Powderhorn Park

38th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

Art(ists) on the Verge 3

Art Sled Rally 2012: Weird sleds take to the hills of Powderhorn Park

​What's the kookiest thing that could serve as a sled? Chances are, whatever it is, it'll be at the 5th Annual Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park this Saturday. The event is as theatrical as the ArtCar Parade (one of last year's goofier entrees was a mitten designed by five teenagers). The winter f ... More >>

Pleasure Principle, Saint Paul Winter Carnival: Freeloader Friday

​ This weekend is a great week for free winter festivals. The Saint Paul Winter Carnival started up this Thursday, so the capital city is bustling with activities including free sporting events, ice sculpting contests, outdoor yoga in the park, and more. Folks who like fancy sleds will want to che ... More >>

Art Sled Rally

​ This weekend is a great week for free winter festivals. The Saint Paul Winter Carnival started up this Thursday, so the capital city is bustling with activities including free sporting events, ice sculpting contests, outdoor yoga in the park, and more. Folks who like fancy sleds will want to che ... More >>

David Raisch-Day, teen from Cass Lake, ID'd in latest homicide

​David Raisch-Day, an 18-year-old from Cass Lake, has been identified as the man who took a bullet in the head in last Thursday night's homicide in south Minneapolis. Police say he was standing among a group of people outside a home on the 2700 block of Longfellow Avenue South when shots were ... More >>

Man gunned down in south Minneapolis dies at HCMC

​Police got to the scene of a shooting in south Minneapolis last night in time to keep the victim alive long enough for an an ambulance ride to Hennepin County Medical Center, but he died this morning. The medical examiner's office hasn't made the victim's name public yet.

Darrell Fisher ID'd as homicide victim on Humboldt Avenue

​Twenty-two-year-old Darrell Fisher has been identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner as the man who died late Monday night in a shooting on Humboldt Avenue North. Police found him an adjacent alley. Another man was found shot but alive in a nearby home, but his injuries are describ ... More >>

Dean Schmitz stabbed to death outside Schooner Tavern

​The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified 47-year-old Dean Schmitz, of Richfield, as the man who was stabbed to death early Sunday morning near the Schooner Tavern in south Minneapolis. Minneapolis cops and paramedics found him alive at about 12:30 a.m. on the 2900 block of 27th Av ... More >>

Man stabbed to death after brawl outside Schooner Tavern

​One man was stabbed to death and another was arrested after a brawl that started outside the Schooner Tavern in South Minneapolis early Sunday morning. Minneapolis police and paramedics were called to the scene in the 2900 block of 27th Avenue South at about 12:30 a.m., where the victim was ... More >>

Edward Trondell Baker ID'd in latest south Minneapolis homicide

​Edward Trondell Baker has been identified as the man who was shot early Tuesday in the 5700 block of Sander Avenue, just a few blocks north of Highway 62 and the perimeter of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. The Hennepin County medical examiner said the 24-year-old man died of multipl ... More >>

Man shot and killed in south Minneapolis

​An unidentified man was shot and killed early this morning in south Minneapolis, in the 5700 block of Sander Avenue, which is a few blocks north of Highway 62 and the perimeter of Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. Minneapolis police say the man was alice when they reached him, and ... More >>

Weekend Checklist: No Bird Sing, Two Harbors, White Light Riot, G Love and Special Sauce

​ Usher in May with new music...lots of CD releases this weekend!

37th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

​ Usher in May with new music...lots of CD releases this weekend!

Third Thursday: Make Way for MayDay

​ Usher in May with new music...lots of CD releases this weekend!

Jeremee Jon Kraskey shot dead in South Minneapolis

​Jeremee Jon Kraskey became the third Minneapolis homicide victim of 2011 when police found his body early Saturday morning in a back yard less than a block from Powderhorn Park. He died of multiple gun shot wounds, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.

Nyron Sheldon Hackett faces trial as an adult in Powderhorn Park sex assault case

Nyron Sheldon Hackett will face the music as an adult.​Sixteen-year-old Nyron Sheldon Hackett is accused of using a gun while leading a robbery and sexual assault on a woman in Powderhorn Park last Thanksgiving Eve -- as the woman's children watched in horror. From there, police say he and h ... More >>

4th Annual Powderhorn Sled Rally

Nyron Sheldon Hackett will face the music as an adult.​Sixteen-year-old Nyron Sheldon Hackett is accused of using a gun while leading a robbery and sexual assault on a woman in Powderhorn Park last Thanksgiving Eve -- as the woman's children watched in horror. From there, police say he and h ... More >>

Powderhorn Park sex assault suspect severs ankle monitor but later surrenders (UPDATE)

fibonaccibluePowderhorn Park neighbors gathered for a vigil after the attacks.​Four teenage boys were arrested after Thanksgiving Eve sex assaults in and near Powderhorn Park. Then came news that one of the boys, 15 years old, was on the lose. He'd cut off his ankle bracelet monitor and disa ... More >>

Macarr Tyree Hill charged in Powderhorn Park assaults

Photo: Thirteen of ClubsPowderhorn Park residents are determined to keep their neighborhood safe.​While most of us were safe at home last Wednesday evening, getting ready for a long Thanksgiving weekend, three women were fighting off sexual assaults from a gang of teenage thugs in and near Pow ... More >>

Powderhorn fights back after sex assaults and drive-by shooting

Photo: Thirteen of ClubsPowderhorn Park: A neighborhood meeting and a peace vigil are planned. ​People of good will have worked hard to make Powderhorn Park a safe oasis for families and a hub for the arts and recreation, but it seems like there's always someone ready to try and drag the neigh ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out, Anarchist Book Fair: Freeloader Friday

Photo by epSos.de ​This week there's a ton of variety in Freeloader Friday. There's tons of fashion events, including Fashion's Night Out, and a market for stylist men. There's "About Face" a very cool gallery show opening this Saturday. There's also anarchists, feminists, activists, and authors i ... More >>

Footloose, Red Hot Art Fest: Freeloader Friday

Mykl Roventine via Flickr.com​Being broke is never a problem with Freeloader Friday. In this edition we have tons of really cool stuff to do. Including experimental theater, steampunk art, several art festivals, and a very special screening of Footloose. Be sure to practice your "seven degrees of ... More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mykl Roventine via Flickr.com​Being broke is never a problem with Freeloader Friday. In this edition we have tons of really cool stuff to do. Including experimental theater, steampunk art, several art festivals, and a very special screening of Footloose. Be sure to practice your "seven degrees of ... More >>

Strange Capers' summertime "Dream" does it right: one more weekend left

by Tara Sloane"Take that messenger bag and go drug some mortals": Elizabeth Grullon and Skyler Nowinski in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"​ My review of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Strange Capers is appearing in the CP Spotlight this Wednesday, but if you're the sort who starts thinking about the com ... More >>

Peep show art, Twin Cities Zinefest: Freeloader Friday

​ (Antigravity by Violeta Rotstein. Featured at the "Soo Fuze" gallery show at the SooVAC) This week we've got an ongoing party celebrating pop punk, a day-long zinefest, dragon boat races, and a naughty art show at Cult Status Gallery.

Taste of Minnesota and Red, White, and Boom punctuate the Week in Food

God bless our freedom from kippers and tripe. ​It's a week of celebrations from Thai cuisine and kale to local food and folk music. Not to mention our independence from bangers and mash and our right to light pyrotechnics. Your Week in Food . . . Monday 6/28 We've come a long way since Swedish ... More >>

Cromulent Shakespeare, Upright Egg want to perform for you in the great outdoors

Scott PakudaitasLacey Piotter, Anna Reichart, Alberta Mirais in "Troilus and Cressida": free at a park near you​It may not have been a particularly balmy week, but the calendar doesn't lie: we're heading toward a stretch when an evening spent outside taking in a show might be just the thing. Curre ... More >>

Living Green Expo: local food galore

Clac-turfa/flickr​Along with useful advice and products to keep our communities greener and more sustainable, the Living Green Expo, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5 at the State Fair Grounds, will have a heavy food focus. Cooking demonstrations using locally grown produce, ... More >>

Wing Young Huie, Iron Bartender: Freeloader Friday

​(Pictured: Work from Wing Young Huie's "University Avenue Project")This week in Freeloader Friday we have an epic game of tag, a six-mile gallery show, and several outdoor festivals.  

36th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

​(Pictured: Work from Wing Young Huie's "University Avenue Project")This week in Freeloader Friday we have an epic game of tag, a six-mile gallery show, and several outdoor festivals.  

Art Sled Rally

​(Pictured: Work from Wing Young Huie's "University Avenue Project")This week in Freeloader Friday we have an epic game of tag, a six-mile gallery show, and several outdoor festivals.  

Freeloader Friday: August 7-9

Free yourself this weekend.

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35th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

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Sledding Minn. Grain-Belt style

Why go sledding on a boring old toboggan when you can fly down a Minnesota slope in a Grain Belt Premium six-pack carrier?

Art Sled Rally this Saturday at Powderhorn Park

Check out sleds that are also works of art.

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Check out sleds that are also works of art.

Demon Lover

Check out sleds that are also works of art.

Your Bad Self

Micranots rapper I Self Devine finds clarity in 'Self Destruction'

I Was a Teenage Rock Star

Micranots rapper I Self Devine finds clarity in 'Self Destruction'

Season of the Drink

Nothing evokes besotted despair like a Minnesota winter

Taming a Grand Dragon

Nothing evokes besotted despair like a Minnesota winter

Rinky Dink

A dopey plot sinks Theatre Latté Da's roller-skating musical

Zoom

Washed-up cowboys, lady mechanics, homeless philosophers--photographer Wing Young Huie has seen it all. Now, by hanging 600 of his Lake Street portraits in public, he's ready to show the city to itself.

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Washed-up cowboys, lady mechanics, homeless philosophers--photographer Wing Young Huie has seen it all. Now, by hanging 600 of his Lake Street portraits in public, he's ready to show the city to itself.

Raising Kale

True confessions of a vegetable offender

Here Comes the Sun

Help! I'm trapped inside a giant ant! Are you wearing clothes underneath that kale? What's that baby doing in the birthday cake? Tales of myth and magic from Minneapolis's May Day parade.

Place: Powderhorn Festival of the Arts

Help! I'm trapped inside a giant ant! Are you wearing clothes underneath that kale? What's that baby doing in the birthday cake? Tales of myth and magic from Minneapolis's May Day parade.