Twin Cities Calendar - February 2010

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1	2 Groundhog's Day	3	4 music of Led Zeppelin & Queen	5	6 ABBA music Benefit for Haiti
7 Super Bowl XLIV	8	9 Benefit for Haiti	10	11	12 April Wine & Head East Movie: Percy Jackson Movie: Valentine's Day Sinbad	13 Valentines 5K
14 Valentines Day ♥ Chinese New Year Puddle of Mudd Valentine's Dinner	15 Presidents' Day	16 Mardi Gras	17 Ash Wednesday	18 Almanac Wind Ensemble	19 DanceBrazil Wailin' Jennys	20 B.B. King & Buddy Guy Trey Anastasio
21 MLK-Black History music of Duke Ellington	22 Rickie Lee Jones UofM Job Fair	23	24 Tech Fair Terri Clark	25	26 Swedish Choir	27 Doc Severinsen Grumpy Fest Jeff Foxworthy Writers' Fest
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February 2	holidayish	Groundhog's Day
Feb 3-21	musical	Rent, Lab Theater, 700 N 1st Av, Minneapolis
February 4	rock, classical	Music of Led Zeppelin & Queen, MN Orchestra, Target Center (7:30pm)
Feb 4-7	ballet	James Sewell Ballet, Southern Theater -- here's Repetory
Feb 4, 6, 10, 12, 14	hockey	Minnesota Wild, Xcel Energy Center
Feb 4-7, 11-14, 18-21	musical	The Light in the Piazza, Schneider Theater, Bloomington Arts
February 6	pop music music, benefit	ABBA music - Waterloo tribute band, State Theatre (8pm) Gimme Shelter, a benefit concert for Haiti, First Avenue (6pm) >> Solid Gold, Mark Mallman, Peter Wolf Crier, Zoo Animal, Jimmy2Times, & Mike 2600
Feb 6-7	fair	City of Lakes Loppet Festival, Minneapolis >> Cross-country skiing from Theodore Wirth Park to Uptown (Sunday) Ice-Cycle Loppet - bike on the ice lagoon between Lake Calhoun & Lake of the Isles (Sat.) Snow sculpture contest, Uptown -- a 4' x 4' x 8' block of snow costs $100 - what a steal!
Feb 6, 20	gymnastics	Gopher Women's Gymnastics, Sports Pavilion (6pm)
Feb 6, 10, 19, 21, 27	basketball	Timberwolves, Target Center
February 7	TV football	Super Bowl XLIV (44) on WCCO-CBS (5:25pm CST) >> Indianapolis Colts v. New Orleans Saints Kick-off show starts at 5pm
February 9	hip-hop	Benefit for Haiti with Brother Ali, First Avenue (7pm)
Feb 9-14	musical	Mel Brook's Musical Young Frankenstein, Orpheum Theatre
Feb 9-21	show	Dixie's Tupperware Party, Hennepin Stages >> A Tupperware party, a Tupperware party: see ways of beating the high cost of eating by locking in freshness.
Feb 10-14	musical	Fame, Mystic Lake Casino
Feb, 11- 14	softball	Gopher Softball tournament, Metrodome
Feb 11, 18, 20, 24	basketball	Gopher Men's Basketball, Williams Arena
February 12	rock movie comedy movie	April Wine & Head East, Medina Entertainment Center, Hamel, MN (8:30pm) >> Here's Just Between You and Me by April Wine & Never Been Any Reason by Head East Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief -- trailer Sinbad, Burnsville Performing Arts Center (7:30pm) Valentine's Day -- Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts, & Taylor Swift -- trailer
Feb 12, 19, 20	hockey	Gopher Women's Hockey, Ridder Arena
Feb 12-14, 19-21, 26-28, Mar 6-8	play	Burial At Thebes, Theatre in the Round (Fri, Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm)
February 13	run romance	Valentine's Day TC 5K, Lake Harriet Bandshell (10am) Valentine's Dinner, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (6:30pm)
February 14	grunge rock romance romance romance	Puddle of Mudd, First Avenue (7pm) -- here's Blurry Valentine's Dinner, Dakota Jazz Club (5:30pm) Valentine's Dinner, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory (sold out) Valentine's Dinner and Tour, Minnesota Zoo (5:45pm)
February 18	TV event classical music	Almanac 25th Anniversary Celebration, Pantages Theatre (6:30pm) Wind Ensemble & University Singers, Ted Mann Concert Hall, UofM (7:30pm)
February 19	dance folk music	DanceBrazil, Ordway (7:30pm) -- here's Maculele Wailin' Jennys, O'Shaughnessy, St. Kate's (8pm) -- here's One Voice
February 20	blues music volunteer singer-songwriter	B. B. King & Buddy Guy, Orpheum Theatre (8pm) -- Thrill is Gone Hands-On Expo, Mall of America (10am-3pm) Trey Anastasio with Classic Tab, State Theatre (8pm)
Feb 19-20	hockey	Gopher Men's Hockey v. Colorado College, Mariucci Arena
February 21	jazz music jazz, essays	Dreaming the Duke, music of Duke Ellington, Ordway Center (7:30pm) >> Here's Don't Mean A Thing Martin Luther King Jr & Black History Month Concert, Ted Mann, UofM (4pm)
February 22	job fair singer-songwriter	Job Fair - UofM, Minneapolis Convention Center (10am-4pm) Rickie Lee Jones, Fitzgerald Theater (7:30pm) -- here's Chuck E.'s In Love
February 24	science fair country music	Tech Fair - OIT, Coffman Union, University of Minnesota (9:30am-12:30pm) Terri Clark - Unplugged and Alone, Fine Line (9pm) -- Girls Lie Too
February 26	choir music	Swedish Radio Choir, Northrop Auditorium (8pm)
February 27	jazz music comedy book fair	Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo de la Vida, Orchestra Hall (8pm) Jeff Foxworthy, Mystic Lake Casino (5 & 8pm) Writers' Festival & Book Fair, Bloomington Arts Center (9:30am-4:30pm)
Feb 27-28	show fair	Body, Mind, Life Expo, Minneapolis Convention Center Grumpy Old Men Festival, 17th year, Wabasha, MN >> Grumpy breakfast, snow sculpture contest, cribbage, bingo, casserole lunch, & pet pageant on Saturday. Grumpy Old Men and poker on Sunday.

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