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Vol. 7, Issue 4

April 2011 17 Bridge Square Northfield, MN 55057

507/663-7937 neg@northfieldguide.com Publisher: Rob Schanilec By All Means Graphics Advertising: Kevin Krein Kevin@northfieldguide.com or 507/663-7937 Contributors: Felicia Crosby Susan Hvistendahl Locallygrownnorthfield.org Northfield.org Northfield Music Collective

Happenings – Up Close..................2-15, 26-29 Theater .......................................3 Real Estate Ad Section.. 16-21 April SHORTS ......................... 21 A Month at a Glance.... 22-25 Clubs, Classes & More ........28 Regional Happenings.............. 31 April Gigs .......................................32 Sports .......................................33 Advertisers’ Index ................34 Dining ......................................34 Just Curious: Michael Jordan............. 35-36 Historic Happenings ......37-39 Community Guide: Three Links...........................40

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The Arts and Culture Commission of Northfield, in partnership with the Friends of the Northfield Public Library and the Northfield Public Library, announces a Sidewalk Public Poetry competition to mark National Poetry Month in April. All residents of Northfield—young and old, professional writers and amateurs—are eligible and encouraged to submit short poems (10 lines, 240 characters maximum) that are appropriate for the public sphere. Up to 10 winning poems will be stamped into Northfield sidewalk pavements and will be considered for other public purposes including publication and readings. The contest is open from March 14 to April 11, 2011. For full guidelines, please see the Friends of the Library website: www.northfieldlibraryfriends.org.

Poem art excerpt courtesy of Public Art St. Paul

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Paradise Center for the Arts ArtOnWater 217 S. Water St. • 507/786-9700 artonwater.com • Gallery hours: Wed and Thu, 2-5pm or by appointment “a favorite cup – functional ceramics” of Colleen Riley and Donovan Palmquist, and others. Also original “American Opal(escent) oak-framed decorative glass panels” exhibit. blackbox(back)gallery: “Riverwalk Market Fair – artipreneurs, agripreneurs and economics vitality.” – April 1-16. Daily from noon-5pm – Selected images by local photographers documenting the inaugural season of Northfield’s hottest new outdoor event. Find Riverwalk Market Fair on Facebook for special events and more information.

Carleton College Art Gallery One N. College St. • 507/646-4469 carleton.edu/campus/gallery Exhibit hours: M-W noon-6pm, Th/F noon-10pm, Sa/Su noon-4pm

Carleton Gould Library M-F 8-1am, Sa 9am-midnight, Su 9-1am Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009 – through May 8. The Women’s Health Movement of the 1960s and ’70s provided basic medical services to women and championed reforms to the paternalistic health care system. Advocating self-education, the movement gave rise to vivid graphic materials, reference and polemical publications, and artistic projects celebrating embodied self-knowledge. This exhibition gathers seminal teaching aids, witty illustrations, and new art works that demonstrate the shift from pathologizing to empowerment in the discourse of women’s health. Opening Reception and performance of “Constructa/ Vulva” by subRosa: April 1, 7:30pm. Métis/sage, from the French word métissage, suggests a wise (sage) coexistence of elements otherwise foreign to each other. In an attempt to depict the Métis in the 21st Century, artist David Garneau combines European and North American art, comics and traditional Métis beading into a contemporary painting style. Artist Lecture/Reception: Library Athenaeum, April 12, 4-6pm.

Eclectic Goat 418 Division St. • 507/786-9595 Tu/W 10-5, Th 10-7, F/Sa 10-5, Su 12-4 More than 120 artists represented. “A shop where...ART RULES!”

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The Flaten Art Museum Dittmann Center 1520 St. Olaf Ave. • 507/646-3556 stolaf.edu/depts/art/ M-F 10am-5pm, Th until 8, Sa/Su 2-5pm Closed April 22-25. “ARAism and Other African Pattern Art” – Through April 3. Nearly 20 years of intense experimentation by Nigerian native, Mufu Onifade, has given birth to a highly stylized painting technique aptly named ARA [Ah-rah]. Senior Show #1 – April 17-May 1. Senior shows are the capstone program for all art majors. These young artists are required to conceive, create and prepare for showing a body of work in which their ideas and manners of production come together in a cohesive whole. Opening Reception: April 17, 2-4pm.

Northfield Arts Guild 304 Division St. • 507/645-8877 www.northfieldartsguild.org M-F 10-5, Sa 11-3 2011 Clay Invitational, “Setting Roots: Inspirations, Influences, Connections” – through April 2. Nineteen local artists will show recent ceramic work. Curated by Colleen Riley and Barbara Zaveruha. ART-spirations, the All School Art Exhibit – April 6-30. Work by students from kindergarten through grade 12. Exhibit Opening: Imagination Celebration: April 16, 10am-3pm. Arts activities for kids and performances by youth organizations including Northfield Youth Choirs and the Guild’s Dance Theater Company.

Northfield Senior Center Gallery 1651 Jefferson Pkwy. • 507/664-3700 M-F 7am-8pm, Sat 7am-5pm, Sun 10am-5pm northfieldseniorcenter.org Watercolor paintings by Kathy Miller – through April 14. The work of her students, April 14-May 2.

321 Central Ave., Faribault 507/332-7372 • Tu-F 10-5, Sa 12-5 paradisecenterforthearts.org “Along the Way” – Catherine Michele Adams; “The Beauty in Everyday Things” – Loretta Verbout; “Conspiracy” – Laura Schenck; and “Dancing Forks in Paradise” – Lauren S. Strom – through April 23. Student Exhibit: Youth Art Month – through April 2. Artwork of school age artists. Northern Clay Center: Six McKnight Artists – April 29-June 4. New work by 2009 recipients of McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists awarded by Northern Clay Center: Ursula Hargens (Minneapolis) and Maren Kloppmann (Minneapolis). The work of four McKnight Resident Artists: 2008 residency recipients Ilena Finocchi (California), Elizabeth Smith (Arkansas), Yoko Sekino-Bové (Pennsylvania), and 2009 residency recipient Cary Esser (Missouri). Artists Reception: April 29, 5-7pm. “Inner Image” – April 29-June 4. Pearl E. Tait, a mixed-media abstract expressionist, makes artwork rich in texture and color. She applies layers of transparent and opaque paints to the surface, adding materials such as sand, cloth and ashes to achieve texture. Each painting has a history that creates an active surface without boundaries that reveals interesting detail. Artist Reception: April 29, 5-7pm.

Studio Elements 16 Bridge Square • 507/786-9393 studioelements.net Now open weekly: Th 10am-8pm, F/Sa 10am-5pm, Su 12-4pm. Fine art, unique gifts and fun junk.

swag 423 Division St. • 507/663-8870 Tu-Sa, 10am-5pm

Windows on Paradise Art Gallery 904 Division St. So. • 507/645-5563 Landscapes and inspirational art by Mark Daehlin. Viewings by appointment.

Theater

Arabian Nights

The Underpants – A Merlin Players Production

April 1-3, 7-9; Th-Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault A cast of cracker-jack comedic actors comes together for “The Underpants,” Steve Martin’s adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s 1911 play, “Die Hose.” With its emphasis on physical comedy, “The Underpants” may have less of the cerebral edge of Martin’s other work, but it is a rollicking farce. Tickets: $14 adult, $8 children 12 and under.

April 27-30, 7:30pm; April 30 2pm; May 1, 2 and 6 pm Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf Adapted by Dominic Cooke, directed by Gary Gisselman. These vibrant Eastern folktales feature Scheherazade saving her life through the gift of storytelling – spinning her dazzling array of tales and adventures in strange and magical worlds populated by giant beasts, talking birds, devilish ghouls and crafty thieves. Tickets: $8. 6th Annual Very Short Play Festival

April 29-30, 7pm Northfield Arts Guild Theater All ten minutes or less with different plays both nights! The youth plays (those rated G or PG) will be performed on Friday night. The adult plays (those rated PG-13 and up) will be performed on Saturday night.

Vagina Monologues

April 8, 7:30pm; April 9, 5pm; April 10, 2pm The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf This production of Eve Ensler’s renowned production will spotlight violence against women in Haiti. Tickets: $5. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

April 8-10, 15-17; F/Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm Northfield Arts Guild Theater The setting is a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920s and the home of the Flood family. Here we find Rubin (a traveling salesman for a harness firm), Cora (his sensitive and lovely wife), Sonny (their little boy) and Reenie (their teen-age daughter). The plot of this comedy/drama is less one story than a series of short stories – the fight between a husband and wife; the fear of an overly shy young girl going to a dance; the problems of an introverted little boy who feels that the whole world, including his family, is against him; the outwardly peaceful and inwardly corroding marriage of Cora’s rowdy sister; the tragedy of a military school cadet whose mother has never provided him with a home and who suffers from the stigma of being a Jew in an alien community. What William Inge is saying, with a power and tenderness of speech, is that there is dark at the top of everyone’s stairs, but that it can be dissipated by understanding, tolerance and compassion.

AUDITIONS 13 • April 9-10, Northfield Arts Guild

The Arts Guild will be producing the musical “13” this summer. “13” is the first all-teen-cast show to hit Broadway. This hilarious, high-energy musical is about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it. Seeking teen performers ages 11-18. Performances run Thursday through Sunday, July 14-24.

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Fiber and Textile Artists • For WWW. exhibit

The Northfield Arts Guild invites submissions for the WWW. exhibit, a gallery exhibition of textile art exploring how communications technology has influenced contemporary life. Submission deadline is May 2. The exhibit opens June 29. Open to artists living and working in the Upper Midwest. Riverfront Arts Festival • Sept. 10-11 The Riverfront Festival Turns 50 this year! Join in celebrating this Defeat of Jesse James Days event! More information on both calls at www.northfieldartsguild.org.

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HAPPE N I NG S Check the Calendar-at-a-Glance for weekly happenings! FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Convocation: Dennis Meadows • 10:50-11:50am

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton This scientist has spent decades studying the Earth’s capacity to endure human population growth and extractive economies, and believes it’s too late to stop climate change. Ray Coudret • 5pm

The Contented Cow Guest Recital: Kenneth Grant, Clarinet 7pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Grant has been principal clarinet with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since 1987 and is an associate professor at the Recital Hall. Grant will conduct a masterclass on April 2 at 9am in Urness Recital Hall.

Exhibit Opening Reception and Performance of Constructa/Vulva by subRosa • 7:30pm

Carleton College Art Gallery Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009. See galleries page for information. Theater: The Underpants 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. Burning Chrome • 8pm

The Contented Cow St. Paul-based band with rock at the heart leads musical excursions with a guarantee that each song will be a minimum of six minutes and a maximum of, well, somewhere around 18. All original material because the best things are still hand made. Chris Trifillo guitar and vocals, John Gagich drums and Bryan Vann bass. Influences include the Grateful Dead, Santana, Zeppelin, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Luna, Wilco, The Pixies, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark and U2.

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Auditions for NDA’s award-winning Competition Teams June 16th, 5-8pm! (ages 6-18) Competition & Precompetition Team Info Meeting: June 15, 5:30pm-6:30pm www.northﬁelddance.com

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Goodsell Observatory Open House • 8-10pm

Carleton Visitors can use the observatory to view stars, nebulas and planets. Carleton physics and astronomy professors are available to answer questions. Cancelled if skies are cloudy. John & Company • 8-11pm

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Bagels & Birds • 8:30-9:30am

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Join a naturalist in the comfort of the building to observe birds (and other) visitors to the backyard habitat feeding area. With spring just returning it’s fun to track the arrival of the migrants. Help with ID, fun facts, binoculars, guidebooks and conversation will make this a great way to start the day! Enjoy coffee and bagels in a relaxed atmosphere while watching the antics of wildlife. Free and open to all ages. Brooke Ellis • 1-4pm

Concert: St. Olaf Clarinet Choir and the Amadeus Youth Clarinet Ensemble • 8:15pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Local singer/songwriter performs a live acoustic show featuring her original songs and music in the styles of Brandi Carlile and Amy Winehouse.

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Conducted by Jun Qian. Brothers Burn Mountain • 11pm

The Contented Cow The taste of ripe cherries and the smell of the core of fresh oak. Their music is a heightened sense of awareness wherever they go. Karaoke

Ladies Spring Fling • 1:30-5:30pm Brooke Ellis

Castle Rock and Roll, Castle Rock Free wine tasting and shopping.

Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page.

Rueb ‘N’ Stein • 9pm Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Jesse James Lanes • 10pm

Beguine Brothers • 8pm

The Contented Cow Billed as an old-time country and western revue with smatterings of the Urban Hillbilly Quintet, among others.

SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Clarinet Masterclass • 9am

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf See April 1 Kenneth Grant Guest Recital listing for more.

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HAPPENINGS Saturday, April 2, continued Trevor Marty • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Trevor Marty is a fourth generation gigging musician. Whether playing a resonator or a flattop guitar, his joy for playing is palpable and addictive. “…An amazing musician…one of those rare people who has a wonderful heart and is able to share it through music that speaks to the soul.” - Katie McRoberts, Rochester Downtown Alliance & Music Festival. DJ Music

Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Rueb ‘N’ Stein 620 Grill SUNDAY, APRIL 3 How to Make TV Better • 9:30am

Friendship Hall, St. Peter’s Church Phyllis Plum, Minnesota chapter director for the Parent Television Council, will share insights on how to make television better for child viewers. Free and open to the public. Theater: The Underpants • 2pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page.

Faculty Recital: Organ • 3-4:30pm

Concert Hall, Carleton Presented by Lawrence Archbold, professor of music and Enid & Henry Woodward College organist. Concert: St. Olaf Band • 3:30pm

Skoglund Center, St. Olaf Conducted by Timothy Mahr. Northern Roots Session • 7:30pm

The Contented Cow An informal weekly gathering of musicians to play acoustic music with roots in the north, particularly the Nordic countries. Participants and listeners of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. MONDAY, APRIL 4 Arts Town Meeting • 7-9pm

Northfield Community Resource Center/Senior Center 103 Riverwalk Arts Quarter, a non-profit organization that plays a leading role in Northfield’s arts and culture community by fostering economic development strategies, is hosting the first annual Arts Town Meeting. Keynote speaker: Suzie Nakasian. The presentation will focus on the positive impact visual artists have on our local economy and spotlight Riverwalk Market Fair, launched in the summer of 2010. There will be information on a dozen other major art initiatives going on in the community, including an unveiling of the new “Northfield Arts” website.

The Northfield Earth Day Contra Dance Friday, April 29, 7:00-10:30 pm Northfield Ballroom, North Highway 3

Sunday-Wednesday: 5am-11pm Thursday-Saturday: 24 Hours Weekday breakfast, lunch and dinner specials.

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Admission: $9 per adult ; $6 students and youth age 10 and older ($25 cap per family)

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No dance partner needed; no prior dance experience required. Dance instruction at 7 pm. Family participation encouraged! All are welcome!

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Multe • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow Great traditional Nordic music for your listening pleasure. Masterclass: Pianist Lori Sims • 8:15pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf See April 5 Guest Recital listing for more information. TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Henry Emmons • 7pm

Northfield Public Library Meeting Room Speaking on his new book “The Chemistry of Calm,” following a brief business meeting, which begins at 7pm.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Live Country & Western Music

Grill 620 The Sweet Land Project: From Page to Screen • 7:30pm

Newhall Auditorium, Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Faribault A showing of the feature film to be followed the next night by a screening of the documentary, “Labor of Love: The Making of Sweet Land,” with a panel discussion with the author, Will Weaver.

Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

The Contented Cow Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen!

Lecture: Genetics and Genetic Counseling • 7pm

Guest Recital: Pianist Lori Sims • 8:15pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Sims is a professor of music at Western Michigan University where she teaches piano and lectures in accompanying and keyboard literature. She has performed throughout North America, Europe and China.

Viking Theater, St. Olaf Dianne Bartels and Bonnie LeRoy from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. Screening of Red Gold • 7pm

Tomson 280, St. Olaf Scott Hed of the Alaskan Conservation Foundation will introduce and show the film “Red Gold,” a documentary depicting growing unrest among Alaskan native, commercial and sport-fishermen. It’s a portrait of a unique way of life that will not survive if the salmon don’t return with Bristol Bay’s tide.

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HAPPENINGS Thursday, April 7, continued Lecture: New Media • 7pm

Dittmann Center 305, St. Olaf Priya Khatri, is a communication designer who uses design to transcend socio-cultural borders to improve the quality of life. She has worked as a designer, researcher and educator in three different countries, across three different continents. She is currently researching social behavior mechanisms, and how they can influence design in urban settings. Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page.

Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. Theater: Vagina Monologues • 7:30pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf See theater page. Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 7:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. Sweet Jazz • 8pm

The Contented Cow Christina Schweitz (vocals); Peter Webb (keyboard); David Miller (drums, flugelhorn, melodica) and Muriel Carpenter (bass).

The Sweet Land Project: From Page to Screen • 7:30pm

Jeff Ray • 8-11pm

Newhall Auditorium, Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Faribault A screening of the documentary, “Labor of Love: The Making of Sweet Land,” with a panel discussion with the author, Will Weaver. The film “Sweet Land” is being shown the previous night, see April 6 listing.

The Tavern Lounge Ray walks a fine line between blues and folk, one minute strutting a slide-guitar ballad on the resonator guitar, the next minute blasting off into a one-man-band train ride. “Ray has a quality that could only come by blending the birthplaces of Bob Dylan and the blues.” (Des Moines Register).

Mark Mraz • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Forget about life for awhile with the piano man. From Billy Joel to Kermit the Frog – Mraz tickles the ivories and entertains requests from the audience.

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Karaoke • 8pm

Rueb ‘N’ Stein • 9pm Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Jesse James Lanes • 10pm

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620 Grill FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Convocation: Neil Howe • 10:50-11:50am

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton An historian, economist and demographer, Howe writes and speaks frequently on generational change in American history and on long-term fiscal policy. He is cofounder of LifeCourse Associates, a marketing, HR and strategic planning consultancy serving corporate, government and nonprofit clients.

Wake-Robin • 12-1pm

New Moon Trio • 5pm

The Contented Cow Here’s a taste of 100 years of popular tunes, random requests and spontaneous harmonies featuring Ross Currier on bass, Lance Heisler on drums and Justin London on guitar. YMCA Kids Night: We’re Traveling to Poland • 6-9pm

Visit www.northfieldymca.org for locations Kids get their own special night away from parents and parents get a night without kids. This evening of fun activities includes all sorts of themed games, crafts, culture and a whole lot more. Dinner is included in the price of the program and will be served at 6:30pm. Members: $10/first child, $5/additional child. Nonmembers: $15/ first child, $10/additional child. Community Services Movie Night: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief • 7pm

Northfield High School Auditorium Action and mythology collide in this fast-paced movie based on the books of Rick Riordan. Movie rated PG. Doors open at 6:30pm, $2/person suggested donation.

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Bittersweet A local duo on strings playing Celtic and Civil War period tunes. The Fall of Fort Sumter – The Beginning of the Civil War 1-4pm

Guild House of the Episcopal Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior, Faribault The first of many events by the Rice County Historical Society and Cannon River Civil War Round Table recognizing the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Jan Stevens, in period dress, will welcome you to an exhibit of Civil War artifacts, period music, books for sale, homemade pie and coffee and a Civil War recruiting officer portrayal by Chuck Larsen. Free and open to public with donations appreciated. Scales and Tales • 1-2:30pm

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault As soon as it warms up, the reptiles come out and start moving around. Find out about the lifestyles of these scaly animals. Search for snakes and turtles to discover where they live, how they move, what they like to eat and what might eat them. In addition to exploring there will be some fun activities for the whole family. Free and open to the public. Andrew Walesch • 2-5pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls “The boy with the voice” continues to dazzle at the winery. Enjoy songs of the past with his classic flare and original compositions. He does a great Frank Sinatra tribute!

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Alison Rae • 8-11pm

HAPPENINGS Saturday, April 9, continued

The Tavern Lounge Voted Northfield’s No. 1 musician for 2010! St. Paul-based musician “whose voice and songs come at you with all the power and hype of a falling snowflake… her talent has instantly hushed a room.” - Jim Walsh, MinnPost.

Theater: Vagina Monologues • 5pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf See theater page. Carey Langer • 5pm

The Contented Cow A solo artist covering six decades and seven styles of music. From The Everly Brothers and Frank Sinatra to Rick Springfield, Dave Matthews and Jimmy Eat World, plus original music. Meredith Fierke • 7:30pm Meredith Fierke Photo by John Magnoski

Northfield Public Library Singer and songwriter, with Steve and Dylan McKinstry.

Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See theater page. Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. 3AM • 8pm

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Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Rueb ‘N’ Stein 620 Grill SUNDAY, APRIL 10 A Wilderness Icon: Utah’s Red Rock Canyonlands • 11:30am

First United Church of Christ Presented by Clayton Daughenbaugh of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance to protect wilderness areas in Utah’s red rock canyonlands. America’s red rock canyonlands wilderness is the largest network of undesignated wilderness lands remaining in the lower 48 states. Featuring the multi-media slideshow “Wild Utah.” Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 2pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. Theater: Vagina Monologues • 2pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf See theater page. Faculty/Guest Artist Concert: Beethoven Quartet • 3-4:30pm

Concert Hall, Carleton Concert: Viking Chorus and the Manitou Singers • 3:30pm

Boe Chapel, St. Olaf Viking Chorus conducted by Christopher Aspaas and Manitou Singers conducted by Sigrid Johnson. Northern Roots Session • 7:30pm

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MONDAY, APRIL 11

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Book Reading/Signing: George Rabasa • 4pm

Viking Theater, St. Olaf Rabasa’s new book, “Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb,” will be the subject. Rabasa is the author of several other award-winning novels and collections of short stories including “The Wonder Singer,” “Glass Houses,”and “Floating Kingdom.” Rabasa’s short fiction has also appeared in various literary magazines. Multe • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow Great traditional Nordic music for your listening pleasure. Lecture: U.S. Health Care as Chronic Social Sin • 7:30pm

Tomson 280, St. Olaf Jack Glaser, scholar in residence for the St. Joseph Health System in Orange, California, posits that U.S. health care is an instance of chronic social sin, an inherited moral pathology deeply anchored in societies and individuals, that needs radical, systemic transformation, but is so colossal that it intimidates rather than animates energy for reform. Glaser reflects, writes and works with others on public conscience work that addresses the long-term attitude and behavior changes required to accomplish deep, systemic improvement in U.S. health care.

Artist Lecture and Reception: David Garneau • 4-6pm

Gould Library Athenaeum, Carleton In conjunction with the Gould Library exhibit Métis/sage, artist David Garneau will speak about his work, on display through June 5. A reception with refreshments follows. Masterclass: Percussion • 7pm

Christiansen 138, St. Olaf Brad Dutz and Chris Wabich, a percussion duo from Los Angeles, will conduct a masterclass. Free and open to the public. Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30pm

The Contented Cow Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen! Concert: St. Olaf Cantorei • 7:30pm

Boe Chapel, St. Olaf Conducted by John Ferguson. Documentary: Inside Job • 8pm

Tomson 280, St. Olaf This Best Documentary Academy Award winner is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost of more than $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry, which has corrupted politics, regulation and academia. It was filmed on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore and China.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

Alex de Grassi • 7:30pm

Live Country & Western Music

Newhall Auditorium, Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Faribault Cited as one of the world’s top finger-style, steel-string acoustic guitarists, this Grammy nominee as been described by Down Beat Magazine “…as intricate and subtle as a sparkling crystal.”

620 Grill THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Musical Lecture/Demonstration: Rose Ensemble • 12pm

Location TBA The acclaimed Rose Ensemble will talk about and demonstrate their work as part of a campus residency and special performance on April 16 in Concert Hall.

Tom Quinn • 8pm

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The Tavern Lounge A singer/songwriter from St. Paul infuenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Dave Matthews.

Northfield Public Library Choosing plants that work – plants that are tough, for tough sites. With Bachman’s Northfielder John Daniels. Lecture: Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble’s Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests 7pm

Dittmann 305, St. Olaf Jennifer Marshall, assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, specializes in the art and visual/material culture of the United States (colonial period to postWWII). In her classes, she uses images as a fresh way to understand America’s complex cultural history.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 15

Diggins Anton Jennings • 9:30pm onward Convocation/Author Booksigning: Louis Menand • 10:50-11:50am

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton “The Future of the Humanities” is presented by Harvard University professor of English and American literature and language, Louis Menand, widely considered to be the foremost modern scholar of Photo: Justin Ide American studies. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Metaphysical Club,” a detailed history of American intellectual and philosophical life in the 19th and 20th centuries; his recent book, “The Marketplace of Ideas,” has sparked a debate about the future of American education. Both books will be available for purchase at a discount at the event; author booksigning follows the lecture. Ole and Lena Live • 5-6pm

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620 Grill Peter Diggins (guitar), Steve Jennings (drums) and Jim Anton (bass) are members of Sizzling Eggheads, Chameleon, Over and Back Band, Story City, Our Mine and Jonny Lang. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Exhibit Opening: Imagination Celebration • 10am-3pm

Northfield Arts Guild See galleries page. Lakelander Barbershop Chorus • 4 and 7pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Well-known for their perfect harmonies and award-winning quartets, these 22 barber-shoppers perform precision four-part harmonies for all ages. From the traditional American art form of barbershop to spiritual, romantic and patriotic and pop favorites, you will be entertained all evening long. Tickets: $8 members, $12 non-members, $5 children 12 and under. Cannon Valley Youth Orchestra Spring Concert • 4pm

Ray Coudret • 5pm

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Emmaus Baptist Church Three orchestra ensembles comprised of about 40 students from surrounding communities in grades 4-12, conducted by Jim Bartsch. Free with donations appreciated.

Jazz Band Concert • 7:30pm

Northfield Ballroom Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. Spring Concert: Ra Ra Riot • 7:30pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf With Caroline Smith and The Goodnight Sleeps. The Rhythm Project • 7:30pm

Dittmann Studio 1, St. Olaf This is the first of a three-day event. Celebration dance that is intentionally and powerfully rhythmic. Also April 17. Ian Alexy • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ian Alexy offers deft finger-picking, jazzy melodies and heartwarming tales of a well-traveled 20-something-year-old. Area 51 • 8pm

The Contented Cow Voted Northfield’s No. 1 Band of 2009 by Ian Alexy readers of the Northfield Entertainment Guide! Take eight from the fields of education, architecture, communications and medicine; mix in guitars, drums, saxophones, harmonicas, voices and cowbells and you’ve got “music from the heavens.” Guest Recital: Pacifica String Quartet • 8:15pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style and often daring repertory choices, the Pacifica Quartet has carved out a critically lauded musical path. Recent career honors include appointment as quartet-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pacifica was named 2009 Ensemble of the Year by Musical America, and received the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Karaoke

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The Contented Cow Mainstream classic jazz of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and others in the same style. Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. The Rhythm Project • 7:30pm

Dittmann Studio 1, St. Olaf This is the second of a three-day event. Celebration dance that is intentionally and powerfully rhythmic. Concert: The Rose Ensemble • 8pm

Concert Hall, Carleton Artists-in-residence acclaimed vocal group The Rose Ensemble presents an evening of early choral music, including Gregorian chant. Chris Silver Band • 8pm

The Contented Cow With traditional roots music at the core, Chris Silver has added non-traditional layers providing a rich texture and including slide guitar and intricate global rhythms. An eclectic approach to bluegrass blues, folk and jam band music. Think Ry Cooder in the early ’70s. Formerly of the acclaimed bluegrass band, Stoney Lonesome, he’s toured coastto-coast, played major festivals and had numerous appearances on National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion.

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HAPPENINGS Saturday, April 16, continued Sasha Mercedes • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge A chick-singer, guitarist and songwriter from the shores of Lake Superior. Topics like brothels, one-night stands and transvestites are not taboo for this edgy yet charming northern gal. She has traveled from coast to coast and abroad, performing and drawing inspiration for the material. She has shared the stage with Dar Williams, Tracy Bonham, Guy Davis, Pete Seeger and others.

Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30pm

The Contented Cow Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen! WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 2011 Lindesmith Lecture in South and Southeast Asian Studies: Opposing Inclusion, Unresolving Conflict: The Postcolonial Subversion of Knowledge in South Asia • 4:30-6pm

Boliou Hall 104, Carleton Presented by Sudharshan Seneviratne, chair and professor of archaeology at the University of Peradeniya.

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River Bend Nature Center, Faribault A 5K run and 1K walk followed by brunch for runners and walkers and their families to eat as soon as they are done with the race. Run registration fees are $15 members, $25 non-members, and brunch tickets are $5 members and $7 non-members. Children ages 3-12 eat for $3 members, $5 non-members, and children two and under eat free. Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 2pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. The Rhythm Project • 2pm

Dittmann Center Studio 1, St. Olaf This is the third of a three-day event. Celebration dance that is intentionally and powerfully rhythmic. Also April 15.

The Hysterical Alphabet • 8-9:30pm

Nourse Little Theater, Carleton A multi-media history of hysteria, delivered with humor and critical insight. Produced by Theater Oobleck, Terri Kapsalis reports episodes from medical lore in a “hysterical” version of the alphabet with Danny Thompson’s disquieting film collages and John Corbett’s musical manipulations. Live Country & Western Music

620 Grill THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Lecture: The Mathematician’s Canvas: My Journey in Computer Graphics Research • 4:30-5:30pm

Gould Library Athenaeum, Carleton Presented by Jack Goldfeather, William H. Laird Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and the Liberal Arts. Barb Piper • 5pm

The Contented Cow Modern folk, vocals/guitar with influences from Hoagy Carmichael, The Beatles and Bonnie Raitt to Susan Tedeschi, Brandi Carlile and Indigo Girls. Contributes her talents to Area 51; fronts the blues/rock band, Top Shelf, and performs with a Faribault musical theater group at Paradise Center for the Arts.

Exhibit Opening Reception • 2-4pm

Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf See galleries page. Laudie Porter Concert • 3-4:30pm

Concert Hall, Carleton Presented by Martha Jamsa, flute. Oratorio Concert: The St. Olaf Orchestra and the Chapel Choir • 3:30pm

Boe Chapel, St. Olaf St. Olaf Orchestra conducted by Steven Amundson and the Chapel Choir conducted by Christopher Aspaas. Northern Roots Session • 7:30pm

Chris Herriges • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Critically acclaimed singer, guitarist and songwriter based in the Twin Cities. Matt Arthur and Friends 8pm

The Contented Cow A weekly gathering of musicians to play acoustic music with roots in the north, particularly the Nordic countries. Participants and listeners of all ages and levels of experience are welcome.

The Contented Cow A biweekly singer/songwriter showcase hosted by southern Minnesota’s most distinctive vocalist, featuring guest musicians from Northfield, the Twin Cities and beyond.

MONDAY, APRIL 18 Multe • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow Great traditional Nordic music for your listening pleasure. TUESDAY, APRIL 19

Karaoke • 8pm

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Concert: Fresh Ink • 7pm

Skifter Hall, Studio A, St. Olaf Premiere performances of student compositions.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 22

Optimum Trajectory • 8pm

Convocation: Margaret Lowman • 10:50-11:50am

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton “Life in the Treetops: Conservation of the World’s Rain Forests” presented by Margaret Lowman, who for 30 years has designed new methods for exploration of the rain forest canopy and solved mysteries in the treetops of the world’s forests, with special attention on the links between insect pests and ecosystem health. Lowman serves as director of the Nature Research Center and is also Research Professor of Natural Sciences at North Carolina State University.

The Contented Cow Twin Cities-based jazz quintet doing innovative, exciting renditions of jazz standards and original music – and they donate their tips to area charities so show your appreciation. Margo Breivik (bass), Tim McNamara (guitar), Garth Anderson (drums), Ann Potter (vocals), Ira Adelman (sax), Steve Hillson (brass).

Jim Lenway • 5-7pm

Karaoke

The Contented Cow Inspired by the likes of The Byrds, The Beatles, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel and John Denver, Lenway sings songs from the ’60s and ’70s accompanied by 6-and-12-string guitar. He slips in some contemporary covers a la Cities 97 and he sometimes solicits far more talented friends to join him.

Rueb ‘N’ Stein • 9pm Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Jesse James Lanes • 10pm Live Music

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Arts Ala Carte • 6pm

Kids Karaoke and The Easter Bunny • 12-2pm

Northfield High School Marty Anderson • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Acoustic, electric, classic rock and country alternative with a song list that spans the decades: Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Wilco, Beatles, Hiatt, Ryan Adams and Steve Earle.

Castle Rock and Roll, Castle Rock Enchanting Ephemerals • 1-2:30pm

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Starting indoors there will be review of habitat and identification of local spring ephemerals (early wildflowers.) Most of the time, however, will be outdoors in River Bend’s forest depths discovering the hidden beauty of the quick-blooming Dwarf Trout Lily, and other beautiful blossoms. Bring a notebook if you wish to take notes and make illustrations. Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. Not suitable for strollers. Free and open to the public. HAPPENINGS continued on page 26

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Dianne Kyte is a long-time Realtor with Coldwell Banker, and she has to begin her conversations with sellers differently now.

By Felicia Crosby So here’s an interesting question: When this winter, destined to be remembered as The Winter that Started Way Too Early and Ended Way Too Late and Never Ever Let Up, finally limps to its wretched close, will people shuffle out from their dark rooms, squint in the bright spring sunshine and announce: “I have just GOT to buy a new house”? Indicators are saying…maybe. As we all know, the economy over the last few years has hit the housing market with the blunt force of a sledgehammer, leaving a landscape of too many houses worth a fraction of what they cost would-be sellers and too many would-be buyers worth less for loans. A scary picture, true, but there are bright lights on the horizon for people on both sides of the house coin. We talked to a few local experts to get some advice on what it takes to sell a house – and what it takes to buy one. They agree: this time can be good for both but buyers and sellers alike need to know what to expect, because the times – they have a’changed.

“We used to never talk about financial situations relative to selling the house,” she says. “Now it’s the first thing we need to address. There was always the assumption that there was enough money from the sale to cover debt; you can’t assume that now. You have to get more personal – it’s a hard issue to deal with.” When a house is worth less now than the sellers owe – upside down is the industry term – Dianne works to help figure out the short-term and the long-term solutions. This can involve transferring the debt from the house to other loans, or accelerating payments on a second mortgage, perhaps delaying the time to list the house. But even if the seller is not upside down, Dianne stresses that it’s not Continued on page 20

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Continued from page 16. enough to tell them that prices have dropped; educating them about the worth of comparable properties is essential. A house needs to price well with competing homes. In addition to the information gathered from comparable properties and appraisals, my experience as co-owner of redoux has taught me that there are three key actions in the seller’s hands and they make all the difference in how the property shows and they are: fix it up, clean it up and clear it out. From leaky faucets to loose tiles to wobbly newel posts, the simple wear-and-tear of an average home can raise concerns about deeper neglect – something today’s discriminating buyers don’t want to see. Hire a handy person (or two) if home repairs aren’t your strong suit; fine-tuning the home makes it look cared-for and maintained. And now is the time to de-personalize; from the family photo wall to the magenta-painted bedroom, anything that screams “my style!” makes it less likely for a buyer to be able to see him/herself there. Neutral palettes, de-cluttered spaces and carefully edited furniture create a showroom feel that makes people want to buy. Again, don’t be afraid to hire someone to redecorate and stage the space; the money spent translates directly into fewer days on the market and usually, big savings overall. Dianne’s advice to that point is simple, direct and bottom-line: “Buyers have gotten picky. Make it look like the best home in that price range on the market.” But what of those buyers? There are houses aplenty for them, but the recent meltdowns in some sectors of the mortgage industry

have made many people uncertain about how what loan’s best for them. Peggy Hoffman, VP at Community Resource Bank, works with buyers every day and specializes in the kind of comprehensive service that this unusual market requires. Her biggest challenge? Getting buyers to be realistic, so they can be ready. “We visit with people,” she says, “and look at their credit, their situation, their income, and how much actual cash they have to work with…if there are problems that prevent them from getting a loan, we establish a ‘road to recovery’ – say to them, here’s what you need to do.” Peggy will even help set up a budget to see where the money goes; she notes that many people have never really done that. But though patience may be required when credit needs to be rebuilt, Peggy offers words of encouragement. “Many people are afraid that it’s impossible to get financing. It isn’t. With a stable income and good credit, there’s a loan for you.” And Peggy makes an observation that’s important to remember. “Houses have always been (seen as) investments that traditionally gave return, but recently home values have fallen. There’s no guarantee that investments will go up and up.” But she adds, “Eventually house prices will recover. It just may take a while.” On a final note, Dianne puts this crazy market in historical perspective: “This market isn’t normal, but before (the wild days of the ’90s) was really not normal. It’s actually returning to a more normal situation.” Here’s to a good home season – for all.

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According to the Experts:

• Owning a home is one of the best ways to build long-term wealth • People who own their own homes volunteer more • People who own their own homes vote more • Every home purchased pumps $60,000 into the economy Selling tips:

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Make repairs inside and out Keep your house clean and model-sharp Find the right Realtor for you Make your house available for viewing Price your house competitively

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Get a pre-approval Find the right Realtor for you Understand what you need – and don’t need – in a house Maintain a file of homes you like Do your homework to find the best loan for you After you find your house – get it inspected! source: National Association of Realtors

! W E N Starting this month… Don’t Miss the 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid The much-loved annual book sale and Northfield Hospital Auxiliary’s fundraiser will be held April 26-30 at the Northfield Ice Arena, S. Hwy 3. This signature Northfield event is the embodiment of so much that celebrates community, from the love of books to volunteerism to giving to a good cause, in this case the expansion at Northfield Hospital of clinical services for Infusion Services, which includes medical oncology. Go to www.northfieldhospital.org for details on event hours and donation information for books and other media.

Make Your Mark with Sidewalk Poetry! Joining a growing movement in communities across the country, Northfield – through the combined efforts of private and city groups – will be immortalizing the work of local poets with poems stamped into sidewalks at locations around town. Have a poem for consideration? Northfield residents of any age are encouraged to submit up to two poems, but the deadline is April 11. Winning poems will be announced later in the month. Log on to www. northfieldlibraryfriends.org for more information and submission guidelines, and good luck!

Growing the Arts in Northfield Join this first annual Arts Town Meeting on April 4 as Northfield works to position itself as a regional arts destination. Hosted by Riverwalk Arts Quarter, this is an exciting chance for artists and art-lovers alike to connect with the variety of art that’s happening throughout this creative and entrepreneurial city. There will be a presentation on the positive economic impact of art, and information on a dozen other major art initiatives, including the unveiling of the new “Northfield Arts” website. The meeting runs 7-9 p.m., and is located in room #103 at the Northfield Community Resource Center. For more information, contact Dean Kjerland at Riverwalk Arts Quarter, 507/786-9700.

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620 Grill Open for Business! Norm Butler’s back at 620 Water St. with a new epicurean enterprise, the well-named 620 Grill. Open for lunches and dinners, and featuring a traditional American cuisine of sandwiches, salads and a mouth-watering array of hearty and creative burger options, 620 Grill offers karaoke, dancing, live music and a range of specials through the week. Did we mention the full bar? For hours and specifics, check out www.1001solutionsllc.org. And bon appetit.

Shop Downtown and Help Earthquake Victims The compassionate powers behind Sketchy Artist, Sisters Ugly and Anna’s Closet are teaming up with the American Red Cross to raise funds for the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Fund, and you can help – by shopping. Join them from April 15-17 for store specials; 5 percent of all sales throughout the weekend will go to the disaster relief. Have fun, get fabulous deals, and help good people half a world away. Check with the participating stores for details.

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How to Make TV Better 9:30am, St. Peter’s Church Theater: The Underpants 2pm, Paradise Center for the

Arts, Faribault Faculty Recital: Organ 3-4:30pm

Concert Hall, Carleton

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TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Arts Town Meeting • 7-9pm

Henry Emmons • 7pm

Northfield Community Resource Center/Senior Center

Northfield Public Library

Live Country & Western Music, Grill 620 The Sweet Land Project: From Page to Screen 7:30pm, Shattuck-St. Mary’s,

Multe • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow Masterclass: Pianist Lori Sims • 8:15pm

Acoustic Jam Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow Guest Recital: Pianist Lori Sims • 8:15pm

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Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf

Concert: St. Olaf Band 3:30pm

Skoglund Center, St. Olaf Northern Roots Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow EVERY SUNDAY

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EVERY TUESDAY

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Politics and a Pint • 6pm

Jingo • 7pm

Cribbage • 7pm

Euchre • 7pm

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Castle Rock and Roll

Quiz Night • 8pm

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Euchre Tournament • 8pm

The Tavern Lounge Spanglish • 7:30-9pm

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Convocation: Dennis Meadows 10:50-11:50am, Carleton

Clarinet Masterclass • 9am

Ray Coudret • 5pm, Contented Cow Guest Recital: Kenneth Grant, Clarinet • 7pm, St. Olaf Exhibit Opening Reception and Performance of Constructa/Vulva by subRosa 7:30pm, Carleton College Art Gallery Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Bagels & Birds • 8:30-9:30am

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Burning Chrome • 8pm, The Cow

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Beguine Brothers • 8pm, The Cow Trevor Marty • 8-11pm, Tavern Lounge

Goodsell Observatory Open House 8-10pm, Carleton John & Company • 8-11pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Brooke Ellis • 1-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Ladies Spring Fling • 1:30-5:30pm

Castle Rock and Roll, Castle Rock Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

DJ Music

Castle Rock and Roll, Rueb ‘N’ Stein

The Tavern Lounge St. Olaf Clarinet Choir and the Amadeus Youth Clarinet Ensemble 8:15pm, Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Brothers Burn Mountain • 11pm

The Contented Cow Karaoke, Rueb ‘N’ Stein , Castle Rock and Roll, Jesse James Lanes

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Lecture: Genetics and Genetic Counseling • 7pm, Viking Theater, St. Olaf Screening of Red Gold • 7pm

Convocation: Neil Howe • 10:5011:50am, Skinner Chapel, Carleton

Wake-Robin • 12-1pm, Bittersweet The Fall of Fort Sumter – The Beginning of the Civil War • 1-4pm

Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

rium, Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Faribault Mark Mraz • 8-11pm, Tavern Lounge Karaoke, 620 Grill

For details on these and more events, check out the Happenings listings with descriptions elsewhere in this guide.

Northfield High School Auditorium Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Theater: Vagina Monologues 7:30pm, The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm, NAG Theater Sweet Jazz • 8pm, The Contented Cow Jeff Ray • 8-11pm, The Tavern Lounge Karaoke, Rueb ‘N’ Stein,

Castle Rock and Roll , Jesse James Lanes Live Music, 620 Grill

Scales and Tales • 1-2:30pm

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Andrew Walesch • 2-5pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Theater: Vagina Monologues • 5pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf Carey Langer • 5pm, Contented Cow Meredith Fierke • 7:30pm

Northfield Public Library Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm, NAG Theater 3AM • 8pm, The Contented Cow Alison Rae • 8-11pm, Tavern DJ Music, Castle Rock

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Theater: The Underpants • 7:30pm

Dittmann Center 305, St. Olaf

Guild House of the Episcopal Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior, Faribault

The Sweet Land Project: From Page to Screen • 7:30pm, Newhall Audito-

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New Moon Trio • 5pm, Contented Cow YMCA Kids Night: We’re Traveling to Poland • 6-9pm Community Services Movie Night: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief • 7pm

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A Wilderness Icon: Utah’s Red Rock Canyonlands 11:30am, First United

Book Reading/Signing: George Rabasa • 4pm

Artist Lecture and Reception: David Garneau 4-6pm, Gould Library

Live Country & Western Music, 620 Grill

Church of Christ

Multe • 7:30-10pm

Athenaeum, Carleton

Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 2pm

The Contented Cow

Masterclass: Percussion 7pm

NAG Theater Theater: Vagina Monologues • 2pm, St. Olaf Faculty/Guest Artist Concert: Beethoven Quartet 3-4:30pm, Carleton Concert: Viking Chorus & the Manitou Singers, St. Olaf Northern Roots Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow

Viking Theater, St. Olaf

Lecture: U.S. Health Care as Chronic Social Sin • 7:30pm

Tomson 280, St. Olaf

EVERY SUNDAY

Acoustic Jam Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow Concert: St. Olaf Cantorei 7:30pm, Boe Chapel, St. Olaf Documentary: Inside Job 8pm, Tomson 280, St. Olaf

For details on these and more events, check out the Happenings listings with descriptions elsewhere in this guide.

EVERY TUESDAY

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Christiansen 138, St. Olaf

EVERY MONDAY

Politics and a Pint • 6pm

Jingo • 7pm

Cribbage • 7pm

Euchre • 7pm

The Contented Cow

Castle Rock and Roll

Quiz Night • 8pm

Euchre Tournament • 8pm

The Contented Cow

The Tavern Lounge Spanglish • 7:30-9pm

The Contented Cow

Maple Syrup Fun Run and Pancake Brunch • 10:30am1pm, River Bend, Faribault Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 2pm

Multe • 7:30-10pm

Concert: Fresh Ink • 7pm

The Contented Cow

Skifter Hall, St. Olaf

South and Southeast Asian Studies: Opposing Inclusion, Unresolving Conflict: The Postcolonial Subversion of Knowledge in South Asia • 4:30-6pm

Acoustic Jam Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow

NAG Theater

Boliou Hall 104, Carleton

The Rhythm Project • 2pm

The Hysterical Alphabet 8-9:30pm, Nourse Little

Dittmann Center, St. Olaf Exhibit Opening Reception 2-4pm, Flaten Art Museum,

Theater, Carleton Live Country & Western Music, 620 Grill

St. Olaf Laudie Porter • 3-4:30pm

Concert Hall, Carleton The St. Olaf Orchestra and the Chapel Choir • 3:30pm

Boe Chapel, St. Olaf Northern Roots Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow

Northern Roots Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow

Cuts for Cancer • 11am-5pm

The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid 4-6pm, Northfield Ice Arena Acoustic Jam Session 7:30pm, The Contented Cow Stranger-Kings and Stranger-Kin: The Alterity of Power and Vice-Versa 7:30-8:30pm, Carleton

The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid 9am-9pm, Ice Arena Theater: Arabian Nights 7:30pm

Severance Great Hall, Carleton Multe • 7:30-10pm

The Contented Cow

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Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf Live Country & Western Music, 620 Grill

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Musical Lecture/Demonstration: Rose Ensemble • 12pm Landscapes that Last – Proven Performers for Northfield Gardeners 7pm, Northfield Public Library Lecture: Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble’s Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests • 7pm, Dittmann 305, St. Olaf Alex de Grassi • 7:30pm

Convocation/Author Booksigning: Louis Menand • 10:50-11:50am

Exhibit Opening: Imagination Celebration • 10am-3pm

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton Ole and Lena Live • 5-6pm, Rueb Ray Coudret • 5pm, Contented Cow

Northfield Arts Guild

Shattuck-St. Mary’s, Faribault Tom Quinn • 8pm

Jazz Band Concert • 7:30pm

Northfield Ballroom Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm, NAG Theater Spring Concert: Ra Ra Riot • 7:30pm

The Pause Mane Stage, St. Olaf

The Contented Cow

The Rhythm Project • 7:30pm

Matthew Griswold • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Karaoke, 620 Grill

Lakelander Barbershop Chorus • 4 and 7pm, Paradise Center, Faribault Cannon Valley Youth Orchestra Spring Concert • 4pm, Emmaus Baptist treVeld • 5-8pm, Cannon River Winery, Occasional Jazz • 5pm, Contented Cow Theater: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • 7:30pm, NAG Theater The Rhythm Project • 7:30pm

Dittmann Studio 1, St. Olaf Ian Alexy • 8-11pm, Tavern Lounge Area 51 • 8pm, The Contented Cow

Dittmann Studio 1, St. Olaf

Guest Recital: Pacifica String Quartet 8:15pm, Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Diggins Anton Jennings • 9:30pm

Chris Silver Band • 8pm, The Cow Sasha Mercedes • 8-11pm

Concert: The Rose Ensemble • 8pm

Concert Hall, Carleton

The Tavern Lounge

620 Grill

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Lecture: The Mathematician’s Canvas: My Journey in Computer Graphics Research • 4:30-5:30pm

Jim Lenway • 5-7pm, Contented Cow

10:50-11:50am, Carleton

Gould Library Athenaeum, Carleton Barb Piper • 5pm, The Contented Cow Chris Herriges • 8-11pm, The Tavern

Arts Ala Carte • 6pm, High School Marty Anderson • 8-11pm

Matt Arthur and Friends • 8pm

The Contented Cow

The Contented Cow Karaoke, Rueb ‘N’ Stein Castle Rock and Roll, Jesse James Lanes

The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 9am-9pm, Ice Arena

Gabe Holmes • 5pm, Contented Cow Jazz Band Concert • 7:30pm

Convocation: Joshua Aronson 10:50-11:50am, Carleton Ray Coudret • 5pm, Contented Cow Artist Reception • 5-7pm

High School Auditorium Theater: Arabian Nights • 7:30pm

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf Mark Mraz • 8-11pm, Tavern Lounge Karaoke • 8pm, 620 Grill Concert: Percussion Ensemble 8:15pm, Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf

The Tavern Lounge Optimum Trajectory • 8pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault Third Annual Very Short Play Festival 7pm, NAG Theater CD Release Party: Jason Paulson and Chad Johnson • 7-10pm, The Grand Earth Day Contra Dance • 7-10:30pm

Northfield Ballroom

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Greenwood Tree • 2-5pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Surprise Artist • 8-11pm, The Tavern Area 51, The Contented Cow DJ Music, Castle Rock and Roll Rueb ‘N’ Stein, 620 Grill

Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 8am-3pm, Ice Arena Daniel Switch • 2-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Concert: St. Olaf Handbell Choirs 2pm, Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Theater: Arabian Nights • 2 and 7:30pm, Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf Tim Fast • 5pm, The Contented Cow Third Annual Very Short Play Festival 7pm, Northfield Arts Guild Theater Concert: Norseman Band • 7:30pm

Skoglund Center, St. Olaf

Concert: Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum • 7:30pm, St. Olaf

I Cantanti A La Carte Concert 7:30pm, Bethel Lutheran Church Bonnie & the Clydes • 8pm, The Cow Marv Gohman • 8-11pm, The Tavern Comedian C. Willi Myles • 8pm

MoeDell • 8-11pm, The Tavern Lounge

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault

Theater: Arabian Nights • 7:30pm

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf

APRIL 2011

Bunny • 12-2pm, Castle Rock and Roll Enchanting Ephemerals • 1-2:30pm

T.H.E. House Band • 8:30pm-12am Castle Rock and Roll, Castle Rock Check us out online at www.northfieldguide.com

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SUNDAY, APRIL 24 Northern Roots Session • 7:30pm

Greenwood Tree • 2-5pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls Irish music, American Folk Songs, and Family entertainment is what this duo has to offer. Surprise Artist • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Greenwood Tree

Area 51

The Contented Cow Take eight from the fields of education, architecture, communications and medicine; mix in guitars, drums, saxophones, harmonicas, voices and cowbells and you’ve got “music from the heavens.”

MONDAY, APRIL 25

DJ Music

The Contented Cow Great traditional Nordic music for your listening pleasure.

Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Rueb ‘N’ Stein 620 Grill

Cuts for Cancer • 11am-5pm

Severance Great Hall, Carleton Sign up or come by and get a hair cut or massage in support of cancer research. Multe • 7:30-10pm

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TUESDAY, APRIL 26

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Employee Recognition Celebration • 11:45am-1pm

The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 9am-9pm

Severance Great Hall, Carleton Honoring all employees – both faculty and staff – who have completed 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 50 years of service, or who plan to retire in 2011. The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 4-6pm

Northfield Ice Arena A gargantuan annual book sale to benefit the Northfield Hospital Auxiliary. Acoustic Jam Session • 7:30pm

The Contented Cow Every Tuesday night show up with your unplugged instrument of choice and jam – or just show up and listen! 2010-11 Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lecture: Stranger-Kings and Stranger-Kin: The Alterity of Power and Vice-Versa • 7:30-8:30pm

Boliou 104, Carleton Presented by Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, department of anthropology, the University of Chicago.

Photo: Shris Salata

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 9am-9pm

Northfield Ice Arena See April 26 description. Theater: Arabian Nights • 7:30pm Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf See theater page. Live Country & Western Music

620 Grill

Northfield Ice Arena See April 26 description. Convocation: Joshua Aronson • 10:50-11:50am

Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton Associate professor of Applied Psychology at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, whose work seeks to understand and remediate race and gender gaps in educational achievement and standardized test performance. His research suggests that being targeted by well-known cultural stereotypes (“blacks are unintelligent,” “girls can’t do math,” etc.) can be very threatening, a predicament that has been termed “Stereotype Threat.” Ray Coudret • 5pm

The Contented Cow Artist Reception • 5-7pm

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault See galleries page. Third Annual Very Short Play Festival • 7pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page. Breast Cancer Fundraiser • 7-10pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls The third annual Wine Tasting Dinner sponsored by the Cannon River Winery and hosted Jody Mies. Includes wine tasting and a three-course meal for $60/person. Proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Three-Day Walk supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Limited seating. RSVP to Jody by April 22 to 651/278-1170. CD Release Party: Jason Paulson and Chad Johnson • 7-10pm

The Grand Event Center Doors open at 6. Show at 7. Guest appearances. $5 cover. The Northfield Earth Day Contra Dance • 7-10:30pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 9am-9pm

Gabe Holmes • 5pm

Northfield Ballroom Dance instruction at 7. Dancing at 7:30. No experience or partner required. RideShares from Bridge Square 6:30 and 6:45pm. $9 adults, $6 students/youth 10 and over. $25 family cap.

The Contented Cow

Theater: Arabian Nights • 7:30pm

Jazz Band Concert • 7:30pm

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf See theater page.

Northfield Ice Arena See April 26 description.

High School Auditorium

Concert: Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum 7:30pm

Theater: Arabian Nights • 7:30pm

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf See theater page.

Boe Chapel, St. Olaf Conducted by Gerald Hoekstra.

Mark Mraz • 8-11pm

The Tavern Lounge Forget about life for awhile with the piano man. From Billy Joel to Kermit the Frog – Mraz tickles the ivories and entertains requests from the audience. Karaoke • 8pm

The Tavern Lounge Acoustic singer/songwriter with beautiful melodies and haunting lyrics that will take you on an emotional roller coaster.

MoeDell

Karaoke

620 Grill Concert: Percussion Ensemble • 8:15pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Conducted by David Hagedorn.

MoeDell • 8-11pm

Rueb ‘N’ Stein • 9pm Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Jesse James Lanes • 10pm Live Music

620 Grill

APRIL 2011

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SATURDAY, APRIL 30

The 50th Great Northfield, Minnesota Book Raid • 8am-3pm

Relay for Life

Northfield Ice Arena See April 26 description.

Manitou Field, St. Olaf (weather permitting) Relay for Life is a unique celebration of life in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by cancer. Friends, family and loved ones join to celebrate survivorship and to honor those who have lost the battle. Everyone is welcome to participate. The money raised helps support American Cancer Society programs in research, education, advocacy and service locally, statewide and nationally. Email for more information to tonsagek@stolaf.edu. Spring Bird Hike • 8-10am

River Bend Nature Center, Faribault Join a naturalist for a relaxing bird hike that starts indoors at the center’s Windows on the Wild backyard habitat and then ventures outside to continue the search for birds. If you have your own binoculars and bird book, bring it along or borrow some from River Bend. Free and open to all ages.

Theater: Arabian Nights • 2 and 7:30pm

Kelsey Theater, St. Olaf See theater page. Daniel Switch • 2-4pm

Cannon River Winery, Cannon Falls An acoustic cover band (song) artist who has turned multiple hit songs into great acoustic guitar ballads. Concert: St. Olaf Handbell Choirs • 2pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf Conducted by Jill Mahr. Tim Fast • 5pm

The Contented Cow Third Annual Very Short Play Festival • 7pm

Northfield Arts Guild Theater See theater page.

Clubs, Classes and More… Cannon River Woodcarving Club – 507/339-0336 Third monday monthly, 7pm, Ivan Whillock Studio, Faribault The Cheese Cave – 507/334-3988, cheesecave.net, Faribault – Unsettled Ale Society – Second Thursday of the month, 7:30pm – a club of local home brewers and beer enthusiasts who sample beer from The Cheese Cave and home brews, talk beer and share beer stories. Come to learn or to simply enjoy! For info, contact Laura, 507/334-3988 or Kevin, 507/291-1121. Foodies Club – Monday, April 11, 6pm – meets monthly. Join Jill Mackey and talk food styles, recipes, ingredients, methods of cooking and more! Saturday morning cooking classe – April 16, 10am – Start out your weekend with a bang! A different class once a month on a Saturday morning, 10-11ish. This month: how to make the five “Mother Sauces.” Cub Scout Pack 300 – 612/490-4048, www.cubs300.org Glass Garden Beads Beading Class – 507/645-0301 First and third Mondays Just Food Co-op – 507/650-0106 Mondays: Knitting Night, 7-9pm, 507/645-6331 – knit, chat, share ideas and get help. The Key

Mondays: Book Club, 5pm Tuesdays: Photo Club, 5:30pm – developing and learning. Game Night, 7pm Wednesdays: College Prep, 7-8:30pm – learn about the ACT, financial aid, how to write a college essay, etc. The Key will pay for college applications for those not able. Most who show up are paired with a caring and knowledgeable adult. Thursdays: Art Night, 6pm Fridays: Movie Night, 7pm Sundays: Writing Workshop, 3-5pm – for details, call 507/663-0715. MOMS Club – northfieldmomsclub@gmail.com – First Wednesday of each month, 10am, St. Peter’s Church. If you are a full-time or part-time stay-at-home mom, this club may be for you. MOMS Club is a local chapter of the International MOMS Club, an organization dedicated to providing support and a sense of community for stay-at-home moms. 28 NEG@northfieldguide.com

Monarch Gift Shop – Free Weekly Guided Meditation – every

Wednesday, 7-8pm – 607/663-7720. Take a break from your week and set your mind and spirit free with mediation in a spacious and relaxed environment. Northfield Arts Guild – 507/645-8877 – Find classes for kids and adults at www.northfieldartsguild.org. Northfield Buddhist Meditation Center – Children’s Circle Class (ages 3-9) – Sundays, 3-4pm – Children and their parents meditate, do yoga and learn about Buddhism in a fun, peaceful atmosphere of exploration. Everyone welcome. Northfield Public Library – 507/645-6606 First Steps Early Literacy Center, Mon, Fri and Sat, 10-11am Patty Cake Infant Lapsit, Tue., 10am Toddler Rhyme Time, Wed., 10am Preschool Story & Craft Time, Thu., 10am Northfield Public Schools Community Services – 507/664-3649 Northfield Senior Center – www.northfieldseniorcenter.org 507/664-3700 – Programs for active older adults in a premier fitness facility with an indoor pool and certified fitness instructors. Bike club, hiking trips, ping pong, nutrition talks, art classes, writing classes, card groups, dining center, fitness classes and more. State of Your Estate: Part 2 – Wednesday, April 27, 11am – Attorney Jackie Dorsey will answer health care questions about laws regarding what you can and can’t do with your money prior to going onto a medical assistance program, and what you need to consider in estate planning before you spend all of your money on health care and other issues. Fee: $5. Paradise Center for the Arts – 612/216-1206 Find art-related classes for kids and adults at www.paradisecenterforthearts.org. River Bend Nature Center, 507/332-7151 – classes and activities at www.rbnc.org. Time Travel – History Tours of River Bend – Join a River Bend Nature Center naturalist for a journey back in time to discover the history of the land before it was a nature center. Travel is by golf cart. Tours last 1.5 hours and can accommodate up to five people. Call to schedule. Donations welcome.

Concert: Norseman Band • 7:30pm

Marv Gohman • 8-11pm

Skoglund Center, St. Olaf Conducted by Paul Niemisto.

The Tavern Lounge A swaggering, foot-stompin’, heart-pumpin’ minstrel. Furious fiddle and madcap mandolin struggle to punch holes in steel and guitars. Wailing harp winds up breathing hard.

I Cantanti A La Carte Concert • 7:30pm

Bethel Lutheran Church Appetizer: Brahms and John David; Entrees: Janacek, Vivaldi, Schumann, Kallman and more; Desserts: A scrumptious selection of Andrew Lloyd Webber by the choirs and guest song stylist, Nikki Walsh.

Bonnie & the Clydes • 8pm

The Contented Cow Take a step back and resurrect songs of love, peace and flower power from the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Comedian C. Willi Myles • 8pm

T.H.E. House Band • 8:30pm-12am

Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault A veteran performer and an extremely funny guy, C. Willi Myles has the gift of connecting people with each other through humor and storytelling everyone can relate to. Willi tells extremely funny non-offensive stories and jokes and gives a unique spin to life’s everyday challenges by applying humor to them. Tickets: $15 members, $18 non-members.

Castle Rock and Roll, Castle Rock John Prine meets Johnny B. Good. Locals Tom Teorey, Jim Hautman and Mark Ekeren know how to rile up the crowd.

APRIL 2011

DJ Music

Castle Rock and Roll • 9pm Rueb ‘N’ Stein 620 Grill

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April Regional Happenings There are a number of exciting offerings in the region this month; we offer here a brief sample of what’s to be found beyond Northfield. Be sure to check them out—and say you saw them in the Northfield Entertainment Guide! CANNON FALLS HIGH SCHOOL

ROCHESTER ART CENTER 40 Civic Center Drive SE

820 E. Minnesota St., Cannon Falls, MN • 507/263-6800 www.cannonfallsschools.com

507/282-8629 • rochesterartcenter.org

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Exhibition: Tectonic Industries: If it’s not working for you, you’re probably not doing it right

April 29, 7pm; April 30, 2 and 7pm; May 1, 2pm Presented in ways you won’t see in literature class, poking fun at the Bard’s greatest works. Sure to entertain Shakespeare lovers and haters alike.

April 3-24, weekly on Su, W-Sa New work from the Minneapolis-based art collaborative Tectonic Industries.

CROSSINGS AT CARNEGIE 320 East Ave., Zumbrota, MN

Through April 24

507/732-7616 • www.crossingsatcarnegie.com Wednesday Night Live! Comedy Night • April 13, 7:30pm The Land Stewardship Project • April 8, 7:30pm A one-act play. Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem • April 9, 7:30pm A gleeful string band. Claudia Schmidt • April 23, 7:30pm Singer/songwriter blending folk and jazz, blues and world music. Claudia Schmidt Old Blind Dogs • April 29, 7:30pm

ROCHESTER CIVIC THEATER 20 Civic Center Dr. SE 507/282-8481 • www.rochestercivictheatre.org

RED WING ARTS ASSOCIATION 418 Levee St., Red Wing 651/388-7569 • www.redwingartsassociation.org The Art of Spencer Raymond • Vendeer Gallery

SIZZLIN’

Hurry! Register by May 1st and Get Your 2nd Summer Class Free!

Summer Dance Camps & Classes

Exhibition: Tim Roby: The Moments We Share

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Thu-Sa 7pm, Su 2pm; through April 10 Americana Showcase with Rosie Flores and Six Mile Grove

April 27, 7:30pm ROCHESTER MAYO CIVIC CENTER

30 Civic Center Dr. SE • 507/328-2220 • Mayociviccenter.com Rochester Civic Music Youth Concert • April 7, 10am and 12:30pm The Treble Choir from the Honors Choirs of Southeastern Minnesota and The Philharmonic of the Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra. Rochester Dance Company: Excerpts from Wizard of Oz, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty • April 16, 1 and 4pm, April 17,

2pm Celtic Woman • April 26, 7:30pm

Six-piece band and the Aontas Choir. Cara Dillon: Riverside Live! • April 29, 7:30pm Willie Nelson & Family Live in Concert • April 16, 8-10pm SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA

120 West Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul • 651/221-9444 • smm.org Exhibit: Tutankhamun – The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs • Through Sept. 5 SHELDON THEATER 443 West 3rd St., Red Wing, MN

Summer Camps! *New and improved!* Extended and before care available! Fits any schedule! 1/2 day, full-day and single evening camps!

3-5 year-olds

5-10 year-olds

Princess • Angelina Ballerina Lions, Tigers & Bears, Oh My! Planes, Trains & Automobiles

American Girl Doll Pop Star

Summer Classes! Evenings • July 11-August 26 • Ages 3 and up, ALL LEVELS Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Boys class, Hip Hop, Breakdancing, Lyrical, Preschool Creative Movement, Combination classes and Family Zumba in the park!

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640 Water St. So. (River Park Mall) Northﬁeld, MN • 507-645-4068

651/388-8700 • www.sheldontheatre.org MN State College: Variety Showcase • April 2, 7pm Sheldon Brass Band • April 16, 7pm Ray Manzarek with Roy Rogers on Slide Guitar

April 22, 7pm Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of The Doors. Dala with Musician John Gork • April 30, 7pm Acoustic pop and energetic acoustic folk. THE STATE THEATRE 88 E. 4th St. • Zumbrota, MN

507/732-5210 • zumbrotatheater.com Storyhill • April 1, 7:30pm

Folk duo. Monroe Crossing • April 15, 7:30pm

Bluegrass.

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April Gigs 3AM ..................................................9 – Cow Acoustic Jam Session......... Tuesdays – Cow Ian Alexy.....................................15 – Tavern Marty Anderson ........................22 – Tavern Area 51......................................15, 23 – Cow Beethoven Quartet ................ 10 – Carleton Beguine Brothers .............................2 – Cow Bonnie & the Clydes .................... 30 – Cow Burning Chrome .............................1 – Cow Brothers Burn Mountain ................1 – Cow Cannon Valley Youth Orchestra ................... 16 – Emmaus Chris Silver Band .......................... 16 – Cow Ray Coudret .........................1, 15, 29 – Cow Alex de Grassi ........................ 14 – Shattuck Diggins Anton Jennings........ 15 – 620 Grill Early Music Singers & Collegium Musicum...........29 – St. Olaf Brooke Ellis ........2 – Cannon River Winery Faculty Recital: Organ............. 3 – Carleton Tim Fast ........................................ 30 – Cow Meredith Fierke w/Steve & Dylan McKinstry...................9 – Library Fresh Ink ...................................19 – St. Olaf

Marv Gohman ...........................30 – Tavern Greenwood Tree 23 – Cannon River Winery Matthew Griswold.....................14 – Tavern Guest Recital: Clarinet ...............1 – St. Olaf Guest Recital: Pacifica String Quartet .........................15 – St. Olaf Guest Recital: Piano ...................5 – St. Olaf Chris Herriges............................21 – Tavern Gabe Holmes ................................ 28 – Cow I Cantanti ....................................30 – Bethel Martha Jamsa......................... 17 – Carleton John & Company ........................1 – Tavern Lakelander Barbershop ......... 16 – Paradise Carey Langer ....................................9 – Cow Jim Lenway.................................... 22 – Cow Trevor Marty ................................2 – Tavern Matt Arthur and Friends ............. 21 – Cow Sasha Mercedes ..........................16 – Tavern MoeDell......................................29 – Tavern Mark Mraz .............................7, 28 – Tavern Multe ..................................Mondays – Cow New Moon Trio ...............................8 – Cow Norseman Band........................30 – St. Olaf Northern Roots Session ..... Sundays – Cow Occasional Jazz ............................. 16 – Cow

Optimum Trajectory.................... 22 – Cow Jason Paulson/Chad Johnson ... 29 – Grand Percussion Ensemble................28 – St. Olaf Barb Piper ..................................... 21 – Cow Tom Quinn ................................... 14 – Cow Ra Ra Riot w/Caroline Smith & Goodnight Sleep .................15 – St. Olaf Alison Rae ....................................9 – Tavern Jeff Ray .........................................8 – Tavern Rose Ensemble....................... 16 – Carleton St. Olaf Band ...............................3 – St. Olaf St. Olaf Cantorei .......................12 – St. Olaf St. Olaf Clarinet Choir & Amadeus Youth Clarinet Ensemble .........1 – St. Olaf St. Olaf Handbell Choirs .........30 – St. Olaf St. Olaf Orchestra .....................17 – St. Olaf Sweet Jazz .........................................8 – Cow Daniel Switch ...30 – Cannon River Winery Surprise Artist ............................23 – Tavern T.H.E. House Band........... 30 – Castle Rock treVeld ..............16 – Cannon River Winery Viking Chorus & Manitou Singers ......................10 – St. Olaf Wake-Robin ..........................9 – Bittersweet Andrew Walesch .. 9 – Cannon River Winery

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S P O R T S Here are the home games… Saturday, April 2

TENNIS – St. Olaf vs. Concordia College-Moorhead, 12pm Carleton Women’s vs. College of St. Benedict, 2pm BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. University of St. Thomas, 1pm LACROSSE – St. Olaf vs. Bethel University, 2pm Sunday, April 3

SOFTBALL – St. Olaf vs. Cornell College, 1pm TENNIS – Carleton Women’s vs. Macalester College, 2pm Tuesday, April 5

SOFTBALL – Carleton Women’s vs. Macalester College, 4pm St. Olaf vs. St. Mary’s University, 4pm TENNIS – St. Olaf Women’s vs. Hamline University, 4pm Wednesday, April 6

BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. St. Mary’s University, 2:30pm TENNIS – St. Olaf Men’s vs. Hamline University, 4pm Thursday, April 7

BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. North Central University, 2:30pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Lakeville North, 4pm SOFTBALL – Raiders Girls vs. Red Wing, 4:30pm Friday, April 8

TENNIS – St. Olaf Women’s vs. UW-Eau Clair, 4pm Saturday, April 9

TRACK & FIELD – Carleton vs. Hamline University SOFTBALL – Carleton Women’s vs. Augsburg College, 1pm BASEBALL – St. Olaf vs. St. John’s University, 1pm TENNIS – Carleton Men’s vs. Gustavus Adolphus College, 3pm Sunday, April 10

SOFTBALL – Carleton Women’s vs. Concordia College-Moorhead, 1pm Monday, April 11

Sunday, April 17

TENNIS – Carleton Women’s vs. Luther College, 9am Carleton Men’s vs. Macalester College, 1:30pm LACROSSE – St. Olaf Men’s vs. Creighton, 11am Monday, April 18

BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. Crown College, 2:30pm SOFTBALL – Raiders Girls vs. Kasson-Mantorville, 4:30pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Albert Lea, 4:30pm Tuesday, April 19

SOFTBALL – Carleton Women’s vs. Bethel University, 4pm St. Olaf vs. University of St. Thomas, 4pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Chaska, 4:15pm BASEBALL – Raiders Boys vs. Academy of Holy Angels, 4:30pm Wednesday, April 20

TENNIS – St. Olaf Men’s vs. Carleton, 4pm Thursday, April 21

BASEBALL – Raiders Boys vs. Shakopee, 4:30pm Friday, April 22

GOLF – Carleton Women’s hosts the Carleton Spring Invitational, 10am TENNIS – Carleton Women’s vs. University of St. Thomas, 4pm Saturday, April 23

TENNIS – Carleton Women’s vs. Grinnell College, 9am. Carleton Women’s vs. UW River Falls, 3pm GOLF – Carleton Women’s hosts the Carleton Spring Invitational, 10am BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. Macalester College, 1pm St. Olaf vs. Concordia College-Moorhead, 1pm Monday, April 25

BASEBALL – Raiders Boys vs. Faribault, 4:30pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Austin, 4:30pm

GOLF – Raiders Boys vs. Faribault and Cannon Falls, 3:15pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Hastings, 4:15pm SOFTBALL – Raiders Girls vs. New Prague, 4:30pm

Tuesday, April 12

Tuesday, April 26

BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. Bethel University, 2:30pm Raiders Boys vs. Chanhassen, 4:30pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Owatonna, 4:30pm

BASEBALL – Carleton Men’s vs. Gustavus Adolphus College, 2:30pm St. Olaf vs. Augsburg College, 2:30pm TENNIS – Raiders Boys vs. Red Wing, 4:15pm

Wednesday, April 13

Wednesday, April 27

SOFTBALL – Carleton Women’s vs. Gustavus Adolphus College, 4pm TENNIS – St. Olaf Women’s vs. Carleton, 4pm

SOFTBALL – St. Olaf vs. Hamline University, 4pm BASEBALL – Raiders Boys vs. Chaska, 4:30pm

Thursday, April 14

Thursday, April 28

SOFTBALL – Raiders Girls vs. Farmington, 4:30pm

GOLF – Raiders Boys Varsity Invitational, 2pm

Saturday, April 16

Friday, April 29

TENNIS – Carleton Men’s vs. Luther College, 10am St. Olaf Women’s vs. Luther College, 1pm St. Olaf Men’s vs. Luther College, 4pm BASEBALL – St. Olaf vs. Hamline University, 1pm SOFTBALL – St. Olaf vs. St. Catherine University, 1pm

BASEBALL – Raiders Boys vs. Red Wing, 4:30pm

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Saturday, April 30

GOLF – St. Olaf Invitational TRACK & FIELD – Carleton vs. St. Mary’s University TENNIS – Carleton Men’s vs. St. John’s University, 12pm Carleton Women’s vs. Gustavus Adolphus College, 3pm Raiders Boys Varsity Invitational, 9am

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620 Water St. • 507/786-9797 • Facebook: 620 Grill – Tu-Su 11a-late, closed Mondays. Burgers, fries, soups, sandwiches, wraps, ribs, pulled pork and a great bar! Nitelife from 9pm offers karaoke, DJ dancing, live music and more.

503 Division St. • www.ruebnstein.com 507/645-6691 • 11am-close Reader’s Pick for Best – Great burgers and famous 2007-2010 Ruebens. Casual relaxing Burger atmosphere. Huge selection of imported and domestic beers, fine spirits and wines. Game room, happy hour 3:30-6pm, Karaoke on Fridays at 9pm.

Castle Rock N Roll Bar and Grill

Mandarin Garden Restaurant – 107 East

27798 Chippendale Ave • 507/645-0676 Facebook: Castle Rock N Roll Bar and Grill – 11-1am (every day). Great burgers and pizza, with daily specials. Located at the corner of Hwy. 3 and Cty. Rd. 86. Private party room available.

4th St. • MandarinGardenNorthfield.com 507/645-7101 – Lunch: WedFri 11:30am-2pm, Dinner: Tue-Thu 4:30-9pm. Open until 10 Fri and Sat. Authentic Peking and Szechuan cuisine, freshly prepared, dine-in or take-out.

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214 Division St. • 507/6452462 (office 507/645-1665) www.chapati.us – Closed Mondays – Cuisine of India. Variety of curry and Tandoori entrees including a large selection of vegetarian items. Wine and beer. The Cheese Cave

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318 Central Ave., Suite 6, Faribault 507/334-3988 • www.cheesecave.net – Wed 10am-5:30pm, Thu-Sat 10am-8pm – A light menu of fresh salads and sandwiches, a couple gourmet pizzas and cheese plates to compliment whatever you are drinking. Wines, spirits and Summit beer on tap. Reader’s Pick for Best 2007-2010 Music Venue 2007-2010 Happy Hour 2007-2010 Beer Selection 2008 Place to be Seen

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302 Division St. S. www.contentedcow.com 3pm-close – British-style pub with authentic British specialties and a variety of soups, salads and sandwiches. Extensive patio overlooking the Cannon River. Great selection of imported and domestic draft beer and a full selection of wine and spirits.

The HideAway

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421 Division St. • 507/664-0400 Mon-Fri 6am-10pm, Sat-Sun 7am-10pm – Cozy bistro atmosphere serving unique appetizers and sandwiches. Coffee drinks, wine and beer specialties. James Gang Coffeehouse & Eatery Page 12

2018 Jefferson Rd. • 507/663-6060 • Mon-Fri 6am-8pm, Sat-Sun 7am-5pm – Voted Best Coffeehouse in southern Minnesota. Fresh daily roasted coffee. Wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads, desserts, ice cream and non-espresso drinks. Free wireless internet and business catering available.

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Northfield Golf Club – 707 Prairie St. 507/645-4026 • Sun-Thu 11am-8pm, Fri/Sat 11am-9pm – Whether seated in the main dining room, bar, or member’s lounge, beautiful panoramic views of the golf course provide a charming atmosphere. Lunch and dinner menus with a variety of cuisine to savor under the direction of Chef Rafael Perez and his staff. Perkins Restaurant & Bakery

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1401 Riverview Drive • 507/645-4830 • SunWed 5am-11pm, Thu-Sat 24 hrs – Breakfast all day. Favorites include buttermilk pancakes, three-egg omelettes and hearty scrambler dishes. Also serving sandwiches and dinner entrees. Weekday breakfast and lunch specials. Free wi-fi available. Pan Pan Cafe

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303 Division St. • 507/786-9200 • 10am-8pm every day – An international café with a Thai flare, offering omelets, breads and pastries, noodles and more. Quarterback Club

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116 3rd St. W. • 507/645-7886 • Mon-Sat 6am-9pm, Sun 10:30am-8pm – Family friendly dining in Northfield for 37 years. House specialties include broasted chicken, BBQ ribs and flame-broiled hamburgers. Reader’s Pick for Best 2007-2010 Breakfast 2009-2010 Value (breakfast) Appetizers Family Dining Wine Selection

The Tavern of Northfield

– 212 Division St. www.tavernofnorthfield. com • 507/663-0342 SunThu 6:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 6:30am-11pm, lounge open daily 3pm-midnight. Located in the historic Archer House since 1984, The Tavern offers casual dining with a wide variety of homemade menu items and specials daily featuring fresh fish on Fridays and prime rib on Saturdays. The Tavern Lounge sports a deck overlooking the Cannon River, appetizers and a full bar with live music Thur-Sat.

Tea Creations

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Just Curious about

Michael Jordan

Ultimate outdoor vacation: MJ: hard to say! I love Hawaii and the Caribbean because you can golf, ski and scuba. I’ve enjoyed Costa Rica and really like Hispanic culture; I’m excited to take the kids to Central America when they get older. So, the ultimate vacation might be: skiing in Colorado, then jetting off to Belize to paly golf and dive the reef, then Costa Rica to surf and explore the jungles. Maybe the Entertainment Guide can sponsor the trip and I’ll write about it?

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ON Raising Outdoor Enthusiasts:

Michael Jordan is a long-time Northfield resident, a prominent Realtor and the loving dad of two little girls. His bright and cheerful ads grace the pages of the Entertainment Guide regularly and that got us wanting to know a little about the Michael Jordan who’s not – as of yet, anyway! – played basketball with the Chicago Bulls, though we wouldn’t put that past him. He’s pretty active....

NEG: You’re quite a sportsman, and you enjoy doing these things with your daughters. Anything they’re starting to do better than their dad? MJ: Hard to answer that one. They’re seven and three, and perfect little humans! NEG: Do your kids enjoy winter sport or summer sports better? And how about you? MJ: I enjoy both – in Minnesota you don’t have a choice. I think it’s important to get outside as much as you can, especially with kids. Evelyn (7) started ski racing at Welch this winter. She loves it! Anna (3) has skied, but isn’t as enthusiastic as Evelyn about the sport. Both kids love riding bikes, hiking in the woods, camping and playing on local playgrounds. Summer is a lot easier to get outside, so I would say that the kids enjoy summer more. Continued on next page.

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NEG: You’re in a business that’s undergone tough times recently. What words of advice to you give someone who’s trying to sell a house in this market? MJ: Be patient, listen to your Realtor and be realistic about your asking price. NEG: Ditto to the buyer? MJ: Do it now! Lowest interest rates in recorded time, and fantastic prices on homes. NEG: What advice can buyers give sellers regarding the homes they see on the market? MJ: At least half the homes on the market are bank-owned, and buyers are getting used to seeing homes in rough condition. Owner-occupied homes have tough competition and that’s where a well-prepared home and a realistic asking price will give the traditional seller an advantage. There are a lot of buyers out there who want a turnkey transaction. NEG: What does the spring market look like? MJ: Interest rates and lower-than-normal home prices are good incentives; because of the low prices, we have a new group of buyers. And there are still $0 down loans available; the city of Northfield has a down payment assistance program for buyers who qualify. Very, very good programs to help buyers take the first step to home ownership.

NEG: Do you ever watch the real estate-themed shows on cable? MJ: No, I’m not much of a tv guy, but I try to catch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report when I can! NEG: You lived in Breckenridge, Colorado, for a number of years, and got your start in real estate there. That’s a pretty pricey market; what was the most outrageous house you sold? MJ: I helped sell a home for $2.3 million. Amazing home on three acres on the Blue River!

the Dream Home: NEG: Combining your passion for the outdoors with your passion for your career, where’s the dream home? MJ: I would love to live in the Rockies again – someday!!

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HISTORIC

HAPPENINGS NORTHFIELD STYLE By Susan Hvistendahl

Rotblatt – A Springtime Tradition at Carleton “What most typifies spring?” asked a writer in the Carletonian paper on April 6, 1965. “Is it the girls seductively sunning themselves on Myers Hill? Is it the extra help being taken on by the Muni?…The real sign of spring is to be found only on the softball field. The Marvin Rotblatt League is readying itself for its second year of operation.” Although the league is no more, a marathon 145-inning softball game with the Rotblatt name will be played on May 14 by Carleton students, one inning for every year since the founding of the college in 1866. The expressive moniker has been revered in Carleton lore for many years. Back in 1964, a winter of discontent was settling in on sophomores Bob Greenberg, Eric Carlson and Rick Chap. The Continental Softball League, which had been organized the previous year and was now dominated by juniors, had spurned their efforts to join. So they met in a Burton dorm room, intent on devising a way to have a league of their own so they too could play organized softball games in the spring. In the weeks that followed, team captains were chosen and players drafted from among sophomores and a few juniors and seniors. But what to call the new league? Chap came up with a Homeric home run of a name. Chap’s father had grown up on the south side of Chicago and passed along his White Sox fanaticism to his son, who knew names and stats of all players, including

Marvin J. Rotblatt pitched for the Chicago White Sox for three undistinguished seasons.

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a pitcher named Marvin J. Rotblatt. In an e-mail, Chap told me, “I thought the name Rotblatt was unique and somehow descriptive for the kind of league we envisioned.” How so? Well, besides having an unforgettable last name, Rotblatt had achieved the highest earned run average in major league baseball for two of the three seasons in which he pitched: 7.85 ERA in 1948 and 6.23 ERA in 1950. He was also zero for 15 in career at-bats. As Bob Moore (’66), captain of the Rotblatt Maggots team, once said (famously and rather facetiously), “We needed a name to reflect what we were, the worst softball league in history. We were rejects in a small college that didn’t emphasize athletes anyway.” Franchises were granted to four new teams and announced in the Carletonian of March 4, 1964, as the Marvin Rotblatt Softball League. Carlson was chosen as the league’s first Commissioner and, reflecting on the beginnings in the Carletonian of April 14, 1966, he said the new league had been started “to give all the Carls a chance to play softball in the spring instead of spending all their time in the Arb.” Since the Continental League “didn’t want to let the good guys in,” he said, “we had our own player draft and since then we’ve been the major league on campus.” Well, not quite that fast. “Sugar Kings Squash Warthogs; Win First Softball Championship” was the headline in the Carletonian of June 3, 1964, reporting on the best of three World Series won by the Continental League champion Havana Sugar Kings over the Rotblatt League champion Warthogs (6-3, 3-4 and 4-1). Greenberg’s ability to balance a baseball bat on his nose did not appear to give enough of an advantage to his Warthogs team. However, the Continental League expired after the spring of 1966, by which time the conquering Rotblatt League had ten teams in two divisions, with 13 players on each team, playing two or three times a week. There were official scorers and Greenberg told me, “Nearly all Rotblatt players took pride in their statistics.” Hal Hart (’67) recalled calculating stats on teams and team members his senior year on an old IBM 1620 computer. Hart, who became perhaps the first Carleton alum to earn an advanced degree in the new field of computer sciences at Purdue, found the results were eagerly awaited by ’Blatters, then were much discussed and dissected. The Carletonian glorified the league, giving it a lot of coverage as “Rotblatt Blather,” often to the disgruntlement of athletes in other sports. In 1967 PE credit was given for Rotblatt participation, until 1984. By 1970, the league had expanded to 24 teams and 300 players. Continued on next page.

Bob Greenberg, Marv Rotblatt, Eric Carlson and Rick Chap at 1966 Rotblatt Softball Banquet at Carleton. photos courtesy Carleton Archives

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Former major league pitcher Marv Rotblatt batted the first ball out for a home run at the Rotblatt All-Star game at Carleton in 1966.

Freshmen were excluded, with the idea that they needed a year to settle into college life academically. Brenda Ringwald (’67) recalled the role of women was “to watch, bring snacks, tend to wounded bodies and egos, and listen quietly with the requisite amount of admiration when they would tell their Rotblatt stories.” (A “Wombat” woman’s league was added in 1975.) A highlight of the early years came at the trophy banquet on May 28, 1966, when Marv Rotblatt himself was the guest

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The Marv Rotblatt players in the midst of a 133-inning softball game at Carleton in 1999. In the spring Rotblatters play one inning for every year of Carleton’s photos courtesy Carleton Archives existence.

speaker. Greenberg had volunteered to try to find Rotblatt in Chicago over the 1965 Christmas break and, he said, “Imagine my delight when I checked in that pre-Google source of information, the telephone book, and found he lived only a little over a mile from my parents.” A phone call and visit to Rotblatt’s home resulted. The former major leaguer was mystified and amused that a softball league was named after him at a small college a decade after he had left the pros to become an insurance salesman. Nevertheless, he agreed to come to Northfield in the spring for an all-star game and banquet in his honor. Greenberg and Carlson picked Rotblatt up at the Minneapolis train station. Rotblatt looked like someone out of Central Casting, wearing a sport shirt and sunglasses, carrying a White Sox traveling bag, baseball glove and a trademark big cigar. They took him to a room at the Stuart Hotel (now the Archer House). On campus, a trombone player saluted him by playing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and Rotblatt’s arrival in the Goodhue dining hall for lunch was greeted with a standing ovation. That afternoon he pitched for the Rotblatt All Stars against a faculty team. Marvelous Marv entertained the large crowd with some behind-the-back throwing and (even though he never got a hit with the White Sox) by switch-hitting home runs, including a home run at his first at-bat. A WCCO film crew was there to cover the event. It was said that Rotblatt enjoyed joking and mingling with the students, especially the co-eds. He also put in a few plugs for Carls to remember his insurance business when they “reap the riches of the world.” The All Stars won 17-11.

At the Great Hall banquet, “Marv regaled the audience with tales of exploits from the University of Illinois to his days with the Sox,” said Greenberg, including striking out the great Ted Williams the first time he faced him. Rotblatt also told off-color stories which left the college men in stitches and Carleton President Nason turning different shades of red. Rotblatt was given a trophy, inscribed to “Marvin Rotblatt, Founder and Hero, Carleton College Rotblatt League, 1966.” All in all, said Greenberg, “It was one of the funniest and most enjoyable evenings I’ve ever experienced.” Rotblatt returned for the 1967 banquet and several times thereafter. Carleton was celebrating its centennial in the 1966-67 school year and Rotblatters were involved in two of the commemorative events. Ted Lutz ’67 (who was plucked from Rotblatt to play varsity baseball) took part with Rotblatt players and others in a stunt to bat a baseball from Northfield to Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington (current site of Mall of America) for a Twins game on May 22. Lutz e-mailed me about the implausible but true scenario of nine guys, with two station wagons being driven along rural Minnesota roads, with the men hitting balls in fungo fashion over and over for 10 or 11 hours. “We had guys retrieving the ball from cow pens, farm machinery, etc.,” Lutz said, and they arrived at the Met during rush hour. After a buffet in the Stadium Club, he remembered “fungoing the ball from the outfield fence to home plate about 15 minutes before the start of the game.” The players, Carleton President John Nason (and perpetual icon Schiller) presented a Carleton rocking chair to Twins’ owner Cal

Griffith, who had invited 1200 students and faculty to be his guests in honor of the college’s centennial. Lutz was official scorekeeper for another memorable centennial event that spring, a 100-inning Rotblatt softball game held on May 16. There were 10 seniors per team, each playing 10 innings at 10 fielding positions. The game started at 6 a.m. and lasted nine hours with the teams battling to a fitting centenary final score of Sots 100, Dirty Old Men 81. A Minneapolis Tribune story about the Rotblatt League on May 27, 1980, said there were now 580 players on 36 teams and an allschool picnic had replaced the Rotblatt banquet. The importance of keeping statistics was lessening and the game was played mostly for fun. There were reports of a team which would run bases in reverse order to confuse their opponents. Slingshots came into some prominence. One team pelted other teams with water balloons shot from slingshots, while the April 15, 1977, Carleton Daily announced that the first pitch of the season opener “will be a fast ball – fired from atop the library by a high-powered slingshot.” According to Carleton archivist Eric Hillemann, Rotblatt as a league peaked in the 1970s into the 1980s. The character of the game changed and “transformed into an increasingly sudsy form of beer ball” and “eventually, true Rotblatt disappeared from the Carleton scene entirely (apart from reunions), with the exception of the single marathon game each spring.” A few early Rotblatters commented on what has happened to the game they loved. Carlson, who said his extended family with wife Mimi contains 23 Carleton alumni, noted that the transition to “beer ball/longest keg party” was not “in the original plan.” But the idea was for Rotblatt to be “for the participants, so I guess the change reflects what they want.” Greenberg said, “I am happy that the Rotblatt tradition goes on in memory and that current Carls have a good time with it.” Nevertheless, “students cannot imagine how seriously we took Rotblatt Ball. It is like a religious event that has evolved over the years into a carnival.” Hart also was glad that Rotblatt softball lives on but is disappointed that it has “devolved so far from the original simultaneously fun-but-serious, stats-conscious, competitive spirit of the Rotblatt League.” Yet, even though the one-day-a-year game “doesn’t do justice to the legacy for me,” he admitted he donated some money years ago for T-shirts and “probably would again if asked.” Greenberg added that he understands how such changes happen. Echoing the writer in the Carletonian who asked “What most typifies spring?” he summed up his feelings: “Rotblatt was our rite of springtime and, after the long winters of Northfield, it was a fantastic experience.” My thanks to Eric Hillemann and Carol Thunem of the Carleton Archives and all those who responded to my e-mails asking for help in writing about the Rotblatt experience. Particularly useful in the Archives has been Don Rawitsch’s “Definitive History of the Marvin J. Rotblatt Memorial Softball League” (Rawitsch, ’72, was among the developers of a well-known computer game called “Oregon Trail”) and Hal Hart’s site: http://carleton67.net/rotblatt-stuff.html.

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145-Inning Rotblatt Softball Game To Be Played on May 14 Brian Kilgour, a senior at Carleton, is psyched to be participating in his third Rotblatt experience on May 14. Students will start lining up around 4 a.m. to pick up specially designed T-shirts whose color designates what team they will play for. After the national anthem is played on guitar, the slow-pitch softball game will begin at daybreak on the field behind the recreation center. There will be 145 innings, one for each year since Carleton’s founding in 1866. Anyone who shows up can play in the rather crowded outfield, though (perhaps in a nod to traditional softball rules) there still are only three basemen and one pitcher and catcher at a time. While there are no captains, there is a group of referees with their own special T-shirts who are allowed to play on either team, settle disputes and keep score. One of the organizers, senior Ali Melton, explains that “while balls and strikes might not be called as religiously as in a real game, batters get more than one whack at it and after three strikes they are out.” The players, both men and women, come and go throughout the day. (Melton says she cannot believe women weren’t allowed before.) A Frisbee game may break out on the field between or even during innings. A “stated rule” from “the inherited past,” says Kilgour, is that plays are expected to be completed “with beverage in hand,” which means one must hit and catch the ball with just one hand. Those who have wristbands identifying them as being over 21 may partake of kegs of beer, which may affect dexterity further as the game wears on. (A “chug-off “ was once featured as a way to decide disputes in league play.) ESPN Magazine conferred the title of “Longest Keg Party” on Rotblatt on July 9, 2001. But Melton says alternative beverages like juice and water are provided and Rotblatt is a “safe and loved event.” Also quirky. An occasional clothes-optional inning started about 1987 and there have been streaking incidences. Melton remembers that last year “there definitely was an inning where everyone played with their pants around their ankles.” Grills are set up to cook hamburgers, pizzas are brought in and there is always plenty to eat and drink, with live music/DJ as background to the action. It is most crowded between 10 and 4, with spectators on blankets cheering on the action until taps on a trumpet signal the end of the game. Kilgour feels that “practically every Carleton student shows up” and “it does not matter if you’re not an athlete.” Just “take a few swipes at the ball,” he says. He expects Rotblatt to continue, since new students hear about the event in “glorious terms” beforehand and “alums have an investment in it” afterwards. He considers Rotblatt to be “one of the defining events of Carleton spring term.” Can one anticipate a 200-inning game for Carleton’s bicentennial in 2066? Perhaps so, considering creative Carleton time management. Kilgour says that sometimes, when it gets to be toward 4 p.m., participants will say, “This inning counts for four innings.” In that case, the Rotblatt tradition may last forever.

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By Felicia Crosby Home. There are few words – short, simple words – that carry such emotional weight or identify such a basic and universal need. More nuanced than “house,” “home” defines a place of mind as well as body. To be home is to be where one feels welcomed and at peace, and though conditions change during the journey of one’s life, the need for a home doesn’t. Three Links Care Center takes the meaning of “home” very seriously, and it’s committed to providing nothing less for the people it serves, from assisted living options to end-of-life care. Deborah Carpenter is the fund development director of Three Links, though like most staff members who work in not-for-profit organizations, the hats she wears are varied and often changing. But no matter which hat she dons, the goal ahead of her remains the same. “We try hard to make this community home,” she says. The Campus, as the compound on Forest Avenue is known, is a beautiful collection of residential and administrative buildings that create a softly Colonial and distinctly park-like atmosphere. On this site are several facilities that provide homes for people with different needs, from independent-living apartments to a specialized memory care center with an emphasis on creating a warm family style life within. Of particular note is the Cottage on Forest, which helps residents and their families navigate the challenges of end-of-life care with compassion and dignity. “This (time) is a difficult transition for people and their families,” Deborah notes. “It’s hard for people to move as their needs change; people can stay here through the end of their journey.” Beyond the Campus, the Three Links assisted living facility Millstream Commons is a crisply attractive complex in the heart of downtown Northfield, and an appealing option for many active older people. “Millstream Commons is perfect for people who want to scale down, and need some supportive services,” Deborah explains. “Often with a couple, one might need some assistance – and this makes it easier for both of them. But it’s independent – you come and go as you please – and it’s right downtown in the very vibrant part of Northfield, near the farmers’ markets and shops.” Further afield, Three Links manages – though doesn’t own – the Villages of Lonsdale, a 54-unit assisted living and memory care facility that also houses the Lonsdale town library. Deborah is impressed with the community and its care for its elderly citizens. To make the point, she tells the story about the need for a bus. “Three Links raised money four years ago for a bus that takes residents out on nice days” – a much needed and appreciated service

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for non-drivers – “and Lonsdale realized they also had this need. Last April, they began a fundraising effort to raise the needed $60K for a bus for the Villages. A live and silent auction held at the Lonsdale American Legion Club started the ball rolling. As well, two Lonsdale families added considerable donations and by December all $60K had been raised. The bus is due any day now.” She sits back in her chair and smiles. “The generosity in that community was unbelievable. They realized a need and made sure it was met.” That sense of community is an important part of the Three Links philosophy; staff members become part of the family that is so vital to the creation of a home. And everyone pitches in to become part of the residents’ lives. “We have four wings on campus,” Deborah explains. “One is transitional, rehabilitative; people are here for care after surgeries. The other three are long-term. Each wing has a social once a month.” Deborah has adopted a wing and makes dinner monthly, a task she clearly relishes. “We ask what people want to eat, and we make things special, and eat in the chapel, with table cloths.” And she and the other staffers sit. And talk. And most importantly, they listen. “People need to spend more time talking to – and listening to – elders,” she says. “The words may not come out as quickly, and they might digress, but there is much to hear, and much we can learn.” That statement naturally brings up the subject of volunteers, and Deborah is quick to respond. “We love volunteers here,” she states. ”We have a lot of volunteers from St. Olaf and Carleton” but Three Links welcomes volunteers of all ages, including kids. “We just got two Wii systems donated – we need kids.” Four-legged visitors are welcome, too, with certain guidelines met (call for details); the connections between wagging tails and smiles are well documented. Coming from the arts world where she’d worked in New York, Deborah is the first to admit that she had to learn about long-term care. Her subsequent passion for it and commitment to it has become a part of her, and she credits much of the success of Three Links to one vital component: the staff. “The staff is incredible,” she says simply. “They’re dedicated and they give so much of themselves.” Kind of like family.

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