Story Time. Story time is free and open to the public. The Historic R.D. Hubbard house will also be open and tours will be available. Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children 5-17 and children under 5 and BECHS members are free. The Hubbard House

is located at 606 South Broad Street in Mankato. For more information on story time call the Blue Earth County Historical Society at 507-345-5566 or visit www.bechshistory. com. www.bechshistory.com. Free Family Movie night: 14-Jun, 7:00 PM, Zumbrota State Theatre, 88 E 4th St., Zumbrota, Free. Free movie, ‘Free Willy.’. www.zaac.org. 507-732-5210

Week of 6/21 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961 film): 25-Jul, 7:00 PM, Sheldon Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $5 . This 1961 romantic comedy film stars Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and features Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney.. www.sheldontheatre. org. 651-388-8700 This is Spinal Tap (1984 film): 27-Jun, 7:00 PM, Sheldon Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $5 . You’re about to get personal with one of music history’s greatest and loudest heavy metal bands, Spinal Tap! Whether or not you’re a die-hard fan of the group, you’ll love this detailed ‘rockumentary’ of England’s legendary Spinal Tap.. www.sheldontheatre.org. 651-388-8700

Week of 7/26 Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994 film): 1-Aug, 7:00 PM, Sheldon Theatre, 443 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, $5 . This British romantic comedy film is directed by Mike Newell and stars Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, and Kristin Scott Thomas.. www.sheldontheatre.org. 651388-8700

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Week of 8/9 Illustrations by James Hohenstein: 9-16 Aug, 12:00 AM, The 410 Project, 523 S. Front St., Mankato, . Illustrations by James Hohenstein, at The 410 Project, 523 South Front St., Mankato. Opening reception 7-9 p.m. August 9. Gallery Hours: Wednesday -Saturday 2-6 p.m., Sunday 1-4 p.m.. www.the410project. com.

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Minneapolis-based independent filmmaker Eric Tretbar.

s you’ve probably figured out by now, I really like music. I also really like movies -- especially movies that feature great music. Granted, what makes a movie (or film)great is ultimately all about talented actors and writers and directors (and editors and artists and designers and cinematographers...). But when the music in a movie takes the storyline further -- and really gets the audience to *feel* something, that’s what I’m talking about. There’s music that serves as a sort of “wallpaper” in a film, and then there are soundtracks that become a key component of the movie itself -- almost providing another layer of dialogue but in the form of melody vs. script. Some of my favorite musical releases happen to be movie soundtracks. Of course there are the “traditional” soundtracks -- the blockbuster Hollywood releases scored by powerhouse composers like John Williams, Ennio Morricone, and Hans Zimmer. And is there any one who doesn’t own a copy of the soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” or “Grease”? Perfectly matching a song with a scene seems like nothing new -- and there are a million great examples out there. But when a soundtrack takes a film to an entirely different level of artistry -demonstrating a record geek’s ability

to wow viewers with a song that’s not only enjoyable but, at its best, makes a scene instantly memorable -- that’s what I’m talking about. Directors like Baz Luhrmann, Danny Boyle and Wes Anderson are such masters, with a genius ability to partner songs with what’s happening on the screen, and in a way that lingers even once you’ve left the movie theater. Minneapolis-based independent filmmaker Eric Tretbar is also one of those kinds of directors -- who really *gets* the importance of music in movies. Granted, he’s a musician himself, so, to a degree, this might seem obvious. But when I recently viewed his latest release, “Girls Meets Bike,” I was immediately struck by how perfectly the music matched the personality of the film (which also features some amazing cinematography). **Quick disclaimer -- I actually worked on the film, when it was shot in and around Northfield (and throughout southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin) in the summer of 2011. A Carleton College graduate, Tretbar is a good friend (and was also teaching at Carleton at the time). Coincidentally, we first met years (and years) ago, when he was the drummer of one of my very favorite Twin Cities bands EVER (that also got it’s start in Northfield), Something Fierce. Anyway, I mention all of this because, well, knowing Eric’s

background I certainly “expected” the film to feature some good music. But in all honesty, I didn’t expect to dig the film’s score as much as I do. So, it got me thinking -- how does a film director go about choosing (and then finding -- and featuring) the *right* music for a film? The following is a quick discussion with “Girl Meets Bike” director Eric Tretbar about the efforts that went into scoring his latest film. Paxton: What music/musicians were your inspiration for the original compositions in the film? Tretbar: When I make a film, sometimes I begin with music as an inspiration for the story, itself, and sometimes I write the story, then let the atmosphere or setting motivate appropriate music for the particular world I’m creating. For GIRL MEETS BIKE, I began the writing process with the idea of “natural music”--the sounds which were part of the world of my setting: Northfield, Minnesota, the setting which is used by name in the movie. In Northfield, there are 8-10 trains that run through town every day, each with a specific horn. Each train creates natural music which can be applied to various scenes to emphasize certain emotions, or sometimes contradict them. I began with trains, and made a sort of catalogue of “Northfield”

sounds: running water, bugs, the countryside, songbirds, night crickets, plants and grains rubbing in the breeze, and most prevalently, the sound of each individual motorcycle. After collecting these sounds as ideas in the movie’s script, we shot the film, and recorded each of these sounds. After I filled in as much as I could with this “natural music”, I began to place actual music which seemed appropriate for these characters to be listening to, or music that was appropriate to be playing in the background in certain locations. Because the motorcycles (and the basic style of the characters) were mostly vintage 60s and 70s, I placed both American and European original 60s/70s garage R&B as temporary music. Bands like the Dutch band, The Outsiders, the American band, The Weeds, and newer 90s German band, Stereo Total filled out my “temp music” as I was editing the film’s sound. I used Stereo Total since many of their songs are sung in German AND English and one of the story’s characters (Martin) is German (as is the actor who played him, Ralf Schirg). This was a subtle way to underscore this character’s “German-ness” without anyone saying it out loud. Music works in strong ways in movies, sometimes up front, but frequently behind the scenes without you noticing it. I also used music that I just happened to like, such as the English 80s Mod-Garage band, The Prisoners, a Small Faces-sounding outfit that put out amazing records in the 80s and early 90s. Another 90s Garage-Psych band my old band used to play with in Minneapolis, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, lent a song for use in our trailer. But when the film was nearing completion and it was time to license the music for use in the finished film, a number of obstacles sprung up which sadly made it necessary to replace much of the Girl Meets Bike (Internet Image) “temp” music with music which was easier to secure.

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From 41 Paxton: How do you get the rights to use other artists’ music in a film? Tretbar: Securing rights to music can be easy or difficult, but is always easier if you have a substantial budget to spend on it. A famous song can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to license for use in a movie. A not-so-famous song can still cost tens of thousands. With the decline of CD sales for the music industry, almost all record labels have turned to music licensing to bump up their profits. For independent movies like “Girl Meets Bike,” the cost of licensing even obscure bands’ music can just be too expensive. Paxton: How were you able to shift gears, then? Tretbar: I reminded myself that I’m a musician capable of writing and recording music which sounds very similar to the 60s garage songs I was seeking. And the rights would be my own! Paxton: As a filmmaker, and a director, talk a bit about the importance of music in film from your perspective. Tretbar: My filmmaking hero, Ingmar Bergman, said that “Cinema and literature have nothing to do with each other, but Cinema and music are the same thing.” What he meant is that music and movies act straight on your emotions, without any need for interpretation. What is the meaning of Mozart? What is the politics of a Beethoven melody? Their music is beyond meaning or politics. It’s pure experience, pure emotions going straight to our hearts. Paxton: You were the drummer for one of my favorite Twin Cities bands, Something Fierce. Tell me a bit about your start as a musician -- and also, who are the other musicians that performed on the “Girl Meets Bike” soundtrack? Tretbar: I began, as many did, with forced piano lessons. Although drums were always my true love, I don’t regret piano since it showed my the basics of music structure -- how all the chords are related and how chords can be transformed from major to minor to diminshed with just a few changed notes. I also taught myself guitar enough to write rock and roll songs. I’ve played drums since grade school, joining my first horrible band in 9th grade which slogged through the entire length of Rush’s “2112.” (My apologies to our 14-year-old audience in my friend’s basement.) I soon joined a New Wave band in high school and learned the intricacies of Steward Copeland’s poppy reggae beats, plus the fast, precise style of one of my drummer heroes, Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello and the Attractions fame. College led me into 60s garage land and punk-R&B with the Carleton pop band, Something. I owe my Prisoners fascination to my former bandmate, Jerry Lefkowitz, along with the crazy 60s garage collection, “Pebbles”, from which we gleaned all our garage-rock tricks. Next, I joined my favorite Minneapolis Beat band, The Funseekers, and met my next musical master, Keith Patterson, who taught me to love The Who’s Keith Moon and another drummer fave, Viv Prince of The Pretty Things. I also drummed for another Keith P. outfit, The Spectors, where I met Dan Boardman who recorded the “Girl Meets Bike” music. Other Minneapolis bands I rocked with are Muskellunge(with ex-Funseeker and guitar god, John Crozier), Friends Like These (2003 electro-clash rockers), and L.A. Mod-Punk bands Downtown Kicks and The Red Hearts. I’m currently starting a new band with Keith Patterson and former musical associates, Sally Sweet and Kris Manion -- in the style of The Prisoners and The Small Faces. Get ready!

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ost people think of Minneapolis first when it comes to cycling destinations in

Trail markers can be found in most areas of Rochester and are helpful in guiding visiting cyclists who might be unfamiliar with the city. The markers are color-coded based on relevance. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

Minnesota. There’s good reason for this. The metro area has a wellearned reputation as a cycling Mecca, with a wealth of off-road trails to match its fully realized -- and wonderfully eclectic -- bike culture. Cycling publications routinely rank Minneapolis among the most bike-friendly cities in America and twowheeled travelers have endless attractions (Minnehaha Falls, Target Field and the Stone Arch Bridge, to name three) they can check out on a casual day ride. It’s true, Minneapolis is a wonderful place for cyclists in Minnesota. But it’s not the only place. Southern Minnesota has several communities that offer their own cycling charm, two of which -- Mankato and Rochester -- have been recognized on a national level for their bike friendliness. You probably won’t find the mass of fellow cyclists in these towns that you would on the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis, but if you’re looking for a fun day of biking, here are a few closer-to-home options:

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Unless you’re commuting to work or running errands, the ideal bike ride is one where you never have to turn around and can do a continuous loop with minimal stops. This is what makes Rochester ideal for cyclists. With more than 85 miles of off-road trails spread out around town, Med City offers a wide variety of safe riding options for all levels of bicycling. The trails are practically everywhere, whether they’re winding through parks in residential neighborhoods or following the Zumbro River around downtown. Almost all of them are interconnected as well, so with a map and a little heads-up navigation, you could circle the entire city on a bicycle without having to spend much time on roads. Rochester has also made cycling appealing by building pedestrian bridges across busy roadways and placing maps and signs around town to help unfamiliar bikers find their way. If quiet rural rides are more your thing, you can also hop on the Douglas State Trail on the northeast side of town, which travels 12 miles north to Pine Island. There are a couple bikerelated aspects Rochester can improve on, namely its lack of on-street bike lanes or down-

town bike racks. Still, it’s hard to complain with all those trails to choose from. Recommended ride (from Paul Myhrom of Honest Bike Shop): Head east on County Road 9 out of Rochester and turn left on MN 74 and bike to Alba. Collectively, it’s about a 40 mile trip. “It’s a fun ride all around, plus you can stop and grab a beer in Alba before you head back,” Myhrom said.

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Scenery seekers can hop on the Minneopa Trail to check out a 39-foot waterfall or travel along the Minnesota River Trail that runs the length of the town. The Red Jacket Trail is also a popular spot for cyclists with its friendly tree canopy and idyllic trestle bridge over the Le Sueur River. If you’re looking to get a longer ride in, you can either hop on the Sakatah Singing Hills Trail, which runs 38 miles east to Faribault, or try out one of the designated bike loops on the city bike map, all of which stick to low-traffic roads and trails while showcasing various quirks of the area. Bike commuters needn’t fret either, as off-road bike paths

Several bike trails cut through the downtown area of Rochester, giving cyclists a safe option for exploring the town. (Internet image)

and its self-serve bike repair stations located both downtown and at St. Olaf College. The city isn’t resting on its current trail system either. Construction of a Highway 3 pedestrian underpass is currently underway and the master plan for Mill Towns is to eventually link it to the nearby Sakatah Singing Hills and Cannon Valley trails to create more than 80 miles of continuous bike paths from Mankato to Red Wing. Recommended ride (from Stew Moyer of Mikes Bikes): Ride one of the routes used for the Defeat of Jesse James Days. “We’ve got a lot of nice rural roads around the town,” Moyer said. “There’s literally an endless number or routes you can take that’ll be fun.”

The Red Jacket trestle bridge provides a scenic overlook of the Le Sueur River south of Mankato. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

connect most areas of the city and designated bike lanes are starting to pop up on roads around town, plus there’s plenty of bike racks for riders to lock their bikes to. Mountain bikers also won’t feel left out, as Mount Kato offers a variety of trails and challenging hills to test their skills on. Fair warning for newcomers: There aren’t a lot of signs around town for navigation, so make sure you have a map or GPS handy. Or better yet, pick up a bike map from the Greater Mankato Visitors’ Bureau ahead of time. Recommended ride (from Jon Andersen of Flying Penguin Outdoor Sports): The Red Jacket Trail Loop, a featured loop on the city bike map that runs between 30-40 miles and includes the Red Jacket Trail and numerous back roads around Mankato. “It offers the best variety of challenges and scenery in the area,” Andersen said. “Really, it’s one of the most serene rides you can do.” Also of note: There’s a pie place you can stop at along the way.

Northfield’s inclusion here might seem a bit out of place since it’s the only city that doesn’t have a lengthy regional trail passing through. However, one visit quickly reveals a community that embraces cycling and has designed itself to accommodate twowheeled travelers. The Mill Towns Trail connects Northfield to Dundas and numerous off-road paths can be found around town, particularly near Carleton College and the downtown area. Even if you can’t find a trail, the streets around town are equally inviting as many have designated bike lanes. Likewise, most of the roads outside the city are quiet, rural roads that cyclists can safely bike on without having to worry much about cars. Northfield also scores major points for its pedestrian bridges across the Cannon River

Lanesboro is the antithesis of Minneapolis. A small town of less than 800 people, you won’t find a skyscraper in its skyline, a McDonalds among its storefronts or a glutton of bike lanes and off-road commuter trails (though to be fair, you could probably walk across the town in 10 minutes). Still, next to Minneapolis, Lanesboro is one of the most popular cycling destinations in Minnesota. The town serves as the central hub of the Root River Trail, which combines with the Harmony-Preston Valley Trail to offer more than 60 miles of off-road biking through Amish farm country and the picturesque limestone bluffs of the Root River valley. The Lanesboro/Root River pairing differs from other town/bike trail dynamics. Rather than being invigorated by a new trail like most towns are, Lanesboro was completely transformed by it. “It’s insane how much of a difference it’s made,” said Anne Tuff, a Little River General Store employee who lived in Lanesboro before the Root River

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ABOVE: The limestone bluffs surrounding the Root River Trail give it a sometimes cavernous feel as it meanders along the Root River valley. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

Downtown Lanesboro has an eclectic mix of mom & pop shops for visiting cyclists to explore. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

From 45 Trail came along. “This used to be more of a quiet, agricultural area. Now it’s a big tourist town.” So what’s been the big difference for Lanesboro? Local enthusiasm mostly. A now-famous bed & breakfast culture has emerged in town, as well as a popular community theatre and an art gallery. Visitors also have the option of touring a nearby Amish community, renting out kayaks, playing a round of golf,

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RIGHT: The Cannon Valley Trail terminates in Red Wing, where cyclists can hop on city trails to navigate the downtown area. The Cannon Valley Trail is private trail and users are required to pay a $3 daily ride fee. (Alex Voigt/ Southern Minnesota SCENE)

doing some fly fishing or checking out one of the many unique mom & pop shops around the downtown area. Oh, and the bike trail is pretty awesome too.

Tuff said. “Plus their pie is amazing.” Since the area is famous for its rhubarb -- Garrison Keillor even waxed poetically about it on “A Prairie Home Companion” -- I’d recommend that for a pie choice.

Recommended ride (from Anne Tuff of Little River General Store): Head east on the Root River Trail for 5 miles to Whalen and grab a slice of pie at the Aroma Pie Shop. “A lot of people do more adventurous rides obviously, but that’s definitely the most popular one,”

As the scenic endpoint of the equally-picturesque Cannon Valley Trail, Red Wing would be great cycling destination even if it weren’t taking steps to make itself more

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Bridge along the Root River Trail. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

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The limestone bluffs surrounding the Root River Trail give it a sometimes cavernous feel as it meanders along the Root River valley. (Alex

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The Minnesota River Trail runs the length of Mankato along the Minnesota River from Sibley Park to the Sakatah Singing Hills trailhead. (Alex Voigt/Southern Minnesota SCENE)

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From 47 downtown and travels six miles south out of town. Like Mill Towns, Hay Creek is also part of an ambitious master plan for regional cycling that will eventually be the Goodhue Pioneer Trail, a 47-mile trail

that will connect the Cannon Valley and Douglas State trails. If you’re more of the rugged off-road biking type, Memorial Park offers 11 miles of mountain bike trails for all skill levels, as well as a beautiful hilltop overview of Red Wing and the Mississippi River valley. Speaking of the Mississippi,

there’s also plenty of quiet river valley roads around Red Wing that offer challenging hills and some of the most scenic riding you’ll find in Minnesota. Recommended ride (from Nate Sievers of Wheelhouse Cycles): Hop on the Cannon Valley

Trail for a 20-mile roundtrip to Welch and stop at the Trout Stream Café for ice cream at the turnaround point. “You can’t beat biking on a paved trail like that,” Sievers said. Reach copy editor Alex Voigt at 3333132, or follow him on Twitter.com @ AGVoigt.

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ing. No, the biggest reason I enjoy biking so much is because I find it to be a tool for travel and adventure as much as it is for exercise. I’ve always considered cycling to be a “naked” form of travel. That doesn’t mean I literally enjoy biking in the nude (an awkward proposition, plus I’m pretty sure that’s illegal). Rather, I mean that it’s a form of travel where you’re exposed to the elements and at the mercy of Mother Nature. You can’t tune out your surroundings on a bike like you can in a car. You feel every raindrop, every gust of wind and every hill, even if it’s the slightest incline. Distances between towns that seemed trivial in a

car become far more significant on a bike; almost like a paved desert of nothingness you have to cross to get where you need to go. I feel the exposure in cycling has a twopronged effect: it makes you appreciate your destination more and it makes you more receptive to the situations and people you encounter. The first point is easy to explain. You have to exert a lot more effort to get somewhere on a bike than you do in a car, so the destination is naturally going to take on more significance. Anyone who’s ever worked hard to earn something rather than having it given to them knows how that feels.

To illustrate the second point, I’ll use a personal story. While living in Mankato a couple of years ago, I decided to take a few days off from work and bike to Lanesboro. I had heard a lot of great things about the town and the Root River Trail, plus I figured biking there instead of driving would be more of an adventure. On my way back to Mankato, I pulled into the small town of Ellendale at about 10:30 at night looking for a place to sleep. I previously had good luck with tent camping in city parks on that trip -- clear it with local law enforcement before you do it, folks -- but I couldn’t find a park anywhere and all the downtown businesses were

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closed for the night. Well, all except the lone bar that doubled as the town’s municipal liquor store. Reasoning it was my best option, I went inside and started asking around if anybody knew a nearby park or rest stop to camp in. After getting no help there, I started wondering if I’d be able to find an open field in the county to sleep in without getting arrested. In other words, I wasn’t feeling optimistic. I went outside to unlock my bike and came across a group of bar patrons who were out having a smoke. Noticing the considerable amount of gear on my bike, one of them asked me where I was headed.

After explaining my situation, the patron uttered a sentence I can still remember clear as day: “Hell dude, you can just crash at my place.” Taken aback by this, I thanked him at least 10 times and said I only needed enough space to set my tent up in his yard. However, he insisted on being more accommodating. He set up a futon mattress in his screened-in porch and allowed me to take a hot shower, though the second accommodation might have been due to the fact that I smelled every bit like a person who’d been out biking in the sun all day. Making the experience all the more memorable, he invited some of his friends

ist passing through town? I’m guessing he would’ve either directed me to the nearest hotel or told me to get a cup of coffee and keep driving. But it didn’t play out that way. The vulnerability that comes with traveling by bicycle made me more receptive to asking for help from others. At the same time, the understanding of the physical challenges I went through to get to that point earned the respect of the bar patron and made me more approachable. Cycling is undoubtedly an excellent source of exercise, but it’s a pretty decent source of adventure as well.

over from the bar for a bonfire in his backyard. We wound up staying up past 1 a.m. as I regaled them with stories from my trip and they talked about their own experiences traveling. As you can well imagine, these stories were accompanied (and probably enhanced) with beer. Would this have happened to me had I been traveling by car? Probably not. The quickest route from Mankato to Lanesboro doesn’t go through Ellendale and even if it did, I wouldn’t have stopped to sleep there. On the flip side, would the Good Samaritan bar patron have offered me a place to stay if I were just some some random motor-

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director) and loud, obnoxious Becker (David Engler), who provides much of the comic relief. In between laying her bike down on a series of day and overnight trips through Northfield, Dennison, Dundas, Nerstrand and Stockholm, Wis., the fiercely independent, go-it-alone Kat inserts herself – or in one case re-inserts herself – in a tangled web of friendships, in-fighting, bitterness and bikes that is this clique of riders; thrown in is a mysterious ancillary love interest Moto Boy (Tadayoshi Littleton) who plays part antagonist and part curious sideshow. The film, shot on location in 2011 and released in April 2013, excels in its sights and sounds, the work of DPs Scherf and Jameson Siegert is vivid, colorful and often hypnotically lit. Strong use of dolly shots, locations and focus changes makes you forget it’s all on a shoestring budget, there’s none of those soft-focus, hand-held, poorly framed or, worse yet, poorly lit shots that litter lesser-made art films. Smooth editing and well-matched songs (many from Tretbar’s band The Spectors) as well as others from Stereo Total display the fine work of Music Director Dan Boardman. Where the film stalls, however, is in an underwritten script and monotonous, flat acting that eschews voice inflection or emotion. Much of the movie is absent of dialogue, which when riding past vast alfalfa fields can be poignant, but when overused leaves the viewer wondering what deep message they must be missing, or worse, wondering if that laundry running in

the basement is ready for the dryer. It’s a world filled with understated, strong, silent types that simply leave you wondering what they’re thinking behind those hard veneers. But maybe worse than the stilted, straightforward dialogue, is the lack of character development. From the opening scene on, you’re watching a bunch of too-well-defined characters. No one changes, everyone lacks nuance. Fiance James is always the bad guy; at no point can you understand what Kat ever saw in him. The professor is a know-it-all, and he’s always a know-it-all. The mugging goofball is always the mugging goofball. No one is complicated, and maybe that’s the point, but it doesn’t lend itself to a film that is not about action, or plot twists, but is meant as story about discovery and self-realization. To that end, it politely, and thankfully, refuses to hit you over the head with any brilliant moment of clarity, although the last act features a handful of truly bizarre and at times inexplicable scenes, at least one of which involves cow pasture nudity. Instead, a collection of small light-bulb moments coalesce into a light bright enough to illuminate the message, even if the journey there has been a little too quiet for comfort. In the end it’s a treat for the eyes and ears, but can’t escape being a onenote movie about one-note people that leaves you wishing the rumble of its engine was just a little deeper. Reach reporter Brendan Burnett-Kurie at editor@southernminnscene.com.

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ntil very recently my daughter Shannon didn’t eat vegetables. Well, maybe she would eat some lettuce and a slice of tomato or two but, generally, veggies did not pass her lips. She subsisted, by and large, on processed food. Recently, however, she started on a “paleo” diet which is high in protein (to help build muscle). It was developed to mimic what our Caveman ancestors subsisted on – wild plants and animals. The “contemporary” Paleolithic diet consists mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and nuts. It excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt and sugar, and processed oils.

Yes, you saw vegetables on that list! She is now writing a food blog about her experience that includes what she calls “paleo-ish” recipes. Her most recent post talked about an ‘epiphany’ she had while at the grocery store. She discovered her ‘dark side’ when she came across powdered donuts and almost talked herself into buying them.

Don’t we all fight those ‘demons’? We’re all trying to make healthy eating choices. At least I hope we are. Yes, you’ve heard this same story for years! Stay away from the processed foods - foods that have been altered from their natural state - that surround you and are so convenient! Great advice. Processed foods are what I call ‘the

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dark’ side. But we can’t make those turned into energy, high fructose corn healthy choices if we don’t know what syrup turns into fat, causing what’s the dark side looks like. Heck, it’s known as “fatty liver.” Sugar can dark in there! We don’t have make you feel full, but high to go to the extreme of fructose corn syrup does not ‘going paleo’ but let me trigger the body’s gratificaturn a light on. tion meter, so you always First - Rather than desire more. Not a bad memorizing a complimarketing strategy but recated list of chemicals ally bad for your health! to avoid in packaged High fructose corn foods, I am going syrup is the main ingredito make this one ent in soft drinks, but is also really easy for you: hidden in foods like bread and (Internet Image) Don’t buy anything pasta sauce. Also on the ‘dark packaged that’s made side’ list are other syrups and sweetwith ingredients you wouldn’t cook eners like dextrose, glucose, lactose with at home (which are usually items and maltose. you can’t even pronounce). Instead, It’s not that refined sweeteners stick with simple products made from a themselves (like sugar) are Darth handful of pure ingredients. Vader himself. It’s the quantity in which sweeteners are consumed these days that is the scary part. Sugar (or corn Let’s talk about FAT! syrup or cane juice or brown rice syrup Specifically trans fats, which are or whatever creative name is on the are oils infused with hydrogen. They label) is no longer reserved for truly raise bad cholesterol and lower good special occasions or even consumed cholesterol. Dr. Michael Aziz, author moderately. Instead, it is lurking in of the book, The Perfect 10 Diet, cuts yogurts, breads, crackers, flavored oatright to the chase when he tells his meal, beverages, and even innocentpatients trans fats will kill them! “Trans fats are really like plastic,” he said, “and looking salad dressings. Salad’s good right? We are eating much more sugar when we eat them they incorporate in than we think! our cells and the cells cannot communicate or talk to one another. In turn, Stay Away From Anything White hormones are disturbed, weight gain follows but more troubling, the risk Believe it or not, even white flour is for heart disease, cancer, stroke, and a processed food. Its soft texture and infertility goes up.” mild taste is created by removing the Trans fats are commonly found in most nutritious parts of the wheat bercommercially fried food and packaged ry, the bran and the germ. The starch foods, especially baked goods. But you leftover is digested quickly in the body won’t see the phrase, “trans fat” in the and can lead to weight gain, diabetes, list of ingredients. Instead, look for the heart disease and cancer. By contrast, word, “hydrogenated.” And don’t be whole wheat flour includes the entire fooled by labels claiming no trans fats. wheat berry, which is digested slowly, They’re often still in there, because the making us feel full longer. Food and Drug Administration allows So, what do white bread and white food with up to a half-gram of trans rice have in common? Bleached and fat per serving to be labeled “trans fat enriched wheat flour or grain. These free.” The problem is, those servings are some of the most highly processed can be small so we eat many servings, foods on the planet. Though naturally and those half-grams add-up. To give white things like potatoes and eggs you an idea of how bad trans fats can are fine, the food manufacturers really be -- in New York City, it’s against the modify wheat flour and rice in these law to cook with them! products. Vending machines are often loaded To create the white appearance, with processed foods. In addition to the flour or grain (rice) is bleached. trans fats, they often contain too much This process strips all of the fiber and salt, which can cause heart problems nutrients from the grain, and thus the and create a craving for even more salt. taste. In order to make the food prodSalt is a whole other subject that we uct “nutritious”, the manufacturer adds will address in another column. fiber and vitamins, most of which your Go back to the basics when cooking body will not absorb because they’re – back to the ingredients our bodies not naturally occurring. A lot of sugar, were designed to digest. When baking salt and trans fats are also added to or cooking something sweet use butter bring back the flavor. not “I can’t believe it’s not butter”. Your best bet is to buy products that Believe it’s not butter! When you are are whole-grain, and contain uncooking something savory, use extra bleached, un-enriched grains like whole virgin olive oil. When you want to fry wheat, brown rice, oats or quinoa. something it’s not as bad as you think. You’re even better off with mashed Use all natural soy oil (as long as it has potatoes! not been hydrogenated). But you’ve been buying low-fat and fat-free products for years, so you’re ok, You knew we’d get to it. FAST FOOD. right? “Diet” foods are not only more processed (to get the fat out), but they We all know about the Triple Bacon never taste that good anyway. As it Cheese Burger and Fries but fast food turns out, we’ve gotten fat on lowplaces have somehow managed to fat products! And that’s because after spoil the most wholesome-sounding taking the fat out of these foods, real-food meals like oatmeal, sandwichthey no longer taste good. The es, and salads Even the solution? The manufactures add salads at McDonald’s in a bunch of sugar. Binging on are full of highsugar and other refined sweetenfructose corn syrup ers is the real issue here—not eatand thickeners ing healthy fats like our ancestors made from corn! have survived on for centuries. So how about we Sounds crazy but switch to fullall agree to “vote fat dairy (including milk!) and with our dolavoid low-fat packaged foods all lars” and avoid together. fast-food joints all (Internet Image) together? So now let’s talk about SUGAR! We’re all busy and ‘on-the-go’ so try to plan your meals ahead of time. There is a lot of controversy about Before you leave the house each mornhigh fructose corn syrup; it’s bad for ing, be sure to have all your meals you or it’s nutritionally the same as planned out in your head so you aren’t sugar so it’s not bad for you. The truth caught off-guard. And always have is it’s addictive and linked to obesity, some wholesome snacks (like dried fruit high blood pressure, heart disease and or nuts) on hand just in case you get in diabetes. a bind! Former FDA toxicologist Dr. Dana Flavin says while sugar is burned and

Shopping tips that help: Avoid boxes, bags and cans. Obviously, if something comes pre-packaged, it has been touched. Shop on the outside edge of the store. One of the easiest places to find unprocessed, healthy, whole foods is to purchase most of your groceries on the outside edge of the store. The edges are where you’ll find produce, meat, eggs, dairy and seafood. Of course, you will need to venture into the center aisles for some things, but tarry not! Staying on the outside of the store for most of your shopping will keep your cart full of healthy foods. Don’t buy it if the label has more than 5 ingredients Don’t buy it if any of the first three ingredients end in “ose”. “Ose” stands for sugar. Another chemical name to watch out for- monosodium glutamate, or MSG for short. Food manufacturers like it because it adds flavor. But doctors dislike it because it causes high insulin secretion. It creates headaches, migraines, but it can also lead to weight gain. Don’t buy it if the label is not clear If You Have a coupon, remember that cheap food is just that—cheap. If it doesn’t cost much to make the food, it does not cost much to buy the food. Most likely there is not much nutritional quality to the food.

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t’s easy to make assumptions about Casey Wasner’s new self titled album. He’s a Northfield kid who moved to Nashville to work with his in-demand session musician uncle, and released his first album a few years later. Your first thought is country. Neatly packaged, smartly produced, CMT ready, pop country music. But of course, we all know what happens when you make assumptions. This is not country music. Nor is it the garage rock that migt be your next assumption. Had Wasner made this album in Memphis, it might make a little more sense. This is soulful, horn-laden, sometimes funky, sometimes easy grooving music that you hear with your ears, but feel with your hips. Wasner’s sound is part soul, part jazz, a little rock and a little funk. He calls it belly rubbin’ music. That’s as good a description as your going to find. Wasner is a mutli-threat musician. He plays keyboards and guitar, but considers himself a drummer first. It shows in the way he approaches his songwriting. Working with lyricist Todd Otwell, it’s very clear the two built their songs around groove and rhythm. Beginning with the infectious bounce of She, to the circular rhythms of Happy to Find, to the soft stomp of For Me, Wasner’s album has you tapping your foot, and bobbing your head nearly through it’s entirety. Like a lot of younger musicians, Wasner is not shy about wearing his influences on his sleeve. The introspective To Leave features a rich James Taylor style acoustic guitar/ Hammond B-3 combination. What Did You Hope to Find would be right at home on a Bonnie Raitt album, if not for the Beatlesque harmonies and the Eagles-meets-the Allman

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some excellent bluesy, gritty Texas roadhouse guitar on For Me. Casey’s uncle, Pete Wasner, plays incredibly tasteful, perfectly placed organ and piano throughout the album, particularly on To Leave and Happy to Find. His Hammond is something you don’t hear immediately, but you’d miss it like crazy if it wasn’t there. It’s not a perfect album. Despite a nifty trombone solo, Lover’s or Not is a plodding exploration that never really finds a groove. And as good as the package is on the whole, there isn’t one song that stands out to proclaim Wasner to be the “Next Big Thing”. He has all the tools, plus the help he needs, to be that guy. This being a debut album however, it does enough to put him on that watch list. Wasner is definitely very good. This album shows he has the potential to be great.

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the burgers and brats on your grill (which will either be a charcoal grill for the flavor, or a gigantic gas grill for the special features-cajone-effect) you’ll expect everyone to listen to you divulge a few choice secrets about your amazing method. Take a break. While they might take away a few bits of the lecture, they’ll most likely remember you being a generous host to a fun-filled cookout.

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ing themselves in such a way that you’d never know it from a first impression. Get a bit more intimate with a Scorpio, though, and you’ll quickly see that you’re dealing with an intricate sugar-and-spice personality. These characteristics make Scorpios complexly seductive and exciting to be around, but they also put Scorpios at the risk of seeming intentionally deceptive or fake, much like an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie to a Chocolate Chip lover.

(Aug 23-Sept 22)

(May 21-June 21)

Food Forecast: Surf & Turf As a Gemini, committing yourself fully to a single thing is difficult. You’re naturally wired to want “both”, whatever the scenario may be. Thank your lucky stars for Surf & Turf- one of the most bountiful ‘have your cake and eat it to’ choices in the entrée world. Lobster and Steak? Yes. Shrimp and a Burger? Why not! Some places even get crazy and throw chicken into the ‘turf’ mix, meaning you never have to pick between Nemo, Chicken Little, or Bessie again!

Cancer, Cancer, Cancer….you need to take a break from moping around by yourself and celebrate- it’s your prime time of year! Hit up a road side sweet corn stand and invite over some friends for a good ol’ corn roast. Go ahead and melt down a whole pound or two of butter to dip those ears of golden goodness in, and make sure you have plenty of salt, parmesan, and spices for sprinkling. You may have butter on your face and corn in your teeth, but your spirits will be in tip-top shape by the time your stomach is full.

Food Forecast: Souffle

(Nov 22-Dec 21)

Oh my dear, perfection, detail-oriented, patient Virgo. Could there be anything more perfect for you to try your hand at than a soufflé? You’ll whip egg whites to just the right peak-form, measure (and probably weigh) sugar with each crystal in mind, and triple-check the temperature of the oven before you gently nestle your ramekins in for precisely the recommended baking time. But alas! You husband, wife, roommate, child, (read: someone) will come home and slam the door a little too forcefully….and your perfect soufflé will fall. Even if your soufflé avoids this fate, rest assure that you when you take it out of the oven it will only hold itself up proudly for a short while before collapsing in upon itself. Think of that as a lesson in life: no matter how perfectly we try, we all have to fall sometimes. (On the plus side, the soufflé’s new crater is a great spot for a dollop of whipped cream! Weave that in to my life lesson schpeel.)

Food Forecast: Cheese Plate

(Sept 23-Oct 23)

Food Forecast: Ice Cream Sundae with Extra Toppings This is the time to stop holding back and be true to yourself, Libra. Forgo the fruit smoothie and listen to your heart: get the ice cream sundae. With hot fudge. And caramel. And nuts. And candy pieces. And everything else. If you’d still like to squeeze into your jean shorts, grab two spoons and a friend- I promise the good time will be much more indulgent than the ice-cream.

(July 23-Aug 22)

Food Forecast: BBQ (June 22-July 22)

Food Forecast: Sweet Corn with Butter, Parmesan, and Chili Pepper

You’ll be the one making the BBQ, of course, because Leos jump at the opportunity to showcase their unmatched skills and knowledge. While you tend to the ribs in your customized smoker and flip

(Oct 24-Nov 21)

Food Forecast: Ancho Chile Chocolate Cake Scorpios are surprisingly skilled at being consistently sweet and spicy, but present-

Is there anything more upfront than a pungent Limburg, more humble than the rind that cradles a creamy Brie, or more honest than a sharp Cheddar? A cheese plate is your perfect match, Sagittarius. Though each wedge is delicious in its own right, remember that fruit, meat, chutney, bread, or herbs can compliment and even enhance a cheese’s flavor. Don’t be afraid to try something new- like accepting help you didn’t think you needed. You might be surprised.

(Dec 22-Jan 19)

Food Forecast: Salsa or Hummus Capricorn’s quest to blend in could take a bold new turn this month. Capricorns could go the route of hummus- mellow on the outside but packed with personality once you get up close and personal- or elect to take a leaf from salsa’s book and show off all of their unique qualities from the start. Either way you choose to go, Capricorn, people will keep coming back for more.

(Jan 20-Feb 18)

Food Forecast: Pizza & A Pitcher of Beer Aquarius, we all know how much you like to share, and what better way to do that then with pizza and beer? Invite your friends out, order a few pies so that everyone’s favorite toppings can be found (you don’t like committing to one topping, anyway!), and enjoy the company. Round out the fun with a couple pitchers of beer- the Water Bearer is the symbol of Aquarius, after all- and you’re guaranteed a good time.

(Feb 19-March 20)

Food Forecast: Paella The wonderful thing about paella is that there really is no need to make a decisionsomething that is a bit of an Achilles Heel for Pisces. You tend to be either one or the other, with no love for the in-between. Paella will break you of that mentality. Spicy chorizo, succulent prawns, tender chicken and plump mussel scattered within a bed of fluffy, saffron rice and veggies….each mouthful will be a symphony of different flavors and textures, and you won’t know how you’ll ever be able to go back to ‘one or the other’. While you’re trying new things, make sure that you enjoy this heaping dish with a few new friends. And don’t worry too much about breaking the ice- someone will accidently fling a mussel out of its shell and across the table. If all else fails, order more sangria.

(March 21-April 19)

Food Forecast: Buffalo Wings Buffalo wings are tricky things…you can eat them quickly, but as soon as you stop the heat begins to catch up to you. Order yourself a platter of the hottest wings you can find and take a hint from the experience, Aries: hasty and thoughtless actions can result in a long, slow burn that leaves you frantically searching for a solution. Those prepared pace themselves and ensure the proper tools for success are at hand before acting. Like blue cheese.

(April 20-May 20)

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