Twin Cities Calendar for April 2009

S	M	T	W	Th	F	Sa
			1 April Fool's Day	2	3 Britney Spears	4 Ken Peplowski Magic Tree House Margaret Cho
5 Dodgeball	6 Patty Loveless	7 Glasvegas Nickelback	8 Carrie Rodriguez	9	10 Art Garfunkel Stray Cats	11 Andrew Bird Devil Wears Prada Distant Worlds
12 Easter †	13	14	15 Death Cab for Cutie	16	17 Four Tops & the Temptations Heart Sugarland	18 Chris Cornell Jason Aldean
19	20 Staind	21 Phylicia Rashad	22 Earth Day	23 New Found Glory	24 Arbor Day	25 Cottage Grove Crafts Gopher Rowing Vikings Draft
26 Comic Book Con Neko Case	27	28 Peanut Butter Wolf	29	30 Dames at Sea Silver Skates

	April 2-5	circus	Osman Shrine Circus, State Fair Coliseum
Friday	April 3	music	Britney Spears & the Pussycat Dolls, Target Center (8:30pm)
	April 3-5	show craft fair	Lake Home and Cabin Show, Minneapolis Convention Center Spring Festival Arts & Crafts, Canterbury Park, Shakopee
	April 3, 7, 10	hockey	Wild, Xcel Energy Center
	April 3-19	play	The Thorn, North Heights Lutheran Church, Arden Hills
Saturday	April 4	music musical comedy	Ken Peplowski: Benny Goodman Protégé, JazzMN Big Band, Hopkins High School Auditorium Magic Tree House, State Theatre (11am & 3pm) Margaret Cho, Treasure Island Casino (8pm)
	April 4-5	show	Upper Midwest Living Expo, Eisenhower Community Center, Hopkins
	April 5	sport	Dodgeball Tournament, Station 4, St. Paul (noon)
	April 6	music	Patty Loveless, Guthrie Theatre (7:30pm)
	April 6-9, 13-19, 27-29	baseball	Minnesota Twins, Metrodome
Tuesday	April 7	music music	Glasvegas, Varsity Theater (7pm) Nickelback, Target Center
Wednesday	April 8	music	Carrie Rodriguez, Varsity Theater
Friday	April 10	music music	Art Garfunkel, Orchestra Hall Stray Cats, celebrating Brian Setzer's 50th birthday, Fine Line Cafe (sold out 1/16)
Saturday	April 11	violinist music music	Andrew Bird, State Theatre (8pm) Devil Wears Prada, Station 4, St. Paul (5pm) Distant Worlds - music from Final Fantasy, Orpheum Theatre (8pm)
	April 11-12	craft fair	Spring Arts, Craft, and Gift Sale, White Bear Lake Armory
Sunday	April 12	holiday	Easter †
Wednesday	April 15	music	Death Cab for Cutie, Roy Wilkins Auditorium (7pm)
Thursday	April 17	music music music	Four Tops & the Temptations, Grand Casino Hinckley (8pm) Heart, Treasure Island Casino (8pm) Sugarland, Target Center (8pm)
Friday	April 18	music music	Chris Cornell (of Soundgarden, Audioslave), Myth, Maplewood (5:30pm) Jason Aldean, Mystic Lake, Prior Lake (8pm)
	April 18-19	holiday show	Earth Fest - Party for the Planet, Minnesota Zoo Home Improvement & Design Expo, Schwan Events Center, Blaine
Monday	April 20	music	Staind, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake (7pm) (sold out)
Tuesday	April 21	lecture	Phylicia Rashad, Connected Conversations: From The Heart, Orchestra Hall >> Best known as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, Phylica Rashad talks about her personal and professional development. Bill Cosby will also be at Orchestra Hall this year, but not until June 27th.
Wednesday	April 22	holiday	Earth Day
	April 22, 25-26	show	Go Green for Gorillas, Como Zoo
Thursday	April 23	music	New Found Glory, Myth Nightclub, Maplewood (6pm)
Friday	April 24	holiday	Arbor Day
Saturday	April 25	craft fair rowing football	Spring Arts, Craft, & Gift Sale, Cottage Grove Arena, 8020 80th St S, Cottage Grove (9am - 4pm) Gopher Rowing, Lake Phalen, St. Paul Vikings Draft Party, Winter Park, Eden Prairie (doors open 1:30pm) >> The Minnesota Vikings pick 22nd in the 32 teams. Their first round draft pick will be about 6:30pm. Autograph sessions.
	April 25-26	music show	Dierks Bentley, Mystic Lake Casino Home Improvement & Design Expo, Ames Arena, Lakeville
Sunday	April 26	comic books music	MCBA Comic Book Convention, Minnesota State Fairgrounds Progress Center (10am-4pm) Neko Case, State Theatre (7:30pm)
Tuesday	April 28	music	Peanut Butter Wolf, Varsity Theater (8pm)
	April 29-May 10	musical	Legally Blonde the musical, Ordway
	April 30-May 2	skating	Silver Skates Ice Revue, Minnetonka Ice Arena
	April 30-May 3	fair	Festival of Nations, RiverCentre