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Winter is well underway in the Midwest, but we Midwesterners don’t mind one bit -- we haven’t made home in this inhospitable clime because our cans are made of candy, after all. This is the time of year when we engage ourselves by tearing around through the snow on cross-country skis and snowmobiles, terrorizing fish who were lulled into a false sense of security by the thick sheet of
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his
experience.
Imi
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invented Krav Maga (Hebrew for “Contact Combat”), a martial art combining
natural
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The
versatile
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shopdinelive.net When Gail Boxrud felt she needed to learn
“Krav Maga doesn’t just
how to defend herself should her job as a
work
police reporter ever put her in a rough and
center. We frequently train
tumble situation, she naturally gravitated
in cars, buses, airplanes,
toward a martial art which emphasizes simple
nightclubs,
efficacy over flair and style. She took her
and we offer special seminars
first Krav Maga class nearly 16 years ago, and
in those topics.
in
the
and
training
outdoors,
became hooked immediately. Gail attended local classes as often as she could, and sought
“One of our specialties is self-
special training as well: first at a conference in
defense on a bicycle. We started
Philadelphia, then in Israel, and then again in
to develop the program several
Israel five more times.
years ago, after two of our students had been chased on their bicycles.
Gail earned her instructor certification in
They were able to outrun the bad
2007, and now owns and teaches at Krav Maga
guys, but that got us thinking about
Minneapolis along with her partner Dante
how we could adapt Krav Maga for
Pastrano. As ranked experts under the Israel-
cyclists.
based International Krav Maga Federation “We trained and got certified as security
civilians,
cyclists with the International Police
law
enforcement
professionals,
bodyguards, and women and children alike.
Mountain Bike Association, and developed
Gail also serves as director of the IKMF for
our own program for civilian cyclists where
the state of Minnesota. Although modest
we teach biking and fighting skills according
about her command of Krav Maga, Gail’s cool
to the principles of Krav Maga. The training
confidence projects the aura of a lady whom
takes you from bike to fight: mounting and
you’d simply never want to mess with.
dismounting skills, how to fall to reduce your chance of injury, and use the bike as a self-
“Krav Maga can complement any other
defense tool.
martial arts training,” said Gail. “But it’s especially great for people with no training at
“Krav
all. Krav Maga teaches you to never give up.
themselves
Maga
teaches
That mindset will make you more formidable
attacks on the street, using awareness and
in public, and less likely to be targeted by an
stress drills. We teach how to defend against
attacker. Knowing how to fight means you’re
punches, kicks, and grabs, as well as armed
less likely to have to.
attacks, based on timelines, principles, and
against
people the
most
to
defend common
multiple attackers. We make the training “Many fighting styles prohibit groin kicks
as realistic as we can, all while emphasizing
and biting, but Krav Maga teaches you to do
safety.
whatever you need to defend yourself. Krav Maga is great for women for that reason, as
“We teach serious stuff, but the training
we teach them how to attack vulnerable areas
is fun,” Gail concluded. “I love to empower
of the body while defending themselves.
people with the skills needed to improve their confidence and safety.”
“Women may train alongside men in our regular classes, but we also offer special
Krav Maga Minneapolis is located at 2905
seminars and classes exclusively for women
Garfield Ave in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood.
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Craig Cohen must have needed a vivid imagination to conceive of the Keg and Case Market. The deserted Schmidt warehouse it’s now located in was riddled with graffiti, broken glass, and squatting birds when he bought it in 2014, but the entrepreneur saw the old building’s charm through all of that. Newly opened last September, it’s now a bustling 33,000 square foot community hub with a slew of
eclectic vendors, a splendid place to meander about on a grizzly winter
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day like it probably is while you’re reading this.
Fork
The second my friends and I entered Keg and Case we were knocked off our feet by the bouquet of bacon. This is the superlative way to begin a shopping experience. We were first drawn to Forest to Fork, a wild food grocer with an enormous glass cased mushroom farm right next to their booth. The mushrooms erupting from the shelved
sacks within were lit
colorfully, like they were enjoying their own private fungal discotech right in the middle of things. Worker B nearby has their own miniature apiary, also thoughtfully glassed off, but when we visited the bees must have been on important bee business elsewhere.
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try switchel, a concoction of cider vinegar, ginger, honey, and water that the lady described as the original Gatorade, but I’d never douse my coach in switchel after winning the World Series because I like it too much. The ladies in our party swerved our course to Rose Street Patisserie, which had a smart case of little chocolates laid out like jewels.
These are far from Keg and Case’s only sweets. Just across the way we watched ladies
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umbrellas. Bogart’s Donuts, whom I’d recalled from my days working near the IDS Center, were serving up donuts the size of fully grown box turtles, and House of Halva had a selection of their eponymous loaves which one of us was relieved to learn were gluten-free.
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Who Keg and Case really belongs to are the carnivores,
though.
The
K’nack
had
brunch
a
tantalizing selection of cured and smoked meats, including a cone made of pepperoni and chopped up meat sticks. If you want to come up with a more convenient way of eating cured meat on the go, then you’ve got all your work in front of you. Revival Smoked Meats was serving up authentic Carolina barbecue, big sweating hunks
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So much excitement drained us, so it was time for coffee. My pals got beet juice and honeyed things, but I’m a plain Jane so I got whatever came when I asked for coffee. Had we only realized that Clutch Brewing Co. has half of the second floor balcony spanning around the market, where you could sit like a gargoyle while you drink a pint and look down at the throngs, we’d likely have gone in the other direction.
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who would be drawn in by the smell of his barbecue. One of his children, Bill, took special note of his father’s sauce’s immense power to bring people together. That power would become his key inheritance from his father. “The sauce would go on just about everything back when I was growing up,” recalled Bill of BilyRay’s Old Style Barbecue Sauce. “Sometimes we would just warm up a pot on the stove -- we didn’t have a microwave back then -- and we would all sop it up with pieces
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shopdinelive.net of bread. It was good on every kind of meat, it was good on salads, it was
being spicy for its own sake makes it the best. To me, flavor is everything.�
good even just on its own. That’s why its taste always brings me back to childhood, because we put it on almost everything back then.�
Bill makes all of his sauce by himself in the kitchen of his church. There for six hours a day, four days a week he labors over an enormous 14 gallon pot,
“When the recipe was handed down to me,� Bill continued, “I wasn’t
stirring it meticulously as he adds each ingredient in order. He measures
sure that I could improve on such a good thing. My father
his sauce’s acidity throughout the process, judging which ingredients its
had already more or less perfected the combination
wanting for by the readout from his little pH meter. Once it has simmered
of tomato, sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce,
for the magic amount of time, he lets it sit overnight to cool off, as no sink
vinegar, and lemon juice. What I’ve mainly focused
in his church’s kitchen could accommodate the size of his pot. Bill then
on for the past 30 years are the spices. Cayenne is the most important one. It gives the sauce
pumps his sauce into bottles, seals them, and loads them into his car for delivery to grocery stores around the Twin Cities.
a one-two punch, first with its sweetness and then a delicate spiciness. It also lowers your blood
“It’s a blessing to be able to give what I do to people,� said Bill. “A
pressure, so it’s as good for your whole body as it is for your taste
lot of people haven’t even had real barbecue sauce. I call that other stuff
buds. You enjoy good food more when you’re feeling healthy.� (Bill
‘doctored up ketchup.’ My authentic sauce is so good, all I need to make
notes that barbecue sauce alone is not sufficient to maintain a
a customer for life is just to have them taste it. I’m not trying to brag. My
healthy lifestyle, and that exercise is important too.)
sauce is just that good.�
“I call my sauce’s style Midwestern hotness. People in
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“It took me a while to adjust to Minnesota when my family
“Now my ankle has so much metal in it, it looks like the
moved here when I was 13,” said local stand-up comedian Joe
aisle of a Home Depot. That makes it very sensitive. The
Cocozzello, “but now I love it. Still, coming from New York,
other day at Target a guy clipped me with a shopping
you can’t help but notice how different people are here.”
cart, and I mean just barely grazed me, and I went down like a soccer player faking an injury. The poor guy, he
“Everyone knows that Minnesotans are passive aggressive -- you could be in the same room as your worst enemy in the world and never know it. Back east people are aggressive
didn’t do anything wrong, and there I was trying to console him while I was the one writhing in pain next to a shelf full of toilet paper.”
aggressive. No one waits for someone to leave the room before talking about them. Sure, that leads to a lot of fights,
“You gotta take that stuff with a grain of salt. That’s how
but everyone always makes up and become friends again.”
you get good comedy material, by appreciating all the crazy stuff going on around you, even when you’re on the
“I’ve adapted pretty well to Minnesota life, though. I’m buying a pair of cross-country skis, and I’m getting into ice fishing. I’ll never park my Cadillac on the ice, though -- I’m
bad end of it. Look, we’re all hurtling around space on a little rock -- if that’s not the right time to find something to laugh about, when is?”
afraid it will break, and I don’t think my insurance covers underwater salvage.” “Maybe I’m just not a fan of ice in general. A couple of years ago I slipped on some and did a Dick Van Dyke pratfall. One minute I was just walking on the sidewalk, something I’m normally very good at, and the next I was watching my feet in slow motion as they were flailing over my head. When I came to I discovered that my ankle could bend in an entirely new direction.”
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shopdinelive.net “You want a clean joke for your magazine? Let me think... nope...nope...no definitely not that one. I don’t know, I work blue most of the time. I mean, I could do a clean act, but I can’t understand who would want to. To me comedy is about bringing up the issues that we can’t address in everyday company. As soon as it’s safe, there’s no point in joking about it.” “What I love most about this job is touring, especially performing at comedy festivals. There’s nothing better than being one of 100 comedians to descend on a town -- it feels like I get to be part of a plague. I love hanging out with everyone, and I’ll take any I chance I can to go somewhere warm in the winter. It’s good for my ankles.” “The best comedy club in the Twin Cities? Royal Comedy Theatre in Hopkins, hands down, which happens to be
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Shih Tzu Rescue of Minnesota
In the last issue of Shop.Dine.Live. we took a look at the rugged snow dogs of Adopt a Husky Minnesota. As this issue focuses on indoor entertainment, in it we will examine a somewhat daintier dog who is better suited for the comforts of the cozy fireplace and its nearby carpet. Don’t let their diminutive size fool you, though. The Shih Tzu, whose name in Chinese means “lion dog,” has a larger than life if not imperious presence. Put a Shih Tzu in any situation, and that situation will belong entirely to them with their charming underbite, long eyelashes, and enthusiastic snorts.
by David Scheller
Shih Tzu Rescue of Minnesota (STRMN) is a nonprofit that serves to save, rehabilitate, and rehome Shih Tzus who’ve been done some disservice during their lives. Whether they’ve been surrendered by their owner, left to fend for themself on the street (a great feat for a 10 pound dog), or put in any other circumstance not conducive to being a little Shih Tzu, STRMN will scoop them up, put them in a foster home, and invite people to come and adopt them so they may go to the aforementioned Valhalla of the cozy fireplace and its nearby carpet. Kristi Lehman is a lifelong Shih Tzu lover and STRMN volunteer who dedicates her time to her favorite breed’s welfare. “As small as they are, Shih Tzus defy the tiny dog stereotype,” explained Kristi. “They’re like big dogs in little bodies. They’re very curious and extroverted, and they’re reserved instead of snobby. They can be almost too smart for their own good at times, and have enormous personalities for such a small package.” “Shih Tzus can be a bit stubborn, but in an endearing way -it’s not like a dog who weighs as much as a bag of groceries can inconvenience you much, anyway,” Kristi continued. “But they still like to be the boss wherever they go. For instance, I give my Piper a snack at eight every day, to settle her stomach. Piper knows this, and no matter what’s going on or where we are at exactly eight she starts doing her characteristic Shih Tzu grumble at me until she’s gotten her snack.” “Shih Tzus are amazing lap dogs, and like nothing more than to be around you. If you’ve got a Shih Tzu, you’ve got a shadow. The tippy tap of Piper’s nails on the floor is like the soundtrack of my life.” “Believe it or not, Shih Tzus were bred to be watchdogs! I mean, you’d probably better not count on one as your last line of home defense, but whenever a Shih Tzu hears something out of the ordinary they’ll give you a couple of warning barks. They’ll then go back to being little lumps and let you take care of the rest.”
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shopdinelive.net “One of the things I love most about Shih Tzus is how adaptable they are. STRMN takes in dogs who’ve come from absolutely horrible situations. When they’re rescued they may be afraid of any number of things like men, children, other dogs, and even the outdoors. But with some love and encouragement, nearly all of them overcome their pasts and learn to enjoy life. You can’t beat a Shih Tzu’s spirit.”
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Ice holds a particular attraction for Minnesotans. They fish on it, play hockey on it, dance on it -- I’ve even seen some of them put it in their drinks. It’s not hard to understand the affinity, given that the entire state is enveloped in the stuff for nearly ten months out of the year. It’s only natural that we should have figured out everything fun that there is to do with ice. There used to be only two kinds of ice in downtown Minneapolis that you could go on: the ice on the river, which traversing is inadvisable because it’s on the river, and that on the streets which humbles even our most eminent professionals as it sends them flailing to the ground. The mpls downtown council didn’t think this would do, so they partnered with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and with Wells Fargo’s generous help they brought about the Wells Fargo Mpls WinterSkate, downtown’s own skating rink in the heart of Loring Park. Wells Fargo Mpls WinterSkate is totally free -- all you need to do to enjoy downtown ice skating is to go to the rink, and if you don’t feel like lugging your skates all the way from home or haven’t got a pair you can use one of the 300 complimentary pairs kept onsite. Just go into the warming house, which is kept balmy thanks to the contribution of
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Part of the beauty of Wells Fargo Mpls WinterSkate is that it doesn’t turn into WinterSwim when the temperature tips above 32. Because it’s the only
will ever feature a screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing, however, because the city condemns the use of flamethrowers under any and all circumstances.)
refrigerated skating rink in the park system, Mpls
Movie nights aren’t the extent of the Wells Fargo Mpls
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WinterSkate’s special events. They plan to offer free
around there. Note that the warming hut will close
lessons on certain days as well as fitness skates, mascot
when it’s 20 below, because the rink’s volunteers
skates, musical skates, and something fun to celebrate
thoroughly enjoy having the same number of fingers at
Hockey Day in Minnesota as well as.
the end of each day as they started with. WinterSkate is currently open and will remain so until The Wells Fargo Mpls WinterSkate opens at 12pm on
the beginning of March. Warming house hours are 3pm
Minneapolis Public School holidays so kids can make
through 9pm on Monday through Friday, 9am through
the most of their days off. They also host regular movie
9pm on Saturday, and 10am through 6pm on Sunday.
nights with ice-related flicks. In past years they’ve
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shown movies like Olympic romcom The Cutting
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MINNEAPOLIS BOULDERING PROJECT by David Scheller
The area I grew up in was absolutely inundated with swimming
sport so social -- you can watch people attempting a problem,
holes. One of these was under a bridge that had been built for
see what they do that works, try that for yourself, improve on it,
trains but repurposed for snowmobiles, about a 20 foot drop,
and together arrive at the best course of action to beat a wall.”
or 25 if you leapt from the rail. To get back to the bridge from the water took either a short swim to the shore or a perilous climb up its pier; I do not have to tell you which route 14 year old boys, who know that their spines are unsnappable, preferred.
What first struck me when I visited the Bouldering Project is that there are no ropes there. Each of the Bouldering Project’s members clambered around the towering walls’ outcroppings like bouncy vervet monkeys, with nothing to break their falls save for the thick, soft padding that spans the entire climbing area.
On my first attempt to climb the pier, I failed at the
Every now and then a loud floompf resonated to mark a climber’s
last push to get up there. As I dangled I considered
regrettable but painless failure to find their next handhold.
whether my spine might in fact be snappable after all, until P.J. Hicks pulled me up. He advised that I take the shore route next time. This gutted me, so I put tooth and nail into my next climb. I made it, and in doing so completed my first problem.
Although many of the routes to the top overlap, they are color coded to distinguish them from one another as well as to indicate their difficulty. This begins with yellow, problems surmountable by the least limber newcomer, to white, problems which would give even the friskiest mountain goat pause. I especially enjoyed
“A ‘problem’ is what we call the path a climber takes
the freeform wall, which has so many colorful lumpy grips
to complete a bouldering challenge,” explained
bolted to it that it looks like the underside of a table at a diner.
Sean Foster, resource manager of the Minneapolis
Rather than presenting you with an obvious course of action, it
Bouldering Project. “It’s part of what makes the
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E X P LO R E D OW N TOW N After only half an hour of swinging and scrambling up and down the inclined walls, I felt a cardio burn which I hadn’t experienced since my first varsity lacrosse practice, before which I’d stupidly washed down a big plate of spaghetti with two diet colas. There is little wonder why every other man and woman at the Bouldering Project look like their bodies were sculpted by Zeus. If you want to get buff, thumbing your nose at gravity is apparently the most direct path there. The Bouldering Project offers more than fast-paced climbing. They also have a full weight room with everything you could want to hoist, elliptical machines,
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HUGE IMPROV CLASS by David Scheller
I used to wait tables at a Buca di Beppo in Florida a hundred years ago. I had the tomato tie, the pocket protector, the hideous sneakers that wouldn't slip on wet tile floors, the whole nine yards. I worked there with a man named Mark, a big fella, affable, bags under his eyes, so sloppy that half his shirt was guaranteed dyed red from errant marinara by the end of every dinner shift. At a glance you’d expect Mark’s personal interests to be heavily dominated by the Miami Dolphins and beer, but instead Mark loved improv. “Life’s hard, Dave,” he told me once. “You never know what the hell it is you’re supposed to do around people. At least when you screw up at improv, you’re not going to wind up paying alimony.” I offered my girlfriend a slightly modified version of Mark’s explanation of improv in order to allay her anxiety that we might look silly at the class I’d signed us up for at HUGE Improv Theater.
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shopdinelive.net “And what,” I then asked her, “nobody else there
ate spaghetti and then went insane from not
of our brains at the same time, and to remain
is going to look silly, either?”
looking at the moon.
confident while speaking in public. The games
Although HUGE offers a great variety of improv
We next moved on to Rhinos Are Great, where
indeed by the finish the whole class stood a
classes, their single hour session looked like just
we took turns listing as many attributes as we
little taller for having spoken more nonsense in
the ticket for a couple of amateurs accustomed
could muster about the little rubber animals
an hour than polite society would have tolerated
only to making up things to say as life requires
we’d been handed. The rapid fire nature of this
of them in a lifetime.
of them. When we went we took an immediate
game has you hastily saying anything you can
liking to our instructor Jill Bernard, one of
think of so you can build up your tally, until
“I don’t think people hear ‘yes’ enough in their
HUGE’s founding members and an accomplished
you’re emphatically babbling reasons for rhinos’
lives,” Jill concluded. “Instead, we are always
comedienne. She spoke as though she were
greatness including that they wear matching
getting beaten down by no. Just to be reassured
perpetually on the verge of cracking up, pausing
socks and work at the post office. This was
that you can say anything, even if it is stupid,
only to crack up, and wore black Chuck Taylors
followed up by a game where we went around
and still be met by approval is something I
and the kind of glasses you’re awarded when you
in a circle, each successor responding to the
always find very comforting.”
get a theater degree. Jill assembled the dozen or
former’s proposition with a sentence beginning
so attendees in a circle and got us right to work.
with “Yes, and…” The group established that we
My girlfriend and I are to this day weaving one
certainly seemed suited to those ends, and
would buy 500 purses to donate to charity, but
word stories, and together so far have spun yarns
We first played Yay, Boo, where we took turns
only after my girlfriend had picked the best of
about bears contracting the bubonic plague and
saying something, anything, which the rest of
them out for herself.
Garfield the cat running for governor. I believe
the class would alternately yay or boo. I was
even a single improv class at HUGE would make
yayed when I said that I laughed at the end
As Jill explained to us, these games were not
for an excellent date, family bonding night, or
of Old Yeller; I was booed for declaring that
designed just to make us look silly. They were
corporate team building exercise. An entire
America had faked the moon landing. We then
also meant to teach us to summon emotion and
course in improv would likely turn you into a
moved on to the Shatner Game, where partners
enthusiasm even under the stress of reaching
social giant. To learn more about how HUGE
took turns saying one word at a time to tell a
frantically for something to say, to abandon
can change the way you think on the spot, visit
story. We concocted a parable about a dog who
rigidity in favor of intimacy, to work both halves
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Julie Ann seeing to it that only the most aesthetic blacklight posters should grace her bedroom.
“Even the smallest changes you make to your home can improve the flow of chi there.” When Julie Ann’s new roommate in freshman year of college moved in with decorations that upstaged her posters and bedding, her mother took her on a small shopping trip to help her to level the playing field. Over lunch afterward they discussed Julie Ann’s long-standing flair for decorating, and that there is far more to the practice than simply rearranging furniture. Something clicked for Julie Ann then. She understood just how dearly she loved design, so switched majors from business to interior design through the art department and set about learning just what makes space beautiful. “I had always understood that our living space impacts us,” explained Julie Ann, now the president of Metro Interiors. “Shortly after I began working in the field of interior design, one of my biggest revelations was that there is already a whole philosophy behind that notion: feng shui, an ancient Chinese art which holds that there is a universal energy, or chi, which is all around us. Depending on how you design your home and arrange its furnishings you can channel chi to improve your life in profoundly positive ways. I help my clients to engage this chi not only so they may have genuinely beautiful places to live in, but also to reap benefits from the universe around them. “Even the smallest changes you make to your home can improve the flow of chi there. For example, keeping your possessions in good repair will remove a great deal of frustration out of your life which would have otherwise carried over into other aspects of it. Your front door should be a different color from everything else in your house, because that draws in greater chi -- I recommend red, a color that nourishes love. Sharp angles, known as poison arrows, can hinder the flow of energy throughout your home, so you should consider the contours you’re creating whenever you rearrange your furniture.
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shopdinelive.net “Feng shui is an incredibly deep theory. It revolves around a map called the bagua, the nine areas of which each correspond to a different part of your life. Whether you would pursue fame, love, creativity, knowledge, or some other path to happiness, feng shui provides color schemes and underpinning layouts for your home that will help you along it. Although its philosophy is invaluable to her work, feng shui is hardly the limit of Julie Ann’s expertise when it comes to beautifying her clients’ living spaces. As an interior designer she is an artist in full, and can design entire rooms in drawing so that she may convey her visions for space before proceeding to the next phase. Her Metro Interiors also provides all the materials needed to bring her concepts to fruition including furniture, lighting, flooring, and window treatments, as well as the contractors needed to install them.
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The Loop
by David Scheller
You never know when you’re going to have an aha moment. Salt Lake City
impossible to have a frown on your face. Nearly no one has played it
mechanic and tinkerer Stan Mangum had his in 1962 while watching his
before, either, at least not enough to get good at it. That means when you
son driving a golf cart and whacking a can around with a stick. While
play WhirlyBall, it’s always on a level playing field -- no one can dominate
a less enlightened man might have thought nothing of this spectacle,
like they would if they went bowling or golfing, and physical strength and
Stan envisioned a sport to surpass any other that had invented before --
speed are irrelevant.”
WhirlyBall, a sort of mechanized polo with shades of jai alai, lacrosse, and basketball thrown in for good measure.
When you play WhirlyBall, you’re issued your own little electric bumper car which you steer with a crank. In a feat of pure engineering genius, the
Minnesota’s own Nick Lambrecht had his own epiphany courtesy of
cart has no brakes -- you’ve the option to either decelerate to a graceful
WhirlyBall. It was during his third time playing the unconventional sport
stop, or careen into a wall or another player for a similar albeit it more
in Chicago that he realized he must quit his job as a corporate lawyer and
jarring and satisfying result. You also receive a scoop for passing, catching,
open up his own arena. This at the very least evinces that WhirlyBall is more
and shooting the grapefruit-sized wiffle ball toward a backboard at either
fun than practicing corporate law, but that really doesn’t do it justice.
end of the 80 foot arena. Teams can be as great as five, but may be smaller.
“The bottom line with WhirlyBall,” Nick explained, “Is that it’s so much
Its terms beg an important question about WhirlyBall: Just how safe
fun. When you’re out there zipping around on the arena, steering your
is the absurd sport? “Very,” answered Nick. “The floor is electrified
car while at the same time trying to score a point for your team, it’s just
to power the cars, but its voltage is so low that you could sleep on it.
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shopdinelive.net I am a huge video game nerd. The affliction began when my grandma gave me a Game Boy with the officially licensed Home Alone game for Christmas in 1993. Navigating a tiny, digital Macaulay Culkin around a labyrinthe while desperately trying to prevent a tiny, digital Joe Pesci from breaking his neck was the most fun I’d ever had, and I can still hear the game’s 20 second loop of jangly music playing in my head whether I would like to or not. I’d go on to get more advanced machines, ones capable of displaying a spectrum greater than four shades of green (old Game Boy games look like ants swarming beneath a layer of creamed spinach), which gobbled up plenty of my childhood. Unfortunately I’ve now got a lot of responsibilities, and like some kind of loser I have to do things like work and cook dinner and call my mother on Mother’s Day instead of playing video games by David Scheller
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shopdinelive.net When I heard about Voxel Virtual Reality Parlour, my affinity for video
where I was placed behind the counter of a cheerful convenience store
games meant that nothing would do until I saw it for myself. I met there
while people came in to buy things. There were instructions on just what
with Jeff Trinh-Sy, one of the place’s owners, who showed me to my bay and
I was meant to be doing there, but the objective was quickly muddied
gave me a cursory overview of the equipment: one big set of goggles that
when I discovered the stash of Roman candles at my feet. This was the
look like a prop from an episode of Black Mirror, and two controllers for
most enjoyable virtual reality experience I had -- pretending to be a
manipulating artificial environments. With very little explanation I was in.
misanthropic store clerk, shooting fireworks and throwing bananas at
I found myself on the rampart of a colorful castle, with a bow in reach and
anyone who had poor enough judgement to come into my shop.
a horde of silhouettes readying an invasion. I grabbed the bow, nocked an
Jeff had to close up for the evening or I’d still be there trying out more of
arrow while the controller vibrated to convey a feeling of tension, and sent it
his 30 available games. He told me about how rapidly Voxel is growing, that
flying into an unfortunate barbarian’s haunches. I discovered that the torch
they’d started in St. Paul in 2016, opened another location in Minnetonka
next to me was meant to create fire arrows, and before long I was reigning
last year, and that the third’s creation looks fairly inevitable. He also
hot death down on the relentless marauders. This proved excruciatingly fun.
explained that it’s not just children and man-children like me who are
Next I played Space Pirate Trainer, where my controllers turned into glowing pistols. (We’ll know it’s officially the future when everything glows.) I stood high up on a pedestal while little flying robots tried to kill
drawn to Voxel -- that its accessibility and novelty has made it popular as a corporate team building exercise and for birthday excursions for celebrants of all ages as well.
me. Afterward came Super Hot, in which faceless assailants tried to kill
The equipment needed for virtual reality is still fantastically pricey, so
me but only while I was moving. I flicked bullets out of the air with the tip
you’re unlikely to see it anywhere but at Voxel for quite a while. The social
of a knife, and brutalized one poor fellow by throwing a hammer into his
experience the place offers is reminiscent of an old fashioned arcade, too,
chest. These are not things which I usually get to do.
with people gathering around to watch what you’re flailing your arms
I played a three dimensional painting game, a rhythm game with lightsabers, and then another where I followed a robotic Boston Terrier around the peak of a beautiful mountain. Finally I played Job Simulator,
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MUSIC & EVENTS JAN 1
Epiphany Concerts 2019
NEW YEARS DAY
3:00pm-4:30pm, Chapel of St. Mary at the St. Paul Semminary, Saint Paul
JAN 3
Minnesota Boychoir Concert
Star Wars In Concert 7:30pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
JAN 4 Star Wars in Concert
1:00pm, Landmark Center, Saint Paul
JAN 6 - FEB 28 Ice Castlesa Various Times
JAN 12 Free Family-Friendly Classical Concert Feat Violinist Ilya Kaler 7:30pm, Temple of Aaron, Saint Paul
Rosy Simas Danse Presents Weave
TBD, Preston Servicemen's Club
Urban Expedition
8am-5pm, Saint Paul RiverCentre, Saint Paul
Vijay Iyer, Jennifer Koh Violin, and Tyshawn Sorey
JAN 15 - FEB 24
JAN 5
7:00pm, Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Jennifer Koh: Limitless with Tyshawn Sorey And Vijay Iyer
Various Times, Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis
7:30pm-9:00pm, Chapel of St. Mary at the St. Paul Semminary, Saint Paul
Classic Albums Live Presents Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Saint Paul
JAN 6 Star Wars In Concert 2:00pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
7:30pm, Amsterdam Bar & Hall, Saint Paul
JAN 10 Vanska Conducts Barber, Copland and Shaw 11:00am, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
JAN 11 Vanska Conducts Barber, Copland and Shaw 8:00pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
Space Balls Shadowcast
JAN 13
Land O'lakes Dog Show
Epiphany Concerts 2019
JAN 19 7:00pm, Minnsky Theatre, Minneapolis
JAN 9
7:30pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Saint Paul
7:30pm, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
Star Wars In Concert
Vanska Conducts Future Classics: Emerging Composers Spotlight
1:00pm-3:00pm, Landmark Center, Saint Paul
JAN 17 Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with Pekka Kuusisto 7:30pm, Temple Israel, Minneapolis
JAN 18 Young People's: Future Classics For Secondary Students 10:00am, Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis
Bowls And Brews Chili Cook-Off Snowshoe, Sip, and Stay 6:00pm-9:00pm, The Outing Lodge at Pine Point Park, Stillwater
JAN 22 On Your Feet Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
JAN 23 On Your Feet Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
JAN 24 On Your Feet Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
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Berlin: Zvizdal [Chernobyl, So Far - So Close] 8:00pm, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
MN Opera "The Italian Straw Hat"
Eric Church
8:00pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
8:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
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FEB 3
On Your Feet
SUPER BOWL Polo Scott Presents X Ahmil: Ladies Night
Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
JAN 26 On Your Feet Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
Berlin: Zvizdal [Chernobyl, So Far - So Close] 7:00pm & 9:30pm, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Trevor Noah 8:00pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Young Dolph - The Role Model Tour 7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Jim Gaffigan - Quality Time Tour 7:00pm & 9:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
10:30pm, Monarch, Minneapolis
Monarch Saturdays w/ Special Guest
Yoga Flow at Utepils Brewery
11:00pm, Monarch, Minneapolis
11:00am, Utepils Brewing, Minneapolis
Rock from the Heart featuring Night Ranger
Purdue Boilermakers at Minnesota Golden Gophers Wrestling 1:00pm, University Sports Pavilion, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis
Valentine's Day TC 5K 10:00am, Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis
Guster & Henry Jamison
JAN 27
Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Minnesota Golden Gophers Women's Basketbal
On Your Feet
3:00pm, Williams Arena, Minneapolis
Cory Wong
Various Times, Historic Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
FEB 4
Valentine's Day
Introduction to Ballroom and Latin
FEB 1
7:00pm, Cinema Ballroom, St. Paul
Church Basement Ladies In You Smell Barn
Progressive Nightclub
9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis 8:00pm, Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis TC 5K 10:00am, Lake Nokomis, Minneapolis
Indiana Hoosiers at Minnesota Golden Gophers Wrestling 1:00pm, University Sports Pavilion, Minneapolis
FEB 19 Anglique Kidjo 7:30pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
Falsettos 7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
FEB 20 Mother Mother 8:00pm, 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis
2Cellos 8:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
FEB 21 Elton John 8:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
Adrianne Lenker, Luke Temple
FEB 10
7:30pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Cinema Ballroom, St. Paul
Northwestern Wildcats at Minnesota Golden Gophers Women's Basketball
FEB 22
FEB 5
1:00pm, Williams Arena, Minneapolis
ONE OK ROCK - Eye Of The Storm North America Tour
7:30pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
Interpol 7:30pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
FEB 12
6:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Dillon Francis X Alison Wonderland: Lost My Mind Tour
7:30pm, Burnsville Performing Arts Center
Disturbed & Three Days Grace
9:00pm, The Armory, Minneapolis
Devil Makes Three
Dancing with the Stars: Live! 7:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
FEB 6
Hamilton
Bring Me the Horizon
8:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
7:00pm, The Armory, Minneapolis
Michigan Wolverines at Minnesota Golden Gophers Mens Hockey
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox 7:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Rainbow Kitten Surprise 8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Minnesota Golden Gophers Mens Hockey
FEB 14
8:00pm, Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
VALENTINE'S DAY The Best Valentine Mix-Tape Ever Made
FEB 23
7:00pm, Turf Club, St. Paul
8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
Valentine's Day Party Various Times, Loring Park, Minneapolis
Grand Funk Railroad Beirut 8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
7:00pm, Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
Yoga and Cocktails
Tesla
5:30pm, Tattersall Distilling, Minneapolis
FEB 15
Magic Giant
FEB 7
Indigo Girls
Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Minnesota Golden Gophers Mens Hockey
8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure 9:00am, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis
FEB 2 GROUNDHOG DAY Indeed Brewing Company BreweryTour
Jim Gaffigan - Quality Time Tour 7:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
The Price is Right Live! 8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
Polo Scott X Chip & Royal Presents: Playhouse Thursday's!
11:30am, Indeed Brewing Company and Taproom, Minneapolis
10:30pm, PYRMD, Minneapolis
Jesse McCartney - The Resolution Tour
8:00pm, 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis
7:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Nate Bargatze 7:00pm, Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis
Vic Ferrari
Chrome Sparks
6:30pm, Sacred Place, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
Eric Church
Nate Bargatze
8:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis
Corrosion of Conformity
Dylan Scott: Nothing To Do Town Tour
8:00pm, Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis
Buddy Guy & Mavis Staples: The Blues is Alive and Well Tour
Mandolin Orange 9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
Valentine's Day Party
Kelly Clarkson 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
August Burns Red
8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
Living Room Acoustic Showcase 7:30-9:30pm, Anahata Collaborative, Minneapolis
Young The Giant 7:30pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Action Bronson 8:30pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Cabooze, Minneapolis
FEB 28
Monster Jam
Ella Mai
7:00pm, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis
Sharon Van Etten
8:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
MAR 1
9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
FEB 17
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY
FEB 9
Candle Light Yoga
8:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis
Cherub
Yoga with Liza Docken 10:00am, Eastside Food Cooperative, Minneapolis
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FEB 24
7:30pm, University Sports Pavilion, Minneapolis
FEB 16
Crystal Grid Experience
4:30pm, Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
Maryland Terrapins at Minnesota Gophers Gymnastics
PAW Patrol Live! The Great Pirate Adventure
Michigan Wolverines at Minnesota Golden Gophers Mens Hockey
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8:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
Various Times, Loring Park, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Ames Center, Burnsville
8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Valentine's Day Comedy Jam
FEB 8
6:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Kacey Musgraves
8:00pm, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis
6:00pm, Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul
Excision 8:00pm, The Armory, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Tattersall Distilling, Minneapolis
Josh Turner 8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
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Julia Holter
The Cat Empire 7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
MAR 12
9:00pm, Turf Club, St. Paul
Nina Nesbitt - The Sun Will Come Up North American Tour
MAR 2
6:00pm, Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul
Led Zeppelin 2
MAR 13
8:30pm, Medina Entertainment Center
Mariah Carey
Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Arizona State Sun Devils
8:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis
MAR 14
Nothing More 6:30pm, Skyway Theatre, Minneapolis
Las Cafeteras 8:00pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
Pittsburgh Panthers at Minnesota Gophers Gymnastics 4:00pm, University Sports Pavilion, Minneapolis
The SteelDrivers, Nickel & Rose 8:00pm, The Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul
MAR 3 Cannibal Corpse with Morbid Angel 6:00pm, Skyway Theatre, Minneapolis
Demetri Martin - Wandering Mind Tour 8:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Andrew McMahon 7:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
Michigan State Spartans at Minnesota Golden Gophers Women's Basketball
The Monkees 8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
The Infamous Stringdusters w/ John Craigie 7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Max Frost 7:00pm, 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis
MAR 21 Cherish the Ladies 7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
Quinn XCII
Amos Le
Justin Willman 7:30pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Dan and Shay & Morgan Evans 7:30pm, The Armory, Minneapolis
NCHC College Hockey Frozen Faceoff 3:30pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
MAR 16 Queensryche & Fates Warning 8:00pm, Medina Entertainment Center
Paul Reiser 8:00pm, Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis 7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul 3:30pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Stephen Kellogg 8:00pm, Turf Club, St. Paul
St. Paul and The Broken Bones 8:30pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Boiled In Lead 8:00pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
MAR 24 Massive Attack 8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Minnesota Opera - The Fix
8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
Kiss
7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
MAR 25
8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Teenage Fanclub 7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
MAR 5
Cyrano De Bergerac 7:30pm, Guthrie Theater (McGuire Proscenium Stage), Minneapolis
MAR 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Robyn
MAR 18
7:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Michael Bubl
MAR 6 Disney's DCappella 7:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Jacob Banks 8:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
MAR 8
8:00pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
MAR 19
8:00pm, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake
James Bay
Aziz Ansari 10:30pm, Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis
MAR 11 Shinedown 7:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
8:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
The Noise Presents: Cradle of Filth: Cryptoriana World Tour 6:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Big Wild
8:00pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
Nebraska Corn Huskers at Minnesota Golden Gophers Baseball 1:00pm, Siebert Field, Minneapolis
MAR 30 Weezer & Pixies 7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Tommy Castro Band with The Painkillers 8:00pm, Medina Entertainment Center
Bob Mould 8:30pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
Harlem Globetrotters 2:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
Minnesota RollerGirls 7:00pm, Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul
Nebraska Corn Huskers at Minnesota Golden Gophers Baseball 1:00pm, Siebert Field, Minneapolis
Lennon Stella 7:00pm, Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis
MAR 31 Bert Kreischer: The Body Shots Tour
Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play Tour
Bob Mould
7:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
One Night Of Queen 8:00pm, Ames Theatre, Burnsville
Superorganism 7:00pm, 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis
7:15pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
7:00pm, Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis 8:30pm, Turf Club, St. Paul
Harlem Globetrotters 2:00pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
Boyz II Men 7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
Nebraska Corn Huskers at Minnesota Golden Gophers Baseball 1:00pm, Siebert Field, Minneapolis
Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play Tour 7:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
Legally Blonde (Touring) 7:30pm, Burnsville Performing Arts Center
Haelos 8;00pm, Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis
The Moth StorySLAM 6:30pm, Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul
8:30pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
MAR 28
Cradle of Filth
Legally Blonde (Touring)
7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Jess Glynne
MAR 26
Switchfoot - The Native Tongue Tour
7:30pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
8:00pm, Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
7:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
MAR 27
MAR 20
6:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats
PJ Masks Live! Save The Day
Cheap Trick Matt Nathanson
Patti LaBelle
6:00pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
Asgeir
National Geographic: Symphony For Our World
Hayes Carll
7:00pm, Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
MAR 4
James Blake
8:00pm, Palace Theatre, St. Paul
A Boogie Wit da Hoodie
Bronze Radio Return Tour
7:30pm, Target Center, Minneapolis
Jenny Lewis
9:00pm, First Avenue, Minneapolis
1:00pm, Williams Arena, Minneapolis
8:00pm-11:30pm, Turf Club, St. Paul
7:30pm, State Theatre, Minneapolis
MAR 23
NCHC College Hockey Frozen Faceoff
WET x Kilo Kish
7:30pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
MAR 29
Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, The Bellamy Brothers, John Anderson & Trace Adkins
8:00pm, The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis
Newpoli
MAR 22
MAR 15
March Fourth Marching Band
7:30pm, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul
8:00pm, Myth, St. Paul
Classic Albums Live - Abbey Road
7:00pm, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Dream Theater
7:30pm, Burnsville Performing Arts Center
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