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Minnesota - Brindley Maybe I’ll move to Minnesota Spend some...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:03:41 -0500

Minnesota - Brindley

Maybe I’ll move to Minnesota
Spend some time on those rivers and lakes
Maybe I’ll move to Minnesota
Cuz I’ve had about all I can take
Every night I’m worn-out and wasted
Every day starts to seem the same
Maybe I’ll move to Minnesota
Where nobody knows my name

10-year-old Conger resident enjoying being Milk Maid | Albert Lea Tribune

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:21:26 -0500

10-year-old Conger resident enjoying being Milk Maid | Albert Lea Tribune:

altrib:

June is National Dairy Month.

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In an effort to keep you guys up to date on local accounts, you should know that the Albert Lea Tribune is now on tumblr. Show some love to this southern Minnesota city at the crossroads of Interstates 90 & 35!

Looking west along Nicollet Avenue from Twelfth Street South,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:35:02 -0500

Looking west along Nicollet Avenue from Twelfth Street South, Minneapolis. (1939) via Minnesota Historical Society

Members of Hold Steady, Spoon Bring Minneapolis to Manhattan...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:44 -0500

Members of Hold Steady, Spoon Bring Minneapolis to Manhattan Avenue

What do a bunch of band dudes from the Midwest, who now live in Greenpoint, do when not making music together? Easy: they open a bar. Bobby Drake (The Hold Steady, w/o.), Frank Bevan (w/o.), Rob Pope (Spoon), Eric Odness (The Wanted, Primitive Weapons) named Lake Street after a major thoroughfare in Minneapolis, and they want it to be reminiscent of the bars they used to hang out at back home – “kind of old-man divey but cool bars, you know, where they could be sketchy, but not really,” Drake told Bedford + Bowery during a chat at the nearly finished space at 706 Manhattan Avenue, near Norman.

“We kind of just tried to build the bar we want to hang out in,” said Bevan.

To that end, there will be Midwestern beers (natch), hot dogs, brats, and five TVs. “It’s definitely not a sports bar,” said Bevan, “but we will curate [games] a little bit so that it represents where we’re from.”

The room contains design touches like church pews for seating and a bar top made from an old bowling lane, but Bevan knows he and his partners aren’t reinventing the wheel. “We’re musicians and we’re from the Midwest,” he said. “Are we that different [from other bars]? Slightly because of that, but not wholly. People have done all this shit before.”

via Bedford + Bowery

Achin’ to be Understood - Paul Westerberg With my friends, I...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:33:36 -0500

Achin’ to be Understood - Paul Westerberg

With my friends, I always felt a little out of place. I like sports and stuff, but I never quite. … [trails off] Everybody I knew liked to go swimming and fishing and hunting and to football games. I didn’t fit that. I never remember feeling truly comfortable with any of my friends. There was stuff I wanted to tell them that they would laugh at when I tried to explain it. They’d say, ‘Guys don’t talk that way.’ And I was afraid of girls, which is another thing guys aren’t supposed to talk about. So I wrote songs instead.

via New York Times

What are some of your favorite comedy clubs around town?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:59:00 -0500

I have not been to a comedy club in the Twin Cities in years. Don’t get me wrong, I like to laugh, just haven’t gone to a club in a long time. But here are three clubs I know people can go to…

Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy at Mall of America
http://www.houseofcomedy.net/

Comedy Corner Underground on 15th & Washington
http://www.comedycornerunderground.com/

And of course, the (Dudley Riggs) Brave New Workshop on 8th & Hennepin
http://www.bravenewworkshop.com/

How far back do you go with your information about Minneapolis. Are you from Minneapolis or why did the area interest you enough to want to write about it. Have you consulted with any producers/directors regarding any movies that have been made in the Twin Cities area?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:17:00 -0500

Whoa, lots of question there, we’ll start with the first one…
#1 I actually collect old Minneapolis “artifacts” (postcards/hotel keys/newspapers/etc) and have done so for almost ten years. I have some items that date back to the mid 1800’s.
#2 I was born and raised in northeast Minneapolis, although I grew up in “Nordeast” when it was the lower middle class, industrial, white trash part of the city, not the cool/hip place that it is now.
#2 (part two) I started this blog to share my old “stuff” about Minneapolis (see what I did there?) and while I still do that, this tumblr has also become a cheerleader for the Twin Cities, which is something our Midwest sensibilities wouldn’t let us do in the past, lest we seem to prideful.
#3 No. I have not contacted any producers/directors regarding movies made in the area.

can you lock a bike on anything like a tree, pole, etc or does it need to be on a bike rack?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:26:00 -0500

This is from the city of Minneapolis website…
In Minneapolis, you can lock your bike to racks and street poles. Do not lock your bike anywhere else (i.e. street lamps, garbage cans, trees, benches, hand railings). If a bike is locked illegally, the City has the right to place a warning on the bicycle for 24 hours and then impound the bicycle.

Wait a minute -- go to the 1938 skyline you posted. What is that Washington Monument looking thing on the left?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:19:00 -0500

Catching up on “Asks” tonight, pretty sure you are asking about this post. That would be the Foshay Tower, which was built in 1929, and was modeled after the Washington Monument.

Meet the New Vegas: The 10 Most Sinful Cities in America Move...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:37:00 -0500

Meet the New Vegas: The 10 Most Sinful Cities in America

Move over, Las Vegas, NV—there’s a new capital of sin in America. Oh, you’re still pretty bad, but it turns out that St. Louis, MO has you beat when it comes to the big seven: Pride, lust, greed, wrath, envy, gluttony, and sloth.

So, in order to make this ranking, we had to translate the sins into some criteria that makes sense for modern city living. That’s how we came up with the seven we ended up using:

Strip clubs per capita (Lust)
Cosmetic surgeons per capita (Pride)
Violent crime per year per 1,000 residents (Wrath)
Theft per year per 1,000 residents (Envy)
Percentage of disposable income given to charity each year (Greed)
Percentage of obese residents (Gluttony)
Percentage of physically inactive residents (Sloth)

We’ve already told you which one claimed the tarnished crown; here’s the full list of the 10 most sinful cities in America:

1. St. Louis, MO
2. Orlando, FL
3. Minneapolis, MN
This city ranked in the top 10 for adult entertainment, aka lust. Something tells us that doesn’t mean karaoke.
4. Pittsburgh, PA
5. Milwaukee, WI
6. Cincinnati, OH
7. Miami, FL
8. Buffalo, NY
9. Detroit, MI
10. Las Vegas, NV

via Movoto

(the handsome guy with the mullet is Jake Nyberg of Three Volts)

Minnesota Girls On A Car (1980) image scanned by me from the...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:48:59 -0500

Minnesota Girls On A Car (1980)

image scanned by me from the booklet “Minnesota Youth Poll”

BREAKING NEWS: REPLACEMENTS REUNION CONCERTS CONFIRMED Here you...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:15:06 -0500

BREAKING NEWS: REPLACEMENTS REUNION CONCERTS CONFIRMED

Here you go Riot Festonians, we are honored, excited and all together amazed to announce that THE REPLACEMENTS are headlining RIOT FEST Chicago, Denver and Toronto. Seriously guys, THE REPLACEMENTS. I’m going to do a shot, cry a little, and get ready for a ridiculous summer.

via Riot Fest Facebook page.
hat tip to Chris Steller

Replacements to reunite in Chicago? The Replacements’...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:29:55 -0500

Replacements to reunite in Chicago?

The Replacements’ legendarily calamitous decade-long run ended July 4, 1991, at an unceremonious outdoor gig in Chicago. Could that also be where and how remaining members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson go about playing their first-ever reunion gig in 2013?

There are currently strong hints of a ‘Mats reunion blowing out of the Windy City centered around Riot Fest, and they’re blowing harder following this cryptic tweet sent out this afternoon — but deleted a couple hours later — via the @RiotFest account:

“holy. [expletive]. We’re getting the band back together. #riotfest”

There are other indicators that make the Chicago rumors more believable, including the fact that — by all accounts — Westerberg and Stinson both had a blast making the “Songs for Slim” tribute EP for former bandmate Slim Dunlap late last year, and it’s still a good/necessary cause for them to promote with a gig. Original drummer Chris Mars also gave a song for the EP but has always talked as if he’s permanently out of the band.

Scheduled Sept. 13-15 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park, Riot Fest has been advertising a mystery slot since its lineup was issued a month ago (“?????” on the posters). Internet and social media chatter predictably pointed to the Replacements, among others. Unpredictably, though, reliable sources are not ruling out the rumors that it’s them.

via vita.mn, image via last.fm

gay90s: #Eggs n #Drag every 2nd Sunday of the month! July 14th!...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:46:00 -0500

gay90s:

#Eggs n #Drag every 2nd Sunday of the month! July 14th! #Dragalicious! #AllYouCanEat Breakfast Buffet! $10 Bottomless #Mimosa! #Gay90s #twincities #mn #mpls #breakfast

So, apparently the Gay 90’s has been on tumblr about ten months.

mplscollective: Everything’s waiting for you in the Downtown...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:38:46 -0500

mplscollective:

Everything’s waiting for you in the Downtown issue of MPLSzine.

Cover by Joshua Wilichowski.

Explore back issues of MPLSzine here:

firstavenuempls: While Astronautalis and Sims are here to...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:37:50 -0500

firstavenuempls:

While Astronautalis and Sims are here to takeover the Mainroom on Friday they’re also going to be taking over our Instagram!

Follow our Instagram account for some sweet behind the scene pics.

Oda To Minnesota - Jack Pearson

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:06:23 -0500

Oda To Minnesota - Jack Pearson

nothingpitch: View from Semple Mansion Kitchen (2) #mpls...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:14:05 -0500

nothingpitch:

View from Semple Mansion Kitchen (2) #mpls #franklin #skyline #downtown #minneapolis #city #home #sky #nofilter (at Semple Mansion)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You via EMI Music The Dandy...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:04:21 -0500

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You via EMI Music

The Dandy Warhols play the mainroom tonight at First Avenue.

Big In Minnesota Why has the Twin Cities become the biggest...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:56:25 -0500

Big In Minnesota

Why has the Twin Cities become the biggest market for Dawes, Brandi Carlile, Eric Hutchinson and JD McPherson?

Outsiders have an impression of the Twin Cities as some kind of magical music mecca.

Wes Kidd, who manages McPherson, the Old 97’s and Minneapolis’ own Soul Asylum, thinks the Twin Cities breaks new artists because the market has “two of the more fiercely independent vehicles for exposure — the Current and First Avenue. They’re entrenched and trusted.”

“You’re freakish in a good way,” said manager Kidd, referring to the likes of Hüsker Dü, Prince, Bob Dylan, Atmosphere and Dessa — and the long winters, too. “There’s a different edge to the town.”

McPherson grew up loving the Replacements, seduced by the photo on the cover of their “Let It Be” album.

“Minneapolis has a strong history of nurturing and producing great bands that aren’t on people’s radar,” he said. “How many cool underground bands came from Minneapolis? I have a romanticized view of the city, like when English bands go to Graceland and Stax Museum when they’re in Memphis. Minneapolis is cool. Minneapolis has cool shops. At First Avenue, you feel the presence of Prince. That’s a huge deal.

“Minneapolis feels like a city where people are into music. They buy records. They have excellent taste. Minneapolis has a singular vibe to it.”

via StarTribune