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Twins have fourth-highest beer price in baseball

The Twins keep slicing their payroll. On Tuesday, the organization drew tons of heat after unveiling a plan that would've charged fans $15 to watch batting practice. (They scrapped the idea later that day!) And after an ugly three-game sweep in Kansas City, the team's record is back in familiar terr ... More >>

TCF Bank Stadium booze sales brought in over $900,000, reduced police incidents

Booze sales at TCF Bank Stadium seem to have been a win-win both for the U of M's athletics department and for police.SEE ALSO: Beer sales at TCF Bank Stadium means Gophers football finally leads Big Ten in something Not only did booze sales bring in nearly a million bucks, but the Gophers' 2012 hom ... More >>

Surly singles out University Ave. site as a top pick for new brewery

At the end of last week, Brooklyn Center's Surly Brewing Co. announced some of the possible spots that have made its short list for its new $20 million brewery, and it looks like they may be moving out of the 'burbs and coming closer to us city-dwellers.So where is this new site? Here are more detai ... More >>

Make your own mozzarella and come Unchained this Week in Food

Attempting to even enter your own kitchen when temperatures are in the 90s seems ill-advised, which is why we like to get out and explore this Week in (hot, humid) Food -- especially when it means making your own mozzarella or sucking down Deschutes brews. 7/24 Want to go vegetarian but worries ab ... More >>

Beer sales at TCF Bank Stadium means Gophers football finally leads Big Ten in something

The Minnesota Gophers football team is finally first in the Big Ten!No, not in the standings, silly. That's preposterous. But the Gophers are the first team in the conference to allow alcohol sales at their stadium.Earlier this week, legislators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing beer ... More >>

Will River's Edge Music Festival 2013 bring Skrillex to St. Paul?

Related:River's Edge Music Festival 2012 at Harriet Island lineupSoundset 2012 lineup announced, includes Big K.R.I.T.Slideshow: Skrillex at Skyway TheatreU2 at TCF Bank Stadium, 7/23/11 The inaugural running of the River's Edge Music Festival will bring Tool, Dave Matthews Band, Diplo, the Flaming ... More >>

Heiruspecs' Small Steps is 10 and free

​Ten years ago, you still thought Interpol was cool. Also, Heiruspecs got its first taste of love from City Pages for its second album, Small Steps. Indeed, on the 13th day of March in 2002, Peter Scholtes' review of the album emerged. Although he expresses skepticism for the "live" idea, he calls ... More >>

TCF Bank Stadium fires jerk guard who tried to fight field-rushing fans [VIDEO]

The guard in the pink jacket tried to fight... pretty much everyone.​The University of Minnesota football team actually won a big game on Saturday, stealing a late win over a pretty decent University of Iowa team.As the seconds counted down on the 22-21 comeback victory, Minnesota students, finall ... More >>

Street Eat Awards crowns the best curbside cuisine in the city

​The scent of mini donuts that wafted past the gates at the TCF Bank Stadium last Saturday had nothing to do with football. Instead the scent was emanating from the road warriors at the Chef Shack: their signature dessert of fried dough tossed in an alluring mix of spices that include cinnamon, su ... More >>

New Goldy the Gopher promo video features unfortunate appropriation of Midnight Star

​Because nothing says "Let's get ready for some college football!" like a vintage 1986 R&B jam, the University of Minnesota decided to pair up footage of Goldy the Gopher running around the TCF Stadium with the music video for Midnight Star's "Midas Touch" to create one of the weirdest promo v ... More >>

U2 releases crazy-detailed panoramic photo of the crowd from Saturday's show

​Sometime between meeting with Somali Minnesotans to help solve the famine crisis in Africa and performing under pummeling rain in front of thousands upon thousands of fans at Dinkytown's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 found time last weekend to go ahead and revolutionize the concert experience by snapping ... More >>

Bono, K'naan meet with Somali activists in Minnesota

Photo courtesy ONE​In addition to braving a downpour of rain to perform in front of nearly 60,000 fans on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, U2 frontman Bono took time on Saturday afternoon to meet with singer and rapper K'naan and several Somali activists from Minne ... More >>

Critics' Picks: U2, Sia, Steve Earle, and more

Vikings host Dallas in home preseason opener, but where's home?

Will the Metrodome be repaired in time?​The Minnesota Vikings have released their preseason schedule, which includes hosting Dallas at home sometime between Aug. 25-28. The question is, where will "home" be? More than that, will there even be a season, let alone a preseason?

Keaton Patrick Murphy's body found

Keaton Patrick Murphy has been missing since last week.​University police say that a young man's body found in a train boxcar near TCF Bank Stadium today is that of Keaton Patrick Murphy. The U of M student went missing after he was arrested Thursday on suspicion of distributing child pornogr ... More >>

Snowmageddon follows Vikings to Philadelphia [VIDEO]

Snowmageddon hits Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.​The Blizzard of 2010 deflated the Metrodome and the Vikings had to scurry to Detroit for a "home" game. TCF Bank Stadium looked like the Planet Hoth when the Bears showed up last Monday night to knock Brett Favre on his noggin'. An ... More >>

Chris Kluwe tweets worries about frozen TCF Bank Stadium

Chris Kluwe over shares on Twitter.​Vikings punter Chris Kluwe appreciates the hard work everyone's done to try and get TCF Bank Stadium ready for tonight's Vikings-Bears game. Really, he does. But even so, he took to Twitter yesterday after practice to complain about the "trainwreck" of a fr ... More >>

Viktor the Viking and and Goldy the Gopher prep for Monday Night Football

Digging out.​Chris Kluwe notwithstanding, TCF Bank Stadium appears to be ready for tonight's Vikings-Bear's match. In order to that in just four days, workers managed to clear the field and stands of some 30,000 cubic yards of snow. And they managed to do it despite "help" from these two clo ... More >>

Snow emergencies declared in Minneapolis and St. Paul [UPDATES]

More snow. Oh boy.​Where in the heck are we going to put more snow? Minneapolis and St. Paul have declared snow emergencies again, as a fresh storm dumped a load all rush-hour misery all over the Twin Cities for the second time in just barely more than a week. Here's what you need to know:

Sheridan Fox brings the 'Calm Down Show' to the Red Stag tonight

​You could sit at home and watch the big game stuffing your face and thanking the heavens you aren't one of those braving the cold to cheer on the hope dwindled Vikings live in the chilling flesh at TCF Stadium. You could be a Snowy McSnowerton and bitch about the weather all night. Or you could ... More >>

Metrodome Collapse: Roof panel shot down with gun

MSFCThe Metrodome roof still isn't safe for repair crews.​Ice and snow have started to build up in the remaining collapsed roof panels over the Metrodome field, and workers today fired a shotgun round into one of them to bring it down as a precaution. Three of the panels dramatically gave way ... More >>

TCF Bank Stadium: Video of "The Hopeful Shovelers"

Screw the cold. These folks love money and football.

No beer, not enough seats for Vikings vs Bears

TCF Bank Stadium: No beer here.​It's not clear when The Great Excavation at TCF Bank Stadium will be complete, but two other mysteries have been solved ahead of the Vikings hosting the Bears on Monday Night Football.

Metrodome panel collapses: Damage gets worse

More big trouble. Another hole opened in the Metrodome roof, following Sunday's collapse (above).​The Metrodome's Teflon roof, already deflated and defeated from the weekend blizzard, tore open a fourth time yesterday. There were workers on the field, but no one was hurt when the panel ripped ... More >>

TCF Stadium shovel squad: No more jobs today

Come back tomorrow.​You snooze, you lose. The University of Minnesota sent out notice a few minutes ago that there are no more openings for snow shovelers at TCF Bank Stadium today. But there's always tomorrow as the Vikings struggle towards making the Bank their home against the Bears on Mon ... More >>

Minneapolis winter parking restrictions start Friday

New rules for the rest of the winter.​The post-blizzard news keeps getting worse. Starting tomorrow, and until April 1 unless the City says otherwise, it will be against the law to park your car on the even-numbered sides of city streets. That is to say, about half of the available on-stree ... More >>

Vikings will host Bears outdoors at TCF Bank Stadium

The Metrodome is out of service, so the Vikes will move across the river.​Are you ready for some outdoor football? The Metrodome is still torn and frayed from the blizzard, so the Minnesota Vikings are going to host the Chicago Bears at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium on Monday ... More >>

Snow shovelers descend on TCF Bank Stadium: Photo of the day

Photo: FacebookLike a plague of locusts.​The Vikings and the University of Minnesota put out the call a little while ago for paid volunteers to start shoveling snow out of TCF Bank Stadium ahead of Monday night's Vikings-Bears match. And as you can see from the photo below, a plague of snow sh ... More >>

TCF Stadium shoveling video

Workers race to clear snow for Monday's Vikings game at TCF Stadium.​About 150 workers -- most of them hired from temp agencies around the region -- shoveled diligently today in an attempt to prepare the University of Minnesota TCF Bank Stadium in time for Monday night's Vikings game. "Snow tomor ... More >>

Senior Wong's unveils Darkness, and Town Hall Brewery gets wet this Week in Food.

Scott "The Pumpkin Gutter" CumminsLife getting creepy? ​ It's a spooky time of year. Take the edge off with beer, wine, and all-night happy hour this Week in Food. Monday 10/11 Get wet at Town Hall Brewery's Wet/Fresh Hop Week, debuting today at 5 p.m. with the release of its annual Town Hall F ... More >>

U of M students not paying to fill their own TCF Bank Stadium

TCF Stadium ticket sales are weak​Swanky new stadiums only go so far: The University of Minnesota is reporting that it's having a hard time selling tickets to students to watch their very own Golden Gophers ahead of the 2010 season, just a year after the same seats sold out well in advance. Th ... More >>

U2 announce rescheduled Minneapolis date: July 23, 2011

​Now that's planning ahead: On the heels of postponing their June 27 show at the TCF Bank Stadium in Dinkytown due to Bono's back surgery, U2 have announced a make-up show in Minneapolis on July 23, 2011. The band issued this statement from manager Paul McGuinness:

U of M Regents spike stadium booze bill compromise

A booze-free zone​TCF Bank Stadium will remain a booze-free football field for the time being. Rather than adopt a compromise approved in the Minnesota Legislature that would have allowed alcohol sales in the most expensive seating areas at TCF Bank Stadium, along with some of the general adm ... More >>

Bono back injury puts MPLS U2 concert date in jeopardy

David ShankboneThe professional difference-maker himself​News has come out of Berlin (via MPR) that Bono of U2 and Africa-centric charity fame has hurt himself "preparing for" the band's upcoming tour. No specifics of how the injury occurred were released, but at age 50 the number of ways you can ... More >>

Chris Coleman says Vikings stadium bill screws St. Paul

More than table scraps please, the mayor tells legislators​That $800 million Vikings stadium bill working its way through the Legislature this week amounts to nothing more than "left-over crumbs" for St. Paul, the city's mayor told state lawmakers in a letter yesterday. At issue: Proposed deb ... More >>

TCF Stadium booze bill dries up in House

Dry as a bone for the time being​As far as the Minnesota House is concerned, it's booze for all or booze for none at TCF Bank Stadium. No special privileges for the well-heeled. Minneapolis DFL Rep. Phyllis Khan's amendment to allow the University of Minnesota to serve alcohol in whatever way ... More >>

Senate reconsiders TCF Stadium booze ban

​Good news for Gophers fans and stadium-goers looking to get their booze on in TCF Stadium: a bill that would allow stadium vendors to sell alcohol passed through the Senate Finance Committee yesterday and is heading toward the full chamber.University regents originally wanted beer and liquor to b ... More >>

Sandy Pappas says it's OK for U of M to keep booze out of TCF stadium cheap seats

The University of Minnesota may get another shot at serving alcohol to preferred patrons at TCF Bank Stadium

Sandra Pappas guides bill giving the U of M another shot at TCF stadium booze

The bill would allow the university to serve alcohol at the stadium as long as it agrees to fund a scholarship account with the proceeds.

U2 bummer: No booze at TCF Stadium concert

It looks like U2 fans planning to attend their show next summer at the TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota will have to do some football-style tailgating before heading into the show if they plan to be liquored up for the epic performance.

Confirmed: U2 will play TCF Bank Stadium

Bono and the boys plan to bring some elevation to the new home of Gophers football.

U2 to rock the U?

Sounds like there may be an unforgettable fire at TCF Stadium next year. Stay tuned.

Name Games

More farce at the stadium of the absurd

Can't attend dry Gopher football game? Smuggle in your booze via boobs, belly

We understand the need to continue drinking to actually enjoy watching the Gophers play. Here are some ways to smuggle in some fun.

Bridesmaid Revisited: Metrodome Memory Series Part 3

Hubert's -- What will become of thee?

U of M to administer Breathalyzer tests to stadium-frequenting alcohol offenders

Plan on attending a Gopher game at the new TCF Stadium this fall? If you're a college student with any alcohol-related tickets under your belt, be prepared to blow before entry. If you fail, you'll be turned away. Even if you're over 21.

Booze-free U of Minn. sporting events? Regents considering it

President Robert Bruininks plans to recommend that alcohol be banned at the on-campus stadium as well as all other campus sports arenas.

11/10 Photo of the Day: Stadium illumination

Photo of the Day: U of M McNamara Alumni Center