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November 2019
Transit of Mercury at The Bell Museum
Mercury will be crossing between the Sun and our own little Earth and there will be no better place to catch the interplanetary action than the Bell Museum, which will already be in the middle of their statewide viewing party. The natural history museum’s astronomy team will have telescopes set up with solar filters for safe Sun viewing during the five-hour transit (yeah, Mercury has a ways to travel). Secrets Select Secrets of the City is your essential digest for…
Find out more »Sound Unseen
Named “One of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals In The World” the Sound Unseen film festival features movies about music connects with movie and music buffs. The programmers often bring in films to premiere in Minnesota months before they hit rotation in other theaters—this year includes docs on PJ Harvey, MShannon Hoon of Blind Melon, the Dayton, Ohio, underground scene, and more—and the parties are just as good at the flicks. Multiple screenings across various times and dates. Click here…
Find out more »Game Night at Surly Pizza Upstairs
Surly Pizza Upstairs hosts a game night every Wednesday. From 4pm–10pm, guests can bring their friends to Surly, grab a seat, a game, and a sweet menu deal for your crew. Settle Catan, sink battleships, and pursue trivia in the comfort of our pizza space. Sweet Deal: $40 for a pitcher of beer, a pizza, an appetizer or salad and dessert.
Find out more »Trivia Thursdays @Urban Forage
All original questions, written and researched by Jeff and Luke, with help from Jeff and Gita’s kids. Topics include the books of JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien, Minnesota history, Broadway musicals, "The Simpsons" and "Friends."
Find out more »Susannah Cahalan presents The Great Pretender
Susannah Cahalan’s new captivating book “The Great Pretender” recounts the tale of a 1970s experiment in which a Stanford University psychologist and seven other sane people committed themselves to asylums. All finally emerged—but with alarming diagnoses and troubling stories of their treatment. Cahalan will share her investigation of the story, including new never-reported material and information, as well as personal experience from her previous best selling book “Brain on Fire,” in which she shares her own misdiagnoses of a serious…
Find out more »Hit the Wall by Ike Holter
A part of The Southern Theater’s Amplify series, Hit the Wall “remixes” the myth of the Stonewall Riots through 10 unlikely revolutionaries, who were caught in the turmoil but now fight to claim their own places in the now mythic night of confrontation and its legacy. Multiple performances across various times and dates. Click here for more information. Secrets Select Secrets of the City is your essential digest for Twin Cities arts and culture events. Subscribe to the newsletter today.
Find out more »The Beer Dabbler Pavilion at the Star Tribune Vacation and Travel Experience
Sample beers from breweries across America November 16-17 at the Minneapolis Convention Center! Get your tickets now to the Beer Dabbler Pavilion and taste a wide variety of amazing beers from breweries across America while taking advantage of the best travel deals available this year. Advanced Tickets are $35 and include: 18 beer samples along with a beer sampler glass (you may enter as many times as you wish during pavilion hours). Admission to the Star Tribune Vacation & Travel Experience…
Find out more »ONE Fermentary & Taproom Grand Opening
Please join us on Saturday for our grand opening celebration! We are excited to share our this space with you. Come enjoy our fresh, house-made craft beers, and our carefully curated list of tap cocktails, wine, and guest beers.
Find out more »Fulton Brewjitsu
Like a Fight Club that practitioners are free to talk about, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu community overlaps with the craft beer scene enough that Fulton has an entire event in their space complete with Fulton logos on the mats! Stop by their headquarters to watch a raucous night of super fights or if you roll yourself a seminar with Xande Ribeiro, a true international legend of the sport. Secrets Select Secrets of the City is your essential digest for Twin Cities…
Find out more »A Trip Around the Sun: 5 Years of Cheers at Insight Brewing
One score and five years ago we opened our brewery, and we kinda feel like celebrating. We’ve even settled on a theme: Our 5th Annual Trip Around the Sun. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to get us a paper gift.) In return for celebrating five years of cheers, you’ll enjoy live music in an outdoor heated tent, spectacular food, a deep list of taps and, of course, the annual bottle release of Gravity Well Imperial Stout. Gravity Well Bottles (750ml)…
Find out more »Nato Coles & The Blue Diamond Band “Flyover” Album Release Party
Like a local Bruce Springsteen tromping around Northeast Minneapolis instead of Asbury Park, hometown musical hero Nato Coles writes heartfelt and hook-filled rock songs delivered with a passion and conviction only rivaled by the Boss himself. That’s why there are high expectations for Nato’s newest album “Flyover,” which will debut to a packed party full of new and long-time fans at The Hook & Ladder. The similarly raucous Butcher’s Union and Lutheran Heat open. Secrets Select Secrets of the City…
Find out more »The Beer Dabbler Pavilion at the Star Tribune Vacation and Travel Experience
Sample beers from breweries across America November 16-17 at the Minneapolis Convention Center! Get your tickets now to the Beer Dabbler Pavilion and taste a wide variety of amazing beers from breweries across America while taking advantage of the best travel deals available this year. Advanced Tickets are $35 and include: 18 beer samples along with a beer sampler glass (you may enter as many times as you wish during pavilion hours). Admission to the Star Tribune Vacation & Travel Experience…
Find out more »The Beer Dabbler Pavilion at the Star Tribune Vacation and Travel Experience
Sample beers from breweries across America November 16-17 at the Minneapolis Convention Center! Get your tickets now to the Beer Dabbler Pavilion and taste a wide variety of amazing beers from breweries across America while taking advantage of the best travel deals available this year. Advanced Tickets are $35 and include: 18 beer samples along with a beer sampler glass (you may enter as many times as you wish during pavilion hours). Admission to the Star Tribune Vacation & Travel Experience…
Find out more »King Diamond with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats + Idle Hands
Several heavy metal acts have endured as much as King Diamond but few have had the same unshakeable commitment to a solid schtick—in King Diamond’s case, the early combo of white face paint, upside-down crosses, and unforgettable falsetto from his days in Mercyful Fate. His legacy continues not just among metal heads, but beer fans as well—Surly has teamed up with the legend to make a Black Horsemen Danish-style black lager specifically for his tour. Secrets Select Secrets of the…
Find out more »Game Night at Surly Pizza Upstairs
Surly Pizza Upstairs hosts a game night every Wednesday. From 4pm–10pm, guests can bring their friends to Surly, grab a seat, a game, and a sweet menu deal for your crew. Settle Catan, sink battleships, and pursue trivia in the comfort of our pizza space. Sweet Deal: $40 for a pitcher of beer, a pizza, an appetizer or salad and dessert.
Find out more »Trivia Thursdays @Urban Forage
All original questions, written and researched by Jeff and Luke, with help from Jeff and Gita’s kids. Topics include the books of JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien, Minnesota history, Broadway musicals, "The Simpsons" and "Friends."
Find out more »Miami Horror
Australia’s Miami Horror reinvent the smooth sounds of yester-year’s yacht rock—there’s the laidback drum beats, synth-filled hooks, and catchy lullaby-like vocals—a perfect soundtrack for an endless night of sway-dancing fun at the Fine Line. Secrets Select Secrets of the City is your essential digest for Twin Cities arts and culture events. Subscribe to the newsletter today.
Find out more »Zipps Liquors’ Kilchoman Class on Wednesday, November 20th!
Kilchoman Class at Sober Fish. Join us at Sober Fish for a class explaining Scotch. They are Islay’s Ireland Farm Distillery. Here on the remote Island of Islay they distill Scotland’s only Single Farm Single Malt, hand-crafted from barley grown in the surrounding fields and malted on site. Join us for this enjoyable Scotch sampling class.
Find out more »Charlie Parr Album Release Shows
Some Minnesota artists gain a modicum of notoriety and then bolt for bigger markets, but with Charlie Parr’s folk roots so ingrained in the state and its supportive music scene, it’s doubtful the Duluth singer-songwriter could leave us even if he wanted to. Feel the mutual love and respect between Parr and his ever-growing legion of fans when he releases his new highly anticipated album with both a solo night and a full band show. Secrets Select Secrets of the…
Find out more »Totally 90’s Trivia at Wild State Cider
Dust off that Beanie Babies collection and revive your Tamogatchi, it's time for 90's trivia, scrunchies and denim jackets optional. Teams can have up to 8 players, so run like Forrest and come early to save your team a table. Prizes for first and second teams, no advanced registration required. The best 90's dressed team wins a prize, it'll be all that and a bag of chips.
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